[spa] Penuria de divisas y crisis de la agriculture comercial en Africa subsahariana, . por Jean-Claude Berthélemy y Christian Morrisson.. . En este artículo se presenta un análisis macroeconómico simple que permite explicar la aparición de una penuria de divisas en países africanos de...

[eng] This article provides, for the first time, an estimate of the world distribution of individual years of schooling, taking into account inequalities within and between countries. Our estimates concern this distribution from 1870 to 2000. In 1870, inequality was very high, since 75 % of the...

[eng] Seasonality and Consumption Behaviour, . by François Bourguignon, Frédéric Gagey.. . This article uses a sample by monthly waves of a survey on household budgets taken in Tunisia in 1980 to determine how seasonal the consumption of different goods can be. Deseasonalization is carried...

[eng] During the last twenty years, microsimulation models have been increasingly used in the analysis of redistribution policies. This note provides a brief survey discussion of these microsimulation with particular emphasis on the recent developments of this discipline and directions for...