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Does Quality, Quantity and Duration of Lives
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Housseini, Bouba - Chaire de recherche Industrielle Alliance sur les … - 2015
in income distributions, population sizes and life longevity. This may require social evaluation principles to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170404
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Is Global Social Welfare Increasing? a Critical-Level Enquiry
Cockburn, John; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Zabsonré, Agnès - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2014
We assess whether global social welfare has improved in the last decades despite (or because of) the substantial increase in global population. We use for this purpose a relatively unknown but simple and attractive social evaluation approach called critical-level generalized utilitarianism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010787753
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Dynamique de la pauvreté en Haïti et ses déterminants
Siméon, Alex; Boccanfuso, Dorothée - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2006
ABSTRACT: Haïti, classée 153e/177, appartient au groupe des pays les plus sous-développés au monde (PNUD 2005). Ainsi, ce pays est parmi ceux appelés à bénéficier des programmes de réduction de la pauvreté dans le cadre des « Objectifs du millénaire pour le développement ». A cet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642179
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Trade Liberalisation, Growth and Poverty in Senegal: a Dynamic Microsimulation CGE Model Analysis
Annabi, Nabil; Cissé, Fatou; Cockburn, John; … - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2005
sectors, and brings substantial decreases in poverty. However, a decomposition of poverty changes shows that income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696254
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Trade Reform and Poverty in the Philippines: a Computable General Equilibrium Microsimulation Analysis
Cororaton, Caesar B.; Cockburn, John - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2005
returns to unskilled labor. As rural households depend more on unskilled labor income, income inequality worsens as a result. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696257
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Income Distribution, Poverty Measures and Trade Shocks: A Computable General Equilibrium Model of a Archetype Developing Country
Decaluwé, Bernard; Patry, André; Savard, Luc - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 1998
on household poverty for an archetype developing country. Unlike other studies, we present the income distribution of … each household group as a Beta statistical distribution. Also, the income distributions are endogenous in this model …. Following a change in the mean income, the income distribution will shift proportionally by the same variation. In contrast of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696444
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Poverty Analysis Within a General Equilibrium Framework
Decaluwe, B.; Patry, A.; Savard, L.; Thorbecke, E. - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 1999
(CGE) Models can be used to highlight and address issues related to income distribution and poverty. The paper is divided … and shows how the SAM methodology can be used to analyze issues related to income distribution and, in a much more limited … resulting poverty incidence among the different socioeconomic household groups and representing income distribution with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670338
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Pro-Poor Tax Reforms, with an Application to Mexico
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Makdissi, Paul; Araar, Abdelkrim - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2010
This paper proposes a methodology for testing for whether tax reforms are pro-poor. This is done by extending stochastic dominance techniques to help identify tax reforms that will necessarily be deemed absolutely or relatively pro-poor by a wide spectrum of poverty analysts. The statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008623421
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Comparing Multidimensional Poverty with Qualitative Indicators of Well-Being
Batana, Yélé Maweki; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2010
This paper examines multidimensional stochastic dominance when one of the indicators of well-being, such as household size or place of residence, is qualitative. It also uses a test for strict dominance based on the empirical likelihood ratio. Empirical applications are based on the DHS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008630015
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Economic and Distributional Impacts of Biofuels in Mali
Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Coulibaly, Massa; Timilsina, … - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2011
A biofuels race has been observed around the world with rising cost of oil and the increasing concerns over climate change. Unfortunately, this growth is associated with rising food prices, which is a major concern in developing countries like Mali. The development of biofuels in Mali should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019263