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The fall of the elephant. Two decades of poverty increase in Côte d’Ivoire (1988 - 2008)

Houngbedji, Kenneth; Cogneau, Denis; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

-2008), we tell the story of this descent into hell from the standpoint of poverty and living standards. In 2008, after five … years of civil war and another episode yet to come (2010-11), extreme 1.25 USD poverty headcount had reached a historical … record in poverty, with northern areas deeply impoverished by the partition …

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The fall of the elephant. Two decades of poverty increase in Côte d’Ivoire (1988-2008)

Cogneau, Denis; Houngbedji, Kenneth; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

(1988-2008), we tell the story of this descent into hell from the standpoint of poverty and living standards. In 2008, after … five years of civil war and another episode yet to come (2010-11), the extreme US$1.25 poverty headcount had reached a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011073233

Les illusions perdues de l’économie ivoirienne et la crise politique

Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2003

seized. For instance, the reforms did not succeed at significantly reducing poverty. They did not either address the outburst …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074544

Who deserves aid? Equality of opportunity, international aid and poverty reduction

Naudet, Jean-David; Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007

the risk of poverty. This is an alternative to Collier and Dollar’s proposal (2001) which stresses the impact of aid on … worldwide poverty reduction. The big problem with their approach, as regards distributive justice, is that it leaves very great … inequality in poverty risk between inhabitants of countries with widely varying structural disadvantages. We draw on post …

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Earnings inequalities and educational mobility in Brazil over two decades

Gignoux, Jérémie; Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

This paper studies the impact of changes in educational opportunities on various definitions of labour market inequalities in Brazil over two decades (1976-96). Using four editions of the nationally representative PNAD survey, we analyze the evolution of overall inequalities and inequalities of...

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Les inégalités et la croissance : une relation introuvable ?

Cogneau, Denis; Guénard, Charlotte - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2002

This work takes a new look at the econometrics of the national-level macroeconomic relationship between inequality and growth. It focuses, in particular, on the effects of specification choices, estimation method and sample selection. It concludes that there is no robust relation running from...

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Equality of opportunity and other equity principles in the context of developing countries

Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005

I propose a personal reading of some theories of social justice at a moment when the issue of equality or equity appears to be back on the ‘development agenda’. Nowadays the term equity tends to be most often associated with the equality of opportunity principle. After having briefly...

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Inequality of Opportunity for Income in Five Countries of Africa

Cogneau, Denis; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

This paper examines for the first time inequality of opportunity for income in Africa, by analyzing large-sample surveys, all providing information on individuals' parental background, in five comparable Sub-Saharan countries: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar and Uganda. We compute...

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Inégalités et équité en Afrique

Cogneau, Denis; Bossuroy, Thomas; de Vreyer, Philippe; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006

A new analysis of large-sample surveys in five comparable Sub-Saharan African countries allows measuring for the first time inequality of opportunity in Africa, aside inequality of resources and of living standards. We confirm the prevalence of high levels of inequality among the region’s...

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The Measurement of Income Distribution Dynamics when Demographics are correlated with Income

Grimm, Michael; Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007

The purpose of our paper is to derive instructive analytics on how to account for differentials in demographic variables, and in particular mortality, when performing welfare comparisons over time. The idea is to “correct” in various ways estimated income distribution measures for “sample...

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