Public statistics face quite a challenge when it comes to measuring new dimensions of development (institutions, governance, and social and political participation). To take up this challenge, modules on Governance, Democracy and Multiple Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household...

Using panel data from Argentina during the 1990’s, this paper concludes that, in Argentina, income ‘mobiles’ did change over time. Among the household variables with a structural relation with income dynamics, we find university education, protecting from income declines though not...

This Bayesian modeling book is intended for practitioners and applied statisticians looking for a self-contained entry to computational Bayesian statistics. Focusing on standard statistical models and backed up by discussed real datasets available from the book website, it provides an...

This paper proposes a critical analysis of the “Academic Ranking of World Universities”, published every year by the Institute of Higher Education of the Jiao Tong University in Shanghai and more commonly known as the Shanghai ranking. After having recalled how the ranking is built, we first...

We study the differentiability properties of concave functionals defined as integrals of the quantile. These functionals generalize the rank dependent expected utility and are called rank-linear utilities in decision theory. Their superdifferential is described as well as the set of random...

This article focuses on an epistemological consideration concerning the idea of change resistances, he propose an methodological alternative for the audit of these resistances. These two objectives aim to facilitate the implementation and the management of organizational change process . We will...

Différentes études théoriques et empiriques ont déterminé les raisons pour lesquelles les entreprises décident de gérer leurs risques financiers. Les hypothèses qui les sous-tendent et les principaux résultats auxquels elles ont abouti sont synthétisés dans cet article. Ces études...

It is now widely recognized that the increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is due to the consumption of fossil fuels since the beginning of the 20th century. In this context, research on new energies and their development on a large scale is a priority. Hydrogen is a potential candidate...