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Colonisation and Development in the Former French West Africa: The Long-term Impact of the Colonial Public Policy
Huillery, Elise - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006
Africa? This paper uses the differences in development outcomes across the areas of the former French West Africa to show the … existence of colonial long term effects on development paths. To correct from potential biases, I take carefully into account … determinant of current development of the districts of the former French West Africa. First, the African chiefs’ association to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707977
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Introduction thématique
Jacquemot, Pierre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009
Africa has been hard hit by the international crisis. Initially exogenous and above all financial, it has exacerbated various internal crises already present in the region. Like the DRC, which is a test case in many respects, Africa could experience severe setbacks that could cancel out the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742293
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Early Marriage, Women Empowerment and Child Mortality: Married Too Young To Be a «Good Mother»?
Guilbert, Nathalie - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
This paper uses data from recent Senegalese Demographic and Health Surveys to explore the link between female empowerment and child mortality via early marriage, defined as marriage before age 16. There exist three channels through which early marriage reduces a mother's ability to take good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011073907
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Sur les interactions entre politiques de dette publique et de transfert
Bessec, Marie; Desbonnet, Audrey; Kankanamge, Sumudu; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
In this paper, we investigate the interactions between public debt and transfer policies in a framework based on Floden [2001], that we extend to allow for transitional dynamics between steady states. First, we show that, starting from a high level of public debt, it is possible to implement a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861360
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Geographical Diversification with a World Volatility Index
Aboura, Sofiane; Chevallier, Julien - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2015
This paper proposes a new ‘World Volatility Index’, coined WVIX, by constructing the first index that approximates the aggregate volatility level of the G20 countries. The empirical analysis makes use of the factor dynamic conditional correlation model – with an automated methodology to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212043
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Restoring Fiscal Sustainability in the Euro Area Raise Taxes or Curb Spending?
Cournède, Boris; Gonand, Frédéric - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006
With population ageing, fiscal consolidation has become of paramount importance for euro area countries. Consolidation can be pursued in various ways, with different effects on potential growth, which itself will be dragged down by ageing. A dynamic general equilibrium model with overlapping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707309
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Why do governments end up with debt ? Short-run effects matter
Weitzenblum, Thomas; Desbonnet, Audrey - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
This paper reconsiders the impact of public debt in an economy with heterogeneous households and incomplete markets to emphasize the short-run effects of an increase in public debt. As compared to models that rest on steady-state analysis, we show that the welfare gains of a public debt increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010708735
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Une politique budgétaire keynésienne neutralisant les stabilisateurs automatiques en haut de cycle : le cas de la France en 2000-2001
Gonand, Frédéric - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006
Cette étude présente une méthode empirique simple permettant d'évaluer l'impact des finances publiques sur la croissance à court terme, et plus précisément : a)l'impulsion discrétionnaire des finances publiques avant bouclage macroéconomique ; b) l'impact sur la croissance de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011072918
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Intergenerational financial transfers and health in a national sample from France
Jusot, Florence; Khlat, Myriam; Scodellaro, Claire - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
Financial transfers from parents to their adult children are a growing trend in contemporary societies, and this study investigates the relation of those transfers to their beneficiaries' health in France. In the 2005 nationally representative Gender and Generation Survey, nearly 6% of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706412
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Social Mobility and Colonial Legacy in Five African Countries
Bossuroy, Thomas; Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008
patterns on the one hand, educational development and mobility on the other hand. Two former British colonies, Ghana and Uganda …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706587