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Benefit in the wake of disaster: Long-run effects of earthquakes on welfare in rural Indonesia
Gignoux, Jérémie; Menéndez, Marta - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
and welfare gains in the long term (six to twelve years). The stocks of productive assets, notably in farms, get …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011072006
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La perception de la pauvreté dans un monde globalisé
Duru-Bellat, Marie; Bedock, Camille; Tenret, Elise - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
Relying on the World Value Survey data, this paper explores what individuals consider as the most important problems in the world in a sample of about 50 countries. The paper focuses particularly on the fact to prioritize poverty as the most important problem, as poverty constitutes an important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706564
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Jalons pour une économie politique de la trajectoire malgache : une perspective de long terme
Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, François; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
This article aims at supplying an interpretative frame of the long-term Malagasy trajectory by redrawing the structuring knots of its political economy. The concomitance of periods of economic expansion and political crises leash indeed to suppose that one of the essential sources of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122205
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Who deserves aid? Equality of opportunity, international aid and poverty reduction
Naudet, Jean-David; Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007
We build and implement a normative procedure to allocate international aid based on equality of opportunity concerning 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706636
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Santé, inégalités et ruptures sociales à Antananarivo. Premiers résultats de l’enquête SIRS 2003
Parizot, Isabelle; Rakotomanana, Faly; Razafindrakoto, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005
The Health, Inequalities and Social Breakdown (SIRS) survey carried out in Antananarivo in April 2003 on a representative sample of 2,807 people, is part of an international research programme designed to compare the relationships between health, inequalities and social breakdowns in different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071900
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Short and Long Run Effects of Earthquakes on Farm Businesses in Indonesia
Gignoux, Jérémie; Menéndez, Marta - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
-term. Our results suggest that rural households were able to recover in the medium -run, and even exhibit welfare gains in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096671
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De la pauvreté à l'excentricité : le glanage comme révélateur des marges de la consommation
Guillard, Valérie; Roux, Dominique - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
While a significant proportion of French people (38%) reports having recovered objects thrown away or deposited on the sidewalk, the objective of this article is to provide a better understanding of how certain practices of gleaning bulky objects (freely decided rather than dictated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166359
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Unequal societies, Unequal Terms of Trade and Trade Policy
Carré, Martine; Riboni, Alessandro - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
inequalities and trade patterns. We analyze the effect of redistributive policies on the production patterns and welfare. We … terms of trade and the welfare distribution within countries. Our framework hopefully provides a basic tool for studying the … interactions between changes in taris on welfare and inequalities inside and between countries. We obtain non monotone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861542
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Equity in Health And Equivalent Incomes
Dormont, Brigitte; Samson, Anne-Laure; Thébaut, Clémence - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
We compare two approaches to measuring inequity in the health distribution. The first is the concentration index. The second is the calculation of the inequality in an overall measure of individual well-being, capturing both the income and health dimensions. We introduce the concept of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735781
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On the welfare costs of misspecified monetary policy objectives
Avouyi-Dovi, Sanvi; Sahuc, Jean-Guillaume - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
This paper quantifies the effects on welfare of misspecified monetary policy objectives in a stylized DSGE model. We … show that using inappropriate objectives generates relatively large welfare costs. When expressed in terms of ‘consumption … uncertainty decomposition indicates that uncertainty about the properties of markup shocks gives rise to the largest welfare costs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707497