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...

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...

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...

We examine the long-term effects on individual economic outcomes of a set of earthquakes – numerous, large, but mostly not extreme – that occurred in rural Indonesia since 1985. Using longitudinal individual-level data from large-scale household surveys, together with precise measures of...

This paper studies the impact of earthquakes on farm business assets in rural Indonesia. Using a panel fixed effects model, we evaluate if the negative consequences of earthquakes extend beyond the immediate event into the medium and long-term. Our results suggest that rural households were able...

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...

In order to improve financial access to complementary health insurance (CHI) in France, a CHI voucher program, called Aide Complémentaire Santé (ACS) was introduced in 2005. Four years later, the program covered only 18% of the eligible population. Two main hypotheses are put forward to...

The competition between SEAQ International and Continental European equity markets to attract transactions in the most actively traded European stocks has intensified since the late 1980s. Because their transactions are organised in a different manner, and because reporting standards are not the...

Ce papier présente les résultats d’une étude exploratoire afin de contribuer à une meilleure compréhension du rôle des alliances stratégiques des PME pour concilier entre les innovations d’exploration et les innovations d’exploitation. La nouvelle approche des innovations et des...