Access to modern energy is believed to be a prerequisite for sustainable development, poverty alleviation and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. However, theoretical models and empirical results offer conflicting evidence on the relationship between energy consumption and...

The objective of this paper is to shed light on the issue of skill mismatch in the context of return migration in Egypt and Tunisia. Using data on both return and potential migrants in Egypt and Tunisia, we analyze the skills that migrants acquire before and during migration and the way these...

This paper examines how adverse shocks experienced by households, such as natural disasters, crop or job losses, or deaths, influence the acquisition of human capital of children, in the long run, and investigates whether some periods of childhood appear to be more critical in the sense that...

Since 2004, the Government of Senegal has adopted an accelerated growth program in the aim o reducing poverty by half before 2015 (Millennium Development Goal). This article criticizes thi program by analysing his pro-poor components. It shows that policies are too much oriented toward sectors...

Many countries simultaneously suffer from high rates of inflation, low growth rates of per capita income and poorly developed financial sectors. In this paper, we integrate a microfounded model of money and finance into a model of endogenous growth to examine the effects of inflation and...

We propose a model in which, as incomes grow, workers become less risk-averse and move from fixed-wage contracts to variable pay. This can explain the recent increase in wage dispersion between groups, within groups, and over the lifecycle.

Issu des travaux menés au cours des Rencontres économiques d'Aix-en-Provence de juillet 2009. Un état des lieux des problèmes que soulève la démographie mondiale, qui montre que deux paramètres joueront un rôle essentiel dans l'avenir : les ressources rares et le vieillissement....

The present phenomenon of the changing age-structure of the population will come to a head in the next few years with the considerable mass of those over sixty. Indeed, the behaviour of this growing sector of the population is at the centre of many issues, especially regarding inheritance...