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This study analyzes the phenomenon of the "useless class" in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), composed of marginalized individuals, without employment or valued qualifications. This segment of the population, representing a significant portion of Congolese, particularly in urban areas,...
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ABSTRACT & RÉSUMÉ : Happiness is a universal state of mind. However, its meaning takes on culture-specific forms, ranging from emotional states of mind to life satisfaction. The definition of 'happiness' is strongly influenced by the respective philosophical background and material living...
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This paper deals with the effects of migrants remittances on poverty in Senegal. Data were extracted from the Senegalese Households’ survey (ESAMII) for that purpose. Empirical findings based on a microeconomic analysis show that remittances improve significantly households’ per capita...
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There is an important debate going on in South Africa on whether to apply safeguard trade barriers to protect textiles. This presents an interesting case of how a country might use safeguard trade barriers in order to better achieve a domestic policy objective. Much of the current discourse on...
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the one hand, of a reduction of the levels of wasting, underweight and stunting – a doubling of the rate of regional … significant difference in terms of gender in the relation between, on the one hand, the level or the inequality of stunting or … malnutrition, except wasting. In addition, if the level of stunting increased between 1992-93 and 1998-99, the econometric …
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In Burkina Faso, the analysis of the consequences of the urbanization in terms of poverty, based on a spatio-time-series approach, organized in function, on the one hand, information of the household surveys – 1994-95 and 1998 –, and the demographic and health surveys – 1992-93 and 1998-99...
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Our purpose is to examine the factors of poverty in Burkina-Faso within a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) framework. In the spirit of some theoretical and empirical recent works, the households are desagregated upon their respective dotations of economical and social capital. This view not...
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En Turquie, dans la période 1994-2005 la croissance a été pro-pauvres en termes de croissance des revenus, mais pas en valeur absolue. Même en termes relatifs ce résultat est discutable pour les raisons suivantes : premièrement les ménages appartenant aux centiles les plus bas ont accru...
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French Abstract: Le bonheur est un état d'esprit universel. Cependant, sa signification prend des formes spécifiques à la culture, allant des états d'esprit émotionnels à la satisfaction générale de la vie. La définition du « bonheur » est fortement influencée par le contexte...
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German Abstract: Glück ist eine universelle Geistesverfassung. Ihre Bedeutung nimmt jedoch kulturspezifische Formen an und reicht von emotionalen Gemütszuständen bis hin zur allgemeinen Lebenszufriedenheit. Die Definition von ‚Glück‘ ist stark von jeweiligen philosophischen...
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