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The entitlements approach developed by Amartya Sen at the end of the seventies and at the beginning of the eighties … provides a microeconomic framework explaining famines in terms of food entitlements decline. This article presents an overview … of the discussions and controversies dealing with Sen’s entitlements approach and exposes some issues of improvement. …
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The article aims at identifying socioeconomic factors which explain the Chinese famine of 1959-1961. The main hypothesis of this paper is that the radicalism of Great Leap Forward policies generated both a decline of agricultural output (availability problems) and the implementation of an...
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L’obligation de poursuivre et de punir les crimes graves stipulée dans le droit international et la volonté d’apporter réparation aux victimes ont conduit à l’élaboration d’approches de justice transitionnelle destinées à sanctionner la violence de masse ou les abus...
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Data from a field experiment are used to estimate the gain in productivity that is realized when workers are paid piece rates rather than fixed wages. The experiment was conducted within a tree-planting firm and provides daily observations on individual worker productivity under both copensation...
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