The contribution of the economic analysis is essential to understand the behavior of giving market?s actors such as donors, recipients, charity organizations and the State. Altruism theory reconciles prosocial and rational behavior. Nevertheless, the opening toward a globalized solidarity makes...

[eng] The thorough and systematic study about the influence of economic variables on the fecondity has been really developed in connexion with industrial countries. This article presents the principal theories on this matter (Easterlin hypothesis, demographic implosion, new home economics); so...

[fre] Les analyses contemporaines de la croissance endogène font référence aux travaux d'Allyn Young, considéré comme un précurseur. Pourtant les modèles de croissance endogène reposent le plus souvent sur des phénomènes traditionnels d'effets externes, occultant ainsi un aspect...