The main objective of this paper is to show how Social Accounting Matrices (SAM) and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Models can be used to highlight and address issues related to income distribution and poverty. The paper is divided into two major parts. Part 1 presents the concept of the...

Ce papier vise à évaluer la pertinence des différents types de modélisation macro- économique en équilibre général pour mesurer l'impact des chocs de politique économique sur l'incidence de la pauvreté et la distribution du revenu. Dans la littérature on peut identifier trois types...

Condorcet (1785) initiated the statistical approach to vote aggregation. Two centuries later, Young (1988) showed that a correct application of the maximum likelihood principle leads to the selection of rankings called Kemeny orders, which have the minimal total number of disagreements with...