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Nous soutenons que pour étudier le fonctionnement réel des économies capitalistes, il ne suffit pas de considérer l’innovation comme un processus de destruction créatrice. Il est aussi nécessaire de supposer que les agents de ces économies adoptent une institution ou règle nommée...
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This article combines computable general equilibrium (CGE) micro-simulation modeling and the Gini multi-decomposition analysis. The CGE-micro-simulation approach enables one to generate endogenous income distributions following government policy interventions. The introduction of these...
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This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions of income and health using procedures that are robust to...
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Because they yield durable and visible benefits to voters, public infrastructure expenditures are an attractive instrument for politicians to build enduring electoral support in their constituencies. Static models of special-interest politics typically predict that public spending should be...
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The evaluation of the poverty impact and targeting performance of a given social program may depend on how other programs are treated in the analysis.Using well-known results from cooperative game theory, this paper proposes an empirically simple yet theoretically sound method for allocating...
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This paper examines the impact of government debt on interest rates in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and Canada. It builds on the general portfolio balance framework which allows for both direct and indirect tests of the link between public debt and interest rates, and uses the...
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Après la construction et l’analyse des profils de pauvreté, l’étude de ses déterminants est souvent une priorité dans l’élaboration des Documents stratégiques de réduction de la pauvreté (DSRP). La littérature nous propose en effet, plusieurs méthodes permettant de modéliser...
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This paper studies the finite sample performance of the sieve bootstrap augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) unit root test. It is well known that this test’s accuracy in terms of rejection probability under the null depends greatly on the underlying DGP. Through extensive simulations, we find that...
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La revue des travaux portant sur la mondialisation est révélatrice d’une place marginale accordée au genre dans l’analyse des inégalités. Forte de ce constat, cette recherche est une tentative de vérification de la thèse néo-libérale selon laquelle la mondialisation actuelle...
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ABSTRACT: Considérant sa situation en terme de pauvreté, Haïti figure parmi les pays bénéficiant des programmes des Objectifs du millénaire pour le développement (OMD). Quelques études ont en effet montré ces dernières années, qu’Haïti était un pays pauvre et très inégalitaire....
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