Following Milanovic's (1997) paper [Economics Letters, vol. 56, p. 45-49], we propose a simple way to compute the Gini index when income y is a quadratic function of its rank among n individuals.

This was a prospective study that compared, for each archivist, the time required to process records depending on whether a single or a dual monitor was used. We collected data for each archivist during her use of the single monitor for 40 hours and during her use of the dual monitor for 20...

This paper seeks to understand in which ways income inequality can act on children’ health in Guatemala. We postulate that there are several transmission channels of income inequality on health and that the ethnic and/or rural origin of the children can have an influence on the size and the...

We consider situations where the cooperation and negotiation possibilities between pairs of agents are given by an undirected graph. Every connected component of agents has a value, which is the total surplus the agents can generate by working together. We present a simple, sequential, bilateral...

In order to have the public funds necessary for its development, Niger is examining the possibility of expanding its VAT tax base to exempted goods and basic food products. This proposal has prompted violent opposition leading to the question of the social impacts of taxation. The first...

Consumer concerns in food purchasing contain a number of attributes, including the nutritional and sanitary values, conditions of breeding and selling, and other social issues. The purpose of this paper is to introduce an analytical and an empirical approaches to estimating the marginal...

L’objectif attendu du Programme détaillé de développement de l’agriculture africaine (PDDAA) impulsé dans le cadre du NEPAD est d’accroître le rythme de la croissance agricole afin de concourir à le réduction de moitié de la pauvreté conformément au premier objectif du...

Les émeutes de la faim de février 2008 ont révélé la fragilité de la sécurité alimentaire du Cameroun. Selon les associations de défense des consommateurs, ceci serait lié aux importations massives de denrées de première nécessité, qui aurait pour conséquence une dégradation...

In this paper we use a top-down bottom up microsimulation CGE model with endogenous labour supply to explore the impact of scaling up infrastructure in the Philippines. As the debate on the importance of scaling up infrastructure to stimulate growth and provide a push to growth, some analyst...

In this paper, we investigate the analytical links between the rate of unemployment, monetary creation and how individuals share the value added in an economy with three types of agents : capital owners, managers and employees. This relationship relies on the fact that the rate of unemployment...