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La mise en place de zones protégées est une pratique répandue pour atteindre des objectifs de conservation environnementale. Elle est toutefois critiquée sous prétexte qu'elle restreint l'exploitation des ressources naturelles et le développement agricole, en particulier dans les régions...
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In 2005, a wage subsidy program was established in Québec to encourage low-income individuals, particularly recipients of social assistance, to work, by offering them fiscal relief. We analyse the effect of this program (the Prime au travail) with a microsimulation model which determines the...
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L'education primaire joue un rôle important dans le developpement du capital humain dans les pays en développement. Ainsi, le Burkina Faso a mis en place un certain nombre d'actions afin de favoriser l'accès et la qualité de l'éducation primaire. Cependant, lorsqu'on compare les...
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Dans cet article, nous tentons d’évaluer les effets de la corruption sur la croissance, le bien-être et la pauvreté au Sénégal à l’aide d’un modèle d’équilibre général calculable dynamique. Les résultats de nos simulations montrent qu’une fuite de 10% d’investissements...
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This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine the effect of connecting a household to the grid and the quality of electricity, defined as hours of daily supply. The analysis is based on two rounds of a representative panel...
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Cet Article analyse l’endettement Public des provinces canadiennes, qui sont aux États subnationaux des Etats-Unis (États), de l’Australie (États), de l’Allemagne (länder) et de la Suisse (cantons), en plus des pays de l’OCDE. L’étude procède au classement des États Fédérés...
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We introduce the game in cover function form, which is a bargaining game of sequential offers for endogenous overlapping coalitions. This extension of games in partition function form removes the restriction to disjoint coalitions. We discuss the existence of equilibria, and we develop an...
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This paper proposes a structural approach to growth modeling relying on random return scale. An RBC-like model in which return to scale may be strictly increasing or decreasing depending on shocks is explicitly derived. We show that relevant component of usual macroeconomic models (including...
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The challenge of realigning the present path of development on a sustainable trajectory is shared among all sectors of society, including engineering. To move towards a more sustainable practice of engineering, the design process needs to be modified in order for engineers to tackle the related...
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Evidence from English real wages and real land rents for the period 1500-1800 are used to evaluate the impact of temperature and precipitations on under-developed economies. Estimating key parameters of an AK-growth model, we extract Total Factor Productivity (TFP hereafter) shocks and estimate...
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