Several academic studies have been conducted to explore the link between taxes on tobacco products and consumption behavior, especially smoking cessation. While most research has been conducted by comparing static levels of taxation across states or countries, almost none have looked at the...

Current diagnosis and foresights analyzes show that the pressure on natural resources will increase if significant efforts are not made ??through the integration of technological, organizational and social modernization factors in agricultural public policies in Southern and Eastern...

The rising disparities, to the detriment of less qualified workers, is certainly one of the most worrisome trends to which the developed countries have to face. Nevertheless, this deteriorating didn't have the same effects in all the countries. Indeed, in the Anglo-Saxon countries, the incomes...

In Canada, most of the private placements are offered by small and unprofitable entrepreneurial ventures -- for which the asymmetry of information and adverse selection problems are particularly acute. Private placements are a very important source of equity for these emerging businesses. In...

Ce texte propose une caractérisation du petit producteur agricole et de sa logique socio-économique. Si investir c’est augmenter le stock de capital, il faut envisager le capital des petits producteurs sous ses différentes formes : le capital humain, social et politique, le capital naturel,...

This paper proposes a characterization of the smallholder and of his socio economical logic. If investing means increase the stock of capital, it is necessary to consider the capital of the small holders according to different aspects: the human, social and political capital, the natural...