Based on the household survey carried out by 1994_95, the present study analyzes the relation between the equivalence scales and the spatial poverty in Burkina Faso. Several conclusions are highlighted. Firstly,the estimate of an Engel's curve generates a value of the parameter of scale 2 of...

Based on two household surveys, carried out by 1990 and 1996, the present study examines micro-economic factors of the reduction of the poverty and the inequality in Mauritania. Firstly, according to econometric estimations, the per capita consumption of rural and urban households is influenced...

The quest for happiness is neither new for human beings, nor for economists. With the systematization of household surveys, Subjective Well-Being studies have flourished. Discussions now focus on the slope of the virtually unchallenged curvilinear functional form between income and life...

Based on the household survey of Burkina Faso of 1994-95, the present study examines if the use of information about assets of households -using nonlinear principal components analysis– is a satisfactory alternative to the monetary approach of the poverty, as well with regard to its evaluation...

While some analyses, based on a per capita welfare approach, assert the existence of an inverse relationship between the poverty and the household size in developing countries, the present research, supported by data from the Burkina Faso household survey of 1994-95, suggests a fragile...

The measure of the poverty in Mauritania is considerably influenced by methodological choice. While a monetary poverty line of 370 dollars generates a ratio of poverty of households of 51,4 per cent, the cost of basis needs approach induces an impact of the national poverty of only 41,5per cent,...

This paper shows that there is a strong relation between urban poverty patterns and the functioning of the urban labor market in Morocco. There are strong evidences that labor markets in developping are characterised by substantial heterogeneity. Consequently, a model that do not handle this...