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agreement, our equality of opportunity principle takes account of structural disadvantages to growth rather than quality of past …
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This paper is dedicated to a theoretical and empirical survey of the relationship between trade, growth, poverty and … empirical studies on the impact of openness (as measured by the protection rate) on growth are not robust. Some studies have … therefore estimated the direct impact of trade on income or income growth. But this raises the problem of endogeneity of trade …
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This paper proposes a measure of the contribution of unequal opportunities to earnings inequality. Drawing on the distinction between ‘circumstance’ and ‘effort’ variables in John Roemer’s work on equality of opportunity, we associate inequality of opportunities with five observed...
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This article aims at supplying an interpretative frame of the long-term Malagasy trajectory by redrawing the structuring knots of its political economy. The concomitance of periods of economic expansion and political crises leash indeed to suppose that one of the essential sources of the...
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We propose an econometric analysis of the distributive impact of trade flows, foreign direct investment (FDI), official aid and migrants’ remittances. Results suggest that FDI increases inequality, while remittances tend to reduce inequality. Trade and aid have a non-linear relationship with...
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economic growth (i.e. that aid is more effective in countries which are more vulnerable to external shocks). Recently an … may involve some volatility in aid flows, which then is not necessarily negative for growth. In this paper the authors … to which aid can respond, they consider the effect of aid on income volatility and again find that aid is making growth …
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We draw some lessons from the Tunisian experience of social reforms and associated civil conflict. Our main interest is the riots that occurred after subsidy cuts and their possible substitution of price subsidies by direct cash transfers. We propose new welfare indicators apt to assess policy...
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This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on estimation methods that focus on the poor. Using data from Tunisia, we estimate ‘focused’ transfer schemes that highly improve anti-poverty targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty...
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