Relying on the World Value Survey data, this paper explores what individuals consider as the most important problems in the world in a sample of about 50 countries. The paper focuses particularly on the fact to prioritize poverty as the most important problem, as poverty constitutes an important...

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...

Why are there areas with persistenly low levels of income or consumption? This could result from the concentration of households with a low capital endowment or from variations in households’ environment. Peru is a country with a very much fragmented topography and climate, that combines dry...

Public statistics face quite a challenge when it comes to measuring new dimensions of development (institutions, governance, and social and political participation). To take up this challenge, modules on Governance, Democracy and Multiple Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household...

L’Aide à l’acquisition d’une complémentaire santé (ACS) est un dispositif, sous la forme d’une aide financière, mis en place en 2005 pour favoriser l’accès aux soins des personnes ayant un revenu juste au-dessus du plafond de l’éligibilité à la Couverture maladie universelle...

La Sécurité sociale prenant en charge 75,8 % des dépenses de soins en France, l'accès aux soins repose en partie sur la possession d'un contrat de couverture complémentaire. Des dispositifs ont été mis en place par les autorités publiques afin d'améliorer l'accès des ménages les plus...

Le dispositif des affections de longue durée (ALD) vise à réduire la charge financière des assurés souffrant d’une maladie longue et coûteuse. Introduit dès 1945 au titre de quatre maladies (cancer, tuberculose, poliomyélite, maladie mentale), il concerne aujourd’hui 32 groupes de...

Since the 1994 devaluation, growth has been quite strong in Mali (about 5% p.a. on average), but much weaker in terms of GDP per person (about 2.6% p.a.) due to a very high index of fecundity. Growth is still very unstable, due to a large share of agriculture in GDP and very sensitive to...

For half a century, social policies in Latin America were characterized by conflict. Well, for the last fifteen years the conflict approach gave place to the consensus one, whether the latter relates to goals (of poverty reduction) or the instruments used for this.This paper examines the origins...

We use data from a newly designed household survey in Senegal to study intrahousehold allocation of remittances income. In this survey, households are split between sub-groups of individuals, in a way that is natural to households and that corresponds to the internal budgetary arrangements found...