Buddhism, one of the three largest religions in the world, is rich and deep in spirituality and philosophical content. In Asian and Western countries, the economic and managerial aspects of Buddhism have become a subject of renewed interest and many studies. The book What Buddhism can bring to...

Since the early 90's, the Federal Planning Bureau assesses the sustainability of pensions in Belgium. Since a couple of years, it uses a dynamic microsimulation model, MIDAS_BE, to assess the development of the adequacy of pensions. This working paper illustrates the possibilities generated by...

The inspiration of this paper comes from the clear divorce between the eloquent economic growth and rampant poverty of Congolese people. The originality of this work is to get information from the economic structure for explaining this divorce. In the one hand, the predator government, the...

The ninth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles. Topics covered are: the magnitude of the Canada-U.S. productivity gap at the industry level; productivity puzzles facing researchers; the link between...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of household income on private transfers in Russia on the basis of altruism, exchange and risk sharing hypotheses. Econometrical investigations, with Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey data for 2002, show that private transfers can’t be...

Les préoccupations éthiques guident depuis longtemps la consommation de certains individus. Toutefois, la consommation dite « responsable » sort peu à peu de la confidentialité et des circuits de distribution spécialisés en se démocratisant, notamment grâce à une diffusion plus large...