Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st century" has been the most important book economy in recent times. Its aim integrates the debate theories of growth, income distribution, inequality and differences between the extremes income and income of the majority. The work predicts a slow increase in...

We analyse the impact of the measure of the living standard on poverty and inequality diagnosis. Three measures are assessed on the fourth waves of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). The first one divides the household instantaneous income by the current consumption units. The two...

The equality between factor pay and marginal product is a major component of the neoclassical paradigm. The article begins with a brief historical review of this principle. Follows a questioning about the relevance of this law as an argument in the social debates: does marginal product represent...

The equality between factor pay and marginal product is a major component of the neoclassical paradigm. The article begins with a brief historical review of this principle. Follows a questioning about the relevance of this law as an argument in the social debates: does marginal product represent...

Referring to an unhappy report, the aim of this paper consists to analyse the quality of the economic growth in DRC. To analyze this problem, two approaches were used like the approach of the pro-poor growth and the inclusive growth. It results from this analysis that the economic growth in DRC...

This paper examines how different income sources affect households income inequality inBurkina-Faso during the structural adjustment with a décomposition analysis by factor components. First, the analysis is made one the whole houshold populations. In a second time, some specific groups are...

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...

This paper examines how different income sources affect urban households income inequality in four sub-saharian african countries. The empirical evidence is obtained by applying the " equalised nested Shapley " inequality decomposition by factor components. It shows first that demographics...

French Abstract: Partant d'un constat malheureux, la visée de ce papier consiste à saisir la qualité de la croissance économique en RDC. Pour cela, deux approches ont été sollicitées entre autres, l'approche de la croissance pro-pauvres, la croissance inclusive. Il appert de ces approches...

French Abstract: L’article analyse ce qu’est le populisme et pourquoi nous vivons actuellement une vague populiste à travers le monde développé, alors que, il y a une dizaine d’années, rien de tout cela ne semblait visible.Le populisme paraît être une réaction à une crise...