Cet article a pour objectif d’identifier la contribution du système de protection sociale à l’amélioration des conditions de vie en Russie durant la période de croissance économique soutenue des années 2000. Il s’agit plus précisément d’évaluer le degré de progressivité des...

L’objectif de cet article est d’analyser l’évolution du phénomène de la pauvreté en Russie, sous le régime soviétique puis durant la transition vers l’économie de marché. Si dans le système socialiste, la pauvreté monétaire était modérée et les besoins de base globalement...

While a plethoric empirical literature addresses the relationship between socio-economic status and body weight, little is known about the influence of social class on nutritional outcomes, particularly in developing countries. The purpose of this article is to contribute to the analysis of the...

The purpose of this article is to investigate the socio-economic as well as the political, institutional, and ideological causes of the Chinese famine of 1959–1961. The main hypothesis of this paper is that the radical policies implemented as part of the Great Leap Forward resulted in...

</titre> <alinea/> This article aims at analyzing the relationship between inequality and pollution. First, it proposes a survey which shows that a decrease in inequality has a harmful effect on environment because of multiple mechanisms. Second, we propose an econometric analysis based on panel data for...

The purpose of this article is to contribute to the analysis of Chinese income inequality by focusing more specifically on income polarisation, which captures both alienation (i.e. heterogeneity between income groups) and identification (i.e. homogeneity within groups). The empirical...