If, as is contended in the social security literature, a policy for the poor is a poor policy, a final judgment of poverty programs crucially depends on the effects such programs may have on the behaviour of different actors. Assuming that these are to a significant extent determined by concerns...

In the New Institutional Economics, an argument has been made to found theoretical models on "human nature as we know it”. Though this argument has served to defend the assumption of opportunism, it can also be used to explore other models of man. In particular, we scrutinise what kind of...

En partant de la présentation les fondements théoriques de l’approche monétaire de la pauvreté, nous faisons une critique méthodologique de cette approche en abordant quatre questions : la question de l’unité d’analyse, des ressources, de la comparaison du bien-être dans le temps et...

At a time when technological innovations are making our world increasingly smaller and our production systems are becoming increasingly more efficient, the benefits of economic growth and development as a whole have not been able to reach all of society. Indeed, many poor countries,...

We try to construct a bridge between an institutional perspective on poverty and poverty interventions (Bastiaensen, De Herdt & Vaessen 2002) and a more operational screening instrument to be used for a local socio-institutional analysis of anti-poverty interventions (LSIA). While reviewing...

Ce rapport clôture un cycle d’études autour d’une intervention de lutte contre la pauvreté dans la commune de Kisenso, une des communes les plus pauvres de la capitale de la RDC. Il a débuté par une étude sur la pauvreté urbaine, au milieu des années ’90, qui a débouché sur la...

The Handbook of Economics and Ethics portrays an understanding of economic methodology in which facts and values, though distinct, are closely interconnected in a variety of ways. From theory building to data collection, and from modelling to policy evaluation, this encyclopaedic Handbook is at...

This article argues that state (re)construction and functioning involves negotiated governance between both state and non-state actors, in which power relations between local actors are not just implicitly present or co-influencing policies but are of uttermost importance to the formation of...

Whether or not Mitterand's famous thesis that ‘there can be no democracy without development and no development without democracy‘-super-1is correct, Zaire during the 1990s was a clear case demonstrating the absence of a close relationship between development and democratisation. On the...

If the standard of living of people is always in part the result of good or bad luck, in part this luck does not only originate in ?nature? but also in the behaviour of the people on whom one depends. In our contribution we try to come to a closer understanding of the possibilities to prevent...