In this paper, a unique post-earthquake survey designed to provide a rapid assessment of food insecurity in Haiti is used in order to see how adequately emergency assistance programs have been allocated. When modelling the impact of various covariates upon assistance allocation, the location of...

La crise de la Sécurité sociale est un thème récurent du débat économique et social en France. Après la période 1991-93 de faible croissance économique un déficit financier important est réapparu dont une cause essentielle fut le ralentissement même de la croissance. Il a entraîné...

In this paper, a unique post-earthquake survey designed to provide a rapid assessment of food insecurity in Haiti is used in order to see how adequately emergency assistance programs have been allocated. When modelling the impact of various covariates upon assistance allocation, the location of...

This paper examines the dynamics of poverty and vulnerability in Haiti using various data sets. As living conditions survey data are not comparable in this country, we first propose to use the three rounds of the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) available before the earthquake. Decomposing...

[fre] Cet article présente, dans un premier temps, les propriétés des indicateurs de polarisation des revenus, ceux de Foster-Wolfson et d’Esteban-Ray, leur portée et leur limite. Les deux critères de polarisation et d’inégalité apparaissent comme complémentaires mais distincts dans...

In this paper, a unique post-earthquake survey designed to provide a rapid assessment of food insecurity in Haiti is used in order to address the question of whether cash and food-for-work (C/FfW) programs are allocated adequately in Haiti. We consider that the allocation principle should meet...

This paper presents a methodology to measure vulnerability to asset-poverty. Using repeated cross-section data, age cohort decomposition techniques focusing on second-order moments can be used to identify and estimate the variance of shocks on assets and, therefore, the probability of being poor...