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Cooperation within the textile and clothing sector in Sfax (Tunisia) is the object of this paper. The spatial concentration of firms within a Marshallian ?industrial district? enhances external economies and makes cooperation easier. This study sheds some light on the variables that are...
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The impact of growth on the distribution of income or consumption is regularly debated at both the scientific and policy levels. Within the micro-oriented literature dedicated to growth pro-poorness evaluation issues, the focus is specifically on the poverty impacts of growth. Considering a...
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This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty variations into growth and inequality effects. After a complete and critical review of the invariance axioms suggested in the literature, we show that few information is needed for the ordering of...
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This erratum corrects some typos and misspecifications in Bresson (2008).
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Many authors have demonstrated that credit market imperfections lead to situations of permanent income inequalities. Depending on the authors, the channels of investment which are at the source of the income formation, differ; whereas some have chosen physical capital investment, the others have...
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Many authors have recently emphasized the crucial role of income inequalities in the design of efficient policies aimed at reducing poverty. However, the link between variations of the degree of inequality and variations of poverty are not well documented. The literature, for instance, does not...
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After decades of intensive research dedicated to efficient and flexible parametric statistical distributions, the lognormal distribution still enjoys, despite its empirical weaknesses, widespread popularity in the applied literature related to poverty and inequality analysis. In the present...
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