Ce Texte Developpe des Methodes D'inference Non Parametriques Pour le Processus Autoregressif D'ordre Un. le Probleme Etudie Est de Tester N'importe Quelle Hypothese Affirmant Que le Coefficient D'autocorrelation (...) a une Valeur Donnee (...) Ou (...) Est une Valeur Admissible Arbitraire...

This Paper Intends to Develop a Coherent Methodological Framework Concerned with the Appraisal of Scientific Theories in Economics, and Which Is Based on a Postulated Aim of Science. We First Define the Scope of a Methodological Inquiry (Precise Definition of What Is Meant by the Logic of...

We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. In contrast to earlier contributions, we assign importance to the persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a class of individual intertemporal poverty measures reflecting this feature. In addition, we...