Economie du développement
Cet ouvrage est un manuel d’économie du développement utile pour les licences et masters. Le chapitre 1 donne un premier aperçu de la notion de développement. Le chapitre 2 présente la construction des « mesures...
Catégorie : Poverty and inequality
Analyse des inégalités de revenu au Mali
Dans les discussions sur les inégalités en Afrique, le Mali apparaît souvent comme une exception, étant le pays ayant le plus faible niveau d’inégalités au niveau de la sous-région Afrique de l’Ouest. Dans ce papier,...
Spatial inequality through the prism of a pandemic: Covid-19 in South Africa
In this paper, we examine whether pre-existing socio-economic inequalities relate to inequalities in vulnerability to COVID-19 infection in the context of South Africa using the 2016 Community Survey, which allows for a detailed geographical disaggregation...
A strong sustainability approach to development trajectories
Sustainable development trajectories are at the heart of many policy debates: CDN and Net Zero trajectories, just transition, climate justice, biodiversity inclusion, etc. These trajectories mostly propose a nexus approach combining climate, ecological, social, technological,...
Comparing poverty variations: A robustness assessment of the MDGs’ achievements with respect to poverty alleviation
Has global poverty been halved between 1990 and 2015? In the present paper, we show how well-know stochastic dominance tools can be used to check the robustness of claims regarding monetary poverty variations and then,...
Less debt, more schooling? Evidence from cross-country micro data
Soaring levels of public debt in low-income countries are fuelling concerns about their ability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, such as free access to primary education. In the late 1990s and 2000s, international financial...
