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Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2006

Qu'es-ce que la liberté? Qu'es-ce que l'égalité? En quoi une plus grande égalité peut-elle accroître la liberté? Telles sont les questions principales auxquelles tente de répondre cet article. Le problème du choix entre liberté et égalité soulève en effet le problème de la...

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Pro-poor Growth in Andean Countries

Araar, Abdelkrim - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2012

This paper studies the pro-poor growth in the Latino American Andean countries. We first present different definitions of pro-poorness and the related methods in order to generate the statistically robust results for classes of pro-poor measures. Also, we present the non anonymous pro-poor...

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Can Warm Glow Alleviate Credit Market Failures? Evidence from Online Peer-to-Peer Lenders

Chemin, Matthieu; Laat, Joost de - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2009

This paper looks at an institutional innovation in which Western investors lend peer-to-peer to poor country enterprises. Using a unique dataset from an online lending platform called MyC4, we find that MyC4’s Western lenders grant lower interest rates to pro-poor, socially responsible (SR),...

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On the Decomposition of Polarization Indices: Illustrations with Chinese and Nigerian Household Surveys

Araar, Abdelkrim - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008

Duclos, Esteban, and Ray (2004) polarization index by population groups or income sources. In some cases, the decomposition … spatially polarized, and this, based on geo-ecological zones. Furthermore, the two income sources, namely, Employment income and … Non farm business income, significantly contribute to total polarization. …

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Testing for Pro-poorness of Growth, with an Application to Mexico

Araar, Abdelkrim; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Audet, Mathieu; … - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2007

This paper proposes techniques to test whether growth has been pro-poor. We first review different definitions of pro-poorness and argue for the use of methods that can generate results that are robust over classes of pro-poor measures and ranges of poverty lines. We then provide statistical...

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Poverty, Inequality and Stochastic Dominance, Theory and Practice: Illustration with Burkina Faso Surveys

Araar, Abdelkrim - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2006

In this paper we provide a set of rules that can be used to check poverty or inequality dominance using discrete data. Existing theoretical rules assumes continuity in incomes or in percentiles of population. In reality, with the form of household surveys, this continuity does not exist....

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Poverty and Inequality Nexus: Illustrations with Nigerian Data

Araar, Abdelkrim; Timothy, Awoyemi Taiwo - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2006

inequalities, as well as inequality in income sources, can contribute to total poverty. The methodology of the paper is illustrated …

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On the Decomposition of the Gini Coefficient: an Exact Approach, with an Illustration Using Cameroonian Data

Araar, Abdelkrim - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2006

Decomposing inequality indices across household groups or income sources is useful in estimating the contribution of …

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Do Peers Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from Canada Using Group Size Variation

Boucher, Vincent; Bramoullé, Yann; Djebbari, Habiba; … - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2010

We provide the first empirical application of a new approach proposed by Lee (2007) to estimate peer effects in a linear-in-means model. This approach allows to control for group-level unobservable and to solve the reflection problem. We investigate peer effects in student achievement in...

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The Role of Social Image Concerns in the Design of Legal Regimes

Deffains, Bruno; Fluet, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2013

We consider situations where legal liability yields insufficient incentives for socially efficient behavior, e.g., individuals who cause harm are not always sued or are unable to pay fully for harm done. Some individuals nevertheless behave efficiently because of intrinsic prosocial concerns....

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