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Job satisfaction: a measurement of employment quality compared with aspirations in eight African capitals

Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, François - DIAL - 2011

(english) This paper analyzes the level of job satisfaction expressed by individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa. The approach is original in three respects. no in-depth economic study has ever been produced on the determinants of job satisfaction on this continent; the approach aims at isolating the...

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Poverty alleviation policy targeting: a review of experiences in developing countries

Lavallée, Emmanuelle; Olivier, Anne; Pasquier-Doumer, Laure - DIAL - 2010

(english) Fiscal constraints and policy changes to improve the effectiveness of programmes in reducing poverty have gradually led the international community to use tools to reach the poor. Poverty reduction policy targeting is one of them. This paper reviews targeted poverty alleviation...

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Learning to walk before you run: Financial Behavior and mobile banking in Madagascar

Arestoff, Florence; Venet, Baptiste - DIAL - 2013

(english) In Madagascar, Orange introduced its mobile banking services in September 2010. Mobile-banking (m-banking) is a system that allows users to conduct a number of financial transactions through a mobile phone. The existing body of literature suggests that the use of m-banking services may...

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Les sciences sociales au service du débat démocratique au Sud:enjeux, supports, retombées. Résultats d'expériences dans le champ de l'économie et de la statistique

Herrera, Javier; Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, … - DIAL - 2013

(english) While researchers are increasingly encouraged to refocus their publishing activities towards so called “excellence” academic journals, the question of knowledge dissemination and its role in developing countries becomes more acute. This dilemma, whereby any scientist is confronted,...

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Elections and Economic Policy in Developing Countries

Chauvet, Lisa; Collier, Paul - DIAL - 2008

This paper explores the impact of elections on economic policies and governance in developing countries. We distinguish between a structural effect, which increases accountability, and a cyclical effect which may be disruptive. Since the effects are offsetting, neither can be analyzed in...

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Formation du revenu, segmentation et discrimination sur le marché du travail d'une ville en développement : Antananarivo fin de siècle

Cogneau, Denis - DIAL - 2001

The paper proposes a micro-macro model of labour market of a developing city, and its empirical implementation on the case of the capital town of Madagascar, Antananarivo. The model recognises the existence of measured and unmeasured heterogeneity of skills, preferences and opportunities within...

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World Urbanization Prospects : an alternative to the UN model of projection compatible with urban transition theory

Bocquier, Philippe - DIAL - 2004

(english) This paper proposes to critically examine the United Nations projections on urbanisation. Both the estimates of current trends based on national data and the method of projection are evaluated. The theory of urban transition is used as an alternative hypothesis for projections....

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Parental Income and School Attendance in a Low-Income Country : A semi-parametric analysis

Cogneau, Denis; Maurin, Eric - DIAL - 2001

Using data covering three successive generations of Malagasy people, we construct a new semiparametric estimator of the effect of parental income on the decision to send children to school. We propose new tests of simultaneity and hereditary biases affecting the usual estimates of this effect....

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Le ciblage des politiques de lutte contre la pauvreté : quel bilan des expériences dans les pays en développement ?

Lavallée, Emmanuelle; Olivier, Anne; Pasquier-Doumer, Laure - DIAL - 2009

(english) Fiscal constraints and policy changes to improve effectiveness of programs in reducing poverty has progressively led the international community to use tools for reaching the poor. Targeting antipoverty interventions is one of them. This paper aims at providing a general review of...

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Comment les femmes concilient-elles mariage et travail à Dakar et à Lomé ?

Adjamagbo, Agnès; Antoine, Philippe; Beguy, Donatien; … - DIAL - 2006

. _________________________________ (français) La position défavorable des femmes sur le marché du travail peut s’expliquer par un conflit de rôles entre l … ont accru le rôle des femmes dans la stratégie de survie des ménages, mais leur participation ne revêt pas le même sens …-à-vis du mari. À Lomé, par contre, si la norme conjugale intègre depuis longtemps l’indépendance économique des femmes, celle …

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