Search results for "finances"

: The Place of the State in Africa according to the World Bank : limits of a neo-liberal policy

2005

This contribution aims to analyse the change in discourse held by the World Bank concerning the reform of the State in Africa in the educational sphere. After inspection, it emerges that despite new discourses on the "fight against poverty", the World Bank's neo-liberal policy still grants the State a minor role in the design and execution of educational policies. One would have thought of an evolution from the strict structural adjustment policies towards a policy of social adjustment where fundamental assets concerning the social field would be taken into account. That is not the case : the fight against poverty policy maintains the course of adjustment policies, by preserving a minimal s…

La Banque Mondiale et l'éducation, ou : est-il plus simple de construire de grands barrages que de petites écoles ?

2002

An indirect consequence of the economic globalisation is the questioning of the States as economic actors. In the context of developing countries, structural adjustment policies' constraint sometimes brutally destructured the educational systems. Reversibly, the social demand for education grew as the access to instruction was perceived as the most effective individualised strategy to escape underdevelopment. The international community quickly understood that such a degraded situation could only compromise the objective of education for all. The World Bank which was conscious of such problem as well as the economic inefficiency of many national educational systems decided to divert its act…

La Place de l'Etat en Afrique selon la Banque mondiale : De l'ajustement structurel à l'ajustement social. Les limites d'une politique néo-libérale «…

2007

07003 - 17 p.; Les Documents de travail de l'IREDU 2007/3; Cette contribution a pour objectif d'analyser le changement de discours que porte la Banque mondiale sur la réforme de l'État en Afrique, et ce dans la sphère éducative. Après examen, il ressort que malgré les nouveaux discours de « lutte contre la pauvreté », la politique néo-libérale de la Banque mondiale accorde à l'État une place toujours aussi mineure dans la conception et l'exécution des politiques éducatives. On aurait pu croire à la réalité d'une évolution de la politique d'ajustement structurel stricte vers une politique d'ajustement social où des acquis fondamentaux seraient pris en compte concernant le domaine social. Il …

The Impact of the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme on Township Hospitals' Utilization and Income Structure in Weifang Prefecture, China

2017

The New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme was gradually introduced from 2003 in China. This paper is based on a representative survey of 24 randomly selected township hospitals in Weifang prefecture over the period 2000-2008. Using a generalized form of differences-in-differences model, it aims to assess the effect of the reform on the utilization and income structure of the township hospitals. The estimations provide three main results linked to the effects of the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme on the behavior of the key stakeholders (households, health care providers and Health Bureau). Firstly, the reform had positive impacts on the utilization of township hospitals, particularly on…

Industrial organization with profit rate maximizing firms

1995

We study the impact on industrial organization of the switching of objective function, from pure profit to profit rate maximization. The output level of firm is lower at optimum. This lead to a new conception of efficiency. Cases of no coordination are considered. In perfect competition, price signal disappears; factors remain paid at their marginal productivity, but modified. In imperfect competition, reaction functions may vanish even if collusion remains possible; limit of oligopoly remains perfect competition of profit rate; the paradox of Bertrand may remain; a new concept is studied: mixed duopoly, where firms can choose and change their objective.

Les limites de la procédure d'estimation de Kmenta d'une fonction CES généralisée

1982

L' entreprise, son projet, sa gouvernance : éléments d'une vision partenariale

2015

International audience; Cet article souhaite contribuer à une théorie "gestionnaire" de la firme autour de trois questions fondamentales : la finalité de l'entreprise, sa gouvernance et son ancrage institutionnel (et ses enjeux sociétaux). Les auteurs partent du principe que l'entreprise doit être appréhendée comme une action collective. Lieu de coopération(s), la firme se comprend et s'analyse comme un (ou des) projet(s) qui fédère(ent) ses acteurs internes ou externes, ses fameuses parties prenantes. Cela implique d'adopter une perspective partenariale et cognitive en matière de gouvernance si l'on veut rendre compte convenablement de l'ensemble des mécanismes à l'oeuvre en la matière.

Entre big data et big brother

2017

Chap. 40; National audience

Un mercato d’été au ralenti dans le « Big Five »

2011

National audience

Bicausative matrices to measure structural change: Are they a good tool?

1999

The causative-matrix method to analyze temporal change assumes that a matrix transforms one Markovian transition matrix into another by a left multiplication of the first matrix; the method is demand-driven when applied to input-output economics. An extension is presented without assuming the demand-driven or supply-driven hypothesis. Starting from two flow matrices X and Y, two diagonal matrices are searched, one premultiplying and the second postmultiplying X, to obtain a result the closer as possible to Y by least squares. The paper proves that the method is deceptive because the diagonal matrices are unidentified and the interpretation of results is unclear. Keywords : Input-Output ; Ch…