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Les BRICs, une autre coopération de développement ?
No full textL’essor rapide des BRICs et leur poids croissant dans l’économie mondiale constituent une donnée nouvelle de la réalité d’aujourd’hui. L’auteur s’interroge sur la capacité qu’ont ces économies émergentes de nouer des relations de coopération avec les pays les plus pauvres afin de les aider à surmonter les obstacles à leur développement. Au-delà de leur singularité propre, ces nouveaux pays dynamiques peuvent-ils proposer un autre modèle de coopération au développement aux autres pays du Sud différent de celui pratiqué par les pays du Nord ?Fortunato Piergiuseppe. Les BRICs, une autre coopération de développement ?. In: Recherches Internationales, n°95, 2013. Les rapports nord-sud à l’épreuve de la mondialisation. pp. 131-150
Are All Democracies Equally Good? The Role of Interactions between Political Environment and Inequality for Rule of Law
No full textThis paper studies the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the rocess of economic development. Favorable economic institutions in form of a state of law and the absence of societal conflict are not assumed exogenously under certain political systems, but arise in equilibrium. The model delivers several new results. Efficient oligarchies can emerge in equilibrium and persist supported by all groups. Democracies are neither necessary nor sufficient to implement a state of law, even if they may be instrumental. A taxonomy of politico-economic equilibria shows the evolution of institutions depending on economic inequality. We find a non monotonic relationship between inequality and state of law. The model allows to analytically characterize the dynamic emergence of different institutions, highlighting the role of natural resource abundance and inequality for endogenous institutional change and the timing of democratic transitions. The model can generate episodes of reversal of fortunes as result of endogenous institutional change. A simple simulation illustrates the evolution of the economy
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Cyclical Strikes and Human Capital Accumulation under Asymmetric Information
Full text linkStrikes are totally inefficient from an economic point of view. They occur when the two parties that bargain over a contract do not find an agreement and the result is a loss of utility for both. In spite of their clear inefficiency in the real world strikes are very common both in the rich economies as well as in the poor countries. Moreover recent empirical literature found some regularities over time and over countries regarding the strike behavior of the Trade Unions. The aim of this paper is to develop a theory that could explain this apparent economic paradox as well as some of the most known regularities. At the same time we also aim to link the analysis of the strikes with the investment decisions of employers and workers in that particular kind of capital good known as Human Capital. This kind of approach can put under a new light the role played by the Trade Unions in the process of economic growth
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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