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Les politiques de transferts sont-elles favorables à la croissance des économies?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2016

Yves Croissant  and
Philippe Jean-Pierre
Yves Croissant
Affiliation:
CERESUR (Université de La Réunion)
Philippe Jean-Pierre
Affiliation:
CERESUR (Université de La Réunion)
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Résumé

Une grande partie des politiques de développement repose sur l’envoi de transferts aux économies connaissant des difficultés de développement. Si ces aides semblent favorables au bien être des agents, leurs effets sur la croissance de long terme des économies restent ambigus ou parfois décevants. L’objectif de cet article est de contribuer à mieux cerner les conséquences d’une politique de transferts sur la dynamique de long terme d’une économie. Pour cela, on utilise un modèle à générations imbriquées, au sein duquel sont présents un secteur d’accumulation du capital humain et un processus d’héritage de niveau de vie. L’analyse numérique du modèle permet de montrer que selon l’importance des transferts et la préférence des agents pour le loisir, la politique d’aide peut se révéler favorable ou défavorable à la croissance de l’économie.

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Most of development policies takes the form of transfers sent to developping economies. If these aids seem to be welfare improving, their impacts on the long run growth are ambigus or sometimes disapointing. The aim of this paper is to investigate the dynamic consequences of an exogenous transfer policy on the growth of an economy. In order to achieve this goal, we use an overlapping generation economy in which the young generation inherits human capital and standard-living aspirations from previous generations. The numerical analysis of the model shows that, depending on the level of transfers and the preference of the agent for leisure, the aid policy can be favourable or unfavourable to the growth of the economy.

Keywords

GrowthdevelopmenttransfersE2O4O2CroissancedéveloppementtransfertsE2O4O2
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Recherches Économiques de Louvain/ Louvain Economic Review , Volume 68 , Issue 3 , 2002 , pp. 335 - 358
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Copyright © Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de recherches économiques et sociales 2002 

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Adresse: CERESUR, Université de la Réunion, Faculté de Droit et de Sciences Économiques, 15, Avenue RenéCassin, BP7151, 97715 Saint-Denis Messageries Cedex 9. E-Mail Address:pjp@univ-reunion.fr.

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