Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America. By J. L. Anderson

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Exclusive measurements for SUSY events with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

We present recent work performed in ATLAS on techniques used to reconstruct the decays of SUSY particles at the LHC. We concentrate on strategies to be applied to the first fb-1 of LHC data.Comment: ICHEP0

Trade Policy and Poverty in Benin: a General Equilibrium Analysis

Economic and financial crisis in Benin since 1980s led the government to embark on a process of economic reforms in 1991. These reforms sought to remedy the fiscal and trade imbalances in order to accelerate economic growth. Trade policy reform was given priority. Import bans and quotas were eliminated, import duties abolished and a compensatory tax on commodities sold in the domestic market instituted. This study analyzes the effects of the trade policy reforms using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and household survey data. Results show that these reforms are more beneficial to households in urban areas, but contribute to worsening poverty conditions of the most poor in rural areas. If liberalization policies target better strategies aimed at fighting poverty, or at least not deteriorating the situation, they need to be designed in a way that they do not worsen the poverty conditions of the most destitute in society.CGE, trade, poverty, Benin

Regionalization and Labour Market Rigidities in Developing Countries: A CGE Analysis of UEMOA

In this study, we analyse the impact of the creation of a customs union among UEMOA (Western African Economic and Monetary Union)countries, with a special emphasis on the labour market structure. The implementation of the customs union reform will translate in most of these countries, into a greater openness, even with third party countries. This greater openness raises concerns in these countries as regards its potential impact on welfare, production and employment. In this study, in contrast to many other papers, we relax the assumption of a perfect functioning of the labour market. We consider the presence of a dualism in the labour market and the existence of a minimum wage for the formal workers. We use a multi-country and multi-sectoral computable general equilibrium model (CGE) to assess the impact of the reform. We find that the presence of a minimum nominal wage for the formal workers may significantly reduce the gains stemming from the customs union reform. Our simulation results indicate that the costs induced by this rigidity may exceed 45%, in some cases, in terms of the reduction in the welfare gains obtained without rigidity.Economic integration, Customs union, Labor market, Dualism, Wage rigidity

Agricultural Trade Liberalization, Productivity Gain and Poverty Alleviation: a General Equilibrium Analysis

Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models have gained continuously in popularity as an empirical tool for assessing the impact of trade liberalization on agricultural growth, poverty and income distribution. Conventional models ignore however the channels linking technical change in agriculture, trade openness and poverty. This study seeks to incorporate econometric evidence of these linkages into a CGE model to estimate the impact of alternative trade liberalization scenarios on poverty and equity. The analysis uses the Latent Class Stochastic Frontier Model (LCSFM) and the metafrontier function to investigate the influence of trade openness on agricultural technological change. The estimated productivity effects induced from higher levels of trade are combined with a general equilibrium analysis of trade liberalization to evaluate the income and prices changes. These effects are then used to infer the impact on poverty and inequality following the top-down approach. The model is applied to Tunisian data using the social accounting matrix of 2001 and the 2000 household expenditures surveys. Poverty is found to decline under agricultural and full trade liberalization and this decline is much more pronounced when the productivity effects are included.Openness, Agriculture, Productivity, Poverty, CGE modeling

Le bénévolat : un langage du cœur et de raison

Le réaménagement de l'État dans l'espace social permet de constater qu'il modifie le paysage des groupes bénévoles et les entraîne dans une logique d'institutionnalisation. Ces groupes adoptent alors une forme de système plus hiérarchique appelé un quasi-appareil (embauche de permanents, spécialisation des acteurs, tendance à l'officialisation, etc.). Mais les changements structurels qui surviennent au sein des groupes modifient moins l'existence du bénévolat que les cadres de son accomplissement. Malgré la diminution de l'effectif bénévole et le déclin de la séduction pour une spontanéité qui se modifie en s'institutionnalisant, la lecture des chiffres invite ici à soutenir le contraire, puisque les personnes interrogées sont plutôt enclines à affirmer qu'elles veulent persister dans la pratique bénévole en dépit de la transformation des groupes.The reorganization of social space by the state enables us to note that the state bas modified the environment of voluntary help groups, and has led them into a logic of institutionalization. They then adopt a more hierarchical type of System called a quasi-network (the hiring of permanent employees, specialization of the players, a tendency towards the official, etc.). In spite of the decrease in the number of volunteers and the decline of the attractiveness of a spontaneous involvement which is modified by being institutionalized, the examination of the data causes us to defend the contrary. This is such since the people interviewed are more than less inclined to state that they wish to continue in the pratice of voluntary help even with the transformation of the actors

Alien Registration- Robichaud, Celestine (Rumford, Oxford County)

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