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La contribution de l’amélioration du bien-être au processus de croissance dans les pays en développement

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Assuming that labor is the first manpower's output, this paper presents a partial equilibrium model of simultaneous equations for which welfare (principally health, education and nutrition) contributes to economic growth by improving the quality of labourer's workforce. Results of this model's estimations using cross-sections of time series data from developing countries seem to agree with the hypothesis that some welfare variables contribute directly to the increase in production. The opposition between productive investments and the satisfaction of basic needs so often used in the literature of under-development appears then as constraints set a priori on models rather than an observation of realities. Considérant le travail comme la production première de l’homme, nous avons élaboré un modèle partiel à équations simultanées dans lequel le bien-être (éducation, santé et nutrition) contribue à la croissance de la production en améliorant la qualité de l’effort de travail fourni par la main-d’oeuvre. Le calibrage du modèle à l’aide de données observées de plusieurs pays en développement tend à confirmer l’hypothèse d’une contribution directe de certaines variables de bien-être à la croissance de la production. La pseudo-opposition si souvent véhiculée dans la littérature sur le sous-développement entre investissements directement productifs et satisfaction immédiate des besoins apparaît alors plus comme une contrainte imposée a priori lors de la construction des modèles traditionnels que comme le résultat d’observations.

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  • Rodrigue, André, 1986. "La contribution de l’amélioration du bien-être au processus de croissance dans les pays en développement," L'Actualité Economique, Société Canadienne de Science Economique, vol. 62(1), pages 64-87, mars.
  • Handle: RePEc:ris:actuec:v:62:y:1986:i:1:p:64-87
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