Public Outreach

Today, 2 billion people still lack basic sanitation access. Although that constitutes a health emergency, the proposed solutions are not always appropriate. Authors Alzua and Djebbari show that involving the community in a sanitation program in the Koulikouro region of Mali leads to shifts in collective practices as families build and start using latrines.  

Only in French - Analysis of Alain Trannoy, Director of Studies at EHESS, co-written with professors Martin Colley and Robert Gary Bobo, published on Telos platform.

States seek inventors able to revolutionise our future, contributing to progress and new ideas. What fosters and encourages invention? A wide-ranging study presented by Stefanie Stantcheva shows that taxes in the U.S. have a great influence on innovation.

Only in French - Economy is often connected with "firms", "trade" and "the market". Therefore, how to measure the economic benefits of well-being's dimensions such as health, education or the environment that seem to oppose the "laws of the market" ? Dominique Ami, economist at Aix-Marseille University and Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE) held a public lecture on this question at Sciences Echos conference for a school audience.

Sarah Flèche, co-author of The Origins of Happiness, held a lecture at Sciences Echos conference for a school audience.

Figures, percentages and graphics illustrate inequalities throughout the world.  But from one place to another, inequalities depict very different situations. How can we study them? The economist Alan Auerbach, professor at the University of California, offers a new approach to the inequalities in developed countries by studying lifetime spending, after taxation and redistribution

Invited by AMSE, Joseph Stiglitz held a policy lecture in Marseille, on October 11th. Listen the lecture in full - only in French.

Conditional Cash Transfers grant money to poor households with children provided that their members meet certain conditions. A common feature of many CCT programs in Latin America is that payments are targeted to the mother. Could this policy be a way for women to gain autonomy? Marcelo Bergolo and Estefanía Galván find that a CCT program in Uruguay results in women gaining greater responsibility for decisions in specific spheres of household expenditure. On the negative side, however, it has discouraging effects on their formal employment.

The growing support for whistle-blowers’ right to protection illustrates the challenges facing democracy in its attempt to ensure transparency and accountability. With technology allowing new forms of governance, the scope for secrecy and obfuscation of state power has increased. In the attempt to balance the democratic need for transparency against existential threats to security, whistle-blowing is becoming the new standard for accountability.

In this little country located in Southern Africa, birth complications are not treated and access to contraception remains difficult. Besides having poor access to medical services, traditional beliefs make pregnant women hide their problems, a silence that increases the already high maternal mortality rate.