Since the decade which began with the new millennium in 2000, international development assistance may be seen as part of a broader process which has entailed major changes. First, the financing of development has been characterized by the emergence of a growing number of private and public...

</titre> The international standard for development funding has remained at 0,7% of the GNI of the member countries of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of OECD since the early sixties. This standard has never been questioned in its foundations, while its calculation corresponds to the...

[eng] Trade in agricultural products between West African countries is important, in spite of the little attention paid to it by national statistics. As can be seen in the case of Niger and Nigeria, the dynamics of trade are mainly due to the inconsistencies between the economic policies of the...