La multiplication des dégradations écologiques est à l'origine d'un renouvellement profond des débats sur les liens qu'entretiennent croissance et développement. Au début des années 1990, plusieurs études empiriques ont constaté l'existence d'une courbe en cloche entre divers indices de...

In this paper we address the issue of access to drinking water in rural areas related to the productivity of the agricultural workforce. Considering an agricultural household model as our basic conceptual framework, we analyze the theoretical aspects of increasing the access rate to drinking...

As a result of the sharp oil price during the late 1970's and early 1980's, Congo's exports(and Cameroon's ones to a lesser extent) became more concentrated on oil. One may say that a Dutch Disease occurred if we refer to the Congo's core export sector. However, this study shows that there is no...

Our purpose is to examine the place and the role of the informal sector in the macroeconomic adjustment mechanisms of under-developed economies where the Market can henceforth be considered as the major way of resource allocation.Starting from one theoretical and empirical though about we...

Cet article propose une investigation empirique des liens qu’entretiennent normes sociales et inégalité de revenus. Dans un premier temps, un indice de normes sociales du travail (travail des enfants, travail forcé, discrimination, liberté syndicale, conventions OIT) est déterminé. Aucun...

The concern about the analytic and empirical relationship between population growth and developement process is still widely controversial. In this paper, the purpose is devoted to the identification of several statistical patterns of this relationship, varying alongside with the simultaneous...

This paper recapitulates the broad outlines of the theoretic debate on interelations between population expansion and economic growth. It identifies breakings and continuities that led to the constitution of an independant research field. That field associates population studies and economic...

‘Good' governance is a new development pattern elaborated during the 90's when structural adjustment appeared insufficient to sustain growth. First presented technically by the World Bank as improved management of public resources in order to pursue the Civil Service and the state apparatus...

La crise de la dette qui a débuté en 1982 est la conséquence d'un certain laxisme de la part des créanciers quant aux prêts accordés, d'une mauvaise utilisation des sommes reçues parles dirigeants des pays en développement et de la politique anti inflationniste menée au début des...

Among the outstanding theories of development economics, neoclassical liberalism is the one that integrates in its field the environment of the socio-economic system. Through the economics of natural inheritance, it advocates the monetary valuation of natural goods and services without respect...