The Chinese economy does still not qualify as demand-driven economy. Its growth is based on investment. In fact successive waves of investment have emerged during the eighties and produced a piling-up of productive systems. A wave of small national enterprises and entrepreneurs, a second large...

This paper aims to analyse, through the nature and the evolution of clusters, the specific features of the Chinese development model, in relation with FDI and the public accompanying policies that have been implemented. Three types of clusters can be distinguished according to a chronology that...

Cet article se propose de décrire les flux et stocks d’investissement directs en Chine, entrants et sortants, et de tenter d’apprécier ce qu’ils pourraient révéler du processus de développement actuel. Il tend à montrer notamment les difficultés que ce pays rencontre à acquérir...

This paper presents some aspects of the consequences of the global crisis in the Asia-Pacific area. In a first section, the mechanisms and the development of the subprime crisis are briefly recalled. In a second section, the effects of the crisis concerning the countries of the region are...

This paper puts forward an extended model of cumulative growth in which the effects of education and catch-up are integrated, following the Kaldorian ideas of increasing returns of scale and endogenous technical progress. Based on recent theoretical developments, this model allows for examining...

This article offers elements to assess the effects of the world economic crisis in the Asia-Pacific region. The mechanisms and development of the subprime crisis are briefly recalled in order to examine how far they reach in the area. Examining the situation of the area’s economies, with a...

This article offers elements to assess the effects of the world economic crisis in the Asia-Pacific region. The mechanisms and development of the subprime crisis are briefly recalled in order to examine how far they reach in the area. Examining the situation of the area’s economies, with a...

ABSTRACT & RÉSUMÉ : ASEAN – African relations. Towards a new partnership ? --- The ASEAN summit of October 2021 showed the increased geopolitical importance of the Indo-Pacific realm. Today ASEAN is the most successful regional organization in Asia and the second largest worldwide behind the...

Africa and India share a long history of trade, investment and slavery. The Portuguese alone brought up to 80,000 slaves from Mozambique to India since the 16th century. Unlike slaves in other parts of the world, African slaves, soldiers, and traders had a strong military and cultural influence...

The social fabric of the migrant’s host country largely embodies major traits of the exclusion of ‘strangers’. The latter often focus on ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation and gender. This applies also to the Afrophobia which spreads in contempory China. Thus, current news...