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...

In this article we investigate the effect of product market regulation on the international diffusion of productivity shocks. The results indicate that regulations that restrict competition slow the process of adjustment through which best practice production techniques diffuse across borders...

The aim of this article consists in showing in what the emergence of new generation of information and communication technologies can be a worsening factor of imbalances between urban zones and rural zones and contribute to a thickening of the urban zones. Contrary to presupposed theoretical...

We show that regional reform that was implemented broke with the regime in 1971, namely the economic region. She may have allowed the legislature to build the basis for a effective decentralization in the region. The new law sets the general operation of the new local government includes...

We show that regional reform that was implemented broke with the regime in 1971, namely the economic region. She may have allowed the legislature to build the basis for a effective decentralization in the region. The new law sets the general operation of the new local government includes...

Francophone Africa has been dominated to date by the political, economic and cultural repercussions of France’s colonial rule. A major instrument to assert France's interests was the upkeep of a common monetary policy and currency, the CFA Franc. Although this has been increasingly resented by...

Francophone Africa has been dominated to date by the political, economic and cultural repercussions of France’s colonial rule. A major instrument to assert France's interests was the upkeep of a common monetary policy and currency, the CFA Franc. Although this has been increasingly resented by...

This paper defends the idea that the transition of countries, particularly developing countries, to the knowledge economy depends on the ability of their territories (sub-national levels) to diffuse and appropriate the new ICT paradigm. This paper proposes a framework for modeling the process of...

Une aide publique des grands événements sportifs ne peut être justifiée par une seule étude d’impact économique. Il est nécessaire de mesurer aussi l’utilité sociale dans le cadre d’une analyse coûts/bénéfices. Cela permet de comparer les coûts engendrés pour la communauté...