The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is rich in natural resources, but its economy remains vulnerable to fluctuations in commodity prices. Endogenous economic diversif ication, a concept aimed at broadening a country’s economic base by utilizing its own resources and capacities, could offer...

The challenges of sustainable development are well known: the full enjoyment of the earth's resources without compromising the welfare of future generations. It is to reconcile the three pillars on which the concept is based, namely: economic, social and environmental. Beyond that called...

This paper analyze the causality between copper production , public debt and poverty in D.R. Congo. The model shows that among the factors that are the basis of the welfare deterioration, there is the external debt which is a major obstacle to the fight against poverty.

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...

In this article, we study the question of intergenerational equity in a framework that displays two kinds of agents distinguished by their non dynastic intergenerational altruism. The more altruist agents regarding the transmitted environment are qualified of ecologists, whereas the others, less...

Dans le cadre d'un modèle à générations imbriquées, nous supposons que la gestion d'une ressource renouvelable correspond à l'émission de quotas d'exploitation transférables. Chaque agent a la possibilité d'utiliser les quotas dans la production ou de les vendre à la génération...