Le processus d'accession de l'Algérie à l'OMC, qui a débuté en 1987 dans le cadre du GATT, est de loin le plus long parmi les négociations en cours. Malgré ce délai, un certain nombre de problèmes importants doivent encore être réglés pour aboutir à un accord. Le passage du GATT à...

</titre> Taking as a starting point the hegemonic place occupied by the concepts of rent and rentier state in the social sciences and humanities literature on Algeria, this article re-examines the process that led to the predominance of hydrocarbons in the Algerian economy and the Algerian state. This...

<alinea/> In Algeria, The reasons for the doublement of the unemployment level from 1990 to 1997 - reaching more than 24% of the working population - lie partly in the demographic and institutionnal factors. However, those features hardly explain the breaks in the unemployment growth trend. Neither do...

[fre] Après un examen critique des théories qui attribuent la corruption, à la rente pétrolière et au fonctionnement rentier de l'économie ou de l'État, ou encore à la nature néo-patrimoniale du pouvoir, l'auteur préfère centrer son analyse sur le caractère administré de...

The concept of a quite homogeneous Europe has been changing with the enlargement and the Euromed partnership. An assessment of the international integration of Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPCs) shows that these countries experience weak convergence relative to new EU members. Krugman and...

La vision d'une Europe homogene se modifie avec l'elargissement et le partenariat Euro-med. L'evaluation de l'insertion internationale des pays partenaires mediterraneens (PPM) montre que relativement aux nouveaux membres de l'Union elargie, les PPM connaissent une faible convergence reelle et...

In this paper, we shed light on the selection of the benefi ciaries from the French competitiveness cluster policy which was launched in 2005 and extended to 2012. We disentangle the selection and self-selection eff ects, as emphasized in the theoretical literature on regional and industrial...

Will employment instability be the employment pattern tomorrow? Many studies support this view which is first discussed on the basis of various statistical studies already carried out. A general trend of employment instability is not proved to be true by statistical data. These data show that...