This paper analyzes the evolution and transformation of social relations and networks of access to resources during the professional career of micro entrepreneurs in the informal African urban economy. Our analysis of social networks fits in the ‘structural embeddedness’ framework of...

A Madagascar, l'ampleur des inegalites entre milieux urbain et rural necessite de mettre en œuvre des politiques de developpement ciblees sur le milieu rural. En s'interessant a l'analyse de la diversification des activites, l'article tend a demontrer que la seule relance de la croissance en...

Après des décennies de recul du PIB par habitant à Madagascar, les années 1990 ont renoué avec la croissance. Cependant, les répercussions en milieu rural, notamment en ce qui concerne la pauvreté, restent mal connues. L’article se propose donc d’étudier les dynamiques rurales de la...

In Madagascar, the inequalities gap between urban and rural areas implies to draft rural specific policies. Nevertheless, the only focusing on growth might have a limited impact on persistent poverty. All households have not the same capacity to catch new opportunities generated by growth, and...

Poverty is a temporal phenomenon and its evolutions have to be studied. Nevertheless, it is overall important to understand the working process which explains trajectories of poverty, at both levels of households and regional under-groups. Carrying out an applied study on rural Madagascar, the...

NAIn Madagascar, the inequalities gap between urban and rural areas implies to draft rural specific policies. Nevertheless, the only focusing on growth might have a limited impact on persistent poverty. All households have not the same capacity to catch new opportunities generated by growth, and...

La prise en compte des multiples dimensions de la pauvreté ainsi que le repérage de nouvelles formes de pauvreté ont conduit à un enrichissement progressif des thématiques liées à l'analyse de ce phénomène économique et social. Les méthodologies dites qualitatives se sont...

Based on a monetary approach critical, identifying the poverty pertinent dimensions is a central debate of the two last decades. First, the article recalls the debate arguments. Then, it contributes to it proposing an empirical analysis of social representations of poverty. To study the links...

Realised within the framework of the ESEMK project supported by the EU (FP6, Priority 7, Contract CIT-CT-2004-506077), the present study proposes a statistical analysis of the variety of the European socio-economic models integrating Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) using Bruno...

</titre> This paper studies the impact of social networks on the resilience of micro and small entrepreneurs of the informal urban Africa. It is based on an original method of analysis of life stories mixing qualitative and quantitative approaches. The study shows the effect of network composition on...