Since the overthrow of its policy, initiated by Beijing as of 1979, China, as announced by Alain Peyrefitte, woke up. And it all happened since the turn of the century, as if unfolding is a "sinomania". But 2016 could be the year of the realization that the Chinese model is not sustainable...

In different countries, military spending, in favor of "guns", seems to be favored over those for "butter", that is, for human development. And it is the civilian populations who bear the brunt of it, suffering excess mortalities and left to the state of relative poverty. A typology of countries...

In the twenty-first century, the global context is dominated by three new phenomena or new nature in the history of mankind: globalization, internationalization and worldwide development. Question the current and future planetary situation requires prior clarification of these three concepts...

In accordance with the Lisbon treaty, the British citizens' vote of 23rd June 2016 in favour of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union means that the European treaties would cease to apply on the other side of the Channel in 2019. What will be the demographic consequences of the Brexit...

French Abstract: L'actualité soulève régulièrement des inquiétudes économiques dont l'effet de surprise tient à une méconnaissance de la démographie: on s'étonne soudainement du coût du financement des retraites, prévisible depuis longtemps; on semble découvrir la baisse à venir de...

French Abstract: Ce libre livre quatre apports essentiels résultant de l'étude comparative de l'émigration sénégalaise entre deux pays de deux continents différents, soit la France en Europe et les États-Unis en Amérique.English Abstract: This free delive four essential contributions...

According to many commentators, the US immigration policy is totally new with President Trump. The American Administration, at the head of a country whose population was largely made up of migratory inflows, is said to have become hostile to immigration. What is the real truth?

French Abstract: La population de la France vieillit. Mais le processus général de vieillissement ne doit pas masquer d'importantes disparités spatiales selon les départements qui se révèlent inégaux dans leur composition par âge

The process of urbanization seems to have delivered clear benchmarks in the knowledge of settlement territories. These are simply duals, because of the distinction between those of urban nature, high population density, and those rural nature, low density. However, this binary presentation does...

French Abstract: Cet article montre que la croissance démographique des deux derniers siècles n'est pas le résultat d'un phénomène soudain et incontrôlé, mais d'une évolution progressive, issue de l'action des hommes. Ceux-ci, par des innovations économiques et par les avancées de la...