Les relations entre l’Europe et les pays de la rive Sud de la Méditerranée constituent un bon laboratoire pour la réflexion et la prospective sur le développement et la globalisation économique. Toute prospective exige un état des lieux susceptible d’ouvrir la voie à une nouvelle...

French Abstract: L’article analyse ce qu’est le populisme et pourquoi nous vivons actuellement une vague populiste à travers le monde développé, alors que, il y a une dizaine d’années, rien de tout cela ne semblait visible.Le populisme paraît être une réaction à une crise...

This chapter presents the methods and contributions of evolutionary approach to economic dynamics. First, we expose why economic dynamics can indeed be considered as evolutionary. Second, we discuss sources of diversity and selection mechanisms that drive these dynamics, in the context of...

The question of why economies grow has been at the heart of economic inquiry since Adam Smith. The final article is a review of the recent book Why Economies Grow: The Forces That Shape Prosperity and How to Get Them Working Again by Jeff Madrick. He argues that the growth of markets through...

The paper aims at assessing the net impact of the accumulation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) capital on the economy. In a first part, focusing on the supply-side of the economy, we show that the growth accounting methodology cannot provide us with a measure of the net...

There is a strong negative relationship between economic development and HIV/AIDS prevalence throughout the world. However in Sub-Saharan Africa where the epidemic is worst, this relationship does not hold. Some of the wealthier countries in this region have some of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS...

La Déclaration du millénaire fixe à 2015 la date butoir pour la réalisation de l’objectif visant à réduire de moitié le nombre de personnes qui vivent dans l’extrême pauvreté. Compte tenu des résultats exceptionnels obtenus dans certains pays en développement, la possibilité...

Based on the example of the automobile and electronics sector in China, the article examines the technological learning of companies in China and the way it is influenced by industrial policy. Companies have consolidated their production capacity and technological learning but are rarely in the...

While sustainable development is a unanimously accepted watchword today, we wish to show that the post Keynesian school, even if it did not emphasize on environmental issues and, generally speaking, on sustainable development as such, has tools that make it relevant on this topic. Indeed, post...

This article explores the contributions of the method of scenarios in the identification of what motivates strategic decisions. Direct data collecting methods implicitly postulate that the individual is sincere and is a priori rational. Yet, the characteristics of strategic decisions are such...