[eng] USSR's interventions on the world grain market - The tensions on the grain market at present are due partly to the interventions of the USSR. In many third world countries, the state of food reserves still depends on whether or not they have access to the international grain market. But...

China and India are two demographic giants that have become big developing economic powers. They have maintained their specialization in textiles and developed outward-oriented sectors linked to new technologies, taking advantage of offshoring and outsourcing. Their increasing contribution to...

La Chine a été un acteur majeur dans la montée des déséquilibres mondiaux au milieu des années 2000. Elle a réduit son excédent commercial global depuis 2007, mais conserve des excédents massifs sur les États-Unis et l'Europe. Sa demande d'importation s'est principalement adressée à...

Since the global crisis, China's foreign trade is no longer driven by its involvement in the global supply chains (i.e. by processing trade) but its dynamics stems from China’s own domestic demand and supply. For foreign funded enterprises, China is less and less a production base for export...

Since 2007 China has considerably reduced its external global imbalances. Its bilateral trade surpluses with the EU and the US have persisted because the rise of China’s import demand has mainly benefited its Asian neighbors and the resource rich countries. The rapid growth of China’s...

Since the nineties, China, India and Turkey have followed different paths of integration in the international division of labor. China has become an assembly country, strongly integrated in the international segmentation of production processes in Asia. Most of China's imports of high technology...