China, the European Union and the Developing World provides a comparative analysis of Chinese and EU influence across five different regions of the developing world: Asia-Pacific; South and Central Asia; the Middle East and North Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; and Latin America. While there is broad...

Dans cette note, nous entreprenons d'éclairer la " renaissance " des valeurs confucéennes (pour reprendre une expression des dirigeants singapouriens dans les années 1980) pour montrer comment les dirigeants de Chine populaire les utilisent pour contrer les défauts de leur économie,...

The purpose of this paper is to review available statistical and in-formational databases in order to understand the actual importance of Chinese direct investment in Africa and to infer its strategic significance. Hence, I shall successively present three main data and information sources, then...

The purpose of this paper is to review available statistical and in-formational databases in order to understand the actual importance of Chinese direct investment in Africa and to infer its strategic significance. Hence, I shall successively present three main data and information sources, then...

Cet article se propose de décrire les flux et stocks d'investissement directs en Chine, entrants et sortants, et de tenter d'apprécier ce qu'ils pourraient révéler du processus de développement actuel. Il tend à montrer notamment les difficultés que ce pays rencontre à acquérir les...

When the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, it clearly identifies pawnbroking as mere usury. This has been the official stance till the late 1980s when private, semi-private and even state-owned pawnshop like businesses began to spring up everywhere in China. It took about ten years...

To maintain the momentum of its economic and social modernisation, China needs to upgrade the skills and abilities of its labour force. This paper will explore whether China?s creation of a labour market and its education and vocational training systems will be able to meet this challenge.

Thierry PAIRAULT To quote the great jurist Sir Henri Summer Maine, codification is to give orderly arrangement to the law, to deliver it from obscurity, uncertainty, and inconsistency, to clear it of irrelevancies and to facilitate its application. The Sun Dawu Affair, which is about a small...

Portrait d'un économiste réformateur modéré dans la tourmente des premières années de la Chine populaire