Any physicist and even any schoolchild knows that a body in motion finds in itself, by frictions which it generates, the proper limits of its movement, and the phenomenon of the privatization of public companies in West Africa today does not escape this logic. During the last decades, the...

The persistence of economic crisis in several developing countries has led to the reconsideration of the role of the State that came along with a privatization wave, which was characterized by the dismantling of local monopoly. For many governments, the privatization of SOEs is considered an...