Africa's leading producer of electricity, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, is also a vertically integrated monopoly, owned by the South African state. This national champion was shaken in 2008, when it was obliged to introduce 'load shedding', or rolling blackouts, and again in late 2014. Since then,...

[fre] Depuis les années 1950, la Côte d'Ivoire est caractérisée par une rapide urbanisation : à l'horizon 2000, 60 % de la population vivront en ville. L'observation des produits alimentaires consommés par les citadins contredit l'idée d'aliénation occidentalisée. Sur les trente...

[eng] Alain Dubresson and Yves-André Fauré — Decentralisation and local development : a link to reconsider. Introduction The present dossier is an invitation to reconsider the link, which is often described as mechanical, between decentralisation and local development. The analyses issuing...

[eng] Alain Dubresson — Institutional metropolitanism and economic spheres in the Cape (South Africa) The process of decentralisation at national level and of recentralisation of South African metropolitan zones is followed, in the Cape, by a large scale public action aimed at upgrading the...