A large literature exists that deals with economic issues of development and growth. It includes various approaches that can be classified as formal-theoretical, empirical-statistical and qualitative-verbal. Recently, the issue of sustainable development has been discussed much, which has given...

Theoretical work has demonstrated that sustainable development requires non-declining per capita wealth, where wealth is defined to include produced, natural, human and social capital. Several studies have attempted to measure total national wealth or changes in wealth, but have been seriously...

The political economy of resource rich countries is surveyed. The empirical evidence suggests that countries with a large share of primary exports in GNP have bad growth records and high inequality, especially if the quality of institutions and the rule of law are bad. The economic argument that...

</titre> <alinea/> Our contribution attempts to address links, from a critical point of view, between recent theoretical approaches to civil wars in developing countries and the resource curse hypothesis. In the first part we discuss the recent theoretical approaches to civil conflicts in developing countries...

</titre> <alinea/> The experimentation of sustainable development by Madagascar fit into the global environmental and development frameworks. It is characterized by an original and ambitious system of environmental planning. However, it is confronted with several difficulties : an extrovert sustainable...

The concept of ecotourism is widely misunderstood and it is often used as a marketing instrument in order to promote tourism businesses related to nature. It is well-known that from all sub-sectors of the tourism industry the ecotourism has experienced the fastest growth in the recent years, but...