| Titre | Le développement du secteur privé en Afrique subsaharienne : transfert d'une norme entre l'Europe et les pays ACP (1985-1990) | |
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| Auteur | Olivier Van den bossche | |
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Revue | Critique internationale |
| Numéro | no 85, octobre-décembre 2019 La fabrique et le gouvernement des crises | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Varia |
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| Page | 125-143 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Since the late 1980s, European cooperation policies have included
an increasing number of “private sector development” programs in the countries of
Sub-Saharan Africa. Among other things, these programs targeted the promotion
of entrepreneurial culture, business support measures, improving the business
environment and openness to global trade. Examining the mechanisms whereby
an international norm emerged, circulated and was transferred allows one to
consider official and unofficial strategies of influence and political principle
legitimation – in this instance, strategies formulated in Brussels and applied in
the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. The OECD, EEC, World Bank and the
countries of the African, Caribbean, Pacific Group of States (ACP) were all parties
to this game. Yet the actors of ACP countries played little role in the emergence
and circulation of this norm. Instead, American institutional “go-betweens”,
publications and conferences occupied a preponderant place in this process. Piloted
by the economic and political institutions of the North for implementation in the
“countries of the South”, liberalization does not appear to have been the result
of a joint EEC-ACP decision. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=CRII_085_0125 |
