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Can sustainable development cast out the "natural resource curse" ? 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 and insist on the rent seeking argument. The second part of the contribution argues that civil conflicts cannot be explained regardless globalisation, and shows that rent seeking economy is a feature of globalisation itself. The last part of the contribution examines sustainable development as a way to escape the "curse of natural resources".

Forest Sustainability in French Speaking Subsaharian Africa : What is at Stake for Participative Management ? Over the last decades common pool resource management has been developed increasingly. This paper focuses on the development of common pool forest management in French speaking subsaharian african countries, in a way of sustainability. It analyses the main stakes facing by forest management. It mainly underlines four stakes : the antagonism between representation of the forest, the antagonism between logic of property rights, the weak participation of local population, and the lack of coherence of public policies.

The experimentation of sustainable development by Madagascar : realities and difficulties 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 development policy, the sector-based interventions of institutions contrary to transverse sustainable development, difficulties to reconcile the environmental, social and economic goals.

Normative construction of Sustainable Development through its translation in public policies. A path-dependency analysis in Brazil and Mexico This paper deals with the processes by which Sustainable Development (as a prescriptive set of global norms) is subject of different forms of "translation" (negociation, selective appropriation, reformulation) and institutional construction in the context of rural policies in Brazil and Mexico. We focus on the paths of institutional change which arise from the policy building of SD and affect the frames of regulation and interaction between the different components of rural societies and between those and authorities. Comparatism highlights both regularities and main divergences between the processes of institutionalization of sustainability in Brazil and Mexico, as well as it allows to question the meanings of current institutional changes.

Local consideration of sustainability in Coastal Guinea The aim of this article is to underline that the willingness to conciliate social and resources sustainability is integrated in the strategies of coastal populations, in the Republic of Guinea. While analysing the powers strategies and the local land management, it appears that the communities do not separate the conservation of their resources from their social economic development. The knowledge of this local land management seems to be a good basis for the elaboration of the national development policies.

Economic policies, poverty and inequality in Morroco : A CGE microsimulation analysis For several years, Morocco joined a new dynamics for the design of economic policies among which trade liberalization and foreign direct investments (FDI) incentives. The various dimensions of the economic and social impact of these policies must be quantified and analyzed. In this article, we apply a microsimulation computable general equilibrium model framework to analyze the above mentioned reforms on the Moroccan economy. Our results show that FDI in the tourism sector is the most beneficial. This result is important since policy makers in Morocco have targeted this sector explicitly for their development and poverty reduction poverty strategies.

What are the main structural factors governing FDI effects on growth ? The case of MENA countries The basic aim of this paper is to assess the linkages between inflows of FDI, GDP growth and the structural reforms that are usually supposed to increase the effects of FDI on growth : such as human capital, infrastructure, trade openness, financial development and increasing macroeconomic stability. These structural factors are both expected to accelerate growth and to attract FDI. But we show that for Middle East and North African countries, only the education levels significantly interact with FDI as channels through which foreign investment produce spillover effects and growth. However, we show that increasing FDI attraction of FDI has plaid as a catalyst factor for the impact of structural reform on growth.