Contenu du sommaire : Vulnérabilités, résiliences et développement. Approches conceptuelles et empiriques

The linking of the multi-dimensional process of shocks, resilience, and vulnerability can be done using three complementary economic perspectives: the macro of national economies, the micro of economic actors, and the meso of industry sectors. Beyond these three levels of analysis, a political economy of vulnerability traps makes it possible to identify systemic crises within societies and fragile states, as well as unregulated cumulative sequences where poverty leads to risk vulnerability and where catastrophes increase the level of poverty.

This paper shows that, representing a sort of insurance against risk, the resilience rhetoric formulated by United Nations discourses to promote disaster risk reduction (DRR) and sustainable development has a dimension that is both positive and prescriptive, which has influenced its diffusion within the field of international aid while reforming its principles, architecture, and financing processes.

The aim of this paper is to analyze, using the methodology of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), the impacts of structural variables such as urbanization and environmental regulations on the emissions of SO2 and particulate matter for thirty Chinese provinces over the period 2005-2011, a period which saw major changes in terms of government regulation.

Using the case study of the “land of cloves” located on the eastern coast of Madagascar, this paper aims to describe the articulation of rural households' vulnerabilities over time and space by using data from rural observatories. The analytical framework of livelihoods allows us to identify the strategies that the households adopt in order to adapt to the risky and uncertain rural contexts. Indeed, there are climate hazards such as cyclones, as well as shocks in the global clove market, with this sector representing the main source of monetary income for rural households. In this paper, long-term trend tracking, such as looking at demographic changes and activities system development, allows us to understand structural vulnerability factors.

Cet article s'appuie sur l'étude de cas d'un projet mené auprès de chiffonniers au Mexique pour interroger le concept d'empowerment et sa transposition au secteur privé dans le cadre de projets de responsabilité sociale des entreprises. L'évaluation d'impact, qui s'appuie sur la méthode des différences-en-différences, montre que les leviers principaux d'empowerment du projet ne sont pas économiques mais socio-politiques, ce qui invite à insister sur la responsabilité politique de l'entreprise.

In the days following the Nepal earthquake of spring 2015, faced with a lack of effective government action, the villagers reacted by turning to the many relationships they had made with Westerners they had met walking on the slopes of their mountains. These contacts led to proposals of assistance. This aid, which here we call “informal” because it is based on interpersonal relationships, is multifaceted, since it involves many ways of intervention. This study is concerned with the origins, nature, and extent of these instances of interpersonal aid, which enabled several villages to recover after the earthquakes.

In this article, the CFA franc is again questioned. The monetary system of the zone, which comprises fifteen African countries, dates back to the end of the Second World War, and even survived the independences. The case made against it is partially justified, since the CFA franc primarily benefits only the dominant and wealthy classes. But reform is on the agenda, and it must concern not only the symbols that crystallize criticisms of the currency, but, above all, the mechanisms that must allow for better financing of local economies and also contribute to reducing inequalities and poverty.

This article deals firstly with the implementation of tariff dismantling for industrial products since 2005, when the association agreement between Algeria and the European Union entered into force. We will then analyze the development of the trade in these goods before and after 2005. Finally, among these latter, and using the analysis already cited, we will identify a nucleus of intra-branch trade that promotes a new process of regional integration that is advantageous to both partners.