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1787/5kmjw4vlp5kg-fr Importance économique de l'agriculture dans la lutte contre la pauvreté Dalila Cervantes-Godoy , Joe Dewbre * La version originale de ce document a été publiée comme suit : Cervantes-Godoy, D. and J. Dewbre (2010), “Economic Importance of Agriculture for Poverty Reduction”, OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Working Papers, No. 23, OECD Publishing. doi: 10.1787/5kmmv9s20944-en Classification JEL : I32, O10, O13, O40, O57, Q10, Q18 * OCDE, France Remerciements

poised for a period of slower growth, according to Pacific Investment Management Co. Increased taxation, regulation and government intervention in business combined with financial companies’ efforts to reduce risk after the credit crisis will drive investors from developed economies, Brian Baker, Pimco Asia Ltd.’s chief executive officer, said in Hong Kong yesterday. “This all leads to a shift away from growth being driven by the G3 countries to a more balanced economic world,” Baker said at the FundForum

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The economic and financial crisis In the end of 2008, bad news concerning job losses, recession, insolvency… were every day broadcasted by the media. People had to think about changing their lifestyles, because it was one of the biggest economic crises of the last 100 years. The economic crisis has its origins in the United States of America banking institutions. As it happened in 1929, a monumental Stock Exchange crash had been caused. In fact, during the years preceding the crisis, American

the developed countries but which has, generally, a growth potential higher than the world mean. According to the definition of the World Bank, an emergent country has Growth National Product per capita (GNP) lower than 9.000 US$ even if the emergent countries should realize a growth by 6,3% in 2011 according to the forecasts. [Le Monde, 2011] There exist in this category some differences between those countries which vary in terms of economic governorship and institutional framework, infrastructure

world. In the 1990s, their growth rate doubled the high growth rate of Japan which has been the most famous economic miracle after the World War II (Chaudhary & Islam, 1995:1). The literature on the “Four Little Tigers” ( 亚 洲 四 小 龙 ) is tremendous. The “miracle” experience of these four East Asian economies, also named “gang of four” or more neutrally “ Newly Industrialising Economies”(NIEs) or Newly Industrialising Countries (NIC), has brought into question many economic theories, among them the Dependency

Changes in Industrial and Financial French Capitalism The end of the XX century is marked as the primacy of capitalism as an economic system. Nevertheless it is not question of one single capitalism, but distinct kind of capitalism according to the development steps reached. In other words capitalism of the Rhineland lived with the Anglo-Saxon and Asian capitalisms. France is not excluded from this phenomenon. Indeed, industry and finance sectors got through very significant changes. That’s

understand what an asset price bubble is, the difficulties to foresee the bubble and how a good policy can tackle the deleterious effects of the bubble after its burst. There is no consensus about the existence of asset price bubbles in the economics world. Well reputed economists claim that even the most famous historical bubbles as well as the worldwide New Economy Boom in the 1990s can be explained by fundamentally justified expectations about future returns of the respective underlying assets

had been under an autocratic socialist system where strict controls were imposed but after 1978, when Deng Xiaoping succeed to Mao and came to power he established a market-oriented economic development and for the last decade permitted the country to quadruple its outputs. Due to its large population, its economic growth and climate issues China became a real threat for western countries and especially the United States, the actual most powerful country in the world. Knowing that the United States’

2 Taxation and the growth of mobile services in sub-Saharan Africa Introduction from the GSMA Introduction from the GSMA The mobile industry in sub-Saharan Africa has pledged to invest some $50 billion over the next five years to extend coverage to rural areas and roll out mobile broadband services. This represents about a five-fold average increase in annual investment since the beginning of the decade. This private sector commitment is something of a windfall for governments. Not only