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the traditional samurai culture, effectively banned the use of firearms in their country for two centuries. Some religious communities, such as the Old Order Amish fellowships in North America, shun motor cars and other modern technologies. All countries put legal or other restrictions on the use of certain tools. But if you take a broader historical or social view, the claims of the determinists gain credibility. Although individuals and communities may make very different decisions about which

as well as others, may have resulted from my critical lumping together of certain approaches and has led to a wholly unintentional neglect of a number of promising directions and writers in anthropology. Another point that may strike the reader as poor strategy, or perhaps as thoughtless perpetuation of an all-too-common error, is the opposition of Western conventionalism to the characteristic symbolic differentiation preferred by "traditional" peoples — including "tribal" societies, the ideologies

H ———————————————— HCFA : Health care financing administration HTML : Hypertext markup language ———————————————— HEDGE FUNDS Voir fonds spéculatif. ———————————————— HI : Hospital insurance ———————————————— HIPC : Heavily indebted poor countries (ou initiative en faveur des pays pauvres lourdement endettées) ———————————————— HOLDING Société qui ne produit rien, mais qui détient le contrôle, via des participations, dans d'autres sociétés. ———————————————— HOLISME MÉTHODOLOGIQUE

: Plan d’Ajustement Structurel PECOT : Pays d’Europe Centrale et Orientale + Turquie PED : Pays En Développement PIB : Produit Intérieur Brut PNUD : Programme des Nations Unies pour le Développement PPTE : Pays Pauvre Très Endetté (Highly Indebted Poor Countries,HIPC en anglais) RCADE : Réseau citoyen pour l’abolition de la dette extérieure (en espagnol, Red ciudadana por la abolición de la deuda externa) SIV : Structured Investment Vehicles TVA : Taxe sur la valeur ajoutée URSS : Union des Républiques

Sénégal: Document cadre de partenariat France-Sénégal 2006, p12, http://www.ambafrance-sn. org/IMG/Document_cadre_de_partenariat.pdf (consulté le 6 août 2007). 622 L’initiative des Pays pauvres très endettés – PPTE (en anglais HIPC – Heavily Indebted Poor Countries) – est un programme lancé en 1996 conjointement par la Banque mondiale et le FMI et qui vise à assister les pays les plus pauvres du monde en rendant leurs dettes internationales ‘soutenables’. 166 P A R T I E I I S É N É G A L :

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