Après avoir enregistré des baisses considérables au cours de l'année 2015, les prix des matières premières non renouvelables ont repris de la vigueur sur les quatre premiers mois de l'année 2016 avec, à la clé, une question essentielle pour nombre de pays et d'acteurs économiques : novembre 2015 peut-il être considéré comme le point bas du cycle permettant de croire à une reprise, sinon soutenue, du moins durable des marchés ? L'hypothèse semble raisonnable, mais les développements ...
Political Developments: Towards a Political Transition?
Countries in the Sahel are facing political changes that seriously affect the African continent at large. This blog attempts to give an overview of the recent political developments in the region before focusing on the ongoing challenges.
Starting 2011, Libya went through the Arab Spring protest leading to the current political deadlock. The escalation of violence combined with a rising death toll forced the international com ...
Ce podcast est délivré par Aurélie Faure Schuyer. Cette intervention s’articulera autour de la question de l’innovation et de son impact sur les profils et modes de consommation énergétiq ...
This podcast is performed by Tim Ridout. Cybersecurity threats continue to increase as more electronic devices and systems connect to the Internet. Aside from hackers directly penetrating ...
Ce podcast est délivré par Pierre-Noel Girauld. Il est Professeur d’économie à Mines ParisTech et à Paris Dauphine. Membre fondateur de l’Académie des Technologies, membre du Conseil Scie ...
Ethiopia is located at the heart of the Horn of Africa. Torn between its position within the Greater Middle East (Culcasi 2008, 128 and Fukuyama 2008, 206) from one side, and Sub Saharan Africa on the other, this East African state is landlocked in a region marked by intense and long-standing political strife and conflicts, and is directly exposed to regional insecurity and political volatility. Against this unstable background, successive regimes and governments in Addis Ababa have ...
Ce podcast est délivré par Christophe Gouel. La volatilité des prix des denrées alimentaires a-t-elle des répercussions sur les politiques commerciales des pays ?
Christophe Gouel est doc ...
The tendency towards urbanisation in the emerging world accompanied by the constant pursuit of higher productivity has prompted many studies which aim to understand agglomeration economies. In the context of Brazil, a country with extremely high regional disparities, exploring this issue is important not only for private stakeholders but also for public policy practitioners. In the framework of static agglomeration effects, we investigate the industrial scope of agglomeration econom ...