2005
DOI: 10.1080/0963948052000341213
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Permanences et Ruptures de la Politique Économique de la France vis-à-vis de l'Afrique sub-Saharienne

Abstract: Over the cold war period, French economic policy towards sub-Saharan Africa reflected the importance which Paris attached to this region. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, however, Africa lost much of its economic and strategic significance, and France moved some way towards normalising its relations with this continent. Yet France never completed this process and has recently begun to accord greater priority to a part of the world which has been marked by conflict, terrorist activity, and ten… Show more

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“…Here, France was in a position to obtain scarce natural resources from many of its former colonies and establish a market for its own exports. There was considerable French investment in the economies of its former colonies, corresponding to a form of “rentier-capitalism” (Hugon 2005, 43). 1 These countries had, in practice, a common currency, the CFA franc, that was pegged to the French franc and now the euro.…”
Section: Institutional Choice In Postindependence Francophone Sub-saharan Africamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Here, France was in a position to obtain scarce natural resources from many of its former colonies and establish a market for its own exports. There was considerable French investment in the economies of its former colonies, corresponding to a form of “rentier-capitalism” (Hugon 2005, 43). 1 These countries had, in practice, a common currency, the CFA franc, that was pegged to the French franc and now the euro.…”
Section: Institutional Choice In Postindependence Francophone Sub-saharan Africamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Pour un Etat donateur, il ne suffit jamais de mobiliser des financements conséquents en faveur des programmes multilatéraux : encore faut-il aussi pouvoir influencer la manière dont ces programmes vont être instruits, conçus et surtout mis en oeuvre. Or, l'une des meilleures manières pour ce faire consiste à exister d'abord sur la scène bilatérale, c'est-à-dire à être présent matériellement sur le terrain même de la mise en oeuvre des actions de développement, dans les pays bénéficiaires, par le biais d (Cumming, 2001 ;Hugon, 2005 ;Simon, 2008). L'Afrique subsaharienne demeure toujours la destination majoritaire de ces appuis : plus de 90 % dans les années soixante, 80 % dans les années soixante dix, 63 % en 1995, 58 % en 2005, 57 % en 2009 (CAD/OCDE).…”
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