This study investigates the effectiveness of Japan's official development assistance in promoting foreign direct investments inflows in the case of the People's Republic of China. Conditional logit analysis using province level statistics from 1980 to 1999, shows that Japanese aid flows did have a significant positive impact on private investors location choice even though other profit-maximizing factors such as the level of economic activity had a leading spillover effect. In a context of growing scarcity of aid, the study concludes by asserting the importance of a complementary process in which foreign aid is aimed at enhancing the development of infrastructures, acting as a pre-requisite for future direct investments. Finally, Japan providing an interesting case study, we stress the need for a better cooperation between public and private sectors in development assistance programmes.
Comparative analyses have found that non-self-governing islands tend to have much better development indicators than sovereign islands. Perhaps unsurprisingly, since 1983 no non-self-governing island has acquired political independence. This paper argues that rather than merely maintaining the status quo with their colonial metropoles, non-self-governing islands are actively creating a new form of sovereignty. This creation of an ''Islandian'' sovereignty takes place against the backdrop of debates on the relevance of classic Westphalian sovereignty and emerging practices of Indigenous sovereignty. This paper reviews global research on the sovereignty of islands and from this review, develops an analytical framework of five mechanisms that drive the emerging Islandian sovereignty. This framework is tested and illustrated with a case study of the negotiations about sovereignty between New Caledonia and its colonial metropole, France.
2 L'inertie thermique des océans est telle que l'impact de nos émissions actuelles ne se fera pleinement ressentir qu'au bout de plusieurs siècles (Gastaldo, 1992). L'après Kyoto : quelle approche face au changement climatique ? Séverine BLAISE Ce travail s'interroge sur la nature et la portée qu'un accord international similaire au Protocole de Kyoto pourrait avoir pour l'après 2012. Nous montrons que les mécanismes du Protocole s'inscrivent dans une approche « faible » de la durabilité qui ne remet guère en cause le primat de l'économie sur le social et l'environnement, et que l'efficacité des instruments choisis est controversée sur le plan théorique. La conclusion souligne les insuffisances d'une telle solution face aux enjeux climatiques. Mots-clefs : climat/réchauffement climatique, accords internationaux et observance, développement durable, économie de l'environnement, économie écologique Classification JEL : Q54, F53, Q01, Q50, Q57 After Kyoto: what approach in the face of climate change? Séverine BLAISE This work questions the nature and the significance of a post 2012 international agreement similar to the Kyoto Protocol. We show that the Protocol's mechanisms fall under a "weak" approach of sustainability which hardly calls into question the primacy of the economy on social and environmental issues, and that the effectiveness of selected instruments is prone to controversy on the theoretical level. We conclude by stressing the inadequacy of such a solution in the face of the climatic stakes.
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