La montée en puissance des BRIC bouleverse l’économie mondiale. Leur émergence est, surtout pour la Chine et l’Inde, un retour sur le devant de la scène internationale après une longue éclipse. À partir des leçons tirées de leurs tentatives de modernisation économique au XXe siècle, les BRIC ont engagé la grande transformation de leur économie dans les années 1990 et ont su jouer leurs atouts face aux opportunités offertes par la globalisation. L’un de ces atouts est la démographie. Ils occupent désormais une place de premier plan dans les échanges internationaux en s’appuyant sur leurs avantages comparatifs dans l’industrie manufacturière et les services, ou sur leurs ressources naturelles. Cette insertion réussie des BRIC dans l’économie mondiale conforte les scénarios […]
     We can’t burn half the world’s oil, coal and gas. So how do we quit? The Burning Question reveals climate change to be the most fascinating scientific, political and social puzzle in history. It shows that carbon emissions are still accelerating upwards, following an exponential curve that goes back centuries. One reason is that saving energy is like squeezing a balloon: reductions in one place lead to increases elsewhere. Another reason is that clean energy sources don’t in themselves slow the rate of fossil fuel extraction.Tackling global warming will mean persuading the world to abandon oil, coal and gas reserves worth many trillions of dollars – at least until we have the means to put carbon back in the ground. […] Entre 1950 et 2000, la production agricole mondiale a augmenté plus rapidement que la population planétaire. La quantité alimentaire moyenne disponible par habitants n’a jamais été aussi importante. Comment expliquer que la faim persiste et augmente depuis 40 ans ? La faim est le produit de mécanismes complexes, à l’image du monde d’aujourd’hui. Voici un décryptage géopolitique de la faim et des grands enjeux des prochaines décennies.
Guilhem Soutou L’Harmattan, 2013 201 pages
From two of India’s leading economists, Jean Drèze (Hunger and Public Action) and Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen (The Idea of Justice), An Uncertain Glory is a passionate, considered argument for the need for a greater understanding of inequalities in India, despite economic development. When India regained independence from colonial rule in 1947, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech and extensive political rights. The famines of the British era disappeared, and steady economic growth replaced stagnation, accelerating further over the last three decades to make India’s growth the second fastest among large economies. Despite a recent dip, it is still one of the highest in the world. Maintaining rapid yet environmentally sustainable […] Before May 2011 the top demographics experts of the United Nations had suggested that world population would peak at 9.1 billion in 2100, and then fall to 8.5 billion people by 2150. In contrast, the 2011 revision suggested that 9.1 billion would be achieved much earlier, maybe by 2050 or before, and by 2100 there would be 10.1 billion of us. What’s more, they implied that global human population might still be slightly rising in our total numbers a century from now. So what shall we do? Are there too many people on the planet? Is this the end of life as we know it?Distinguished geographer Professor Danny Dorling thinks we should not worry so much and that, whatever impending […] In 1930 the great economist Keynes predicted that, over the next century, income would rise steadily, people’s basic needs would be met and no one would have to work more than fifteen hours a week. Why was he wrong? Robert and Edward Skidelsky argue that wealth is not – or should not be – an end in itself, but a means to ‘the good life’. Tracing the concept from Aristotle to the present, they show how far modern life has strayed from that ideal. They reject the idea that there is any single measure of human progress, whether GDP or ‘happiness’, and instead describe the seven elements which, they argue, make up the good life, and the policies that could […] |
  
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