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While Jean Anouilh may not have been as active an advocate as Jean-Paul Sartre or Albert Camus, his plays always refer to contemporary events and public figures. This holds particularly true as regards the purging that followed the end of World War II, General de Gaulle, and the events of May 1968. In addition to politics proper, Anouilh's plays also refer to all manners of cultural expression, from theatre to cinema, from song to fashion. While little attention to date has been paid to this component of his works, they are much the greater for it.
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AbstractThis article is devoted to the relevance of the thesis dealing with the widening gap between the standards of living of poor and rich nations. Even if this thesis isn't a new one, however it is doing a strong come back nowadays with the debates entailed by the globalisation and the anti-globalisation. Leaning on very serious and recent statistic series, the author is establishing first that the notion of « global gap » – difficult to define – hasn't actually much meaning. In addition, hoping or wishing a « convergence » of the two groups of countries at short or medium time is rather part of a dream. Finally, going further than the probably too globalising vision of the question examined, he shows that the different national evolutions (especially the demographic and economic growths) in a lot of less developed countries lead to a doubtful position about the absolute validity of the « widening gap thesis » and lead to shade deeply the more frequently proposed conclusions, excessively pessimistic according to the author.
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AbstractIn the Asia-Pacific region, the Asian Development Bank (bad) is lending every year between 5 and 6 billion usd. It thus has a considerable influence on the orientations of the developing countries in the region. The bad is today the third most important donator in all Southeast Asia, after Japan and the World Bank. Its implication in the process of regional integration is proven, as shows the grand plan of development of the Indochinese peninsula, the Greater Mekong Subregion (gms). This ambitious project is one of the biggest transnational ones, with the implication of five countries of the continental Southeast Asia and the two Chinese provinces of Yunnan and Guangxi, and is now consideraded as the prototype of the great vision for regional development that the bad seeks to test and duplicate in other places in Asia. This article will also allow us to examine adb's modus operandi with regard to the criticism levelled against it.
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This is an analysis of the major strategic minerals (sometimes called strategic materials), including some of the precious metals, which are vital to the Western economies. It focuses primarily on Soviet strategic minerals policies and examines the conflicting hypotheses for and against a resource war waged by the Soviet Union. The conclusions reached on the strength of the evidence so far is that Soviet policies have been chiefly economic and motivated by economic self-interest ; the Soviet Union is seen as an eager competitor for markets to acquire hard currency and not as a power eager to deprive the West of critical resources. A case is also made for the increasing importance of materials science, ocean mining and substitution, which is likely to make the West, including the USSR, invulnerable to supply disruptions in the future.
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