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In his overview of the current economic juncture and financial markets in recent quarters, the author first examines the world situation and then takes a look at Western economies: Japan, Germany, France, United States and Canada. The Canadian economy has been in a recession since the second quarter of 1990, and a turnaround is unlikely before mid-1991. The factors examined include the GNP, employment, construction, corporate investment spending, foreign trade, inflation, monetary policy and prices.
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Michel Albert, President of A.G.F., presents a very interesting reflection on the economic role of insurance and how its development parallels the origin and rise of capitalism. The author basically discusses two very different models of capitalism: the rhenan model and the American model, each of which is illustrated from two distinct insurance perspectives: marine and alpine. The conclusion focuses on the future of insurance by creating new opportunities for consumer needs.
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The authors examine the insurability of natural catastrophes. This article contains excerpts from catastrophe experience in North America, namely from the United States and Quebec. The catastrophes discussed include floods, earthquakes and windstorms (tornados, hurricanes and cyclones.) In fight of the statistics obtained, the authors have concluded that private insurers and government authorities should work together to develop insurance plans for natural catastrophes.
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Insurance contracts are complex legal documents, but stable, reflecting the general rule of law. ln this article, we will examine, firstly, the legal characterisrics that make them different from other contracts. These are: Nominated contract, Consensual contract, Personal contract, Bilateral contract, Aleatory contract, Contract for valuable consideration, Contract for periodically renewable service, Conditional contrat, Contract of adhesion and Utmost good-faith contract.Secondly, we will review some fundamental legal principles that are reflected in the damage insurance contracts, in other words, the basic requirements in order to have a valid insurance contract, such as the following: principle of indemnity, principle of the relation between the risk and the premium, principle of insurable interest, and principle of subrogation.
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Literary accomplice of Sami Tchak for more than fifteen years, Ananda Devi wrote a Postface to the book Les fables du moineau by the Togolese author, published in Seuil in 2020. This short text is located in the series of resonances between the work of the Togolese and the Mauritian, and announced in particular in the short stories that the two writers inserted in the collective work Paris, Lumières étrangères, published two years earlier. This article will start from the notion of afterword, as defined by Gérard Genette, to then make an analysis of this story which highlights Devi’s inner conflict: encouraged by Tchak to live the life of her characters, she stages herself in this fictional story and undergoes a mystical experience with a fatal outcome. These events are set in Naples at night during a volcanic eruption. Parallelisms, both formal and content-wise, will be established with Gérard de Nerval's short story Octavie, in which the hero (Nerval himself) experiences the same sensations in the Campanian capital. At the centre of our concerns is Ananda Devi's desire to get rid of a form of writing, almost stereotyped, which distinguishes her and which continues to haunt her.
Keywords: Ananda Devi, Écriture, Expérience mystique, Sami Tchak, Gérard de Nerval, Postface
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