L'avenir de la coopération Sud-Sud
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Abstract EN:
The aims of the present study is to determine the development prospects of southsouth cooperation, its projecting role within international economic relations and its impact on the southern countries development. Our methodology consisted in making a sectorial diagnosis in order to raise the basic problem of the feasability of real south-south cooperation into action beyond speechmaking and thus to determine the relative share of illusion and reality inherent in this concept. The multiplicity of interaction between different actors, and the diversity of factors and variables intervening within these relationships has shown to what extent these latter constitute a complexe system has led us to suggest a systems approach to south-south cooperation in the framework of the worldwide economic environment. This undertaking showed retrospectively that the temporal dynamism of south-south exchanges resulted from a favourable climate - intensification of north - south relationships diversification of financing sources. Inversely, the limits of indebtedness as well as the collapse of raw materiel prices, mainly petrol would appear to hinder the future of south-south exchanges. Sould the latter be dependant in the short term of north-south relationship, the necessity in a long term perspective of a greater self - generated third world grouththanks specifically to south-south cooperation- could play a key role in southern countries developement while contributing to a rebalancing of north south relationships.
Abstract FR:
L'objectif de cette etude est de determiner les perspectives d'evolution de la cooperation sud-sud, le role prospectif de celle-ci dans les relations economiques internationales, et son impact sur le developpement des pays du sud. Notre methodologie a consiste a dresser un diagnostic sectoriel afin de poser la problematique de la faisabilite d'une reelle cooperation sud-sud dans l'action au dela des discours et ainsi de determiner la part d'illusions et de realites inherentes a ce concept. La multitude des interactions entre des acteurs differents et la diversite des facteurs et variables intervenant dans ces relations a montre combien celles-ci constituaient un systeme complexe ce qui nous a conduit a proposer une aprroche systemique de la cooperation sud-sud au sein de l'environnement economique mondial. Cette demarche a retrospectivement demontre que le dynamisme temporel des echanges sud-sud resultait d'une conjoncture favorable (intensification des relations nord-sud - diversification des sources de financements). A l'inverse, les limites de l'endettement ainsi que la chute des prix des matieres premieres notemment le petrole semblent compromettre l'avenir des echanges sud-sud. Si ceux-ci dependent beaucoup a moyen terme des relations nord-sud, la necessite dans une perspective a long terme d'un plus grand autocentrage de la croissance du tiers monde - grace a la cooperation sud-sud en particulier pourrait jouer un role dans le developpement des pvd tout en contribuant a un reequilibrage des relations nord-sud.