Abstract EN:

The socio-political approach to stabilisation and adjustment policies in Cameroon from 1986 to 1995 assume that the economic policies can't only be explained in connection with economic matters but it also depends on political and social events. After a short survey of the political economy - public choices school theory- of the main international organisations involved in the adjustment process, and a special report of french cooperation institutions and policy, the issue shows, in cameroon, how the political context (election, democratisation process), social events (demonstration, strike) and external interventions (state providing grants and loans, multilateral aids) influence the preparation and the implementation of the stabilisation and adjustment programs by the government, first, after the big drop in petroleum and corps international prices in 1985 and then after the cfa' franc devaluation in 1994. The study focuses on the administration's ability to manage the reforms and its adaptation to the fall in the state's revenues, especially in cameroon where its development since independence has made it a social instrument giving the main access to the fruits of economic growth and a basis of political power.