This thesis proposes an analysis of the trend that makes of financial support to private firms a key tool in Sub-Saharan Africa’s development. In a first part, it enlightens the mechanisms that have made private companies become core actors in the Millenium Development Goals’ achievement, and...

This work aims at exploring and understanding the impacts of economy’s financialization on small and middle sized French companies in terms of governance, management and human relationships. To be more precise, the thesis focuses on one specific financial mechanism named LBO, which stands for...

The global financial crisis had an on impact all industrialized countries, caused the bankruptcy of several big banks and all economies are now threatened with recession. What events led to such a situation? What are the possible answers in the short and in the long-term for facing this crisis?

As today's rich get richer, today's poor are still facing many plagues that jeopardize the economic and political balance not only of their own countries but of the overall world. This situation can be seen as the proof of the inefficiency of the development policies that have been carried on so...

The Chinese banking market is one of the most attractive markets for investors and bankers in the West. Since the reform and opening up of China in 1978, the banking system is well built and ready to adapt to the global banking system. In 2001, China entered the World Trade Organization; since...