IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/spo/wpmain/infohdl2441-7n8bkd48rf852p1585hlo7t92p.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Economic calculations, instability and (in)formalisation of the state in Mauritania, 2003–2011

Author

Listed:
  • Boris Samuel

    (Centre de recherches internationales)

Abstract

Cet article rend compte des transformations de l'Etat en Mauritanie entre 2003 et 2011 par le biais des pratiques concrètes de la gestion des politiques économiques. Il questionne le rapport à l'Etat dans un contexte où l'informalité est massive et où le contournement des règles et l'arnaque sont des répertoires politiques majeurs. Néanmoins, mon constat indique qu'il est intéressant de décrypter la manière dont les règles et procédures formelles, étudiées au concret, structurent les rapports de pouvoir en Mauritanie, et que cette analyse peut servir à interroger les transformations de l'Etat. Je propose une relecture de la trajectoire politique nationale au prisme des pratiques concrètes de gestion de l’économie. Il en ressort que, même lors des importants mensonges sur les chiffres macroéconomiques, dévoilés en 2005, l'action technocratique a pu se maintenir dans un « océan de transgression ».

Suggested Citation

  • Boris Samuel, 2014. "Economic calculations, instability and (in)formalisation of the state in Mauritania, 2003–2011," Sciences Po publications info:hdl:2441/7n8bkd48rf8, Sciences Po.
    • Handle: RePEc:spo:wpmain:info:hdl:2441/7n8bkd48rf852p1585hlo7t92p
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://spire.sciencespo.fr/hdl:/2441/7n8bkd48rf852p1585hlo7t92p/resources/2014-04-samuel-economic-calculations-instability-mauritania-cjds-35-1.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. World Bank, 2011. "Mauritania - Public Expenditure Review : Update [République Islamique de Mauritanie : Actualisation de la revue des dépenses publiques]," World Bank Publications - Reports 12333, The World Bank Group.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Boris Samuel, 2014. "Economic calculations, instability and (in)formalisation of the state in Mauritania, 2003–2011," Post-Print hal-03460325, HAL.
    2. repec:hal:spmain:info:hdl:2441/7n8bkd48rf852p1585hlo7t92p is not listed on IDEAS
    3. Boris Samuel, 2014. "Economic calculations, instability and (in)formalisation of the state in Mauritania, 2003–2011," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-03460325, HAL.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spo:wpmain:info:hdl:2441/7n8bkd48rf852p1585hlo7t92p. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Spire @ Sciences Po Library (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ecspofr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.