Retards de remboursement : le problème, ses causes, ses conséquences

Réunion: Conférence nationale pour le renforcement de la gratuité des soins au Niger, mars 201

Living Law, Legal Pluralism, and Corruption in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan

This paper aims to explore the multifaceted meaning, logic, and morality of informal transactions in order to better understand the social context that informs the meaning of corruption and bribery in post-Soviet Uzbekistan. It will be argued that the informal transactions in Uzbek society reflect different cultural and functional meanings from those in most of the Western world, and hence transactions that from a Western-centric perspective would be labelled as bribes can be morally accepted transactions in the Uzbek cultural context. If this is true, there may be reasons to re-evaluate the relevance of the Western-centric interpretations of corruption in the context of Uzbekistan, and possibly other Central Asian countries. These issues will be investigated with reference to observations and informal interviews from post-Soviet Uzbekistan. This study is based on three periods of ethnographic field research between 2009 and 2012 in the Ferghana Province of Uzbekistan. It draws on concepts of ‘living law’ and legal pluralism to provide a theoretical framework

Norms, Networks, Power, and Control: Understanding Informal Payments and Brokerage in Cross-Border Trade in Sierra Leone

Recent research has cast light on the variety of informal payments and practices that govern the day-to-day interactions between traders and customs agents at border posts in low-income countries. Building on this literature, this paper draws on survey and qualitative evidence in an effort to explore which groups are most advantaged and disadvantaged by the largely informal processes and norms governing cross-border trade. We find that understanding variation in strategies and outcomes across traders can only be effectively understood with reference to the importance of norms, networks, power, and the logic of control.Department for International DevelopmentBill and Melinda Gates Foundatio

Réponse au texte "Gratuité des soins ? Ce qu'il faudrait prouver&8230; " de Joseph Brunet-Jailly [suivi du texte de J. Brunet-Jailly paru dans le même fascicule]

Joseph Brunet-Jailly développe longuement deux mises en cause radicales de notre posture générale, qui sont à notre avis totalement infondées, soit parce qu’elles nous font dire le contraire de ce que nous disons, soit parce qu’il se trompe quant aux questions méthodologiques. D’autre part, il critique toute une série de points particuliers de l’ouvrage, en faisant de nombreux contresens sur nos propos, en ignorant nos arguments ou en méconnaissant la littérature scientifique sur le sujet