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Le phénomène de gentrification rime souvent avec l'éloge de la « mixité sociale » des habitants, ainsi que de la « diversité » des commerces de proximité. Dans ce contexte, comment cette dernière est-elle construite et travaillée par les entrepreneurs ? À partir d'une enquête de terrain menée entre 2017 et 2020 sur les restaurants du quartier du canal Saint-Martin, situé dans le X e  arrondissement de Paris, l'article a pour but de mettre en lumière le processus de construction de la diversité, allant de pair avec la construction d'une altérité (in)acceptable. Nous étudions d'abord le travail de blanchité réalisé par les entrepreneurs minoritaires racisés qui ouvrent un restaurant représentant leur propre origine ethnique et/ou nationale. En tant que groupe minoritaire dans l'Hexagone, l'identification entre leur origine et l'offre culinaire oscille entre les frontières internes et externes d'une conception de soi traversée par l'expérience du racisme. Contrastant avec cette première vision, l'article s'intéresse ensuite au travail réalisé par les entrepreneurs blancs, racialisés comme groupe majoritaire et issus de classes supérieures, qui ouvrent des restaurants dont les offres culinaires représentent une culture « extra-occidentale ». Ce contraste permet d'élucider le mécanisme de la construction d'une altérité (in)acceptable, qui s'articule avec les rapports sociaux de classe et de race.

This paper examines the questions of why and how foreign assistance was utilized successfully in South Korea but less so in Ghana, with a focus on the role of aid in the process of state building and state transition in these two countries. Before the 1960s, South Korea and Ghana shared approximately similar levels of GDP per capita. However, while South Korea achieved rapid economic development and democracy in one generation, Ghana suffered from slow development and a general deterioration of the standard of living. In particular, the state in South Korea played a critical role in achieving economic development, while the Ghanaian state, although relatively successful in carrying out recent economic reforms, is still far from becoming a fully effective developmental state. Adopting a comparative historical research method, the study explains the divergent paths of these two countries with a special focus on the impact of foreign assistance on state transitions. It argues that contextual factors - including the effect of colonial legacy in each of these two regions in shaping modern states and the specific characteristics of foreign assistance intervention - provide useful insights in explaining the differential impact of aid on state building and state transition in Ghana and in South Korea.

This article examines the government's role in expansion of the contingent workforce in South Korea. I argue that the government played a determining role in transforming the South Korean labor market and increasing the number of contingent workers. Through the active adoption of a flexible labor market policy as a part of its globalization movement, the South Korean government directly contributed to a rise in contingent work. Also, the South Korean government indirectly supported the expanded use of non‐regular workers through its tacit approval of companies' illegal use of contingent workers. The existing literature on contingent workers has focused primarily on economic factors. This case study highlights the need to include the role of government as an important cause of the growth of the contingent workforce.

This article examines the government's role in expansion of the contingent workforce in South Korea. I argue that the government played a determining role in transforming the South Korean labor market and increasing the number of contingent workers. Through the active adoption of a flexible labor market policy as a part of its globalization movement, the South Korean government directly contributed to a rise in contingent work. Also, the South Korean government indirectly supported the expanded use of non-regular workers through its tacit approval of companies' illegal use of contingent workers. The existing literature on contingent workers has focused primarily on economic factors. This case study highlights the need to include the role of government as an important cause of the growth of the contingent workforce. Adapted from the source document.

O objetivo deste artigo é verificar se as origens das recentes quedas nos resultados econômicos brasileiros, observadas nos anos de 2009, 2015 e 2016, estão relacionadas à economia real ou à transações puramente financeiras. Analisou-se o índice de dispersão da discrepância e a decomposição estrutural deste índice, calculados a partir das matrizes de fluxo de fundos da economia brasileira de 2004 a 2015. As transações financeiras espelharam as transações reais em quase todos os anos, exceto em 2008. O valor total das transações das empresas financeiras cresceu mais do que o das empresas não financeiras em períodos anteriores aos defaults (2008 e 2014). Alterações nos índices de poder de dispersão corroboram essa observação ao apontar que as empresas não financeiras reduziram sua participação financeira, enquanto as empresas financeiras aprimoraram seu papel como intermediários financeiros e, ao mesmo tempo, o resto do mundo vem recebendo uma parcela significativa da poupança brasileira.

In this special section, the present article reviews South Korean perspectives on China's 'periphery diplomacy' with a focus on Chinese behaviour with respect to the East China Sea maritime territory and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). By analysing research papers published by various Korean research institutions and academic journals, this article demonstrates that most Korean scholars hold that as long as China's growth goes on, the tensions between the US and China are likely to intensify. The article also shows that one of the primary concerns of South Korean scholars lies in the question of how South Korea should respond to changing regional orders and a rising China. The article argues that South Korea's strategic dilemma is reflected in a regional structure in which competition between two great powers has recently forced the periphery to impose bilateral ties on. (Pac Rev/GIGA)