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Working Children: their Agency and self-organization
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2006)
In recent years, ‘agency’ has appeared in academic writings as a new way of referring to active involvement from below in development interventions. The concept of ‘agency’ starts from the assumption that people are actually ...
What Is the Point of Development Ethics?
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2006)
Research and teaching in societal development ethics face potentially four fundamental types of objection: first, that ethics is obvious already; second, that it is instead impossible, on epistemological grounds; third, ...
Introduction: Working in Development Ethics – a tribute to Denis Goulet
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2006)
Denis Goulet (1931-2006) was probably the main founder of work on ‘development ethics’ as a self-conscious field that treats the ethical and value questions posed by development theory, planning and practice. This overview ...
Who has responsibility for access to essential medical drugs in the developing world?
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2006)
L’accès aux traitements de base est un enjeu crucial pour la santé, la pauvreté et le développement. La responsabilité en matière d’accès est alors une question essentielle. Le huitième Objectif du Millénaire pour ...
Corruption et pauvreté dans les pays de l’UEMOA
(Centre de recherche en éthique, 2019-10-29)
Corruption and poverty are conceptually related issues in developing countries. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the causal relationship between corruption and poverty in the West African Economic and Monetary Union ...
Démocratie et paradoxe du vote : fondements théoriques et enjeux socio-économiques en Afrique subsaharienne francophone
(Centre de recherche en éthique, 2019-10-31)
The widespread democratization in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa, driven by France since 1990 as a conditionality of development aid, has since come up against numerous constraints. The difficulty of appropriating the ...
Blockchain technology and corporate governance : the issue of smart contracts — current perspectives and evolving concerns
(Centre de recherche en éthique, 2020-03-10)
Traditional contracts are being replaced in an increasing number of instances by smart contracts that is, “decentralized agreements built in computer code and stored on a blockchain”, which are able to automatically execute ...
L’émergence est-elle compatible avec le développement durable? : le cas du Plan Sénégal Emergent
(Centre de recherche en éthique, 2019-10-29)
This article seeks to examine the role of sustainable development in the Plan Sénégal Emergent (Emerging Senegalese Programme). We conducted simultaneously a survey of institutional documents dedicated to PSE and a ...
An integrated 3D approach for effective mine risk education in post war-zone areas
(Centre de recherche en éthique, 2019-10-28)
International Mine Action Standards define Mine Risk Education (MRE) as activities that seek to reduce the risk of death and injury from mines and explosive remnants of war, by raising awareness and promoting safe behaviour. ...
Manipulation perçue des marques et résistance, une proposition de profils de consommation
(Centre de recherche en éthique, 2019-10-28)
This article aims to identify the different consumer profiles that resist to the perceived manipulation of brands. If there is no consensus on a definition of manipulation, it is established that its perception may give ...