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Hartmut
Elsenhans,
Elmar Kleiner,
Reinhart Joachim Dreves (Eds.):
Développement,
Équité et Extension
Du Marché des Masses. Une Autre Alternative.
Le Cas Algérien. L'Enjeu des P.M.E. Industrielles.
Une Perspective de Co-développement
Euro- Méditerranéen
[Development,
Justice and Expansion
of the Mass Market. Another Alternative:
The Algerian Case]
(Paris:
Publisud, 2000), 294 pp.,
€ 29.27 ISBN: 2-86600-745-X
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The book
was edited by Hartmut Elsenhans, professor of international
relations at Leipzig university, by Reinhart Joachim Dreves
who worked as a consultant in Equador and Costa Rica, and
by Elmar Kleiner, who has worked at the German Society for
Technical Cooperation (GTZ) as head of the division on "transformation
programmes for Central and Eastern Europe".
Equality
and economic growth do not exclude each other. There is an
alternative to the programmes of adaptation of international
financial institutions. Distributive justice creates markets
for labour intensive products that may be produced by small
industries in the Third World. Based on a survey of small
and medium sized industrial companies in Algeria during the
1980s the relevance of demand for the production of simple
consumer goods for daily use is demonstrated. Such companies
are competitive in satisfying this demand. The growth in mass
income contributes to the growth of the competitive sector,
to increased employment and to an improvement of the technical
capabilities including the establishment of a local production
of initially unsophisticated goods. The growth in the production
of food can contribute to make small and medium sized industries
more dynamic, even in case of growing export markets for the
products of these enterprises. The alternative to a policy
of austerity depends on a prospering agriculture and from
the access to cheap food. Here an opportunity exists for a
co-development between Europe and the nearest part of the
developing countries in form of a development based on solidarity
in the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership.
A German
version was published as: Hartmut Elsenhans, Elmar Kleiner,
Reinhart Joachim Dreves (Hrsg.): Gleichheit, Markt, Profit,
Wachstum. Kleinindustrie und die Expansion des Massenmarkts
mit einer Untersuchung aus Algerien. Schriften des Deutschen
Übersee-Instituts, Nr.51 (Hamburg 2001), ISBN 3-926953-51-9,
302 S., DM 46,-.
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