Les configurations développementistes internationales au Maroc et en Tunisie : des policy tranfers à portée limitée

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International Developmentalist Configurations in Morocco and Tunisia : Limited Impact Policy Transfers International development aid is accompanied by injunctions to implement specific public policies. The conditionality required by investors is not reflected in a symmetrical manner in the public policies of aid receiving countries. In Morocco and Tunisia, policy transfer entails the formation of a “community of language, knowledge and know how” which brings together international development actors (in virtue of their mastery of transnational knowledge) and their local “partners”. Here, the mechanisms of transfer thus very much occur by means of circumscribed processes of “learning”, encounters and socialization. This does not for all that imply that public action or “real” political hierarchies – much less the foundations of political regimes – have dramatically changed. In both countries, an examination of the use of the “participating commissions” that are promoted and the translation of norms of “democratic decentralization” into action show that the transfer is above all the fruit of power relations and adjustments tied to the trajectory of national public policies. ■