Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
le ferment d’une économie rentière
English translation:
(dependency on raw materials) giving rise to a rentier economy
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Claire Nolan
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French term
France
le ferment d’une économie rentière
French to English
Social Sciences
Economics
This is an article about global migration. A little unsure how to translate this as unsure of the term.
Trop de pays dépendent de trop peu des matières premières, celles-ci constituant le ferment d’une économie rentière et donc, par construction, corruptible et inefficace.
Trop de pays dépendent de trop peu des matières premières, celles-ci constituant le ferment d’une économie rentière et donc, par construction, corruptible et inefficace.
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| 3 +1 | (dependency on raw materials) giving rise to a rentier economy |
Claire Nolan
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| 4 | the catalyst/driving force of a rentier/rent-based economy |
Francois Boye
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Jun 8, 2018 10:34: Claire Nolan Created KOG entry
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(dependency on raw materials) giving rise to a rentier economy
Or a "rent-based economy".
"le ferment" is what makes the phenomenon happen.
http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Data/Africa_file/Manualreport/c...
China’s strategy enables the continent’s most dubious regimes to build up a rentier economy based on the massive exploitation of natural resources with very little real fixed investment flowing into that country and no pressure put on the regime to change. This is particularly so in a place like the DemocraticRepublic of Congo (DRC) where there is minimal fixed investment in mining – given China’s priority to beneficiate raw materials in China.
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Note added at 1 hr (2018-06-03 09:53:35 GMT)
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the terms rent, rentier economy, and rentier state should first be
understood. Rent can be described as “a reward for ownership of all natural resources,” defined broadly enough to include at least five different types of fortuitous endowments: raw-material rents accrued from the sale of raw materials and/or natural resources;
https://dra.american.edu/islandora/object/1213capstones:81/d...
"le ferment" is what makes the phenomenon happen.
http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Data/Africa_file/Manualreport/c...
China’s strategy enables the continent’s most dubious regimes to build up a rentier economy based on the massive exploitation of natural resources with very little real fixed investment flowing into that country and no pressure put on the regime to change. This is particularly so in a place like the DemocraticRepublic of Congo (DRC) where there is minimal fixed investment in mining – given China’s priority to beneficiate raw materials in China.
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Note added at 1 hr (2018-06-03 09:53:35 GMT)
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the terms rent, rentier economy, and rentier state should first be
understood. Rent can be described as “a reward for ownership of all natural resources,” defined broadly enough to include at least five different types of fortuitous endowments: raw-material rents accrued from the sale of raw materials and/or natural resources;
https://dra.american.edu/islandora/object/1213capstones:81/d...
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the catalyst/driving force of a rentier/rent-based economy
'catalyst' or 'driving force' is more common in economic analysis than 'ferment'
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2016/09/196859/rentier-econ...
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2016/09/196859/rentier-econ...
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