Dans cette thèse, nous démontrons la nécessité de l’appropriation de l’Intelligence Economique (IE) en tant que culture et mode de gouvernance alternatif capable d’aider un pays en développement à affronter les défis et enjeux triple. Ceux relatifs au sous-développement, au développement alternatif et à la mondialisation. S’approprier l’IE dans le contexte particulier de l’économie Congolaise pour en faire un mode de gouvernance au service du développement et de la coopétitivité renvoie ainsi à deux exigences. La première, consiste à revisiter l’IE afin de mettre en valeur ses avancées, révéler ses limites et l’enrichir d’une capacité de réponse adaptée aux besoins d’un pays en développement. La deuxième exigence consiste à analyser le champ d’appropriation de l’IE afin d’en identifier la nature, d’en dresser le profil et d’articuler ces éléments à ceux des moyens de l’IE dont la plasticité acquise permet désormais d’être adaptés à la contingence en examen. L’objectif est de proposer des moyens pertinents à la mise en œuvre efficiente de l’IE. La conceptualisation des modes opératoires d’intelligence et de sécurité économique (2S-MOISE) chevillé au dispositif stratégique et opératoire du développement (DS-OD), au « M’BONGUI » ainsi qu’au schéma d’analyse de dominance systémique nous permet de répondre à cette double exigence. L’usage de la démarche incrémentale via la transculturation nous permet par ailleurs de présenter les modalités concrètes du processus d’appropriation de l’IE grâce à l’action de la direction générale de l’économie (DGE), vectrice dudit processus tant au sein des instances nationales, qu’au niveau du système éducatif et dans la sphère entrepreneuriale. Une série de préconisations dont la définition d’éléments d’une politique publique d’IE, la mise en place d’un dispositif d’IE et d’un système d’information qui réponde aux besoins de gouvernance fonctionnelle, opérationnelle et stratégique ont été proposés. / In this thesis, we demonstrate the need for ownership of Competitive Intelligence (CI) as a culture and way of governance alternative that can help a developing country to face the triple challenges and issues. Those related to underdevelopment, alternative development and globalization. EI ownership in the particular context of the Congolese economy into a mode of governance for development and coopétitivité thus refers to two requirements. The first is to revisit the IE to showcase its advances, revealing its limitations and to enhance response capability tailored to the needs of a developing country. The second requirement is to analyze the scope of appropriation of IE in order to identify the nature, to raise the profile and articulate its elements to those means which the IE can now acquired plasticity of be adapted to contingency under consideration. The objective is to propose ways relevant to the efficient implementation of EI. The conceptualization of intelligence procedures and economic security (2S-MOSES) pegged to device strategic and operational development (OD-DS), the "M'BONGUI" and the pattern of systemic dominance analysis allows us to meet both requirements. The use of the incremental approach through transculturation also allows us to present the actual procedures of appropriation of the IE through the action of the General Directorate of the Economy (DGE) vector process that bothnational fora, that the education system and in the entrepreneurial sphere. A series of recommendations which define elements of a public policy of IE, the setting up of an IE and an information system that meets the needs of functional governance, operational and strategic are been proposed.

Social Safety Nets (SSNs) were in the early 1990s a major feature of poverty alleviation and social impact mitigating mechanism from austere economic reforms implemented by the Zambian Government. Evidently, SSNs became prominent when Zambia accelerated the implementation of the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) in the early 1990s. At that time, the levels of poverty skyrocketed affecting 73% of the 10.5 million people of which 58 % were said to be extremely poor with the acute levels of poverty being more concentrated in rural areas which harbour about 65 % of the country’s population (CSO 1998: 20). SSNs are non-contributory transfer programmes for the poor or those vulnerable to shocks and these include income support through participation in public works programmes, cash transfers to the poor or vulnerable households, fee waivers for usage of essential health and education services, in kind transfers such as school feeding or even price subsidies for specific goods deemed essential to the poor (World Bank 2005: 1). Pritchett (2005:17) observed that SSNs can be applied across the various levels of society whether or not the shocks push households below the absolute threshold of poverty. Despite being a major feature of social mitigation it is not clear to what extent they (SSNs) can be said to an effective mechanism for poverty mitigation in Zambia. With SAP be decried by interests groups as having reduced people’s living conditions for fuelling in, higher prices for basic commodities, lower real incomes, reduced access to social services, medical care and retrenchments and lack of job opportunities for those seeking employment. The absence of fully fledged unemployment benefit system, made the victims of the adjustment process worse off. The social security schemes equally got adversely affected by high unemployment levels and growth of the informal sector because the proportion of the insured population plummeted and that inexorably leads to a fall in contributions. Other consequences of SAP besides retrenchments of blotted workforce include child labour and overburdening women as their participation in economic activities increased as part of the copping mechanisms besides their reproductive roles. Given the aforementioned complications that arise during structural reforms, this thesis seeks to examine how effective SSNs are in poverty alleviation programmes in countries like Zambia where they have been tried. / Development Studies / M.A. (Development Studies)