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Dominique Darbon is a professor in political science and public administration at Sciences Po Bordeaux and a member of the Research unit Les Afriques dans le monde (LAM UMR 5115 CNRS). His research focuses on two main issues. The first one deals with new social dynamics of stratifications in Urban Africas (including so called middle class). The second one focuses on Public policy analysis in African countries and states with limited statehood. Together with Jean-Philippe Berou, Matthieu Clément, Eric Rougier and François Combarnous (University of Bordeaux), he jointly coordinates a research on the rise of middle classes in four developing countries (Ivory Coast, Brazil, Turkey, VietNam). With Olivier Provini (University of La Réunion), he is in charge of a three year research program dealing with the analysis of the making and the implementing of public policies in six African countries. He has coedited with Comi Toulabotr an issue of AFD working papers on the African Middle class (available in English) and a book on “L’Invention des classes moyennes en Afrique” (Karthala) in 2013.
