Résumé (EN)

Since the years 1955-1980, when Japan and, later on, the Four Dragons took off in East Asia, newly industrialising economies have blossommed on every continent. Although their real number remains open to discussion, there is no doubt about their growing weight relatively to the developed nations and to the less advanced countries. Their rising prosperity makes it a duty to their public authorities to give assistance to their poorest citizens. In the same time some valuable lessons ought to be drawn from their experience in order to help those who remain submerged by poverty. This paper scrutinizes the integration of the emerging economies in the world economy and stresses the roles played respectiveley by access to markets, entrepreneurship, manufacturing skills and capacity for action of the relevant public authorities.