Housing and the city: the new challenges
By Sabine Le Bayon, Sandrine Levasseur and Christine Rifflart The residential real estate market is a market like no other. Since access to housing is […]
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What factors have put the brakes on growth since 2010?
By Eric Heyer and Hervé Péléraux At the end of 2012, five years after the start of the crisis, France’s GDP has still not returned […]
In the Netherlands, change is for now!
By Christophe Blot While France has just reaffirmed that it will meet its commitment to reduce its budget deficit to below 3% by 2014 (see […]
France’s Stability Programme: the missing line
By Eric Heyer On April 17, the government presented its Stability Programme for 2013-2017 for the French economy. For the next two years (2013-2014), the government […]
The chalice of austerity, right to the dregs
Céline Antonin, Christophe Blot and Danielle Schweisguth This text summarizes the OFCE’s April 2013 forecasts The macroeconomic and social situation in the euro zone continues […]
France: the rise in cyclical unemployment continues
By Bruno Ducoudré The Great Recession, which began in 2008, has resulted in a continuous and inexorable rise in unemployment in France, by 3.1 percentage […]
Holding to the required course
By Eric Heyer This text summarizes the OFCE’s 2013-2014 forecasts for the French economy. In 2013, the French economy should see negative annual average growth, with […]
The onset of deflation
By Xavier Timbeau This text summarizes the April 2013 forecasts of the OFCE. The global economic and financial crisis that began in late 2008 is […]
Family benefits: family business?
By Hélène Périvier Bertrand Fragonard has submitted his report to the Prime Minister; it aims, first, to enhance the redistributive nature of family policy and, […]
In memoriam. Raymond Boudon
By Michel Forsé Raymond Boudon, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris Sorbonne, died at the age of 79 on Wednesday, 10 April 2013. It […]