Why can’t Greece get out of debt?
By Sébastien Villemot Between 2007 and 2015, Greece’s public debt rose from 103% to 179% [1] of its GDP (see chart below). The debt-to-GDP ratio […]
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Greece: When history repeats itself
By Jacques Le Cacheux The duration of the Greek crisis and the harshness of the series of austerity plans that have been imposed on it […]
Austerity and purchasing power in France
By Mathieu Plane Is France implementing an austerity policy? How can it be measured? Although this question is a subject of ongoing public debate, it […]
Manic-depressive austerity: let’s talk about it!
By Christophe Blot, Jérôme Creel, and Xavier Timbeau Following discussions with our colleagues from the European Commission [1], we return to the causes of the […]
From austerity to stagnation
By Xavier Timbeau Since 2010, the European Commission has published the Annual Growth Survey to stimulate discussion on the occasion of the European semester, during […]
France: why such zeal?
By Marion Cochard and Danielle Schweisguth On 29 May, the European Commission sent the members of the European Union its new economic policy recommendations. As part […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
And what if the austerity budget has succeeded better in France than elsewhere? [1]
By Mathieu Plane Faced with a rapid and explosive deterioration in their public accounts, the industrialized countries, particularly in Europe, have implemented large-scale austerity policies, […]