Tag: forum ideas
“No fight against climate change without freedom to act for local elected officials”
Sf the fate of the climate will depend on our overall efforts on a global scale, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is also a local battle. We also do not appreciate…
“Education and academic guidance appear to be the main keys to accelerating productivity”
LFrance is no longer the good student of productivity: in the third quarter of 2023, it was 3.9% lower than its level at the end of 2019. The situation is…
“Government and private sector are allies in financing R&D, not enemies”
Lhe productivity of our economy is the most important determinant of our standard of living. How to increase it? What respective roles should the private sector and the government play…
“The most compelling explanation for the decline in productivity is that institutions are not adapting quickly enough to technological revolutions”
VSHow can we explain the apparent lack of effect of the revolutions in information and communication technologies, and more recently artificial intelligence (AI), on productivity growth in developed countries? Particularly…
“To stop only at the contribution of technologies to measure labor productivity is an error of assessment”
LThe American economist Robert Solow, who died on December 21, 2023, noted, in his seminal work, that the contributions of capital and labor to growth, as measured, were weak and…
inventions have less economic effect than in the past”
BMany young adults in the West feel unease, due in part to climate change, but also to the slowdown in economic growth over the past two decades. Indeed, each generation…
“The dividends of peace mirroring the costs of war are immense”
Lbreakthrough of the far right on the Israeli side and the end of the Mahmoud era Abbas on the Palestinian side were harbingers of political, security and economic perils. Decades…
“Jacques Delors leaves France and Europe a precious legacy”
She demanding conception of politics, his visionary and pragmatic European work, his method of negotiation, his social commitment and his economic realism, his attention to youth, his human qualities deserve…
“To fight against the harmful effects of loneliness on public health, let’s create a French Federation for Social Bonds”
NOTe, a collective of committed actors, share a deep conviction: social isolation represents a silent enemy with alarming consequences in terms of public health and social cohesion. The current figures…
“Transparency on social and environmental information encourages companies to carry out strategic thinking in the service of their sustainability”
Lin France was, the December 6, 2023, the first country in the European Union to transpose into its national law the new European directive (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, or CSRD)…
“Immigration law is narrow, flawed and economically dangerous”
VSPublic debate on immigration in France has long focused on security and identity issues. When the economy is discussed, it is always in reaction to an electoralist and populist agenda:…
“Self-employed people cannot simulate their future retirement pension”
Lhe right to a dignified retirement after a working life is one of the pillars of the social contract between the French, the social partners and the State. Moreover, it…