Tag: tribunes-eco
“We must clearly define the objective that the Family Allowance Fund wishes to achieve with its algorithm”
PTo effectively combat illegal practices, supervisory authorities are constantly integrating new technologies. Currently, they are turning more and more towards algorithms. But, as highlighted by the survey published on December…
“The health financing system risks imploding in 2024 in France”
LContributions to supplementary health insurance will increase on average by 8.1% in 2024, according to a survey carried out by the French mutuality. That is to say an additional withdrawal…
“Calling on more foreign labor has become a vital necessity”
Lhe current debates illustrate this: immigration tends to be approached exclusively through a social and political prism, and far too little through an economic prism. Parasited by security and identity…
“The financialization of the healthcare system is not inevitable”
LIn his address to the French on March 12, 2020, Emmanuel Macron declared: “What this pandemic reveals is that there are goods and services that must be placed outside the…
“When Europe struggles to find consensus around the definitions of durability and ease of repair”
Dthem one step forward, two steps back… The French repairability index has laid promising milestones since 2021 for the establishment of a more structured framework for smartphone manufacturers in order…
“A massive rebalancing of public infrastructure towards small and medium-sized towns must be undertaken”
LHousing policies combine negative results: the cost of housing has increased from 20% to more than 30% income of the majority of tenants and first-time buyers, while waiting times for…
“It is through the transformation of the State and currency that we could save ourselves from capitalism and its deadly logic”
Lhe recent inauguration of libertarian Javier Milei as president of Argentina is one of the political monstrosities that the polycrisis world will likely continue to give birth to. However, the…
“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…