For twenty years, France has been one of the countries where it is progressing the slowest.
Despite the new industrial revolution around communication, productivity growth continues to slow in Western economies. The movement is particularly striking in France. “Between 1976 and 2018, France experienced the most significant slowdown in annual productivity gains, from 3.8% to 0.7%”, recalls the third report of the National Productivity Council. This opus, entitled “Productivity and competitiveness: economic and structural analyzes post-Covid”, tries to lift a veil on the reasons for this deceleration, by studying closely in particular the question of training and the famous soft skills, the behavioral skills of employees.
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In the French case, clearly, “deindustrialization has contributed for twenty years to the decline in productivity”, thus affirms Natacha Valla, dean economist of the School of Management and Innovation of Sciences Po and president of the National Council…
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