In November 2013, the central committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), at its third plenum, issued a Directives Paper (with 16 items and 60 prescriptions), setting out a long-term strategic compendium of China’s reform agenda, based on the principle of separation between market and...

The eurozone has been said to have caught a disease called "secular stagnation". Productive investment in the private sector fell by about 20% overall between 2007 and 2014, while private saving has surged, creating a huge gap between gross domestic savings and investment. The trajectory of...

Depuis 1990, les pays de l'OCDE ont tour a tour subi une recession insolite par sa duree, dans certains cas par son ampleur et surtout par les troubles financiers qui l'accompagnent. Cette recession prolongee a mis un terme a une decennie d'effervescence financiere. Les desordres constates ont...

La longue recession de l'economie mondiale dans les annees 1990 redonne de l'eclat aux conceptions financieres du cycle economique. La mode du cycle reel, qui avait prevalu dans le sillage de la nouvelle economie classique, a du mal a apprehender les evenements qui se sont succede depuis 1989,...

Ageing is a main concern in Western Europe for the present half century. It impinges heavily upon the financing of retirement because a shrinking labour force will entail decelerating growth. Moreover, contrary to popular opinion and to most prospective studies which rely on deterministic...