[eng] Initiated by the relaxation of moneraty policy of summer 1982, the american recovery has since been stimulated by fiscal measures and fuelled by foreign capital. In a moderately inflationist environment, private investment has improved following the recovery of profits. World imports will...

[eng] The gap between American and European growth rates vanishes. But there is little evidence that the old countries can go ahead in the near future. During the past three years American investors have done a lot. Housebuilding and the service sector fully benefited by it, but many...

[eng] Everywhere in the industrialised world, monetary and financial obstacles to economic growth still persist today. The situation is all the more unsettled as tentative cooperation has been replaced by confrontation in international relationships. In the USA, the recovery has been a typical...

[eng] Although it had similar causes all over the industrialised world, the slowdown did not occur at the same time everywhere. Most OECD countries, which follow a cyclical path, had experienced the turnaround before the invasion of Kuwait. The small supply shock of the Gulf crisis amplified the...

[eng] The tightening of monetary policy in industrialised countries from 1980 onwards is one of the causes of the subsequent slowdown in economic growth along with inflation and the reduction of international liquidity. This trend will continue in the near future. Despite a smooth reduction in...

[eng] The slowdowns that had started in 1989 had been disrupted by two sorts of events. On one hand they had been magnified by the Gulf crisis ; on the other one they had been weakened or delayed in some european countries by the reunification of Germany. Today the worse is behind us. 1992 will...