[eng] Intra-cis trade and payments . . Within the former Soviet Union, interdependencies of the production sectors of the member Republics were particularly strong. The breakdown of the Union has aggravated the already marked tendency for inter-Republican trade to contract, with very serious...

[eng] The dramatic political and institutional changes now occurring in the Soviet Union are likely to have profound consequences on income distribution amongst households, as well as amongst Republics. Even before the onset of the current reform wave had been initiated by M. Gorbatchev, the...

[eng] Due to the likely ageing of the French population over the coming decades, the future financing of the current public, « pay-as-you-go » pension system is quite worrisome. If the currently foreseen stagnation of the population materializes, a choice will have to be made between keeping...

[eng] The forthcoming enlargement of the European Union (EU) to Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) will, in many respects, constitute an unprecedented move : no such an increase in size has taken place since Denmark, Ireland and the UK joined in 1972 ; moreover, CEECs' economies all...

En matière de système de retraite, plus peut-être que dans tout autre domaine d'intervention de la puissance publique, l'évaluation des options en présence exige la prise en compte d'effets économiques à un horizon temporel lointain. L'interaction entre les évolutions démographiques et...