For the first time since the origin, a GEAB edition was released on July 15th ! It consists of a special edition on a sigle topic : European tourism, about which we anticipate a discrepancy between expectations and reality. “The crisis we are anticipating is typical of the transition period ...

The much-awaited January edition and its collection of trends for the coming year has arrived. The 2019 panorama drawn up by the GEAB team is a lot less bleak than those suggested by the press, unanimously terrified by change, the new generations, the prospect of its own disappearance… in a ...

PUBLIC REVIEW of our monthly bulletin GEAB (May, 2017). Subscribe here ! The voice of France in the world seemed to have disappeared (at least since 2007), which is a far cry from the brilliance of French diplomacy in 2003 when the country opposed the war in Iraq. And yet, just when we think ...

PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE of our monthly bulletin GEAB February, 2017. Subscribe here ! Within the global systemic crisis that we are now experiencing, our experts have been talking for some years about “statistical fog” to qualify the inability of today’s tools to measure real economy, or even the way to manipulate them in order to ...

This month we analyze the impact of the US presidential campaign on the way the American economic and financial situations are perceived. We all know that reality is a matter of perception. Our readers have probably noticed that recently we have spoken less frequently of the US economy in our ...

We strongly encourage you to read this IDS Policy Briefing written by Richard Carey and Xiaoyun Li. Richard Carey is former Director of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Development Co-operation Directorate (DAC-DCD) and chair of the International Advisory Committee of the China International Development Research Network (CIDRN). We were ...

The systemic crisis is spreading much faster in the real economy than in 2008-2009. This low dormancy is a sign that the economic protection dikes are severely lowered, the synergies are broken and the common strategies of global resilience have vanished. Within this statistical fog, not even fully lifted yet, ...

After an unbelievably long period of hectic growth the Chinese economy has begun to slow down. While the high growth phase was characterised by remarkable stability, the phase of slower growth, if the present crisis is any indication, is likely to be more turbulent. Slow riding an economy is much ...

Sometimes money is compared with the blood of the economy. The credit crisis painfully demonstrated, that the economy depends on a permanent infusion of credits. As soon as the banks deliver a bit less credit, enterprises fail and the mass dismissals succeed each other. We are made to believe, that ...

by Thierry Warin 18/11/2005   There are two ways in French to talk about suburbs : “la banlieue” and “en banlieue.” Say you live in “la banlieue,” and everybody knows it is in a public housing project. Say you live “en banlieue,” and it is likely to be outside Paris, for ...