At the time when the share of public expenditures reaches record levels and the indebtedness overpasses 110% of the GDP, critics are multiplying against the public services deterioration. Social movements started by their employees denounce the diminution of the services quality and are claiming for more resources and for an increase of their payrolls to facilitate the hiring of new agents. A large share of the population feels abandoned due to that deterioration which has caused protest waves and a strong increase of the votes in favor of extremist parties, from the left as from the right. To sum up ...

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The publication of the Chinese economy results during the 2023 2^nd quarter has been generally received with disappointment and frequently with the evocation od the new structural weaknesses to which the country was confronted. What is really true? To appreciate growth, you may use two criteria, the comparison between two successive quarters or with the past year one. Quarter on quarter, growth has been 0.8%, with a very significant slowing from the previous period (+2.2%) which took profit from the strong rebound resulting from the end of restrictions decided to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic. It is ...

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During 71 years, the BP group has published accurate statistics about energy production and consumption country by country and for each energy source. Now, this mission has been granted to the Energy Institute which has just revealed the 2022 results. The year has been characterized by growth slowing everywhere in the world except in India, after the rebound occurred in 2021 coming after the deep recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. 2022 has also been affected by the oil and natural gas supply chains perturbations after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the sanctions decided by the Western countries ...

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