The Paris Agreement was a diplomatic success and provided the global fight against climate change with much-needed impetus. It was followed by unprecedented political mobilization, allowing it to enter into force less than one year after the 2015 COP 21. More...

The fact the far-right eurosceptic party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) secured 94 seats in the Bundestag in the September 2017 federal elections, becoming the third-largest party, belies the image of an economically prosperous and stable country Germany has enjoyed in recent years in France. More...

The Good Work review the RSA’s Matthew Taylor conducted for the UK government in 2017 is a blueprint for how the country’s public and private sectors can help ensure UK citizens enjoy fair and decent work, with a minimum level of social protection. As such it is relevant for developed countries such as France, faced as they are with similar labour issues.
In his 1930 essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren”, John Maynard Keynes foretells a world a century in the future where humankind will at last be free of the necessity of toil. He foresees an era when people in advanced economies will be faced for the first time with their “permanent problem – how to use [their] freedom from pressing economic cares”. He envisions people working three-hour shifts or a fifteen-hour week not because they have to but because they are confronted with this newfound conundrum. More...

France Stratégie has carried out an extensive and detailed comparison of the different aspects of the public expenditures of 19 advanced economies. The resulting Public Employment Dashboard sheds new and welcome light on government spending in these countries.
Ever since Keynesian economics fell out of favour in the wake of the stagflation that hit Western economies in the 1970s, the prevailing view among most policy makers in advanced economies has been that so-called free markets do a better job of driving economic activity than governments. More...

Le Conseil de l’enfance du Haut Conseil de la Famille de l’Enfance et de l’Âge (HCFEA), installé en décembre 2016, a notamment inscrit à son premier programme de travail de 2017, la question des « temps et lieux tiers des enfants et des adolescents » hors famille et hors scolarité, pour de multiples raisons. Plus...

L’intelligence artificielle conduira à des transformations profondes du travail. Pour s’y préparer, le rapport passe au crible trois secteurs – transports, bancaire et santé, élabore des scénarios d’évolution et propose des pistes d’action. Plus...

Futurs du travail, financement de la croissance, projet européen, climat et territoires, 2017 marque une année de forte mobilisation pour France Stratégie sur son cœur de métier : l’expertise, mais aussi sur des missions majeures qui l’ont confortée dans son rôle d’organisation de la concertation et d’évaluation des politiques publiques. Plus...

Le programme de travail de France Stratégie pour 2018 traduit ses priorités, en cohérence avec la programmation des politiques publiques à moyen et long terme, à un moment de l’histoire de notre pays marqué par un train de réformes intense. Plus...