Françoise NICOLAS
Senior Research Fellow and Director of Ifri's Center for Asian Studies
Research Interests:
- Emerging economies, with a focus on East Asia
- East Asian regional economic integration
- Foreign direct investment and growth
- Globalization and its impacts on global governance
Françoise Nicolas has been with Ifri since 1990. She also teaches at Langues' O, Sciences Po Paris (Europe-Asia programme, Le Havre campus) and Sciences Po (Lyon) and is a consultant to the Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprise Affairs of the OECD (DAF) focusing on Southeast Asian non-member countries. In the past she was an assistant Professor in international economics at the University of Paris-Est (Marne-la-Vallée) from 1993 to 2016, and taught at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS, Geneva – 1987-90), at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (1991-95), as well as at the HEC School of Management (2000-02).
Françoise Nicolas holds a Ph.D in international economics (1991) and a MA in political science (1985) from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva, Switzerland), as well as a diploma in translation from the University of Geneva (1980). She has also studied at the University of Sussex (1980-81) and has spent some time as a visiting fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore (1999) and at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) in Seoul (2004).
What will the economic order in the Indo-Pacific region look like twenty years from now? What are the major trends shaping it, and how are they likely to evolve in the near future?
Diversification is a key tenet of South Korea’s New Southern Policy (NSP). In the economic sphere, however, the need for diversification is apparently less pressing as, unlike what is observed in the diplomatic and security domains, Korea’s economic partnerships are less unbalanced and are not...
2020 has been a challenging year for the world economy. Although the magnitude of the shock triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic differed widely from one country to another, no economy was left unscathed.
On 21 July 2020, French Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire participated remotely in the High Level Economic and Financial Dialogue with Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua.
Through development assistance and economic engagement, South Korea has sought to project itself as a different kind of partner for Africa. In reality, it is not so unique.
France’s recently launched Indo-Pacific strategy has attracted many critical and sarcastic comments.
International trade is one of the themes that used to constitute the very raison d’être of the G7, alongside international security and energy policy.
The EU is currently undergoing serious challenges from inside such as Brexit and strengthening Euroscepticism, rising populism and changing political geography, anti-immigration moods as well as retarded economic recovery.
China increasingly sees its flagship foreign policy project as a tool for restructuring global governance and a vector for promoting a new form of globalization.
Under President Macron, France has staked out a positive but principled position towards China's BRI.
Le régime de Pyongyang réclame de l'aide, mais les observateurs internationaux s'interrogent sur l'ampleur du phénomène.
L'évolution de l'économie chinoise a été décryptée par Benaouda Abdeddaïm, éditorialiste économique à BFM Business, Chunyan Li, présidente de FEIDA Consulting & Training auteur de "Réussir sur le marché chinois: 100 dirigeants révèlent les secrets du casse-tête chinois",...
Alors que des manifestants vietnamiens ont incendié et pillé des usines chinoises installées au Vietnam, le gouvernement chinois accuse Hanoï de soutenir ces mouvements de violence.
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L'entrée du constructeur automobile chinois Dongfeng à hauteur de 14 % dans le capital du groupe français PSA, pour 800 millions d'euros, sera actée définitivement mercredi 26 mars, à l'occasion de la visite du président Xi Jinping en France.
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Selon la directrice du centre Asie de l’Institut français de relations internationales (Ifri), le pouvoir thaïlandais réagit bien aux « provocations » de ses opposants. Elle rappelle néanmoins que les événements de 2010 n’avaient pas commencé autrement, ce qui rend...
Un nouveau centre commercial vient d’ouvrir à Paris, et déjà son propriétaire songe à le vendre à un fonds chinois. Faut-il favoriser l’investissement chinois à l’international ?
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Le prochain sommet Asie-Pacifique se tient les 7 et 8 octobre 2013, dans l’île indonésienne de Bali. Regard sur les enjeux et les questions qui se posent à l’APEC aujourd’hui.
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Le premier ministre chinois Li Keqiang a récemment affirmé que le parti allait activement encourager l’investissement privé et étranger.
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The ultimate solution to the debt crisis in the European Union will not only need a banking union but also have to involve some element of a fiscal union and a major shift of power from the national level to the European level. On the other hand, the EU budget to finance the...