Economy

This paper assesses the impact of global competition and enlargement on the location of production within Europe.

After the Maastricht Treaty, the European Union has launched an ambitious program to develop Trans-European Networks for transport, but results have been quite disappointing. In 2001, the White Paper on the European transport policy pointed to a discrepancy between the objectives of the...

In a normative way, the role of the market, as well for domestic exchanges as for international trade, calls into question the notion of economic policy. Particularly for agriculture, total liberalization raises specific problems because of market failures which legitimate public intervention....

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Do trade and growth favor the struggle against poverty in developing countries? Several economists argue that poor countries don’t need assistance, but only trade, in order to develop. Others stress that foreign trade is...

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The change in United States macro-economic policy since 9/11 has squeezed economic orthodoxy. It is now guided by hybrid economic considerations and disturbing political and strategic decisions. Though positive economic results...

The Cahiers Français, entitled 'Mondialisation et Commerce International' of the Documentation Française, May 2005.

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This paper studies the impact of EU enlargement, focusing on the evolution of corporate strategies and their influence on the location of production within the EU-25.Part examines the evolution of trade and FDI between the EU-15 and accession countries over the last decade. Beyond increasing...

In the 1980s, after decades of scepticism or even hostility, the belief developed that multinationals could be an important component of a national development strategy. As a result, governments around the world have been wooing multinationals. Yet the challenge is to ensure that foreign...