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The situation and outlook for public finances
In 2022, with a public deficit of 4.7 points of GDP and a debt of 111.8 points of GDP, €575bn higher than in 2019, France’s public finances are still marked by the crises that have affected the country since 2020 and the measures that have been taken to mitigate their effects. As is the case every y... View publication 22 Documents
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France’s airport network
In 2019, there were 73 airports in mainland France. Out of those, 41 received between 10,000 and 3 million commercial passengers in the same year. This report deals with the specific situation of this category of infrastructure, the intermediate size airports, whose traffic levels exceed those of lo... View publication 22 Documents
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State-subsidised private education
At the start of the 2022 school year, there were more than 2 million pupils, or 17.6% of the total number of school enrolments in France, enrolled in state-subsidised private education in just over 7,500 establishments. Created by the law of 31 December 1959, known as the Debré Law, the system of st... View publication 22 Documents
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The national artificial intelligence research strategy
Artificial intelligence (AI), which aims to reproduce human intelligence by using computers and mathematics, emerged in the 1950s, influenced in particular by the work of Alan Turing. According to the OECD, AI start-ups attracted nearly 12% of global private equity in the first half of 2018, up from... View publication 22 Documents
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Child psychiatry
In the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), about 13% of children and adolescents have at least one mental disorder, i.e. a condition that affects mental health and can take many different forms and expressions. Although the lack of data on the Frenc... View publication 22 Documents
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Support for tourism during the health crisis
The Court of Accounts has carried out an assessment of the support measures deployed by the State and its operators in 2020 and 2021 to help tourism businesses cope with the crisis. These measures were presented to the sector's stakeholders at the interministerial committees on tourism of 14 May 202... View publication 22 Documents
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Universities and territories
In France, the number of higher education graduates in the 25-34 age group is good (49.4% compared to an average of 45.6% for all OECD countries). However, if we look at the geographical distribution of this graduation rate, we can see that there are still territorial inequalities with regard to acc... View publication 22 Documents
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Becoming a teacher : initial training and recruitment of primary and secondary school teachers
Pupils' success at school owes a great deal to the quality of the teaching and the support provided by their teachers throughout their learning process. The quality of teacher recruitment and training is thus crucial for school performance. The recruitment and initial training of future teachers hav... View publication 22 Documents
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Support for exports of military equipment
The desire for strategic independence and the narrowness of the domestic defence market, combined with the need to build solid military cooperation, have led France to develop an ambitious military equipment export policy. This strategy is part of an international context marked by higher volumes of... View publication 22 Documents
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Territorial organisation of the Greater Paris Metropolis
The Greater Paris Metropolis (MGP) comprises 130 municipalities and the City of Paris, representing a total population of over seven million inhabitants. The report published today by the Court of Auditors begins with a reminder that the decision to create the MGP was prompted by an ambitious reform... View publication 22 Documents
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