Publications

In structural terms, the financial stability of the health insurance system has been affected by the ageing population and an increasing share of chronic pathologies in health care expenditure. In addition, the impacts of the health crisis on social security receipts and the increases in remuneratio...

France has, more than its main partners, suffered from the deindustrialisation movement affecting most advanced countries. In recent times, this situation can be explained in large part by the decline in cost competitiveness that its economy suffered between 2000 and 2010, in a context when entry in...

Despite numerous measures resulting from successive reforms, the integration of young people into the labour market remains difficult in our country, and their pathway to employment unsure and rocky. The recent emphasis on more intensive support for young job seekers and apprenticeships, rather than...

Despite national spending on education above the OECD average, the performance of the French school system tends to deteriorate, particularly for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Educational reforms, increased resources, the results of assessments of student achievement have not yet made...

The policy pursued by the Ministry of Culture since its creation has resulted in a tremendous expansion of cultural activity in our country. This policy has also benefited from the growing intervention of local governments, who have relied on decentralization laws to invest in the field of culture a...

Established in Paris between 2019 and 2021, the “crack plan” aims to tackle the problem of crack cocaine, a hard, cheap drug that has been heavily trafficked in the north-east of Paris since the 1990s. This plan was developed by a group of actors who sought to coordinate their actions to address the...

The Chairman of the Senate’s Finance Committee has requested, pursuant to Article 58-2 of the by-law relating to finance acts of 1 August 2001, that the Court carry out an investigation into the Fund for the Development of the Voluntary Sector for its operational and innovation component, known as t...

The evaluation of the preventive healthcare policy first led the Court to measure its effectiveness and efficiency by presenting the results of preventive action on the three major pathologies covered in this report (cancers, neuro-cardio-vascular diseases (NCVD) and diabetes) overall and in terms o...

With more than one million employees - i.e., almost half of all civil servants - including 900,000 teachers, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport devotes a large part of its work to managing its human resources, and in this context, must manage teacher absences. The report published today emph...

The prevention of loss of independence has been widely discussed for ten years in parliamentary proceedings1, by researchers and specialists from various backgrounds, and in administrative reports. The analyses often cover the same ground, in particular in their emphasis of the importance of the iss...