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Frémeaux, Philippe
3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
How can French economic growth be freed ?
The 'Committee for the Liberation of French Growth', chaired by economist and thinker Jacques Attali, today January 23rd published a report that sets out ways of modernising the French economy. "It brings together all the reforms which French modernising elites have always agreed upon but always failed to put into effect," explains Philippe Frémeaux. "Essentially: an end to corporatism, monopolies, and regulations... [But] is it sensible to draw up a list with 300 recommendations which are bound to bring much if not all the French population into the street without the slightest advice on implementing them ? ... When the committee assumed its duties, President [Nicolas Sarkozy] pledged to implement all its recommendations. He must be beginning to regret that pledge."
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The technical limits of micro-credit
The Bangladeshi banker Mohammed Yunus, inventor of micro-credit, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last October 13th. Saluting Yunu's invention as 'real progress', the editorialist Philippe Frémeaux notes that "micro-credit is not however a miraculous solution for all problems of development. Development cannot only follow 'bottom-up' logic. He also presumes that a developing state invests massively in education and infrastructures, guaranteeing the stability of the judicial system and limiting corruption. How, then, to justify the general enthusiasm for micro-credit ? The answer is simple. Explaining that Third World masses are going to be pulled out of poverty by allowing them to finance an activity satisfies both the NGOs and the liberal technocrats who populate the World Bank."
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Why we must defend the daily press
Philippe Fremeaux analyses the crisis afflicting daily newspapers in democratic countries. "The emergence of audiovisual media and changes in young peoples' reading habits, despite a general rise in the cultural level, have been eating away at newspaper readerships for a while. Add to this the recent explosion of the Internet, which offers free access to raw, but relatively comprehensive, information. ... It is not illegitimate that newspapers should disappear, if the ideas that they endorse are no longer in tune with the way the world is moving or readers' expectations. On the other hand, it should be the duty of the public authorities to ensure that economic conditions are in place allowing for all voices to be heard, without having to depend on the good will of a rich heir or a weapons maker."
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