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The global industrial robotics market is set to exceed $30.71 billion in 2026, up from $26.98 billion in 2025, and is projected to reach $93.31 billion by 2035, demonstrating a compound annual growth rate of 13.21% [1]. This expansion is not merely...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a double-edged sword in the labor market. On the one hand, 40% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are adopting it to address labor shortages, seeing it as a solution to structural recruitment...
The total valuation of stablecoins, crypto-assets designed to maintain parity with fiat currencies, is expected to reach $4 trillion in 2025. This explosive growth, which has already seen payment volumes via stablecoins surpass those of traditional...
The social and solidarity economy (SSE) in France represents a major economic sector, generating a turnover of €487.7 billion and employing 2.59 million people. These figures, from the OECD's 2025 report on the social economy in Europe, highlight...
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, Pearson France, November 2024, 632 pages, €29.90. Translated from English by Christophe Jaquet. Original title: *Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity* (PublicAffairs, May...
**Chapô :** Le système de retraite par répartition est confronté au vieillissement démographique, à la baisse de la natalité et à des déficits structurels. Pour les moins de 35 ans, la pension versée
Le prix moyen d'un logement à Mumbai a atteint 34 fois le revenu annuel moyen d'un acheteur typique en 2025 [1]. Ce chiffre, qui place la capitale financière de l'Inde à un niveau d'inabordabilité sup
En 2026, 2,1 milliards de travailleurs dans le monde devraient occuper un emploi informel [1]. Ce chiffre, issu du dernier rapport de l'Organisation Internationale du Travail (OIT), révèle la face cac
La dette extérieure combinée des pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire a atteint un sommet historique de 8 900 milliards de dollars en 2024 [1]. Pour les 78 pays les plus pauvres, éligibles aux prêts
Nicolas Dufourcq dirige Bpifrance depuis sa création en 2013. Polytechnicien (X 1983), diplômé de l'ENA, il a occupé des postes de direction à la Caisse nationale d'assurance maladie (CNAM), chez Cap
After two decades of notable economic convergence with the European Union, several Central and Eastern European countries – Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, and Romania, referred to as the 4CEE – find themselves at a transition point. Their growth model, traditionally based on investment and gradual integ
> # Middle East Crisis: Does the Economic Shockwave Threaten African Recovery? > > Sub-Saharan Africa's already fragile post-pandemic economic recovery faces a new zone of turbulence.
Latin America, a continent of exceptional natural wealth, faces a rising tide of plastic waste that threatens its natural environments and economies. Faced with recycling rates that struggle to take off, a new approach is gaining ground: the circular economy.
Developing country debt has reached record levels, creating a net wealth transfer to creditors. Zambia, Sri Lanka, Ghana: restructuring mechanisms struggle to provide effective solutions.
Africa is experiencing a notable technological boom, with $37 million invested by Google to boost artificial intelligence. African women are playing a central role, developing innovative solutions adapted to local realities.
FinTech revenues in Africa could reach $65 billion by 2030. But behind the numbers, financial inclusion remains incomplete. An analysis of the second wave.
In 2025, the European impact investing market surpassed the $1 trillion threshold in assets under management. According to projections from Market Data Forecast published in January 2026, this market is expected to reach $2.276 trillion by 2034, doubling in less than a decade.
Ezra Klein is an opinion columnist for *The New York Times* and host of *The Ezra Klein Show* podcast. Derek Thompson is a staff writer at *The Atlantic* and author of *Hit Makers* (2017). Together, they published an essay in March 2025 that dominated American political debate for months. Their thesis can be summarized in one sentence: the American left has regulated so much that it no longer knows how to build...
For ten years, a narrative has taken hold in French public debate: France is supposedly divided in two. On one side, connected, wealthy, globalized metropolises. On the other, an abandoned, impoverished, angry "Peripheral France." This narrative, popularized by geographer Christophe Guilluy in his 2014 essay, has become an almost automatic framework for understanding the Yellow Vests, the rise of the National Rally, and the malaise of the working classes...
In Europe, the social trajectory of migrants unfolds over two generations. A study by the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the University of Oxford (INET Oxford), covering 22 European countries, reveals a complex pattern: first-generation migrants often experience professional downgrading, but their children demonstrate upward mobility superior to that of natives.
African public debt represents an average of 62.8% of GDP at the end of 2025, a slight decrease. This figure needs perspective: the global average is 93%, France is at 112%, and Japan at 250%.
84% of households own a mobile phone, but 56% of rural areas suffer from weak or non-existent network coverage. For early warning systems against natural disasters, this paradox is potentially deadly.
In the Sahel, transhumance is a matter of survival. Each year, millions of nomadic herders travel hundreds of kilometers with their herds. A wrong route can mean the loss of an entire herd.
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