IMF Staff Country Reports

France: 2010 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for France

July 30, 2010

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France: 2010 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for France, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed November 22, 2024

Summary

The French economy weathered global crisis better than most of its peers. The authorities have taken important policy actions to stabilize the financial system and have implemented suitable fiscal stimulus to cushion the downturn. Executive Directors welcomed the policy, which aims to strengthen the economy through fiscal consolidation, recovery of financial system, improving financial regulation, and also implementing structural reforms to raise potential growth, create jobs, and strengthen competitiveness. They stressed the importance of a multiyear budget framework to enhance the credibility of the consolidation effort.

Subject: Banking, Expenditure, Financial crises, Fiscal consolidation, Labor, Pension spending, Public debt, Unemployment

Keywords: Accelerator effect, Banking sector, CR, Deficit, Draft law, Europe, Global, Government, ISCR, Pension spending, Revenue floor, Southern Europe, Stress scenario, Stress test result, Tier 1, Unemployment

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    62

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2010/240

  • Stock No:

    1FRAEA2010001

  • ISBN:

    9781455204748

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685