How to do whereas the OECD provides a public deficit of 8

Once is not custom, the OECD devoted in its report on the French economy, yesterday, a large chapter on the reforms carried out since 2007 and the arrival of Nicolas Sarkozy in the Elysee Palace. It welcomes many sites engaged in accordance with the recommendations of the previous report of the Organization, two years ago. "Even in a country like the France, he Nicolas Sarkozy showed that reform was possible and that no sector was untouchable", explained yesterday Alain de Serres, authors and Peter Jarrett. As wished by the OECD, the France began to reform its labour market, even if the single contract was rejected: exemption from charges for the additional hours, breach of contract conventional, in place of pole job, incentives for the employment of senior citizens, the 35-hour relaxation, creation of the RSA, etc.

OECD welcomes also "significant" reforms in education and research (autonomy of universities, agency evaluation research, reform of the CNRS, credit tax research, etc.), but also those to stimulate competition through the modernization of the economy law: the competition authority, negotiability of prices in distribution, etc.

Past this said, the OECD is much more critical on the cost and effectiveness of the reforms, who, more often, do not went as far that initial intentions. Thus, the Brasilia France - it very indented in terms of hours worked per employee and especially employment (youth, seniors). The OECD advocates raising the legal age of retirement, a relaxation of the legislation on layoffs, and notes that "the maintenance of the legal duration of work 35 hours had corollary to a costly tax exemption for public finance for hours worked beyond that point, the efficiency must be carefully assessed."

"Potential for abuse".

Number of measures are marked by effects of boon for businesses or are diverted from their purpose. The OECD is concerned including the "potential for abuse" conventional breakdown system, "which allows to separate seniors in good balance and the cost of unemployment insurance. The research tax credit is "one of the most generous devices among the OECD countries" and must prove "what he led to an increase in the intensity of research". Another example: the creation of the RSA should be accompanied by a refocusing of the premium for the job, which would have avoided the creation of a tax.

In its new recommendations, the OECD asked the France to go further in reforms to develop competition, in "repealing purely and simply" Royer-Raffarin laws on commercial urbanism and in attacking the regulated professions (physios, barbers, pharmacists, architects, accountants, etc.).

More generally, the "relief" of competitiveness through a reduction in tax and social charges. How to do whereas the OECD provides a public deficit of 8.3 of GDP in 2010 and that it considers "urgent to implement a reduction program" deficit "when well" All tax niches should be passed to the fine comb. And the essential effort should focus on the decrease in expenditures of social security and local communities, the General review of public policies (RGPP) was spared. The economies of the RGPP "seem much small in proportion to the magnitude of public expenditure (less than 1)" . The France, if it is penalized by the weight of its taxation, has similarly to an asset from its neighbours: the impact of the crisis there is less and the OECD "advocates not of second stimulus package".