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Purchasing power, marker of inequalities?
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Purchasing power, marker of inequalities?
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By: Romain Auzouy
1 min
This is the number 1 concern of the French and therefore the first campaign theme of the presidential candidates: four days before the first round, the question of purchasing power is at the heart of all attention.
However, purchasing power has increased during Emmanuel Macron's mandate (+300 euros per year, according to the OFCE), but inflation and repeated crises have hit hard on the wallets of the French.
What disparities does this situation reveal?
What redistribution of wealth?
How to explain the inequalities?
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To discuss
:
- Anne Eydoux, economist, lecturer in economics at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (Cnam), researcher at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Economic Sociology (Lise)-CNRS and at the Center for Employment and Labor Studies ( CEET), member of the Terrified Economists
- Anne Brunner,
Director of Studies at the Inequalities Observatory, co-author of a report on inequalities in France
- Pierre Blavier,
research fellow at the CNRS in sociology and political science and teacher at the University of Lille.
Author of the book "
Yellow vests, the revolt of constrained budgets
", Puf editions.
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