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2023-01-15T21:45:45.165Z


ANALYSIS - Inflation, climatic risks, abyssal debt... These "dark winds" make us forget a remarkable turning point: unemployment seems to be on the way to being brought under control.


Rarely has the period of vows been so gloomy.

It rains incessantly, trade unionists are delighted with the coming blockage of the country and economists talk about the scale of the crisis to come.

"A third of the world economy will be in recession in 2023, and even countries that are not really in recession will feel it as such"

, argued on January 1, Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF ).

In the process, the World Bank halved its global growth forecast.

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Admittedly, the geopolitical vagaries are worrying, the climatic risks are worsening, the debt remains abysmal and the spread of inflation, in Europe, to all goods and services bodes well for complicated months.

These "dark winds", however, tend to make us forget a remarkable turning point: unemployment, "the evil of the century" which undermined the social cohesion of Western countries, seems to be on the way to being mastered.

At 7%, according to Eurostat, it has never been so low since…

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Source: lefigaro

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