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Patrick Artus

French companies are investing heavily, yet productivity is falling sharply in France

There is a contradiction in France between: The sharp rise in the corporate investment rate since the second half of the 1990s; The slowdown since 2008 and the decline since 2019 in labour productivity. The explanation for this contradiction is as follows: the weight of corporate investment is artificially high in France because of the method used to account for investment in software; and the weight of non-software investment in GDP (total or in new technologies) is low in France: the "quality" of corporate investment is low.
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