From the NY Times: The shrinking French economy will resume growth in the
second half of the year, the International Monetary Fund forecast Tuesday, but
it urged France
to focus on removing impediments to growth and to stimulate domestic demand.
“Restoring external
competitiveness remains a critical priority and should be complemented by
developing domestic sources of growth,” the fund said in the concluding
statement of its annual report on the French economy.
Though France
should emerge from recession in the second half of the year, its gross domestic
product will probably nonetheless show an overall decline of two-tenths of a
percent in 2013 from a year earlier, the fund predicted. The French economy
shrank in the final quarter of 2012 and the first quarter of 2013....
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