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The article introduces the issue of the review Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique on the theme of structural competitiveness (RPVE, Vol. XLV, n? 1, 2006). The notion of structural competitiveness is first distinguished in a brief way from the notion of price competitiveness. Then an...

This article proposes an ex ante evaluation of the Walloon Priority Actions Plan, also called the Walloon Marshall Plan. Because they are new and constitute the core of the global clusters policy, we focus particularly on the measures aiming to develop the immaterial capital. The exercise...

In this article, we analyse the relationships between unemployment rates and new-firm start-up rates in France. Using a quarterly data basis covering the period 1993 to 2011, we identify, thanks to data analysis methods, different classes that show different types of development among the French...