Poorer French people in a richer France

• Arnaud GRÉVOZ
  Engineer, Ecole des Mines
  
• Martin VANCOSTENOBLE
  Engineer, Ecole des Mines
  
• Paul CHAMPSAUR
  Managing director, INSEE (French national institute of statistics and economic studies)
  
• Geneviève de GAULLE ANTHONIOZ
  President, ATD Quart Monde (Charitable organisation for the Third World)
  

Summary

For a number of years, there has been positive growth in France. However, at the same time poverty and instability are continuing to rise. Should one question the concept of growth and the importance attached to the GDP in national accounting ? Come what may, the efficacy of how the State operates depends on having precise knowledge of the state of poverty. The distribution of State aid to those who have no other source of income has shown the extent to which this knowledge was far from perfect.

Summary translated from French by Rachel MARLIN.

• The entire article was written by Élisabeth BOURGUINAT.

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The entire article appears in French in the Journal de l'École de Paris du management N° 9.