1. Senior French Official Compares Chávez to French Statesmen De Gaulle and Blum
(Matching tags: france, media coverage, Chavez)

... and development.” The French government sent its Minister of Overseas France (Outre-mers), Victorin Lurel, to Caracas for the funeral.  Following the funeral, Lurel, who is from the French Caribbean ...

2. Borderline
(Matching tags: france, labor market, Germany)

Yesterday’s New York Times has a high-production-values piece on differences in the recent labor-market performance of France and Germany. Reporter Steven Erlanger, whose foreign reporting ...

3. Les Enfants Français are More Upwardly Mobile than American Kids
(Matching tags: france, inequality, economic mobility)

... France have less social mobility than those in the United States is not. As the figure below—from researcher Miles Corak—shows, France actually has more intergenerational mobility than the United States.  ...

4. Local Purchases of Rice as Food Aid Overstated
(Matching tags: usaid, france, us rice, food aid, rice policy, transparency, rice)

In addition to the problems of allocating food aid discussed in the previous post, another significant problem is the lack of local procurement, which can be more effective than importing in emergency ...

5. France Increases Local Rice Procurement for Food Aid; Will the US Follow Suit?
(Matching tags: usaid, france, agriculture, rice)

Earlier this week the French Embassy in Haiti announced an extension of their local procurement program in Haiti. Since 2005 France has worked with local farmers to try and stimulate local production by ...

6. France Isn't Paying Back What it Owes Haiti After All: The Question is, Why Not?
(Matching tags: france, debt, aid)

Media reports that France would pay back an historic debt – essentially a ransom that it demanded in order for Haiti to have international diplomatic and economic recognition – in order to aid Haiti’s ...

7. Sarkozy Arrives in Haiti, To Pay Historical Debt?
(Matching tags: france, debt, reparations)

... reports: Some Haitians are welcoming France's new interest in their nation as a counterbalance to the United States, which has sent troops there three times in the past 16 years. But Sarkozy's visit ...