The view from the Olympic finish line: Assessing the impact of the Paris Games
• Sep 13, 2024, 2:46 PM
1 min de lecture
The athletes have crossed the finish line of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games. Now economists are trying their best to accurately assess the economic impact of this global event on the city and on France. Our guest, Wladimir Andreff, is one of them. He is a specialist of sports economics and a professor emeritus at the university of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne.
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Davos in the French suburbs: How to boost the local economy?
• 1:37 PM
1 min
In this week's show we shine the spotlight on France’s "banlieues": the low-income neighbourhoods that are on the periphery of the country’s largest cities. On September 17th and 18th, the first ever “banlieue economic forum” took place in Paris – provid
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Can your phone blow up? Remote device attacks in Lebanon stoke panic
• 1:19 PM
1 min
This week’s attacks on Hezbollah pagers and radios have spread anxiety among Lebanese people, and a sense that no electronic device is safe. Amid some confusion over how the explosions were triggered, you might be wondering whether you can trust the phon
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