Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys: France 2019 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France's economic growth has slowed down after a gradual recovery. Limited productivity and employment gains have reduced the growth of GDP per inhabitant; public spending remains very high. Reducing public expenditures is needed to put debt on a firmly declining path. This and streamlining the tax system would also help reducing taxes, which would boost economic activity eventually.