The European Semester process of macroeconomic country analysis by the European Commission has been driven by economic orthodoxy in support of austerity—when sustainability should be the watchword. It was during the climax of the so-called euro sovereign debt crisis that the independent Annual Growth Survey (iAGS) was initiated, with the first report published in November […]
Xavier Timbeau
Xavier Timbeau’s expertise is in applied macroeconomics. He has been principal director of the French Observatory of Economic Conjunctures (OFCE) at Sciences Po since 2015. He was the rapporteur of the Stiglitz commission in 2007-08. In 2012, he launched the iAGS initiative.