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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.

The sustainability imperative—how really to assess the European economy

Xavier Timbeau

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.