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IMF expects Ukraine to return to int'l capital markets by end of program
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Before the end of the four-year program of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, which was launched in 2015, Ukraine will be able to return to international capital markets and to carry out borrowings there, IMF's Permanent Representative in Ukraine Jerome Vacher said at a press conference.
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A German Model?
Tomorrow Germany votes, and there is little suspense, besides the highly symbolic question of whether the far right will make it into the Bundestag.
Angela Merkel will be Chancellor for the fourth time, marking a long period of political and policy stability. In the past fifteen years Germany emerged as the model to follow for the other large economies. For since its economy has performed better, in terms of growth and unemployment, than France or Italy.
I have at discussed at length, here and elsewhere, the costs of the German success in terms of global imbalances and uncooperative behaviours. Last week I wrote a piece for the newly born magazine LuissOpen (Ad: Follow it on twitter! There is plenty of interesting content well beyond economics! End of Ad).
The piece lists, in a non exhaustive way, a number of weaknesses that can be spotted behind the shining macroeconomic results, and also argues that there is much more than labour market liberalization behind a successful economic model (including in Germany).
The original piece can be found here (and here in Italian). I copy and paste it below
Three months after his commencement, Emmanuel Macron delivered last week one of the most important, and controversial, promises of his agenda. The loi travail that will become operational in the next few weeks mostly deals employment protection, which is weakened especially for small and medium enterprises. The aim is to lift constraints for firms hiring, and thus increase employment. This first set of norms should be followed in the next weeks or months by norms aimed at improving training and employability of unemployed workers. Once completed, the package would be the French version of the flexicurity that Scandinavian countries put in place in the past, with different degrees of success.
Without entering into the details of the law, the set of norms approved by the French government, just as the Italian Jobs Act voted in 2014, is a bold step towards the flexibilization of labour market relations that Germany has in place since the early years 2000, with the so-called "Hartz Reforms". The German experience, and to a minor extent the first few years of application of the Job Act, can help understand how the French labour market could evolve in the next few years.
Germany in fact sets itself as an example. The argument goes that the reforms it implemented in 2003-2005, did liberalize labour markets, and since then, with the exception of the first years of the crisis, unemployment has been steadily decreasing. But in fact, this is a misleading example, because the Hartz reforms were embedded in a complex institutional setting, which goes well beyond labour market flexibility.
First, an important segment of the German labour market, the one linked to manufacturing and business services, has always been ruled by long-term agreements between employers, workers, and local work councils. For these insider workers a system of work relations was in place, in which highly paid workers acquired skills through vocational training (within or outside the firm), and were protected by an all-encompassing welfare system. Vocational training created robust bonds between the firms, that had often invested substantial resources in the training, and the workers, whose specific skills could not easily be transferred to other sectors or even to other firms.
At the turn of the century, globalized markets coupled with the aftermath of the reunification, exerted a serious pressure for a restructuring of labour relations. This restructuring happened through a consensus process that did not involve the government, and kept untouched the bond between the firm and the worker created by vocational training.
The mutual interest in preserving the long-term relationship between workers and firms in the insider markets, led to agreements aimed at reducing costs or to increase productivity without increasing turnover or reducing average job tenure. These agreements could involve on the workers' side labour sharing, flexibility in hours and in labour mobility, wage concessions, reductions in absenteeism. In exchange for this, firms would guarantee continued investments in innovation and in the (vocational) training of workers, and job security.
It is crucial to understand that the Hartz reform did not touch the insiders market (manufacturing, finance, insurance and business, etc), that as we just said had already begun restructuring without government intervention. The reform made the welfare system less generous, while allowing access to benefits even for workers with low earnings, thus de facto introducing incentives to low-paid jobs. Furthermore, it liberalized temporary work contracts, and made more flexible a few sectors subject to competition from posted workers (i.e. construction).
The combined result of reforms and endogenous restructuring yielded a spike in part time jobs, and an increase of employment. But it also widened the gap in earnings and in protection between workers in the export-oriented sectors and the others.
The second feature of the German system that made it resilient during the crisis is the existence of a dense network of local public savings banks (the Sparkassen). Savings bank were a defining feature of the banking sectors of a number of European countries (e.g. Spain, Italy), but have progressively become marginal. Germany is therefore an exception in that its local savings banks are still a pillar of its economy.
Local savings banks have specific public interest missions, as they are involved in the development of local communities, and in financing households and firms (in particular SMEs). The law only allows operation within the region of competence, which shields them from competition while keeping them close to their stakeholders. Similarly, the ambit of their operations is limited (for example, they face limits in their capacity to engage in securities trading or in excessively risky financing).
To avoid that these limitations hamper their effectiveness and their solidity, the banks work as a network among them. The network exhibits economies of scale and of scope, while remaining close, in its individual components, to local communities. Furthermore, the existence of solidarity mechanisms (rescue funds) ensures that temporary difficulties of a bank are tackled without spreading contagion.
The major private commercial banks, very active in international markets, did suffer like in most other countries, were a drain on public finances, and drastically contracted their lending to the real sector. The Sparkassen on the other hand kept their financing steady (especially to SMEs) and required virtually no state aid. As a consequence, the local savings banks cushioned the impact of the financial crisis on the German economy, and their continued financing of firms is certainly a major factor in explaining the quick rebound of the German economy after 2010.
If taken together, the banking sector and the labour market institutions design a remarkably efficient system, geared towards the establishment of long run relationships in which the interests and the objectives (between entrepreneurs and workers, between banks and firms) were aligned.
But this effectiveness did not come without costs. From a macroeconomic point of view, profitability and competitiveness increased, but also precautionary savings, induced by a less generous welfare state, and by the increased uncertainty faced by workers. The "success" of the German export-led economy, that had a 9% current account surplus in 2016, is based on the compression of domestic demand, and on a labour market that is increasingly split in two, and in which inequality increased dramatically. The low unemployment that should make other countries envious hides a massive increase of the so-called working poor. (See figure 2 here)
I would push this even further: the Hartz Reform had a strong impact on labour market dualism and precariousness, but only a minor one in explaining the resilience of the economy. A recent CER policy brief makes a somewhat similar point.
Following the Jobs Act, the Italian labour market seems to be headed in a similar direction as the German one. The recent data released by ISTAT on labour market development certified the return of employed people to the pre-crisis peak (2008), thus marking, symbolically the end of the crisis. Yet, GDP is still 7% below its 2008 level, meaning that the increase of employment happened in low value added sectors (such as for example tourism and catering), and often with part-time contracts. These are typically sectors with low and very low wages, and stagnant productivity dynamics. At the same time, wages (but not employment) increase in manufacturing-export oriented sectors. The Italian labour market, in a sentence, is heading towards the same dualistic structure that characterizes the German one. This explains why, like in Germany, Italian domestic demand stagnates; why the increase in employment is obtained at the price of increased precariousness and of the working poor; why, finally, while the numbers say that the crisis is beyond us, the actual experience of households is often different. Italy, and to a minor extent Germany, are the best proof that employment and growth do not necessarily go hand in hand with increased well-being.
Focusing exclusively on labour market flexibility, Italy and in France only imported one element of the German "model"; and probably the one that is by far the least important. The German capacity to put in place long term relationships, the real key to economic resilience success, is lost in our countries.
Can France Survive Without Europe?
I should begin by saying that it is sad to see that my last post dates from February 20. Lots of things going on right now, in particular the wrapping up a book on the history of macro, that is draining all my energies. But I need to try harder to keep the blog going…
At any rate, tomorrow France votes. And I wrote a piece for Social Europe, in which I try to put the outcome of the election in the European context. If you do not want to read all of it, here are the bullet points:
- France is considered the sick man of Europe for the standard reasons (rigidity lack of reform etc)
- 2) But in fact "hard" data are not that bad, rather the contrary (productivity investment FDI, etc). Just look at Thomas Piketty's blog post from a few months ago.
- lost competitiveness is price competitiveness, that is not France's fault, but Germany's (wage deflation).
- In fact the sick man of Europe is Europe itself, because it forces countries into a dilemma:
- They can engage in fiscal competition and internal devaluation. But let's not fool ourselves, there is no way that this can be done without killing the European social model. Only the downsizing of the welfare state can allow reducing taxes and labour costs and keeping public finances sustainable;
- Or, they (try to) protect their social model, but pay the price of low competitiveness and slow growth.
- France oscillated between Scylla and Charybdis, leaning more towards the second path. And it suffers, because most other countries did take the internal devaluation path, willingly or not . Everything in the way the EMU is constructed, pushes countries to engage in deflationary policies.
- Exiting (from the Euro, from the ECU, from the EU) would in no way subtract countries to the dilemma. A small open economy would have an even harder time carrying on autonomous economic policies (more in general, what I think of XXexit is well summarized here. To be fair to my colleagues, I contributed very little to that piece, but was happy to sign it).
- Thus, the survival of the French model is in Europe, or it is nowhere. The next President's fate will have to be decided there
- If France wants to save its social model, it needs to trigger change in the EU. It will save its model. Otherwise it is doomed; it will not survive, socially and electorally, to five more years of muddling through.
- And viceversa, if there is a chance for Europe to change, that chance is represented by a coalition against deflationary policies that only France would have the strength to form and lead. There is one way, and only one way, to escape Scylla and Charybdis.
I did not write that in the Social Europe piece, but I want to add that the path is very narrow. Macron has the virtue of putting Europe at the center of his project, but his reform proposals are for the moment very vague. And more importantly, his tax reduction plan resembles a bit too much to the good ol' supply side measures that sank Jean-Baptiste Hollande. But then, what do we know? First, policies are shaped by events; and second Le Pen would of course mean the end of the Euro right now. So, we can just hope that (and fight for) France and Europe will walk that narrow path.
What Went Wrong with Jean-Baptiste
The news of the day is that François Hollande will not seek reelection in May 2017. This is rather big news, even it if was all too logical given his approval ratings. But what went wrong with Hollande's (almost) five years as a President?
Well, I believe that the answer is in a post I wrote back in 2014, Jean-Baptiste Hollande. There I wrote that the sharp turn towards supply side measures (coupled with austerity) to boost growth was doomed to failure, and that firms themselves showed, survey after survey, that the obstacles they faced came from insufficient demand and not from the renown French "rigidities" or from the tax burden. I was not alone, of course in calling this a huge mistake. Many others made the same point. Boosting supply during an aggregate demand crisis is useless, it is as simple as that. Allow me to quote the end of my post:
Does this mean that all is well in France? Of course not. The burden on French firms, and in particular the tax wedge, is a problem for their competitiveness. Finding ways to reduce it, in principle is a good thing. The problem is the sequencing and the priorities. French firms seem to agree with me that the top priority today is to restart demand, and that doing this "will create its own supply". Otherwise, more competitive French firms in a context of stagnating aggregate demand will only be able to export. An adoption of the German model ten years late. I already said a few times that sequencing in reforms is almost as important as the type of reforms implemented.
I am sure Hollande could do better than this…
It turns out that we were right. A Policy Brief (in French) published by OFCE last September puts all the numbers together (look at table 1): Hollande did implement what he promised, and gave French firms around €20bn (around 1% of French GDP) in tax breaks. These were compensated, more than compensated actually, by the increase of the tax burden on households (€35bn). And as this tax increase assorted of reshuffling was not accompanied by government expenditure, it logically led to a decrease of the deficit (still too slow according to the Commission; ça va sans dire!). But, my colleagues show, this also led to a shortfall of demand and of growth. A rather important one. They estimate the negative impact of public finances on growth to be almost a point of GDP per year since 2012.
Is this really surprising? Supply side measures accompanied by demand compression, in a context of already insufficient demand, led to sluggish growth and stagnating employment (it is the short side of the market baby!). And to a 4% approval rate for Jean-Baptiste Hollande.
OFCE happens to have published, just yesterday, a report on public investment in which we of join the herd of those pleading for increased public investment in Europe, and in particular in France. Among other things, we estimate that a public investment push of 1% of GDP, would have a positive impact on French growth and would create around 200,000 jobs (it is long and it is in French, so let me help you: go look at page 72). Had it been done in 2014 (or earlier) instead of putting the scarce resources available in tax reductions, things would be very different today, and probably M. Hollande yesterday would have announced his bid for a second mandate.
In a sentence we don't need to look too far, to understand what went wrong.
Two more remarks: first, we have now mounting evidence of what we could already expect in 2009 based on common sense. Potential growth is not independent of current economic conditions. Past and current failure to aggressively tackle the shortage of demand that has been plaguing the French – and European – economy, hampers its capacity to grow in the long run. The mismanagement of the crisis is condemning us to a state of semi-permanent sluggish growth, that will keep breeding demagogues of all sorts. The European elites do not seem to have fully grasped the danger.
Second, France is not the only large eurozone country that has taken the path of supply side measures to pull the economy out of a demand-driven slump. The failure of the Italian Jobs Act in restarting employment growth and investment can be traced to the very same bad diagnosis that led to Hollande's failure. Hollande will be gone. Are those who stay, and those who will follow, going to change course?
Convergence, Where Art Thou?
A new Occasional Paper details the new methodology adopted by the Bank of Italy for calculating an index of price competitiveness, and applies it to the four largest eurozone economies.
I took the time to copy the numbers of table 3 in an excel file (let's hope for the best), and to look at what happened since 2009. Here is the evolution of price competitiveness (a decrease means improved competitiveness):
I find this intriguing. We have been sold the story of Spain as the success story for EMU austerity as, contrary to other countries, it restored its external balance through internal devaluation. Well, apparently not. Since 2008 its price competitiveness improved, but less so than in the three other major EMU countries.
The reason must be that the rebalancing was internal to the eurozone, so that the figure does not in fact go against austerity nor internal devaluation. For sure, within eurozone price competitiveness improved for Spain. Well, think again…
This is indeed puzzling, and goes against anedoctical evidence. We'll have to wait for the new methodology to be scrutinized by other researchers before making too much of this. But as it stands, it tells a different story from what we read all over the places. Spain's current account improvement can hardly be related to an improvement in its price competitiveness. Likewise, by looking at France's evolution, it is hard to argue that its current account problems are determined by price dynamics.
Without wanting to draw too much from a couple of time series, I would say that reforms in crisis countries should focus on boosting non-price competitiveness, rather than on reducing costs (in particular labour costs). And the thing is, some of these reforms may actually need increased public spending, for example in infrastructures, or in enhancing public administration's efficiency. To accompany these reforms there is more to macroeconomic policy than just reducing taxes and at the same time cutting expenditure.
Since 2010 it ha been taken for granted that reforms and austerity should go hand in hand. This is one of the reasons for the policy disaster we lived. We really need to better understand the relationship between supply side policies and macroeconomic management. I see little or no debate on this, and I find it worrisome.
Short-Term Pain for Long-Term… Pain
We really had a strange summer. The whole media circus, and to a certain extent markets, clung to a few sparse green shots to decree "the recession over". Which, according to the latest OECD interim assessment, is technically true: GDP in the EMU is forecasted to increase in 2013 by 0.4 per cent. Can we party, then? Well, no. Read more
Raepetita Iuvant
Yesterday Eurostat published growth flash estimates for a number of EU countries. As expected, they do not look good. In 2013 Q1 the eurozone has lost 1 per cent of its GDP with respect to the first quarter of 2012 (-0.7 for the EU 27). It is the longest recession since the inception of the single currency, and it brings with it record unemployment at 12.1 per cent.
Not surprising, I said, because in spite of increasing talks about softened austerity, austerity ain't over. In many countries, government final consumption in real terms (the G in national accounting equations, just to be clear) sharply decreased. And this is, surprise, correlated with subsequent growth:
Surprise! Spillovers Exist!
Eurostat GDP data are out. The eurozone is in recession, and it is worse than expected (-0.6% in 2012). Austerity is not working, and is recessionary. Wow, who would have said it…
Seriously, so long for the widespread optimism of a few weeks ago. The crisis is not over, we actually are in the middle of it. The way I see it, things will get worse before they get better (if they do get better).
Also interesting, Germany's export-led growth strategy is panting. The fourth quarter of 2012 was rather bad (worse than in France, for example), and this is due to lower investment on one side, and to weaker trade (exports fell more than imports). Here is an excerpt of today's press release of the German statistical office, Destatis:
In a quarter-on-quarter comparison (adjusted for price, seasonal and calendar variations), signals from the domestic territory were rather mixed according to provisional calculations: household and government final consumption expenditure went up slightly. In contrast, gross fixed capital formation in construction decreased a bit and gross fixed capital formation in machinery and equipment was down markedly on the third quarter of 2012. The decline of the gross domestic product at the end of 2012 was mainly due to the comparably weak German foreign trade: in the final quarter of 2012, exports of goods went down much more than imports of goods.
Germany stubbornly refuses to accommodate austerity in the periphery with a domestic impulsion. This makes adjustment for the rest more painful, and impacts expectations at home. This is why investment dropped significantly. My take on this is that if Germany had been only moderately more expansionist at home, expectations would not have been dashed (even if slightly increasing, in January the IFO index of German business confidence stagnates at around 104 at the moment, after hitting an all time high of 115.40 in February of 2011). And investment figures would be substantially better.
So, we learned today that austerity does indeed reduce growth, and that it spills to other countries. Two surprises in one day. It will need a hell of an effort to forget all of this before tomorrow!
Bringing Krugman to Europe
Well, not him, actually (I wish I could); I need to content myself with his latest post on austerity. Krugman argues that austerity is happening (it is trivial, but he needs repeating over and over again), showing that in the US expenditure as a share of potential GDP is back to its pre-crisis level (while unemployment remains too high, and growth stagnates).
I replicated his figure including some European countries, and with slightly different data. I took OECD series on cyclically adjusted public expenditure, net of interest payment. This is commonly taken as a rough measure of discretionary government expenditure. I also re-based it to 2008, as most stimulus plans were voted and implemented in 2009. Here is what it gives: Read more
Austerity is Bad for Competitiveness
I wrote this piece with my friend Jean-Luc Gaffard. It is part of our ongoing thinking on the early steps of the new French administration. But I think it applies beyond France.
The French government faces a double challenge. The short run effects of the euro crisis compound a long-standing problem of competitiveness: from 1997 to 2012, the French market share fell from 5.3% to 3.3% of world exports. France is therefore suffering more than its neighbors, notably Germany, for the current slowdown.
In response to these challenges, François Hollande designed a two-arms strategy. First, he embraced austerity. To reduce public deficit to 3% next year, the French government presented a shocking 36 billion euros budget law for 2013. That will be mostly composed of tax increases. The second arm of the government strategy, a "competitiveness pact", was, initially, aimed at shifting an important part of the burden of social security (20 billions euros) from firm contributions to the general taxation. Read more


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JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - This week in a special report on CNBC focused on America's addiction with e-cigarettes, Juul's CEO, Kevin Burns, said he was sorry if teens are using Juul products. He said the product was not intended for kids, even though the company created fruity flavors and used advertising with a youthful look and style. He claims the product is meant for adults who are trying to stop the cigarette habit.
If you're not familiar with the Juul product, it is one of the most popular e-cigarettes and looks like a flash drive or electronics charger. It's very small, easily hidden and easily disguised. Local teachers and school officials say students using Juuls is one of the biggest issues they face.
Health experts are also very concerned as research shows the number of children using e-cigarettes is substantially more than children using tobacco cigarettes. Neither option is good.
Juuls and other e-cigarettes could lead to nicotine addiction and the long-term health impact of the chemicals in the pods is not known. Teens, college aged kids, or even younger children, know about Juuls and have probably tried one, or have friends who use them. As a parent, be aware and do what you can to prevent your kids from becoming addicted to something that could cause serious health problems in the futur
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Funky Bay Farm & Adventure game v34.187.0 (Mod Money)
Requirements: Android 4.0+
Overview: Hey there, welcome to the tropical island filled with fun. Build your own town and farm. Find your klondike.
There're a lot of plants, animals and pets: chicken, cow and lama await you. Escape to an island in this colorful free-to-play game. Harvest crops, process them at your factories and sell goods to develop your city and farm. Fulfill orders, explore new lands, and build your personal zoo. Come on in!
• Create and customize your very own island town and farm
• Explore and expand your island to find your klondike
• Harvest crops and craft valuable goods
• Many fun pets and animals and even the zoo
• Trade with island neighbors and friends
• Buy and sell valuables in the marketplace
• Fulfill orders and grow your business
What's New:
Hello to all funky players!
There is a new festive island in this update to witness the beauty of spring!
Help to restore the windmill! Conquer the winds and relish the scenery of freshness.
They say you reap what you sow, and here you will see a lot of colors.
Will you be able to cleanse the island and help Amelia with her quest?
Have fun this spring time!
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Bespoke Welding System
There's a somewhat large presence on our shop floor, continuing to grow both horizontally and vertically, taking up a large portion of the work shop and seemingly sprouting new parts on an almost weekly basis. While that may seem somewhat ominous and like we've been taken over by a genetically enhanced fungus, fear not. It's simply our latest bespoke welding system – and it's one of the largest systems we've built to date.
Designed and manufactured entirely in-house, this system is the second order in the space of 12-months from a customer involved in the high energy industry. Much like the first – again, an entirely bespoke system – it integrates two Yaskawa robots that will work together to weld the customer's product.
In keeping with the bespoke nature of the system, the robots were manufactured to be used for handling purposes, but due to their longer reach are being fitted with Fronius torches and have been programmed for arc welding purposes, emphasising Bauromat's array of knowledge in the robotics industry.
The system has a grand total of 21 axes, all of which must be programmed to work both independently and in unison with the other axes as part of the turnkey operation, ensuring an efficient and accurate welding process.
But of course, the welding process can only be accurate if you've got high quality welding fixtures and tooling on your automated welding system, designed to hold the product securely during the weld. This is another discipline in which Bauromat excel. Using the latest CAD software, our expert designers and engineers model and manufacture the tooling, incorporating the customer's product at it's core. This ensures an accurate product, and one entirely unique to the job.
This system continues to be developed on Bauromat's Telford site. Our team of engineers and programmers are currently ensuring that the completed system is completed to the high quality expected of a Bauromat system before it leave the premises and headsto the customer.
We'll be sure to keep you updated with this system's progress as well as updates and developments from elsewhere on the Bauromat shop floor.
For more information on this system or any that we can design and develop for you, feel free to get in touch and we'd be happy to help.


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A consummate digital draftsman and blogger, Moody paints polymorphous biomorphs and pens trenchant criticism with polymathic aplomb. Here, Moody's work evokes underground comix styles, graffiti, and modernist painting. Or, as described by the artist, Original PNGs is:
"A series of drawings made with open source paint applications and printed on paper. The software apps, with names like Chibi Paint, Krita, and MyPaint are often used for online fan art. Here I'm treating them as found processes with inherent virtues, limitations, and quirks to be explored. Made with a tablet and stylus, the drawings struggle between inherited notions of artistic dexterity and the default labor-saving functions built into software. In the frictionless world of 1s and 0s what does it even mean to struggle? 'PNGs' in the title refers to the preferred output file format for these apps. The PNG is a lightly compressed image that can be read in any browser. Here, a collection of 'original PNGs' are preserved for gallery display. A recent animated GIF will also be on view."


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You may have heard faculty ask questions like these:
- Are open textbooks up to date?
- Saving students money is important, but what about student learning?
- If it's free, is it any good?
Quality is always a concern when choosing materials for your class. Sometimes people worry that because open resources are freely available online, they have not been as rigorously vetted as a textbook with a traditional copyright. The truth is that all educational materials vary in quality and need to be carefully evaluated before being selected in your course, regardless of copyright or licensing status.
There are several ways to ensure that you are using high quality open educational resources.
1. Search out peer reviews of openly licensed materials. A few places to start:
2. Conduct your own review of copyrighted or openly licensed course materials. The Open Textbook Network's Open Textbooks Review Criteria is a useful 10-point rubric that you can use.
3. Apply for a grant to create or modify course content.
Further reading:
- On Quality and OER - blog post by David Wiley
- The Review Project - review of published OER research to date by John Hilton III, with additional contributions from Stacie Mason


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Hello and welcome to The Academies, a Football Manager 2017 series which takes a look at some of the world's best football academies and sees how their best prospects progress on FM17.
In this post we look at Paris Saint-Germain. The rich Parisian club will have invested millions into their youth setup in recent years and should expect many hot prospects to come through their academy on a yearly basis.
But are there any future superstars currently learning their trade in their academy? We follow the careers of four hot prospects to have come through the PSG setup on Football Manager 2017.
The Players | Who could be the next wonderkid to emerge from the academy?
Christopher Nkunku
Christopher Nkunku is a young midfielder with bags of potential. At 18 years of age, he already possesses some very good mental attributes and will look to become a part of the PSG first team in the coming years. First team experience is vital to his continued development.
Claudio Gomes
Claudio Gomes is a promising midfielder who, at just 15 years-old, could develop into an effective player with decent all-round attributes. Perhaps a series of loan spells may help him to progress if opportunities are limited in the PSG first team.
Dan-Axel Zagadou
Dan-Axel Zagadou, a 17 year old centre-back, will be monitored closely by the hierarchy at PSG. He has great potential and already is showing signs of becoming a very good Ligue 1 defender.
Presnel Kimpembe
Presnel Kimpembe is arguably the most exciting of our four youngsters. At 20 years of age he may not develop as much as his fellow youth academy graduates but, with enough first team football, he could become a very good central defender for PSG.
Five years on | Which of our youngsters has developed the best so far?
Christopher Nkunku
League Appearances: 151
League Goals: 15
A noticeable difference on Nkunku's profile page is his change of nationality. He has been capped 11 times by DR Congo after switching allegiances away from France. He has left PSG for fellow French side AS Nancy Lorraine and helped them to return to Ligue 1 in his first season with the club.
Claudio Gomes
League Appearances: 120
League Goals: 6
As expected, Claudio Gomes has improved significantly five years on, increasing his attributes in all areas to become a well rounded defensive midfielder. He, unlike Nkunku, remains a PSG player, albeit having spent each of the last three seasons away from the club on loan.
Dan-Axel Zagadou
League Appearances: 118
Zagadou has benefited from several loan spells away from PSG and has developed impressively in defence. He helped Besiktas to a Turkish Cup in his most recent loan spell and will hope that more silverware awaits him as he progresses in his career.
Presnel Kimpembe
League Appearances: 124
Our most exciting prospect Presnel Kimpembe has failed to disappoint. He has spent three loan spells away from Paris Saint-Germain, chasing first team minutes, but is now a first team regular with the French giants. He'll be hoping to cement his place at the back of the PSG setup for years to come.
Retirement | Did our youth prospects reach their potential?
Christopher Nkunku
League Appearances: 340
League Goals: 26
Christopher Nkunku has finished his career with Russia side Amkar. He left France in 2023 for Slovakian side Dun. Streda, playing very well for the club before moving to Russia via Valenciennes.
Claudio Gomes
League Appearances: 589
League Goals: 50
Although he never made a name for himself around Europe, Claudio Gomes is a very well-known name around the French leagues. He spent his entire career floating between the top two tiers of France, playing the majority of his games for Stade Rennais in Ligue 1. He has won two league titles, both Ligue 2.
FC Lorient 1x Ligue 2
En Avant de Guingamp 1x Ligue 2
Dan-Axel Zagadou
League Appearances: 569
Zagadou falls shortly behind Gomes for having made the most appearances, and, like Gomes, he is a name known more to the French leagues than anywhere else. But he did spend a season away from France in Turkey, where he won his only piece of silverware with Besiktas.
Besiktas 1x Turkish Cup
Presnel Kimpembe
League Appearances: 298
Presnel Kimpembe left PSG in 2024 to pursue his dream of playing for Real Madrid. Leaving for £21.5M, the French centre-back (capped 65 times for France) went on to win three La Liga titles with Los Blancos.
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Grand Tavern Launches with Culinary Gusto
The dictionary definition of "tavern" is a drinking establishment that rents rooms upstairs. In our imaginations, it's so much more—a gathering place for locals where strangers sometimes wander in, livening things up a bit. Where the food is good, and the owner is jovial and welcoming but also lays down the law when he has to.
Grand Tavern by David Burke fits both descriptions. The new restaurant in the luxurious Angad Arts Hotel in Grand Center serves as a fueling station for guests at breakfast, lunch, dinner, weekend brunch and room service. Grand Tavern's ground-floor bar and lounge area debuted on Monday, with the main dining-room set to open by the end of November.
It's a serious drinking establishment, with cocktails from Chicago's mixology whiz Meredith Barry and wine from sommelier Denise Mueller, a St. Louisan who owns the Mid-American School of Wine. But the driving force behind this tavern is on the culinary side, with celebrity chef David Burke. His pioneering influence reach stretches across much of the United States, both on the ground and on TV. The James Beard award-winning chef comes to St. Louis in partnership with ESquared Hospitality, which runs more than 20 restaurants around the world.
As he prepared to launch Grand Tavern earlier this week, Burke was fully in jovial and welcoming mode. He's satisfied with the kitchen—where most of the employees are from St. Louis—and feels they'll do a good job executing his menu. The majority of dishes appear on other Burke restaurants around the country, including famous ones like his Clothesline Bacon (where thick hunks of maple-glazed bacon are suspended from a wire with clothespins and served with a fiery flourish) and the Himalayan Salt Brick-Aged Steaks (using the dry-aging process Burke patented in 2011). Even the banquet menu that will be available for private events in the hotel's atrium relies heavily on tried-and-true items from Burke's culinary empire.
Image courtesy of Madison Sanders Photography.
Keeping the menu consistent gives Burke a frame for the creativity and hospitality he wants to see throughout the restaurant's operations. "People can come in here and learn," he says. "Five years from now, you'll see chefs coming out of here who learned from the right people." His progressive approach to running a kitchen includes heaping servings of education—Burke says he loves to teach, especially a fresh staff like the one in St. Louis—as well as the willingness to turn on a dime if something doesn't work.
An example of that is the St. Louis salad, which Burke added as an adjustment just before opening. It's a beautiful dish, piled with shrimp, octopus, dorado, cucumbers, cantaloupe and more, with a swipe of chipotle sauce on the side. And if that doesn't work, he'll substitute again.
One experiment that seems destined for success is the gooey-butter donut dessert. The pastries are filled with gooey-butter filling, topped with an equally sweet sauce, and garnished with a heap of cotton candy.
"I like gooey butter cake," Burke admits. "I think the guy who invented it is a f'ing genius." He's also a fan of toasted ravioli, but he hasn't quite nailed down how it will be incorporated onto the Grand Tavern menu. He's still in the recon phase—which means trying a whole lot of variations around town. 'I'm driving the idea machine," Burke explains. Once he has a dish in mind, it will be up to the kitchen to refine the concept and make it menu-worthy.
Two examples of Burke's effervescent approach to food are the Couch Potatoes (pictured in the featured image) and the Emotional Lobster Dumplings. Each dumpling represents one of the "mood rooms" within the Angad Arts Hotel. The rooms—which guests can book to match their current state—are red for passion, green for rejuvenation, yellow for happiness and blue for tranquility.
Lobster makes another appearance as well, in scrambled eggs on the breakfast menu, served in an ostrich egg shell. At $26, the decadent dish marks the higher end of the price spectrum; Burke has carefully kept a balance that keeps Grand Tavern in line with other upscale eateries in St. Louis but also feels like a true value for the service, presentation and quality of ingredients.
Image courtesy of Madison Sanders Photography.
Grand Tavern adds another welcome option to the pre-show and post-show dining scene in Grand Center. But even without tickets in hand, customers will be well entertained during their visit, if the preview weekend is any indication. The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra music director designate, Stéphane Denève, was part of an impromptu song with mezzo soprano Kelley O'Connor, who had performed across the street with the symphony that afternoon.
As a nightlife destination, the rooftop lounge called the Angad Rainbow Terrace, or A.R.T., will offer food selections from the main menu plus its own menu of cocktails, developed by Barry and based on the room colors. For cocktails, there's also the 12th-floor Chameleon Lounge and the Angad Playroom, where guests can relax with their favorite board game or musical instrument.
One unusual feature of the whole operation is summed up by a note on the menu. In his welcome message, Burke writes, "Your feedback at this time is very important to us as we try to find our rhythm in the great city of blues." When asked about that, he explains that Midwestern politeness can get in the way of working out the kinks, a lesson he learned the hard way in Chicago. "A true friend will tell you to fix your makeup," he quips. And that's where the jovial and welcoming tavern master shows he's very serious about this new venture living up to high expectations.
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The objective of this call is to Facilitate trans-national co-operation between National Contact Points (NCPs) for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA), with a view to identifying and sharing good practices and raising the general standard of support to applicants, taking into account the diversity of actors.
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« One might assume that the bearers of both the intended and the unintended consequences are the drug market participants only, but this is not the case. The unintended consequences affect, to a large extent, other people, such as relatives of drug offenders, patients in need of pain relief and palliative care, and society in general. »
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