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6 Was the Great War a watershed? The economics of World War I in France
- Elijah Gaines
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1 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 169 [ ] :07PM 6 Was the Great War a watershed? The economics of World War I in France Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur Introduction The dominant view is that the Great War represented for France the end of an economic and social era that is often considered with nostalgia in France and with condescension abroad. 1 In this view, not only the belle époque but the entire nineteenth century is considered to be an era in which economic liberalism was counterbalanced by a strong state which guaranteed the equilibrium of a well-balanced economy of moderate industrialisation. This is symbolised by the image of its three pillars agriculture, manufacturing, and services being of similar size, or by a similar balance between the urban and rural areas. Another view, mostly developed by economic historians, highlights the rapid changes in the French economy and society before the war. Dynamic industrial change was underway, best symbolised by the automobile and aircraft industries. Complex firms, whose mere size contradicts the view of garden-like France, were developing rapidly in manufacturing and financial services. Social change and workers movements were important and relatively well integrated in increasingly democratic politics. This view, when comparing the belle époque with the 1920s, leads to an emphasis on the continuity that dominated in terms of technology and organisation at the firm level and even in the private economy as a whole. But it was not sufficient to modify the dominant view, maybe because the war introduced new economic phenomena and policies, gave to the state a much increased role in macroeconomic management, and started a long period of economic and international instability. 2 In sum, it was as much a watershed for France as the Great Depression has been termed for the United States (Obstfeld and Taylor, 1998). Surprisingly, the economic history of the Great War has not been much used to discriminate between these views, in spite of the fact that France s ability to resist industrial Germany s attack was a powerful test of the strength of its economy. The fact that, because of the invasion, changing boundaries, and a massive mobilisation in the statistical administration, economic statistics mostly budgetary ones deteriorated during the 169
2 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 170 [ ] :07PM 170 Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur war, does not help in studying the continuities between the pre- and postwar periods. The situation is even more difficult for the direct study of the war economy itself. This chapter uses the data recently produced by Villa (1997) on the whole twentieth century to present a synthetic view of the economic dimensions of the war, and tries to shed more light on that most difficult question of the degree of discontinuity that the war introduced in various aspects of the economy. In doing so, the chapter also highlights some problems with this data set and suggests some further research on this under-studied subject. The second section describes quantitatively the various shocks that the war imposed on the economy. The third section considers the macroeconomic impact of war-related economic policies, mostly war finance and foreign relations. The fourth section presents in more detail the changes in the state s intervention in the economy that were favoured by the war, and tries to evaluate the capacity of the economy to accommodate the shocks that it suffered. The fifth section provides some concluding remarks on the consequences of the war for economic growth and the structure of the French economy. The War as a shock If the war did not come as a surprise, its development and duration were unanticipated. The government had planned for war: army mobilisation, stocks of guns and ammunitions as well as the logistics and other requirements of a modern army had been well organised, but no long-term industrial mobilisation had been prepared, even in the 1912 Plan de mobilisation. Some economic measures were taken in order to limit the impact of the war s beginning, such as a special credit from the Banque de France to the Treasury, or stocks of notes distributed to the banks. A rapid intervention blocked a stock market crash and a bank run. 3 Nevertheless, the war represented an enormous shock to the economy. Contrary to the British and especially the US economies, which benefited from increased demand and suffered less drain on their resources, table 6.1 shows that the war exacted a high cost from the French economy, at a pace which paralleled the evolution of the military situation. GDP decreased sharply in the first year of the conflict, probably because of the first impact of the shocks described below. It then stabilised at a slightly higher level in , suggesting a new equilibrium had been reached. With a further fall in 1918, French GDP fell to a trough more than 30 per cent below its 1913 level. Three shocks affected the economy and were responsible for this depression: (1) the invasion and the following occupation of north-eastern
3 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 171 [ ] :07PM Table 6.1. France: Production Percentage of Nominal GDP Real GDP Components of GDP: 1. Agriculture Industry a. Food industries b. Energy c. Intermediate goods d. Investment goods e. Consumption goods f. Construction Trade Transportation Services Housing Wheat (million tons) Pig iron (million tons) Raw cotton consumption (million tons) Raw wool consumption (million tons) Rail (million person-km) Rail (million ton-km) Ships laden (million tons) Sources and notes: Nominal and real GDP and its components (items 1 to 6) in the 1981 French system of national accounts, plus various products in physical units. Industrial production is the sum of items 2a to 2f. Column 1 gives data in billions of francs (for GDP and its components) or in physical units. Subsequent columns give index numbers for 1914 to 1920 based on 1913, covering the entire French post-war territory. All data from Villa (1997) and our calculations. 171
4 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 172 [ ] :07PM 172 Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur France; (2) the mobilisation of labour and financial resources for the war; (3) the massive shift in demand and supply resulting from the enormous increase in government spending and from the changes in foreign trade imposed by the war. These shocks will be discussed here in terms of their direct effects on the markets for labour, capital, and goods, before the consequences for production are considered. The macroeconomic policy dimension will be considered in the following section. The invasion as an economic shock With Belgium, and later Italy, France was the western country most directly affected by the war, since it was fought in France and part of the territory was occupied. The invasion affected all dimensions of the economy: the production and supply of various goods, government resources, capital availability for investment, transportation networks, etc. Since the invasion began shortly after the start of the war and the front more or less stabilised after a few months, the war s destructive impact was concentrated in a relatively small area. I will come back in the last section to the long-term consequences of this destruction for the capital stock and economic growth. But in the short term the economic impact on the war effort was high, since all the ten départements (out of a total of 87) that were occupied stopped producing for (and paying taxes to) France. This is not taken into account in Villa s statistics, which consider the entire (postwar) territory except, naturally, for taxes and all government activities. For these state activities, statistics necessarily consider the territory under government control, so that the invaded regions count as zero. 4 This approach is fine when one wants to measure the long-term consequences of the war. But one cannot directly use these data to evaluate the contribution of French production during the war to the war effort. This is not a mere detail. The ratio of taxes to GDP, for example, compares taxes raised in the government-controlled region alone with the GDP of the entire French national territory, and hence understates the burden of taxes on the government-controlled region. The problem is complicated still further by the fact that a number of refugees from the occupied territories moved to France during the war, modifying the relative productive capacities of the two regions. 5 Table 6.2 gives the relative sizes of these different regions. It suggests that a rough estimate of the difference between governmentcontrolled and total GDP is between 13 and 20 per cent of total GDP. 6 In any case, one must add to the decrease in production a further decrease in taxable income, and the need for the French-controlled territory to replace the products from invaded regions as consumption or intermediary goods. On that account, the invasion s immediate
5 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 173 [ ] :07PM The economics of World War I in France 173 Table 6.2. France: total population in regions differentially affected by the war (millions) Region 1911 population 1921 population 87 départements non-occupied occupied 6.50 (Nov. 1918) 3.60 Alsace-Lorraine Source: Armengaud (1980). consequences for France were enormous, since the invaded region was among the richest: it had a highly productive agriculture (20 per cent of 1913 wheat production, 25 per cent of oats, 12 per cent of potatoes, 50 per cent of sugar beets); but most of the steel (80 per cent) and electricity (43 per cent) production, coal (55 per cent) and iron ore (90 per cent), mines, metallurgy, woollen and linen textiles were either under German control or no longer functioning. So even if production did not stop, the invasion led, for example, to a shortage of coal and iron ore (and more generally of most primary products), which was a major reason for the decrease of industrial production in non-invaded France. Actually, some contemporaries consider that thiswasasimportantashortageasthelackofmanpower.importsrose dramatically, and more than a quarter of the iron consumption was imported in , as well as one-third of the coal consumption. One must then take into account these shocks when trying to explain the evolution of production and investment: part of the investment and production in non-occupied France resulted from the need to replace the production from the occupied zone. The opposite was also true, but firms in occupied France faced a worse situation, even neglecting destruction, confiscation and relationships with the occupants: the territory had little autonomy and homogeneity, it had no access to the French capital market (and seemingly also to the German capital market), labour was even scarcer than in the rest of France, and the transportation network was inadequate. 7 The economy of the occupied zone therefore certainly suffered much more than that of the rest of the territory, something existing statistics may well undervalue. Mobilisation as a labour demand shock The mobilisation was a major labour demand shock. The first mobilisation in August 1914 took 2.9 million men out of a male working population of 12.6 million. Within 10 months, 2.7 million followed, bringing the army to
6 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 174 [ ] :07PM 174 Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur more than 5 million men, a number that would remain more or less stable during the war. For the entire war, 8.66 million men were mobilised at one time or another (among them 0.57 million from the empire), amounting to 20.2 per cent of the total population and 75 per cent of all males aged 20 to 55. This shock dramatically affected civilian economic activities, which were crowded out of the labour market for young men. This was partly compensated for by an intensification of the work of the remaining men, women, and children. In particular, many industries that had remained entirely reserved for men were opened to women (metallurgy, armaments, etc.). Unsurprisingly, unemployment almost disappeared. In the short term, the departure of the mobilised workers profoundly disrupted production, and many voices asked for the exemption of essential workers from the army or other solutions. Augé-Laribé (1925) showed in the case of agriculture that all efforts to compensate for the departure of farm workers were small in comparison to the costs of mobilisation: soldiers were given some special permissions for the seedtime or the harvest, but they were negligible in comparison with the needs. For example, in 1916 they represented only 6.5 million man-days (2 per worker!) and 75,000 horse-days. Efforts were made to stimulate immigration from Spain or Portugal, but this too was very insufficient, representing less than 150,000 persons from 1915 to 1918, including women and children. This was less than the loss resulting from the fact that Italian immigrants who used to come before the war were no longer allowed to travel to France. Even the armament industry s labour needs were little considered at the beginning of the war. Only 11,000 workers were exempted from mobilisation, almost all of them (7,600) in the public-owned arsenals, when private armaments firms employed 50,000 workers. Mobilised workers were assigned to civil activities in the civil service or on the railways before manufacturing industries, where the labour force initially decreased sharply even in metallurgy ( 67 per cent in August 1914) or the chemical industries ( 58 per cent). The mean employment reduction for manufacturing was 66 per cent. Quite rapidly, nevertheless, the government allowed half a million workers to go back to the armament factories, and to some civilian industries which were given a high priority. By July 1915, metallurgy had 82 per cent of its prewar labour force and the chemical industries 66 per cent by January 1916 they had respectively attained 100 per cent and 93 per cent. In August 1917, 518,000 soldiers were assigned to armament factories and 300,000 to farms, some 15 per cent of the total armed forces of 5.2 million men, in spite of constant pressure from the military to keep soldiers at the front (table 6.3). The progressive increase
7 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 175 [ ] :07PM The economics of World War I in France 175 Table 6.3. France: employment in the armaments industry in 1918 (thousands) Women 430 Military 497 Civilians 425 Under-18s 133 Foreigners 108 Colonies 61 Captives 40 Wounded 13 Total 1,700 Source: Hardach (1977a). in the assignment of military manpower to production then reflected the rising importance of the economy in the war. Outside the armament industries, the shock to the labour force was enormous. It implied not only a reduction in the labour force but a reallocation among industries. Table 6.4 gives the changes in the number of wage earners by sector, on a 1913 basis. Except for agricultural workers (for which most wage earners were probably the wives of individual farmers, which explains the stability of their number), all manufacturing industries faced a reduction of at least 20 per cent of their labour force in 1915, the worst year of the war for most activities. Even the investment goods sector, which included armament production, dropped by 33 per cent in 1914, before recovering slowly in 1915 and very rapidly thereafter. In transportation, a military priority, numbers employed were maintained, even at the start of the war. By contrast, construction workers almost disappeared, at least employed ones. Unfortunately, almost no data are available on independent labour, a very significant part (around 40 per cent) of the labour force with 8.35 million people in 1913 (including 4.72 in agriculture). I discuss this below. Government finance as a capital demand shock The war not only mobilised men, but also required capital on an unprecedented scale. Direct use of existing capital was not negligible, with the requisition of horses, then an essential part of the agricultural capital stock, being costly for agricultural production. The priority given to military needs in access to the railways also upset a transportation system which relied heavily on railways.
8 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 176 [ ] :07PM Table 6.4. France: Private sector labour force (thousands) Private sector employees Percent of Total 9, Agriculture 2, Food industries Energy Intermediate goods Investment goods Consumption goods 1, Construction Trade Transportation Services Private sector, total 17, Independent workers 1919 Sources and notes: Numbers of employees in the private sector in 1913 (thousands, column 1) and from 1913 to 1920 (percentage of 1913, columns 2 to 9); calculated from series NSE and NSU01 to NSU10 from Villa (1997). Numbers of independent workers (thousands, column 10), available only from 1919 onwards, series EIU01 to 10 from Villa (1997). For the total private sector labour force (EMPE series), see discussion on p In 1913, the overall labour force also included 969,000 government employees and 913,000 household employees not included in the private sector data above. 176
9 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 177 [ ] :07PM The economics of World War I in France 177 But, most importantly, financial resources were concentrated by the state for its own needs and the financial priorities it decided. I will look below at the government budget. Here, I will focus only on the impact of war on private investment, and first on the crowding-out of private firms issues on the financial market. From the start of the war, no issue could be organised without an authorisation by the Ministère des Finances, and few were given. Table 6.5 shows the evolution of private and government issues on the capital market. The almost exclusive reservation of the capital market for the government s needs is clear, not only during the war but also for the immediate postwar period, when consolidation of short-term debt was necessary (see below). When one looks in more detail at the distribution of issues among sectors, using the incomplete data from the Crédit Lyonnais summarised in Marnata (1973), one observes that the general decrease in issues was accentuated for such big prewar issuers as banks, transportation, and mining. In comparison, sectors such as iron and steel, metallurgy, the mechanical and chemical industries, were given priority access for obvious reasons. Electricity production and even textiles were also allowed to increase their share of a decreasing pie. Unfortunately, it is difficult to compare these data directly with those of Villa for lack of equivalence between their nomenclatures, and then to evaluate the impact of restricted access to the capital market on private sector investment. Table 6.6 gives the changes in respect of total building and material investment on a 1913 constant price basis, and their relative changes for the different sectors. In real terms, total investment decreased continuously during the war, from a mean of 6.3 billion 1913 francs a year in to a low of 4.2 billion in But in percentage of GDP terms, investment maintained its per cent level in 1914 and 1915, and only decreased to a 12 per cent level from 1916 on. Investment in buildings decreased much more sharply and more durably than investment in material. While material investment never exceeded a 30 per cent decrease relative to 1913, building investment almost reached a 50 per cent reduction (in 1918) and came back to its prewar level only in 1924 (compared with 1920 for material investment). This is consistent with change in production in the construction sector. Building and material investments have in common the rapid increase in the share of the transportation sector, and the drop in that of the construction sector. The change in investment in transportation, the only sector with a rise in real investment during the war, matches that of the labour force in the sector. It results from its key military role, but also from the changes in the industrial geography of France imposed by the invasion. It is striking that it occurred in spite of the fall in the
10 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 178 [ ] :07PM Table 6.5. France: public issues on the capital markets (billion 1913 francs) Shares Private bonds Railway bonds n.a Government n.a Foreign Total private issues Private issues, % of private investment Notes and sources: For private bonds, I use the Crédit Lyonnais statistics except for 1914 where they are missing, so I use instead the generally less complete Statistique Générale de la France (SGF) data. For shares, I use the data I constructed from the SGF and my own individual data on listed companies (for details, see Hautcoeur, 1994: 60ff.). Railways and government issues are from Crédit Lyonnais (Marnata, 1973). The bottom row gives the ratio of private issuses to the private investment figure given by Villa (1997, IE series). 178
11 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 179 [ ] :08PM Table 6.6. France: investment (billion francs and percentage of 1913) Building investment Agriculture Food industries Energy Intermediate goods Investment goods Consumption goods Construction Trade Transportation Services Material investment Agriculture Food industries Energy Intermediate goods Investment goods Consumption goods Construction Trade Transportation Services Total investment Notes and sources: The first column shows nominal investment in 1913 (billion francs). Subsequent columns give the change in real investment from 1913 to Calculated from series IBZE and IMZE from Villa (1997). 179
12 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 180 [ ] :08PM 180 Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur resources that could be obtained from its once privileged access to the capital market. A possible answer could be a direct financing by the government or (government-controlled) price increases on the railways (although this does not appear in the transportation sector s price series from Villa). One may be surprised to note that building investment decreased less in the consumption goods industry (including food industries) than in the investment goods sector which includes armaments. This suggests that the boom in armaments used mostly existing buildings, reconverting them from civilian use. A look at the material investment data for that sector shows that it indeed increased its share of investment, although by much less than would be suggested by the observed increase in production or even by the priority access that it obtained to the capital market. It thus appears that the rise in armaments production resulted more from a reorganisation of existing factories and materials than from a massive surge in investment. As these few examples show, an explanation of the changes in investment would require more than the data available on a then much reduced capital market. Given the absorption of financial resources by the state, firms had to rely on their own saving capacity (retained earnings) even more than in peacetime. With no data available on profits, and insufficiently precise data on prices, wages, and production changes, we must be content with the few remarks above. Many questions remain open: do these data overvalue investment, which contemporary assertions on the exhaustion of existing capital would suggest? Do they undervalue it, as other contemporary claims on excess war profits would say? And if we accept these data as the best evaluation, to what extent did investment replace production capacities that existed in occupied regions before the war, preparing future overcapacities? To what extent was investment influenced by the disruptions in foreign trade that could also disappear with the end of the war? What levels of prices and profits were necessary as a compensation for these risks, or for investing in military production that could be adapted to civil use only with a cost? Answers to these questions would be necessary to evaluate the impact of wartime investment on postwar growth. But it is unlikely that the macroeconomic data we have will be sufficient to answer any of these questions. New research based on individual firms balance sheets combined with stock market data, as in Grotard and Hautcoeur (2001), will be necessary to go beyond this. Demand and supply shocks in goods markets The most important determinants of investment and the reallocation of labour were certainly the changes in the demand and supply of goods.
13 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 181 [ ] :08PM The economics of World War I in France 181 The first change resulted from the rise in public expenditure, whose the share in GDP increased massively: government consumption (excluding salaries and investment expenses) rose from 2.5 to 20 per cent of GDP from 1913 to Government demand oriented production towards war-related products. Nevertheless, the equipment and furnishing of the armies, from uniforms to food, did not imply a complete shift from civilian products, as shown, for example, by the resulting increase in tobacco consumption. More importantly, government consumption was probably not the only cause of changing consumption patterns: it is also likely that the civilian population s demand was modified by the war, not only because some products were no longer available, but also because of changes in household structures (now predominantly women-led) or in income. Nevertheless, in the absence of detailed studies on these subjects, the most visible fact was the enormous surge in demand for military production after the rapid exhaustion of existing stocks. The second important shock affecting the goods markets was the break-up of trade relationships with Germany, Austria, Hungary, and soon Belgium and other invaded regions, which together represented around one-third of French imports and exports in The disappearance of this trade forced French importers and manufacturers to find new sources of supply, especially for manufactures. Imports increased sharply from 1915 to 1917, which also helped to compensate for the occupation of north-eastern France, and the decrease in French production of various goods. As table 6.7 shows, imports came mostly from the United States (whose share of imports more than tripled) and the UK (whose share doubled), even if smaller, mostly neutral, European countries like Switzerland or Spain also increased their exports sharply. On the other hand, exports declined, reaching a low of one-third of their 1913 level in This resulted not only from the missing European markets and the difficulty of finding new markets in the war context, but also from the increased absorption of the French market and from the reallocation of production towards non-tradable or domestically demanded products. The real exchange rate also probably played a role in the divergence between exports and imports, since the real rise of the franc (resulting from a somewhat higher inflation and a relatively stable exchange rate) encouraged imports and discouraged exports. This role remained nevertheless apparently limited since the appreciation of the franc was substantial only in 1918, the very year the trade deficit decreased. Then the logic of the trade deficit can probably be viewed as one of inter-temporal smoothing of consumption and investment, although more detailed studies specifying the relative weights of all these causes would be welcomed.
14 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 182 [ ] :08PM Table 6.7. France: foreign trade Nominal imports (billion frances and current prices) Real imports (percentage of 1913) Cournty shares in nominal imports, % of total: Belgium UK Italy Germany Switzerland USA Empire Nominal exports (billion france and current prices) Real exports (percentage of 1913) Country shares in nominal exports, % of total: Belgium UK Italy Germany Switzerland USA Empire Nominal trade deficit (billion francs) Real trade deficit (percentage of 1913) Effective real exchange rate Notes and sources: Imports and exports (by value and volume) are for commerce spécial (excluding re-exports). Country rows show shares of each country in French imports and exports by value. All data from Villa (1997) and our calculations. 182
15 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 183 [ ] :08PM The economics of World War I in France 183 One important question is the extent and the impact of government intervention in the adaptation of the economy to these shocks, especially to the transformation of production and the capacity of the private sector to adapt and satisfy the military needs. The literature describes many examples of small interventions which ended up facilitating market solutions more than preventing them. For example, as early as September 1914, the government convened an assembly of manufacturers, asking them to reach a production of 100,000 shells per day for the 75 field gun. It proposed government financing, even for new factories to be built, and then helped the target to be reached in the summer of But if shells were produced by private industry, this was not the case for powder and most arms, which were produced by the arsenals, under direct government control. In a later section I will also examine the extent of government direct involvement in foreign trade as well as in production, and the extent to which I will also the private sector was allowed and was able to adapt. Before that, I turn in the next section to the macroeconomic management of the economy (to use a quite anachronistic expression), which mainly consisted of financing the budget and the trade deficits. Macroeconomic policy War finance The war implied a massive budgetary effort. Public spending increased suddenly from 10 to 50 per cent of GDP (table 6.8), most of it in the form of military spending: soldiers pay, army provisioning (food, armaments, and ammunitions, etc). Government consumption rose from 2 3 per cent before the war to a maximum of 22 per cent in 1916, when government investment decreased. In the short term, the conviction that the war would be short-lived led to an increase in short-term borrowing through Bons du Trésor (relabelled Bons de la Défense Nationale), and Banque de France credit (avances). When the war lasted longer than expected, long-term loans were issued each year from 1915 to 1918 to raise funds and consolidate the short-term debt, which nevertheless continued to rise. 8 The government benefited from two important institutional assets developed during the nineteenth century. First, there was a welldeveloped capital market, especially for long-term securities; in 1913, the capitalisation of French securities on the Paris official market represented around 140 per cent of GDP, attaining 280 per cent including foreign securities, and securities issued amounted to around 10 per cent of GDP every year before the war. Second, there was a high degree of confidence in the government, as demonstrated by the permanently low yield on the
16 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 184 [ ] :08PM Table 6.8. France: government budget Current values (m francs) Government spending 5,067 10,065 20,925 28,113 35,320 41,897 30,688 28,115 Government income 5,092 4,549 4,131 5,252 6,943 7,621 13,282 22,505 Budget deficit ( ) 25 5,516 16,794 22,861 28,377 34,276 17,406 5,610 Government financial needs (Villa) 800 3,800 16,500 23,000 30,200 32,600 34,100 27,200 Debt variation (Villa) 5,480 9,090 25,890 29,900 19,900 54,100 19,600 Shares of GDP Government spending Government income Government financial needs Budget deficit Interest paid Notes and sources: Budgetary data are quite bad for the war years. Financial needs of the government (Villa s BFG) are estimated from sources other than the budget, and vary from the deficit which results from the difference between income and spending. The variations of the government total debt (DETTE) given by Villa also gives different results. Bonnefous (quoted by Mouré, 2002: 42) gives the same figures as the budget deficit above from 1913 to 1918, but proposes higher figures for 1919 and 1920 (26,690 and 17,140 million, respectively). A memo to the Président du Conseil found by Mouré at the Ministère des Finances Archives (SAEF B 33985) also gives higher figures for the later years (49,858 for 1918, 42,601 for 1919 and 25,171 for 1920) (Mouré, 2002: 42). We discuss the series in more detail in Bordo and Hautcoeur (2003). 184
17 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 185 [ ] :08PM The economics of World War I in France 185 state rentes, one of the lowest in the world. This confidence in government was also demonstrated by the confidence in the value of the franc and in the Banque de France, whose notes represented a high proportion of the money stock during the nineteenth century and did not suffer any loss in credibility, even during the Franco-Prussian War. These strengths allowed the reopening of the Bourse shortly after the beginning of the War, and the issuance of enormous quantities of government bonds at relatively low interest rates. 9 These strengths resulted partly from the political and social stability of France, which was more durable than in some of the other great powers: a parliamentary democracy with universal male suffrage, organised political parties all participating openly in political debate and power, organised labour (independent of political parties); and even the revolutionary and internationalist socialist faction did not oppose war, despite the assassination of its leader Jean Jaurès a few days before the war. In sum, political stability, monetary credibility, and a well-organised financial system allowed indebtedness to rise a great deal without much inconvenience. State indebtedness rapidly reached a very high level (124 per cent of GDP as early as 1916), partly because it was already high (65 per cent) before the war. Even considering the normal smoothing of wartime expenses, an increase in ordinary government resources rapidly appeared necessary. Taxes nevertheless stagnated until the end of the war (table 6.8). Discussionsofanincreaseintaxationbeganrapidlywhenthesizeofthe deficit, almost 40 per cent of GDP each year, became clear. But there was enormous opposition to the idea of adding taxes to the blood tax, and the recent political conflicts on the income tax (voted in 1913) were on everybody s mind. Even the application of income tax during the war was resisted; it began only in 1916, at very low rates, and raised less than 1 billion francs during the war. The only new tax was on extraordinary war profits, voted for in 1916 with very high rates, which began to produce significant revenues only after the war. This was because of the difficulties of organising a new tax administration on an income that was badly measured, as a result of not having been taxed before, and so income tax remained mostly a political symbol during the war (Grotard and Hautcoeur, 2001). Furthermore, income from older taxes frequently decreased because of the drop in GDP, the invasion of part of the territory, and sometimes the inadequacies of the assessment methods in an inflationary context. The few small increases in their rates were not a sufficient solution to the deficit. Another solution was monetary financing. Recourse to direct credit or avances by the Banque de France to the state provided low-cost income (table 6.9) and decreased the demand on the money and financial markets, maintaining low interest rates (table 6.10), and then relatively low
18 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 186 [ ] :08PM 186 Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur Table 6.9. France: government debt (billion francs) Banque de France avances Treasury bonds (TB) Short-term debt (includes TB) Long-term debt Total debt Total debt/gdp Notes: Treasury bonds include both Bons du Trésor and Bons de la défense nationale. Sources: Villa (1997) and Banque de France s ANNHIST project (2003). Table France: inflation and interest rates (per cent per year) Private bonds yield Banque de France discount rate Yield on 3% rente CPI inflation GDP deflator inflation M2 growth M3 growth Notes and sources: Interest rates from Statistique générale de la France. Prices and money aggregates from Villa (1997) (PC and PPIB series for prices). government interest payments (table 6.8). This was possible temporarily because liquidity held by the public increased, especially in the later part of the war (table 6.11). But, in the medium run, banks started to discount at the Banque de France the Treasury bonds they held, which accelerated the growth of the money base and the inflationary process (table 6.10). In 1916 and 1917, some flight from the currency began. As a result of increasing prices, M2 and M3 dropped back to their prewar levels as a proportion of GDP (table 6.11), market long-term interest rates rose, although slowly, and deposits in savings and loans began to decrease in nominal terms in spite of a rise in their (state-guaranteed) return. The government tried to slow the inflationary process by direct intervention in the economy through price controls, but evasion was widespread, and since monetary financing increased, inflation accelerated. Monetary resources became of practical importance for the government, especially if
19 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 187 [ ] :08PM The economics of World War I in France 187 Table France: monetary aggregates and public holdings of money M2 (billion francs) M3 (billion francs) Increase of liquidity held by households (billion 1913 francs) M2 (index) M3 (index) CPI GDP deflator M2/GDP (percentage) M3/GDP (percentage) Notes and sources: All amounts in billion francs. All from Villa (1997). one adds the inflation tax onto the debt. An evaluation of monetary resources as the sum of the increase in Banque de France avances plus the product of the public debt multiplied by the difference between the inflation rate and the nominal yields on the 3 per cent rentes gives rather impressive amounts (table 6.12). 10 The reason for such a high inflation tax is that contemporaries did not adjust their inflation expectations sufficiently. Until the end of the war, they widely believed that the franc would be restored to its prewar gold parity and prices would come back to their prewar level. Comparing financial markets yields with those abroad, one observes that, at most, a 50 per cent depreciation of the franc was the expected price of the war, after which stabilisation was expected. One may even consider that higher long-term rates were more a reflection of expectations of taxes on capital income (which would actually materialise) than of monetary depreciation. 11 Furthermore, since interest rates in the United States had not increased substantially in spite of a 70 per cent rise in prices during the war, even a return to prewar gold parity was compatible with a substantial inflation tax if remaining gold standard countries did not impose a general price decrease. Because they had forgotten the lessons from the assignats,therentiers paid a large share of the war s price. Macroeconomic adjustment More profoundly, an important question for the macroeconomic understanding of the war concerns the behaviour of the main components of global expenditures. Table 6.13 shows the main tendencies. As a result of
20 //INTEGRAS/CUP/3-PAGINATION/TEW/2-FIRST_PROOF/3B2/ C06.3D 188 [ ] :08PM 188 Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur Table France: an estimate of the inflation tax Increase in Banque de France avances: Billion francs and current prices Billion francs and 1913 prices Inflation tax on debt (billion francs and 1913 prices) Total inflation tax Billion francs and 1913 prices Percentage of GDP Percentage of taxes Notes and sources: See text. war, government consumption increased sharply. Nevertheless, this was not the only factor responsible for the decrease in household consumption and in investment. Actually, the increase in the trade deficit almost exactly matched the increase in government consumption until 1915, exceeded it slightly in 1916 and 1918, and by a wider margin in 1917 (some 10 per cent of French GDP that year), something explained above as inter-temporal smoothing of both consumption and investment. Thus the decrease in private consumption and investment resulted mostly from the drop in real GDP. It seems that, at the start of the war, the belief that it would be short-lived led households and firms not to reduce their expenditure.the increase in government expenditure then resulted in a trade deficit. But the decrease in GDP in 1915 led to a sharp reduction in households income and consumption (especially since they did not reduce their investment), even if their shares in GDP did not vary much. From 1916 on, it is more difficult to discern a clear story, because the data appear to suffer a consistency problem. The accounting equality between resources (imports þ GDP) and theiruses (exports þ investment þ consumption) that is used to construct table 6.13, does not hold, as the size of the error term shows. Unless there was an enormous surge in stocks, we face either an overvaluation of GDP or an undervaluation of some demands, or both. This error, which represents almost 14 per cent of GDP in 1916 and 20 per cent in 1917, makes it impossible to understand the macroeconomics of the second half
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Addams Family Australian Cast
Producer Rodney Rigby and Sandra Chipchase CEO, Destination NSW today (August 21, 2012) announced seven key cast members for the Australian production of the Broadway Musical The Addams Family.
John Waters has been cast as Gomez Addams, with Chloë Dallimore as Morticia Addams. Russell Dykstra will play Uncle Fester, Teagan Wouters will be Wednesday, Ben Hudson plays Lurch and Meredith O'Reilly is Grandma Addams, while Liam Faulkner-Dimond (pictured), Anthony Garcia, Blake Hurford, Daniel Simpson and Jaxon Graham-Wilson will share the role of Pugsley Addams.
The members of the Beineke Family, Mal, Alice and Lucas, were added to the mix on October 16.
Mal Beineke, the father of Lucas will be played by well-known Australian funnyman Tony Harvey. Alice Beineke, wife of Mal and mother of Lucas will be played by the wonderful Katrina Retallick and Lucas Beineke will be played by Hi-5 favourite Tim Maddren.
The Beineke Family are an integral part of The Addams Family musical as the story centres around every father's nightmare, Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a fully functioning 'normal' family - The Beineke Family.
The casting was completed on December 12, 2012, when Rodney Rigby announced the Ensemble members: Jakob Ambrose, Andrew Broadbent, Emma Clark, Cristina D'Agostino, Matt Heyward, Kelly Hoskin, Zoë Komazec, Peter Lowrey, Jordan Pollard, Justine Puy, Warwick Reid, Samantha Riley, Lisa Sontag, Shane Stepien and Robert Tripolino.
Yes, Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has a "normal" boyfriend, and for parents Gomez and Morticia, it's a shocking development that turns the Addams house upside down when they are forced to host a dinner for the young man and his parents. The production features all the favourite characters – Uncle Fester, Grandma, Pugsley, Lurch, and the Beineke Family of Mal, Alice and Lucas.
After the casting announcement, Rodney Rigby (pictured below) told Stage Whispers that two generations will instantly connect with the musical – those who grew up with the TV show, and others, mostly in their 20s and 30s who were introduced to The Addams Family by the two movies.
After learning about The Addams Family during the lead-up to his hit production of Jersey Boys (while The Addams Family was still in development), Rigby came on board for the ride with the show as much as a year prior to its pre-Broadway premiere in Chicago.
What does he personally love about The Addams Family?
"It's seeing those characters come to life in a funny script by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, while Andrew Lippa has written some very good tunes.
"The other good thing is that it's about family – there's a really heartfelt relationship between Gomez and his daughter, and Morticia and her children. It's warm, and it's very sweet."
Are there moments of the musicalisation which he is particularly fond of?
"The role of Wednesday is fantastic, and it's a real breakout role for Teagan, who was with Jersey Boys for us. I really hoped that she would get the role because she's the whole deal – she can dance, she's a serious actor and she really is a great singer. But, of course we auditioned everyone for this show. And Teagan nailed it.
"Wednesday is the driving force of this show. She's in her early 20s now and she's fallen in love with Lucas. She wants to bring Lucas and his family to dinner to meet her family, but she's afraid that mum will ask too many questions, and everything will turn into a mess. Gomez, as most fathers know from first hand, will do anything for his daughter, and unwittingly, by committing to hold a secret for his daughter, for the first time he's not telling the truth to his wife Morticia, and everything starts unraveling."
It sounds reminiscent of the classic Kaufman and Hart play, You Can't Take it with You, I suggest.
"Absolutely, and Rick and Marshall used the great plays of Kaufman and Hart as a benchmark in their writing, so it's not knock 'em down humour like Mel Brooks's comedy; it's very much that 30's style of sophisticated wit. When I say sophisticated, I don't mean a pretentious sort of wit, because it is broad at times, and it's also kind of sweet. Jersey Boys is a great example of Rick and Marshal's work, and what craftsmen they are, and the style and tempo of the book is very much in the world of the great Kaufman and Hart plays."
Like his recent previous productions of Jersey Boys and Rock of Ages, Rodney Rigby tells us that auditions for The Addams Family started out as a blank piece of paper.
"With Rock of Ages and Jersey Boys it didn't matter how powerful somebody's name was at the box office, it was all about them delivering the goods. These shows have allowed some actors in their mid 20s to 30s to really get some decent roles, and not get knocked off the pedestal because somebody else had more perceived box office power.
"We applied the same rule to Addams Family. Obviously we wanted an actor of stature to play Gomez, and an actress of stature to play Morticia. We invited John to come in and do a workshop with us, and he auditioned for the Broadway director Jerry Zaks. Jerry turned around and said, 'Guys, this guy is the real deal. I've got to come out and direct this entire show. I want to work with these actors.'
"So we've continued that process with our entire cast. We've got Russell Dykstra, who must be one of the best character actors in this country, as Uncle Fester. He came in for his workshop with his head shaven, worked with our musical director, and wanted to do it.
"It shows that if you have an open view about how you want to cast the show, you reap the rewards with really talented artists."
And what makes John and Chloë perfect for the roles of Gomez and Morticia?
"John is a unique artist in Australia, with a range from through theatre, movies, rock and recently in three years in prime time TV. He also did The Woman in Black for us. He's got this incredible range of talent. He's also got this charismatic … I don't know what it is … that makes him appeal to women of all ages. I don't know what it is, but if he could bottle it he's be a rich man. And what we're going to see, and we've seen a bit of it through the audition process, is that he's an incredibly funny guy. As Gomez, he's a really swashbuckling leading man.
"Chloë's role in The Producers showed what an incredible actress she is. She' tall, and that's the unwritten contract of what people expectations are of a Morticia. Vocally she's right, her acting skills are right. That unique combination of talents is what those roles need."
Original Broadway Director Jerry Zaks will travel to Australia to personally direct the production, which opens at Sydney's Capitol Theatre on March 23, 2013.
Jerry Zaks, acclaimed on Broadway for his work in the theatre, has received four Tony Awards, four Drama Desks, and two Outer Critics Circle Awards, and he has directed more than 30 productions in New York. Of the Australian cast for The Addams Family. He said "We are thrilled and blessed to have such an amazing cast for the Australian premiere of The Addams Family. Led by our Gomez and Mortica, John and Chloë, this cast is going to thrill and delight. I can't wait to get down there and start working with all of them."
Rodney Rigby said "We are beyond thrilled to have found this wonderful company of actors for this ridiculously funny Broadway Musical."


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More people are starting their own companies and there's a meriad of reasons why they should. You're your own boss, you have a great plan you want to see realised, you can spend 40 hours a week doing what you like and more. However, if I told you a large deal of people are starting their own "companies" because of the bad economy (they're freelancing/ taking any assignment in order to get by) the idea of entrepreneurship quickly becomes less glamorous. Additionally, you won't spend less time working on your company because you work from home; you'll work more. You hardly have chance of better dividing your time between entrepreneurship and you family, because all your time will be devoted to your company.
This might be a bit blunt but there's truth in these statements. Here are some things I've learnt from working with entrepreneurs day in and day out.
Entrepreneurs are those people you see at the Coffee2Go
If there's one thing I'd immediately like to point out, entrepreneurs don't spend hours and hours sipping coffee, typing away the hours in serenity and gazing outside. The only reasons the average entrepreneur would visit a coffee company is because he's got nowhere else to take a client or because he's having a breakdown and can't see another revised cash flow prognosis.
Of course entrepreneurship is about realizing a vision that you've cooked up with your buddies at the bar, but the execution of your big dream won't take place at the local coffee shop. It'll most likely take place at your living room, a little corner of one of your investors' offices or an incubator 2×2 M2 office where the rent is low, the internet barely existing and the coffee, well.. not as good as that of the coffee company.
It's fun
They don't call entrepreneurship a "financial and emotional" rollercoaster for nothing. Yes, it can be uplifting, thrilling, exciting, fun and adventurous, but make sure you take into account there will be quite some downfalls too. From partnerships not working out to your own friends and family downright rejecting your business dream. It's tough to hang in there when you experience major drawbacks and the long-term rewards you were looking for are further postphoned.
On the positive side you're building a legacy. It won't be an Alexander-The-Great-legacy, but you're building something larger than yourself, allowing you to develop yourself beyond whatever would've been possible without the challenges and ambitions you carved out. You'll experience the freedom of making your own decisions. Don't think you can do whatever you want, whenever you want. Work weeks still start at Monday and you'll still have to deal with angry customers, but how you deal with it is up to you. You can plan you own appointment, have a flexible schedule and decide in what direction the company is going. In the end, you decide what's important, good or the right direction to take.
You thought it all out
Entrepreneurship is an adventure because you don't know what'll come up next. It's like going on a trip around the world: you can ask friends for advice, buy dictionaries, get your tickets up front, arrange hotel and double check your to-do list with your family, but you'll still run into the unexpected. Locals only speak a dialect, you didn't need that first aid kit, your hostel is closed due to a gas leakage so now you're being relocated to a Ritz. It's extremely important to prepare well and recognize even the possibilities you don't have a solution for. Just don't expect that your preparation will get you through unscathed.
This means that your family has to support your entrepreneurial dreams 100%. It means being sensible about inviting friends as partners to the company, being sensible about working hours and holidays, and being realistic about money and alternatives if your company doesn't work out or goes bankrupt.
In short, entrepreneurship is a very rewarding way of earning your money, but not always an easy one. You hardly have money in the beginning and the chances of failure are large. But if your environment has your back, you have well developed plan and a financial Plan B, starting your own company – even if you fail – will certainly leave you without any regrets!


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Linux: Security Check List
Linux is an amazing operating system considering how it was originally created....It is solid, stable and provides support for an incredible number of applications. It has very powerful capabilities and runs very fast and rarely crashes. Unfortunately Linux machines are broken almost every day. This happens not because it is an insecure operating system. It contains all the necessary tools to make it very secure. But the truth is. It hasn't become significantly more secure with the increase in popularity. On the other hand, our understanding of the hackers methods and the wide variety of tools and techniques available contributed to help system administrators to secure their Linux computers. Check List For Linux Security - The Community's Center for SecurityLinked by shanmuga Friday, 28th October 2005 5:22AM
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Worthy Work, Still Unlivable Wages
Blog Post
Nov. 18, 2014
Today, New America hosts the release of Worthy Work, STILL Unlivable Wages: The Early Childhood Workforce 25 Years after the National Child Care Staffing Study, by Marcy Whitebook, Deborah Phillips, and Carollee Howes. The Staffing Study first shined a light on the fact that many early care and education teachers earn poverty-level wages a quarter of a century ago. This new report provides an update on the state of the child care workforce and offers new evidence of their economic insecurity.
What's changed? When it comes to earnings for child care teachers, there has been little improvement. While parent fees for child care have doubled since 1997, many teachers and other child care workers still make poverty-level wages, requiring nearly half of them to rely on public supports such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program; federal food stamps; or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
We know that the teachers who work with young children matter a lot. This graph below really tells the story: Birth to about age 5 is when there is the most brain development. Early care and education teachers should be--and in many places already are--setting the foundation for future learning, developing essential knowledge, as well as helping to build the skills, habits, and mindsets that children need to succeed later in school and flourish in life.
The birth-to-5 years are also when teachers earn the least, even if they are required to have degrees. Take pre-K teachers, for instance. Head Start and some state pre-K programs have begun requiring pre-K teachers to obtain degrees (typically with a specialization in early childhood education) just like kindergarten teachers. Yet these pre-K teachers, for the most part, still do not make nearly the same wages.
Because the requirement for degrees has not necessarily been tied to increased compensation and better benefits, once they have their degree pre-K teachers have to make tough choices about whether to leave for an elementary school where they will earn more. And who can blame them? According to Worthy Work, nearly half of the child care teaching staff who were surveyed said they worried about being able to feed their families; about two-thirds said they worried about paying for housing costs. More than 40 percent take advantage of EITC, and about 1 in 5 receive food stamps.
Whitebook, Phillips, and Howes call for a "comprehensive reassessment of the nation's early care and education policies. They call on the federal government and states to prioritize "livable, equitable, and dependable wages for early care and education teachers." And they point to the Department of Defense early childhood program as one example for a way forward.
We here at New America's Early Education Initiative agree and offer some thoughts of our own for helping to improve the child care workforce in our Beyond Subprime Learning report. Check out that report for more. We're also holding an event today to review Worthy Work's findings with the authors and discuss the policy needs for the field. Click here to read the report, and here to join us for the webcast of the event, live at 10 AM.


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China media: Discussing foreign aid
Media are defending China's foreign aid policy amid calls that the money could be spent on helping the country's poor.
On Thursday, the government released the China Foreign Aid white paper for 2014, revealing that Beijing has spent close to 90 bn yuan ($14 bn) on assistance abroad between 2010 to 2012.
State-run Xinhua news agency notes that there is discontent in society because of the large sums given to countries in Asia and Africa at a time when China has "close to 100 million of people living in poverty".
Xu Weizhong, a researcher with China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, explains that it is common practice that "economically stronger countries" are "obliged to help the ones that are comparatively poor".
The pundit recalls that China had previously received international aid which had "promoted economic and social development". "China is now giving back to the international community," he tells the agency.
The Global Times' Chinese edition describes the opposition to giving aid abroad as "typical nationalistic", and says such "narrow views" are not in line with the diplomacy of a big country.
"The rise of China does not happen in isolation, it is related to geo-politics and to other countries. China needs to pay for a good international environment. Providing foreign aid is not just simply aimed at helping the poor, but also a way to look after our own interests," the paper explains. It warns that the West might use the debate over foreign aid in China to "accuse Beijing of expansion and fighting over resources".
Experts, however, tell the English edition of the paper that a revamp of the foreign aid system is needed in order to "supervise the use of the money and assess their effect".
Pang Zhongying, an international relations expert at the Renmin University, predicts that China's foreign aid budget is set to expand but adds that aid "with no strings attached has become a double-edged sword".
"Now China is not able to supervise how its money is being used…The aid may not go to the people who are in need, but may breed corruption or even be used to purchase arms," he says, arguing that changes to the foreign aid system are necessary.
US-China relations
Media analyse China-US ties in the wake of the two-day US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue which ended on Thursday.
The two-day key ministerial meeting was held in Beijing with the participation of US Secretary of State John Kerry.
Both countries have highlighted the resolve to forge a stronger cooperative partnership, reports say, noting that Washington "welcomes and wants a strong, prosperous and stable China".
"The fruits of this year's dialogue are very tangible and pragmatic… results on the economic track far outperform those in the strategic and security tracks. This shows that China and the US have entered into a new and mature relationship," Yang Xiyu, a researcher at the China Institute of International Studies, tells the China Daily.
Echoing similar sentiment, the Beijing News comments that the dialogue "is an important step forward in the construction of a new relation" between the two major powers.
"Though there are many dialogue mechanisms in place, there is still a lack of good communication on strategic issues. These issues are unavoidable and a deeper dialogue is necessary," the article concludes.
However, China Radio International feels that the US "does not prove with actions that it welcomes the rise of China".
It says on its website that there is "a wide perception gap" between the two countries, especially in the area of security. "In the past one year, Washington's actions can be interpreted as attempts to contain China," says the article.
"The US keeps building military alliances and tries to strengthen its hegemony in East Asia, ignoring the interests of China and encouraging neighbouring countries to provoke Beijing…This is not a positive response by Washington to the cooperative spirit that Beijing has displayed internationally," China Radio International comments.
Population growth
And finally, media discuss population trends months after the country relaxed its decades old "one-child policy".
According to the Beijing Youth Daily, as of 31 May, a total of 271,600 couples have applied for permission to give birth to a second child, out of 11 million couples who are eligible to do so.
China relaxed its one-child policy last December allowing couples to have two children if either parent is an only child.
In a press conference on Thursday, the National Health and Family Commission revealed that close to 90% of the applications have been approved.
One of its officials, Yang Wenzhuang, said that growth was "stable and will not result in a baby boom".
According to family planning expert He Yafu, the country needs more babies. "We should encourage more couples to give birth to children, as this will help to reverse the trend of an aging population," he tells the Global Times.
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By MYARF & RS
Monday, June 9, 2014
Maungdaw, Arakan: On June 8, 2014, Maungdaw Township Administration announced that Curfew Order under Section 144 extended once more for two months. Therefore, the curfew order from 11PM to 4AM will be in effect in Maungdaw Township until August 8, 2014.
On 8th June 2014, officials from Maungdaw Township Administration (using loud-speakers on vehicles) announced that Curfew Order under Section 144 would be extended for two more months. It means that there will be curfew order from 11PM to 4AM imposed in Maungdaw Township until August 8, 2014.
The curfew order was first imposed on June 8, 2012, a day when violence against Rohingyas took full-fledged form starting in Maungdaw. However, the curfew order has never prevented Rakhine extremists from roaming free to cause destructions to Rohingya communities in the region. Many Rakhines together with Police and Security Force (Hlunhtein) have torched Rohingya homes and robbed their shops during the curfew period.
On the other hand, when authorities find Rohingya people outside their homes even before the time of the curfew period, they (authorities) beat them up, they (authorities) arrest them, they (authorities) extort money from them, and they (authorities) imprison them. During the time of tensed situation, the authorities have even killed many Rohingya people taking advantage of the curfew order" said a local Rohingya of Maungdaw.
He also added "in short, the curfew is imposed just to prevent Rohingya people from defending their lives and properties. And the authority, since the time violence against us began, has kept extending the period of the curfew order."
"Besides, Border Guard Police (BGP) led by commander in chief, colonel Tin Ko Ko, will carry out Nasaka Style Census Operation against Rohingya. They will start it on June 10, 2012 according to their announcement. But I urge my fellow Rohingyas to wisely refuse to participate because it is another tactic to classify as Bengali. What they can do maximum are harassments and tortures" he urged.
For more about the upcoming census operation against Rohingyas, please read here: http://www.rvisiontv.com/myanmar-border-police-resume-nasakas-oppressive-mechanism-rohingya/
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