Senin, 23 November 2015
Economy in Paris
The economy of Paris
stretches well beyond its administrative limits, as many of its manufacturing
and service industries are in its closest suburbs. While economic figures are
collected in the Paris region (Île-de-France) and its eight départements,
employment numbers are expressed within Paris, the Paris agglomeration and the Paris aire urbaine (an area similar to the North Americanmetropolitan area).
The Paris Region is
France's premier centre of economic activity, with a 2012 GDP of €624
billion (US$687 billion). In 2011, its GDP
ranked second among the regions of Europe and its per-capita GDP was the 4th
highest in Europe. While the
Paris region's population accounted for 18.8 percent of metropolitan France in
2011, the Paris region's GDP
accounted for 30 percent of metropolitan France's GDP. In 2015 it hosts the world
headquarters of 29 of the 31 Fortune Global 500 companies located in France.
The Parisian economy
has been gradually shifting towards high-value-added service industries (finance,
IT services, etc.) and high-tech manufacturing (electronics, optics, aerospace,
etc.). In the 2013 European Green
City Index, Paris was listed the 10th "greenest"
city of the largest 30 cities in Europe. The
Paris region's most intense economic activity through the central Hauts-de-Seine department and suburban La Défense
business district places Paris's economic centre to the west of the city, in a
triangle between the Opéra Garnier, La Défense and the Val de Seine. While the Paris economy
is dominated by services, and employment in manufacturing
sector has declined sharply, the region remains an important manufacturing
centre, particularly for aeronautics, automobiles, and "eco"
industries.
In a 2015 worldwide
cost of living survey by the Economist
Intelligence Unit, Paris ranked as the world's second most expensive
city. In the survey, it is joined among the most expensive European cities by Oslo, Zurich, Geneva and Copenhagen. The ranking compares more than
400 individual prices across 160 products and services, and is designed to
calculate cost-of-living allowances and build compensation packages for expatriates and business travellers.
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