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27-Aug-2008
On many counts, the youth labour market in Norway is performing very well. The unemployment rate among young people aged 16-24 was 7.3% in 2007, 6 percentage points below the OECD average and the employment rate was almost 12 percentage points above the OECD average.
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20-Aug-2008
The Norwegian economy has benefitted from rising world energy prices, fiscal restraint, successful monetary policy and a capacity to attract foreign labour. But difficult challenges lie ahead. Could the rapid rise in labour costs lead to inflation becoming entrenched? Is rising household debt a serious risk? How can the education system be improved?
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24-Jul-2008
Indonesia’s economic performance is improving and growth is picking up. An important policy challenge is to sustain high growth over the longer term so as to ensure a faster catch-up in living standards relative to the OECD area.
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17-Jul-2008
Turkey should adopt tougher fiscal rules and reform its labour market to boost its economic performance, according to this new OECD report.
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16-Jul-2008
Government support of biofuel production in OECD countries is costly, has a limited impact on reducing greenhouse gases and improving energy security, and has a significant impact on world crop prices, according to a new study of policies to promote greater production and use of biofuel in OECD countries.
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15-Jul-2008
Prudent macroeconomic policies have driven South Africa’s impressive economic performance over the past decade, but huge problems remain, notably in tackling unemployment. Policies to strengthen competition and improve education would raise living standards both by helping to realise South Africa’s employment potential and by boosting long-term productivity growth.
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25-Jun-2008
Portugal has made great strides in fiscal consolidation. Boosting growth is one of the main economic challenges that the country is facing. How to take fuller advantage of globalization? How to improve infrastructures? How best to facilitate the adjustment of the labour market in the changing environment?
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03-Jun-2008
Listen our high-level speakers addressing the key issues of this year’s Forum: climate change, growth and stability. How to build a solid economic framework for combating climate change beyond Kyoto? How to deal with risks following the shocks of financial turmoil, cooling housing markets and higher energy and commodity prices?
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13-May-2008
A three-day international workshop on innovation and the global impact of high-growth small and medium-sized firms (SMEs), organized by OECD with the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, hailed entrepreneurship and the fast growth of innovative small firms as the engines of economic growth.
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21-Apr-2008
OECD governments could boost economic growth and help create jobs if local agencies and authorities had more power and autonomy to adjust employment and training programmes to meet local needs, concluded OECD employment ministers.
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