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The Department's macroeconomic work is based on continual monitoring of events and economic policies in Member countries as well as outside the OECD area, including regular projections of short- and medium-term developments. An assessment and outlook is published biannually.
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24-Jan-2012
Switzerland’s recovery has been broadly balanced but the drastic appreciation threatens exports. At the same time, there is a risk that a housing bubble could develop linked to unusually low interest rates. This survey discusses policies that would help Switzerland deal with this situation.
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02-Jan-2012
The differential between the interest rate paid to service government debt and the growth rate of the economy is a key concept in assessing fiscal sustainability. Among OECD economies, this differential was unusually low for much of the last decade compared with the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s.
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12-Dec-2011
Global financial turmoil, centred on the euro zone, has affected Russia’s financial markets and driven increased capital outflows, but with the oil price remaining high, the OECD’s projection remains one in which annual growth over the next two years is close to potential of around 4%.
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28-Nov-2011
Decisive policies must be urgently put in place to stop the euro area sovereign debt crisis from spreading and to put weakening global activity back on track, says the OECD’s latest Economic Outlook.
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