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30/06/2006 - The OECD’s latest economic survey of Luxembourg will to be published on Wednesday 5 July 2006. It looks at the reforms required to maintain dynamism amid signs that conditions for long-term growth are becoming less favourable.
The survey will be available to journalists in English on the OECD's password-protected website at 11.00 a.m. Paris time (09.00 GMT) for immediate release.
A seminar on the survey’s findings, open to the press, will take place at 2.30 p.m. the same day, at the Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg. Participants will include Luxembourg’s Economy and Trade Minister Jeannot Krecké, Education Minister Mady Delvaux-Stehres and OECD Economics Department director.Val Koromzay. To register for the event, journalists are requested to contact: beatrice.barthel@eco.etat.lu.
A Policy Brief with the main conclusions will be freely accessible in pdf format (in English and French) on the OECD’s web site at www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/luxembourg. You are invited to include this internet link in reports on the survey.
The publication is divided into the following chapters:
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Assessment and recommendations,
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Preparing for lower and more volatile economic growth in the long-term,
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Public finances: adjusting to lower growth,
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Improving employment prospects of resident workers,
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Improving education achievement and attainment to compete in the labour market,
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Increasing product market competition to boost productivity.
Journalists will be allowed advance access to the electronic version of the publication, by e-mail and under embargo, four hours ahead of release time. For journalists in Asia/Pacific time zones such advance access is allowed 12 hours ahead of release time.
The study will be sent by e-mail on request only. In asking to receive the survey under embargo, journalists undertake to respect the OECD’s embargo procedures. Requests to receive the survey by e-mail under embargo or to obtain a password to access the website should be sent by e-mail to Nicole Le Vourch in the OECD’s Media Division.
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