Sustaining Korea’s convergence to the highest-income countries

While Korea remains one of the fastest-growing OECD economies, its potential growth rate per capita is projected to decelerate from around 4% during the current decade to around 2¼ per cent during the 2030s.

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Meeting of National Economic Research Organisations, OECD Headquarters, 18 June 2012

Meeting of National Economic Research Organisations, OECD Headquarters, 18 June 2012

Design policies to ensure growth is socially inclusive, says OECD-World Bank report

Economic policy should be better designed to bring about more inclusive growth, ensuring that the benefits of increased prosperity are shared more evenly across society, according to a new report from the OECD and the World Bank.

Promoting inclusive growth: Challenges and policies

How to design appropriate policies to strengthen growth and make it inclusive and sustainable over time? The policy issues highlighted in this volume - financial development,social policies, innovation, regulation and political economy issues - are relevant to all countries.

Reducing poverty in Chile: cash transfers and better jobs

Notwithstanding impressive progress, poverty and inequality remain high in Chile in OECD comparison, and the tax-benefit system does little to improve on this.

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Tax reform in Norway: a focus on capital taxation

Norway’s dual income tax system achieves high levels of revenue collection and income redistribution, without overly undermining economic performance and while paying attention to environmental externalities.

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The short-term effects of structural reforms: an empirical analysis

This paper sheds light on the impact of reforms over time, identifies the horizon over which their full effects materialise, and investigates whether such effects vary with prevailing economic conditions and institutions.

Short-term gain or pain? A DSGE model-based analysis of the short-term effects of structural reforms in labour and product markets

This paper explores the short-term effects of labour and product market reforms through a dynamic general equilibrium model that features endogenous producer entry, equilibrium unemployment and costly job creation and destruction.

Do house prices impact consumption and interest rate? Evidence from OECD countries using an agnostic identification procedure

This paper investigates the existence of significant spillovers from the housing sector onto the wider economy for the seven major OECD countries using Uhlig's (2005) agnostic identification procedure.

OECD Journal: Economic Studies 2010. New International Evidence on Asset-Price Effects on Investment, and a Survey for Consumption

A survey of the literature on asset price impacts on the real economy shows a much wider range of work on consumption and related wealth effects than on investment.

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