Economic Survey of the United Kingdom 2009: Structural policies to promote sustainable long-term growth

While the immediate imperative is to tackle the financial crisis and to steer the economy through the current downturn, there are also a number of longer-term challenges that need to be addressed to foster a robust and sustainable recovery. In particular assistance for young and low skilled workers needs to be enhanced and the performance of the education sector also needs to be improved.

Economic Survey of the United Kingdom 2009: Policies to overcome the crisis

The United Kingdom, like many OECD economies, is experiencing a severe recession as a consequence of a series of global shocks and any recovery in 2010 is likely to be slow. The financial crisis has severely impaired the supply of credit and house prices have fallen sharply. Unemployment is expected to increase significantly. The large rise in the government deficit is providing support to demand, but the debt-to-GDP ratio will

Policy Brief: Economic Survey of the United Kingdom, 2009

The world economy is being buffeted by several shocks. The United Kingdom, like most OECD economies, is in a deep recession. House prices have fallen after an extended period of large increases which left many households over-extended.

Economic Survey of the United Kingdom 2009: Financial stability: banking on prudence

The UK financial market has been severely affected by the financial market crisis. The crisis has exposed weaknesses in the supervisory framework as well as that for crisis management and resolution. This chapter reviews the supervisory and regulatory framework and the many reforms that have already been adopted to remedy these weaknesses. It also provides recommendations for further reforms.

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Economic Survey of Italy 2009: Supporting regulatory reform

Despite the improvement in regulatory indicators, overall productivity performance has improved very little in Italy. This chapter reviews a number of possible structural explanations.

Policy Brief: Economic Survey of Italy, 2009

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Economic Survey of Italy 2009: The impact of the crisis and the potential for fiscal stimulus

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