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23-Sep-2008
Diego Moccero
Indonesia’s business environment is discouraging entrepreneurship and holding back private sector growth and development. Weaknesses in the regulatory framework, infrastructure bottlenecks and poor governance continue to weigh down on investment.
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05-Aug-2008
Peter Jarrett and Shuji Kobayakawa
The agricultural sector in Canada is relatively large, compared to those in most other G7 countries. In recent years, the federal and provincial governments have undertaken a number of sectoral reforms to meet the competitiveness and environmental challenges that it faces.
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22-May-2008
Randall S. Jones and Taesik Yoon
Although Korea has become more integrated in the world economy over the past decade, it still ranks low in terms of import penetration, the stock of inward FDI relative to GDP and foreign workers as a share of the labour force.
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19-May-2008
Stephen S. Golub and Brian Tomasik
This paper presents new estimates of country-specific international transport costs for 21 OECD countries over the period 1973-2005.
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19-May-2008
Hervé Boulhol and Alain de Serres
This paper applies the framework developed by Redding and Venables (2004) on a panel data covering 21 OECD countries over 1970-2004, and shows that, relative to the average OECD country, the cost of remoteness for countries such as Australia and New Zealand could be as high as 10% of GDP.
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11-Apr-2008
Hervé Boulhol, Alain de Serres and Margit Molnar
This paper examines how much of the dispersion in economic performance across OECD countries can be accounted for by economic geography factors. Economics Department Working Paper 602.
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18-Dec-2007
David Rae and Marte Sollie
Globalisation can be a threat or an opportunity, depending on a country’s trade mix and its economic and regulatory structure. This paper assesses which EU countries are most exposed to globalisation using, among other indicators, measures of revealed comparative advantage.
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06-Dec-2007
Christophe André, Stéphanie Guichard, Mike Kennedy and David Turner
Since 2001, OECD corporate net lending has risen sharply. This paper examines the main forces at play behind this run-up and provides some insight into whether and how they might possibly unwind in the future, a process that may already be underway.
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19-Sep-2007
Jens Høj, Miguel Jimenez, Maria Maher, Giuseppe Nicoletti, and Michael Wise
Based on 18 country reviews performed over the 2003-2005 period, this paper examines, the cross-country differences in policy approaches to product market competition and their consequences for product market rents.
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05-Jul-2007
Margit Molnar, Nigel Pain and Daria Taglioni
Economics Department Working Paper 561 reviews some of the possible changes that may occur in the national labour markets of many OECD countries as a result of international trade and the internationalisation of production by multinational companies.
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