Policy Brief: How Regions Grow

Technological change, an aging work force and a global economic downturn are posing enormous challenges to OECD regions. While some regions are equipped to confront and handle these changes, others are struggling to remain competitive.

Governing Regional Development Policy: The Use of Performance Indicators

This report examines both the challenges and the opportunities associated with designing and using indicator systems as a tool for the governance of regional development policy.

Regulatory Reform in China - Executive Summary and Chapter 1

This is the executive summary and Chapter 1 of the report: Regulatory Reform in China: Defining the Boundary between the Market and the State, release 7 May 2009.

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OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform - China: Defining the Boundary between the Market and the State

This review on China takes into account the specific reform needs and challenges in China while retaining the benefits of comparing and illustrating Chinese reform challenges with OECD practices. The report focuses on the overall economic context for regulatory reform, the government’s capacity to manage regulatory reform, competition policy and enforcement, and market openness. It also examines the regulatory framework in the

Government consumption volatility and the size of nations

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relation between the volatility of government consumption and country size. The results are robust to different time and country samples, different econometric techniques and to several sets of control variables.

中国: 概要及第一章

This is the translation into Chinese of the executive summary and Chapter 1 of the OECD Review on Regulatory Reform in China: Defining the Boundary between the Market and the State, released in English on 7 May 2009.

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Regional Statistics and Indicators

The OECD has developed tools to answer the increasing demand for statistical information at the regional level: the OECD Regional Database; the Working Party on Territorial Indicators; and the series OECD Regions at a Glance.

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Going for Growth 2010 Chapter 2: Responding to the Going for Growth Policy Priorities: an Overview of Progress since 2005

Against the background of a stronger need for reform in the wake of the crisis, this chapter assesses the progress that each country has made over the past five years in a broad range of structural policy areas where government action could boost long-term growth.

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2nd annual OECD symposium on public-private partnerships (5-6 March 2009)

The 2nd annual OECD Symposium on Public-Private Partnerships was held on 5-6 March 2009 in Paris. The meeting focused on the practical issues concerning PPPs and in particular on the role that special government PPP units can play in making PPPs effective, efficient and value for money.

OECD parliamentary budget officials: first annual meeting (26-27 February 2009)

The Italian Chamber of Deputies hosted the first annual meeting of OECD parliamentary budget officials in Rome, 26-27 February 2009. The meeting opened with a welcome address by Rosy Bindi, Vice-President of the Italian Camera dei deputati.