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26-Jun-2006
The Canadian economy has performed well in recent years, but improving productivity performance will be crucial to achieving durable prosperity gains. In addition, it will be important to ensure that the federal and provincial fiscal arrangements, as well as social policies, are on a sustainable path.
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15-Jun-2006
This paper discusses ways to strengthen competition in order to boost productivity growth and help restrain inflation. Economics Department Working Paper 491 by David Rae, Line Vogt and Michael Wise.
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13-Jun-2006
OECD countries urgently need to get more people into paid employment if they want to boost living standards and keep welfare systems afloat. They can do this by moving away from policies that discourage people from working and companies from hiring and by doing more to raise workers’ skills.
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08-Jun-2006
The Czech Republic’s economic growth performance has improved and now compares favourably with other catch-up countries in the region. However, ensuring sound public finances, improving the labour market and enhancing the business environment remain key challenges.
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30-May-2006
The economy has experienced a long period of weak growth, although a recovery is in the offing for 2006; even so, improving resilience, public finances and potential growth (through labour utilisation and productivity) remain key challenges.
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09-May-2006
A strong boom gives fertile ground for reforms to boost labour supply. That should mitigate the risk of macroeconomic overheating and ensure sustainability of public finances. Housing policies also need reform with fewer subsidies and more flexibility in the rental market.
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04-May-2006
Growth over the past decade has been among the strongest in the OECD, underpinned by strong innovation and high educational attainment. To sustain this performance productivity needs to be further boosted, especially in the sheltered sector and in public services, the government’s ambitious employment targets need to be realised and fiscal sustainability ensured while reducing future pressures on taxation.
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20-Apr-2006
Convergence to EU average living standards has stalled and key challenges for Portugal are putting public finances on a sustainable path and raising productivity, by enhancing human capital, increasing competition and innovation, and facilitating labour mobility.
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02-Mar-2006
For more than a decade, Ireland has been the OECD’s star performer. But sustaining this performance will become harder over time, and reforms in areas such as competition policy, education, innovation and infrastructure investment will be needed. At the same time, Ireland needs to leave room for manoeuvre to deal with some sizeable macroeconomic risks.
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16-Jan-2006
Chile has elected its first female president, in Michelle Bachelet. As head of the left-leaning coalition which has led Chile since the country’s return to democracy in 1990, the new leader has promised continuity, though with a promise of more jobs and social justice. Tackling these issues could indeed make a difference, even if the economy has fared relatively well, as economists Luiz de Mello and Nanno Mulder explain in this article for the OECD Observer magazine.
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How deep is the impact of the recent oil and credit shocks on the productive potential of OECD economies?
Issue No. 83
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