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News & Events
News
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07-Feb-2012
While the budget deficit is small, current fiscal plans are not ambitious enough to deal with future fiscal challenges related to an ageing population. Increases in the retirement age and tightening early retirement schemes would – together with labour market reforms – address these challenges.
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Economic Growth and Productivity in Finland
07-Feb-2012
Finland’s productivity growth has deteriorated, reflecting a weak performance in information and communication technologies but also in the public sector. Better focused R&D support and stronger competition among shielded sectors would contribute to higher productivity.
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07-Feb-2012
The Finnish health system provides universal coverage for a wide range of services and enjoys high public satisfaction. But a rapidly ageing population, costly medical technology and rising patients’ expectations will strain resources going forward. Therefore, reforms aimed at enhancing efficiency are essential.
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07-Feb-2012
Structural reforms aiming at increasing productivity in the private and public sectors therefore need to move up the agenda according to the latest Economic Survey of Finland.
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31-Jan-2012
Despite significant increases in spending on child care and education during the last decade, PISA scores suggest that educational performance remains static, uneven and strongly related to parents’ income and background. Better educational performance could improve labour market outcomes, raise growth, lower the consequences of a disadvantaged background and increase social mobility.
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31-Jan-2012
Using empirical evidence from panel analysis of current account dynamics and of bilateral trade balances, the paper argues that the large German current account surplus during the 2000s can be explained by an increasing gap between productivity growth in manufacturing vis-à-vis services. Such a gap is due not only to improvements in the manufacturing sector but also to a significant slowdown of productivity growth in services.
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23-Jan-2012
Less income inequality and more growth - can both be achived? A recent OECD study sheds new light on the link between policies that boost growth and the distribution of income.
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26-Jan-2012
Denmark stands out as a country with sound public finances. However, a better control of public expenditure would help to ensure long-term fiscal sustainability without raising the already high tax burden, which acts as a drag on economic growth.
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26-Jan-2012
Denmark has ambitious energy and climate objectives. Better exploiting interactions with EU and international policies and improving policies to support green technologies would help to achieving them in a cost-effective manner.
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26-Jan-2012
The Danish economy displays a number of strengths but continuing with reforms is required to secure the necessary space for policies to cope with potential further adverse shocks and to bring about strong, sustainable and greener growth.
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Events
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from 09-Dec-2010 to 10-Dec-2010
This workshop co-sponsored by Banque de France focuses on how a renewed drive for structural reforms could be helpful to exit the crisis and resume sustained growth of OECD economies.
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from 29-Jan-2010 to 30-Jan-2010
The OECD Economics Department, the department of International Institutional Comparisons of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, and CESifo will organize a joint workshop in Munich on market regulations, with a special focus on product market regulations. The conference is intended to encourage further research in the area of market regulations, and to stimulate interaction and co-operation in these fields.
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on 17-Mar-2008
What reforms are needed to boost jobs and productivity in Europe and how can they be implemented? Presentations tackling these and other questions discussed at a joint OECD-IMF conference on 17 March 2008 are now available. They include keynote speeches by OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría and IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
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on 23-Jun-2006
This Seminar is part of the EDRC Outreach Programme. Experts from the OECD Economics Department, the EBRD and independent academics discuss the scope for improving policies concerning oil exploration, production and transportation in the CIS. While production and reserves are small relative to OPEC they make a big contribution to covering the soaring demand from emerging economies and the United States. A re-emerging dirigisme throughout the region risks imposing a burden on CIS growth potential and limit the regions capacity to reduce OPEC monopoly power.
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