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28-Apr-2009
How is France affected by the global economic crisis and how can it eliminate the budget deficit? Can it raise employment rates for youth and older workers? The Economic Survey also looks at whether private reasearch and development should be supported by public funding and what measures can foster competition in the services sector.
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20-Apr-2009
Estonia grew faster than most emerging market economies during 2000-07, but it is now in a severe recession due to a collapse of domestic demand in the wake of the international financial crisis. The main challenge facing the policymakers is therefore to bring the economy quickly back to trend growth by re-orienting activity from serving domestic demand towards building up capacity to export.
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16-Apr-2009
The financial crisis heightens the risks associated with domestic macroeconomic imbalances, but responding to short-term challenges should not detract policy makers from the long-term goals of raising productivity growth and improving efficiency in the health sector.
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19-Nov-2008
The main challenges facing the Spanish economy are to minimise the economic costs of the current downturn, move workers shed to new jobs, and to raise sustainable productivity growth including by improving human capital formation and competition in product markets.
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17-Nov-2008
OECD’s latest economic survey of Spain will be published on Wednesday, 19 November 2008. It will include new forecasts and assess the policy challenges facing the country as the global downturn weighs on activity. Special chapters focus on jobs, education and competition.
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18-Jul-2008
An informal EDRC seminar took place on 9 July 2008, focussing on the implications of euro adoption for inflation and interest rates in the Slovak Republic, based on the experience of existing euro area countries.
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11-Jun-2008
Canada’s economic performance has been among the best in the OECD as a sound policy framework has enabled the country to take advantage of strong global growth and soaring terms of trade. The economy has adapted well to recent shocks, as labour and capital have shifted rapidly from manufacturing towards the resource and service sectors, with strong net job increases.
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11-Jun-2008
How to make the recent growth performance more sustainable? How to achieve a better macro-economic policy mix? How to raise work incentives and economic efficiency? How best to stimulate the supply of affordable housing in major cities? How to improve transport infrastructure rapidly?
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03-Jun-2008
The Finnish economy has been performing well but risks are mounting. Imbalances are building in the labour market and the wage negotiation framework needs to be overhauled. There is scope for improvement in the municipal sector as well as in tertiary education, and the tax mix could be made more efficient.
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09-Apr-2008
Germany has been enjoying a strong cyclical rebound in economic growth after a long period of stagnation. First positive effects of past reforms are already visible. However, for high economic growth to be more enduring, economic challenges remain, notably in the fields of labour markets, fiscal policy, education policy, healthcare and network industries.
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Economic Survey of Denmark 2009
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