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14-Oct-2011
The three-year EU-IMF adjustment programme is on track. Good progress is being made to cut the fiscal deficit, but more needs to be done. The banking system has been recapitalized but deleveraging must continue. Structural reforms should address high unemployment and further improve competitiveness.
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17-May-2011
Mexico needs to maintain growth-enhancing investments and social policies to catch up with average OECD living standards and reduce poverty. Therefore, the significant effort of recent years to strengthen tax revenues should continue, particularly with a view of attaining a more efficient tax system with higher independence from oil revenues.
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17-May-2011
Productivity growth has been insufficient over the past two decades for a convergence of Mexican living standards to the OECD average. Structural reforms in the areas of business regulation, competition policy and education will be crucial to stimulate productivity and foster the catching up process.
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Regulatory reform: New Zealand
27-Apr-2011
Although many regulatory areas are consistent with OECD best practice, New Zealand is no longer assessed to be at the forefront of regulatory policy making. Persistently low productivity and GDP per capita suggest that regulatory settings could be improved to enhance economic performance.
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16-Mar-2011
Economic growth will be subdued this year and next in the United Kingdom, but the government must continue its difficult fiscal consolidation and structural reform programmes to return the economy to a sustainable path, according to the OECD’s latest UK Economic Survey.
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Economy: OECD Economic Survey Sweden 2011
23-Jan-2011
OECD Economic Survey of Sweden 2011
After the onset of the crisis, unemployment in Sweden increased markedly, though much less than expected. The challenge going forward is to ensure that high unemployment does not become entrenched or leads to withdrawals from the labour force.
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Economy: OECD Economic Survey of Sweden 2011
23-Jan-2011
Aggressive interest rates cuts, unconventional policy measures and exceptional government support to the financial system all helped contain the depth and length of the recession. Further improving monetary and financial policy frameworks would help cope with future shocks.
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Economy: OECD Economic Survey of Sweden 2011
23-Jan-2011
In the face of the crisis, Sweden’s healthy public finances proved a major asset. Going forward, maintaining a sound fiscal framework, encouraging greater labour force participation and further increasing the efficiency of public spending would help cope with future negative shocks and various fiscal pressures
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Economy: OECD Economic Survey of Sweden 2011
21-Jan-2011
Sweden has developed an extensive and sound policy framework to limit greenhouse gas emissions. It is now one of the OECD countries with the lowest greenhouse gas emissions per capita and it has successfully managed to decouple GDP growth from emissions growth. However, as Sweden has already significantly lowered its greenhouse gas emissions, the cost of reducing them further could be very high, making it urgent to improve the cost-effectiveness of Sweden’s climate change policies.
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