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News & Events
News
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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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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24-Jan-2012
While the level of greenhouse gas emissions is low in Switzerland, meeting emission reduction targets with the existing policies will be difficult. This survey discusses how Switzerland could reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a more cost effective way.
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23-Jan-2012
New OECD research – part of the wider Going for Growth structural reform programme - demonstrates how labour market reforms, tax and transfer systems, and high-quality education can yield a double dividend: boosting GDP while reducing income inequality.
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17-Jan-2012
Notwithstanding recent progress, Chile should make further efforts to improve the quality of education and ensure more equal access to enhance productivity performance and lower inequality.
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17-Jan-2012
Chile has made good progress in improving housing conditions, but more needs to be done to improve access to quality housing, reduce residential segregation and enhance mobility.
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17-Jan-2012
Chile should do more to improve labour market outcomes for workers at risk of poverty including better training and job placement services. Extending unemployment benefits further and limiting severance pay would improve workers’ protection against unemployment and reduce labour market duality.
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17-Jan-2012
Higher cash transfers for the poor combined with support for recipients to find employment and better education opportunities would contribute to reducing still high poverty and inequality in Chile.
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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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