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14-Feb-2007
Since the 1990s' crisis, Sweden has greatly improved its macroeconomic policies. All parts of society benefit from strong productivity growth, stable inflation expectations and public budget surpluses. Meanwhile, combating exclusion in the labour market is a key challenge, along with distortions in the housing market.
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14-Feb-2007
Since the 1990s' crisis, Sweden has greatly improved its macroeconomic policies. All parts of society benefit from strong productivity growth, stable inflation expectations and public budget surpluses. Meanwhile, combating exclusion in the labour market is a key challenge, along with distortions in the housing market.
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13-Feb-2007
With a number of the world’s most advanced countries finally shaking off the sluggish economic growth of recent years, now is the time to step up, not slacken, the pace of reform, according to the latest edition of the OECD's annual Going for Growth report.
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08-Feb-2007
This paper presents composite indicators of the institutional characteristics of primary and lower secondary educational systems for 26 OECD countries collated from a questionnaire. Economics Department working paper 543 by Frédéric Gonand, Isabelle Joumard and Robert Price.
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02-Feb-2007
Norway is entering the fourth year of a long cyclical upturn that has brought down unemployment, without so far rekindling inflation. However, fiscal and monetary policies need to tighten faster to minimise risks of overheating. Other challenges include reforming pensions to improve fiscal sustainability, boosting labour supply by reforming long term sickness and disability schemes and improving policies to encourage innovation to sustain the rise in the country’s prosperity.
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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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Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth 2008
