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Regulation, allocative efficiency and productivity in OECD countries: industry and firm-level evidence

13-Jun-2008

This paper relates diverging productivity performances across OECD countries over the past fifteen years to differences in the stringency of regulations in the product market.

Economic Survey of the Czech Republic 2008: Ensuring fiscal sustainability: assessing recent tax and public spending reforms

25-Apr-2008

A reform package enacted in 2007 introduced notably flat tax in personal incomes and fees for certain medical services. This chapter takes stock of  the package and the many further plans aimed at addressing long term fiscal sustainability. 

Economic survey of Norway 2007: Encouraging innovation

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.
 


Events

OECD-IMF Conference on Structural Reform in Europe

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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