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02-Mar-2006
For more than a decade, Ireland has been the OECD’s star performer. But sustaining this performance will become harder over time, and reforms in areas such as competition policy, education, innovation and infrastructure investment will be needed. At the same time, Ireland needs to leave room for manoeuvre to deal with some sizeable macroeconomic risks.
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06-Jan-2006
Although the economy should firm in 2006, two key challenges remain to be taken up: raising trend growth performance and restoring a better control of public spending in a long-term perspective.
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16-Sep-2005
Why has growth been so rapid? How could growth prospects be further boosted? How to ensure a stable macroeconomic environment? What reforms should be made to the financial system? Will population ageing generate a fiscal deficit? Is there room for tax reforms? Should public expenditure be re-oriented? Can differences in regional incomes be reduced? Can the quality of the environment be improved? Can development be sustained?
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16-Sep-2005
China could overtake the US and Germany to become the largest exporter in the world in the next five years. By then, Chinese goods and services could represent as much as 10% of global trade compared with 6% at present, according to the OECD.
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31-Aug-2005
The OECD will shortly publish two new reports on aspects of China’s economy and on public and private governance in China, as part of a series of studies conducted by the OECD in co-operation with the Chinese government under a programme launched in 1995.
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07-Jul-2004
What has driven growth since the 1998 crisis? Why is prudent fiscal policy critical for Russia? Is Russian industry competitive? What should be the main priorities for structural reform? How to reform the gas, electricity and banking sectors? Can the robust growth of recent years be sustained?
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14-Jun-2004
China and South Africa are to intensify their co-operation with the OECD by becoming Observers in its Committee on Fiscal Affairs (CFA), building on a dialogue with OECD countries on tax matters dating back to the early 1990s and covering key structural reforms in tax policy and administration.
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08-Jun-2004
Participants at a meeting of the OECD Global Forum on Taxation in Berlin on 3-4 June, which brought together representatives of both OECD countries and non-OECD economies, agreed on a process aimed at achieving high standards of transparency and information exchange in a way that is fair and equitable and permits fair tax competition between all countries.
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