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16-Apr-2008
Softening economic growth and the slowdown in the housing market mark a turning point for fiscal policy. Strong revenue growth in earlier years financed a sustained expansion of government spending and some cuts in tax rates, while still allowing the government to run a substantial fiscal surplus. This left the public finances in a healthy state with net government debt declining to a very low level. But this benign picture is changing as growth slows and tax receipts increase more slowly. Public spending growth needs to slow.
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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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