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News & Events
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24-Jul-2008
Indonesia’s economic performance is improving and growth is picking up. An important policy challenge is to sustain high growth over the longer term so as to ensure a faster catch-up in living standards relative to the OECD area.
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18-Jul-2008
An informal EDRC seminar took place on 9 July 2008, focussing on the implications of euro adoption for inflation and interest rates in the Slovak Republic, based on the experience of existing euro area countries.
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17-Jul-2008
Measures of the gap between actual and potential activity are used frequently as indicators of the economic cycle and play a vital role in the conduct of monetary and fiscal policy. This paper investigates the uncertainty surrounding projections and early outturn estimates of such gaps and evaluates their usefulness for policy making in real time.
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15-Jul-2008
Prudent macroeconomic policies have driven South Africa’s impressive economic performance over the past decade, but huge problems remain, notably in tackling unemployment. Policies to strengthen competition and improve education would raise living standards both by helping to realise South Africa’s employment potential and by boosting long-term productivity growth.
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01-Jul-2008
Luxembourg’s economy is in fine shape, mainly due to the strong expansion of the financial sector, and dynamic tax revenues have underpinned growth in the public sector. However, the medium term challenges include a likely slowdown of the financial sector and a need for boosting public sector efficiency.
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27-Jun-2008
Speech delivered by Jørgen Elmeskov, Acting Head of the OECD Economics Department, at the Wirtschaftsrat Economic conference: Growth engine world economy: Seizing chances - controlling risks which took place on 18 June 2008 in Berlin, Germany.
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Events
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on 15-Jul-2008
During his official visit, Angel Gurría met with the President of the Republic of South Africa and other government officials. He also held a press conference for the release of the first’s OECD Economic Assessment of South Africa.
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from 11-Jul-2008 to 17-Jul-2008
The OECD’s latest economic survey of Turkey, to be published on Thursday 17 July 2008, looks at the reforms needed to strengthen public finances, boost competitiveness and create jobs.
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on 25-Jun-2008
The OECD’s latest economic survey of Portugal, to be published on Wednesday 25 June 2008, looks at how growth can be boosted and made more sustainable by strengthening public finances, enhancing the business environment and improving the efficiency of the labour market.
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on 17-Mar-2008
A joint OECD/International Monetary Fund conference on the reforms needed to boost jobs and productivity in Europe will be held on Monday 17 March 2008.
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from 17-Mar-2008 to 20-Mar-2008
Two media events on growth, reform and the economic prospects of OECD countries will take place at OECD in March 2008: OECD-IMF Conference on structural reform in Europe, Interim economic outlook for US, Europe and Japan.
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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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from 27-Jun-2007 to 30-Jun-2007
How can societies better measure their progress or setbacks? The question lies at the heart of a long-term OECD project to explore how the effective use of information can benefit democracy, empower individual citizens and stimulate a global debate on what progress means. See the webcast available at www.oecd.org/oecdworldforum/webcast
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from 29-Mar-2007 to 05-Apr-2007
Is there a perfect pension scheme? Do people understand their pension systems?
A live online question and answer session on the issue of pension reform took place on Thursday 5 April.
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from 23-Jan-2007 to 24-Jan-2007
Policymakers from Southeast Asian and OECD countries will meet in Jakarta on 23-24 January 2007 to discuss the role and utility of the ‘peer review’ mechanism which is at the heart of the OECD’s working methods, with a view to providing direction for policy reform and enhanced international co-operation.
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on 11-Dec-2006
Is Russia relying too much on the energy sector and, if so, what is the cure? Click here to read the questions and answers from this online debate with OECD economists on the Russian economy .
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How deep is the impact of the recent oil and credit shocks on the productive potential of OECD economies?
Issue No. 83
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