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News & Events
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03-May-2012
Poland is on track to meet its international greenhouse gas emissions commitments. However, it will need to cut emissions significantly in the future, if the European Commission’s proposal on the Low Carbon Roadmap is adopted.
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03-May-2012
Economic growth is projected to be strengthening from mid-2011 onwards, but will be insufficient to restore the sustainability of public finances. The Belgian strategy to prefund ageing costs by generating fiscal surpluses to bring down public debt was derailed by the global crisis.
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03-May-2012
Three main approaches can be used to assess infrastructure performance. The first employs macro econometric techniques to estimate the impact of the existing infrastructure capital stock on growth and to infer its growth maximising level.
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03-May-2012
Since the transformation following the Communist era, Poland has matched improvements in health outcomes of the most developed OECD countries, although without catching up the ground lost during the 1970s and 1980s.
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03-May-2012
Since 1990, Belgium has managed to bring down greenhouse gas emissions in most domains of economic activity. Road transport, as in many other countries, is a notable exception to this pattern: emissions have steadily increased, driven by an ever higher consumption of petrol and diesel.
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26-Apr-2012
Korea is one of the fastest-growing OECD economies, but it faces the most rapid population ageing in the OECD area as well as rising inequality. Korea needs reforms, particularly in the labour market and the education system, to sustain growth and promote social cohesion.
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26-Apr-2012
Korea recovered faster and more vigorously from the 2008 global crisis than most OECD countries. Growth slowed in late 2011, reflecting the deterioration in the world economy, but is projected at
around 3½ per cent in 2012.
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26-Apr-2012
Korea should resume monetary policy tightening once the economy overcomes the current soft patch
and period of uncertainty. Korea should maintain a flexible exchange rate policy and guard against an excessive increase in foreign exchange reserves.
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26-Apr-2012
Korea had the second-lowest level of public spending, at 31% of GDP on a general government basis in 2010, compared to the OECD average of 46%. Under current policies, however, population ageing alone is projected to boost public social spending from 7½ per cent of GDP at present to as high as 20% by 2050.
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26-Apr-2012
Korea should rely primarily on indirect taxes, notably the VAT, environmental taxes and property-holding
taxes, to finance rising government spending, while keeping taxes on labour income low to promote employment and growth.
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Events
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from 29-Jan-2010 to 30-Jan-2010
The OECD Economics Department, the department of International Institutional Comparisons of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, and CESifo will organize a joint workshop in Munich on market regulations, with a special focus on product market regulations. The conference is intended to encourage further research in the area of market regulations, and to stimulate interaction and co-operation in these fields.
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from 01-Dec-2008 to 12-Dec-2008
The impact of climate change on our environment, our economies and our security is the defining issue of our era. OECD is at the forefront of climate change analysis, promoting environmentally and economically rational policies related to adaptation, mitigation, technology, financing and development. The OECD was present in several ways at the UN Climate Change Conference.
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from 18-Nov-2008 to 19-Nov-2008
Innovation is crucial to long-term economic growth. Making innovation-driven growth happen requires action on a wide range of policy areas, from education and science and technology to product and labour markets and trade. OECD and the World Bank are joining forces to work more closely on innovation, particularly insofar as this issue is a crucial factor in the success of development policy, notably in middle income market economies.
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