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News & Events
News
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09-Feb-2012
This paper studies the impact of recent changes in second pension pillars of three Central and Eastern European Countries on the deficit and implicit debt of their full pension systems.
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07-Feb-2012
While the budget deficit is small, current fiscal plans are not ambitious enough to deal with future fiscal challenges related to an ageing population. Increases in the retirement age and tightening early retirement schemes would – together with labour market reforms – address these challenges.
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Economic Growth and Productivity in Finland
07-Feb-2012
Finland’s productivity growth has deteriorated, reflecting a weak performance in information and communication technologies but also in the public sector. Better focused R&D support and stronger competition among shielded sectors would contribute to higher productivity.
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07-Feb-2012
The Finnish health system provides universal coverage for a wide range of services and enjoys high public satisfaction. But a rapidly ageing population, costly medical technology and rising patients’ expectations will strain resources going forward. Therefore, reforms aimed at enhancing efficiency are essential.
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07-Feb-2012
Structural reforms aiming at increasing productivity in the private and public sectors therefore need to move up the agenda according to the latest Economic Survey of Finland.
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07-Feb-2012
The Finnish economy has still not recovered from the sharp 2008-09 recession and productivity performance has weakened. Structural reforms aiming at increasing productivity in the private and public sector therefore need to move up the agenda according to the latest Economic Survey of Finland.
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31-Jan-2012
Despite significant increases in spending on child care and education during the last decade, PISA scores suggest that educational performance remains static, uneven and strongly related to parents’ income and background. Better educational performance could improve labour market outcomes, raise growth, lower the consequences of a disadvantaged background and increase social mobility.
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31-Jan-2012
Using empirical evidence from panel analysis of current account dynamics and of bilateral trade balances, the paper argues that the large German current account surplus during the 2000s can be explained by an increasing gap between productivity growth in manufacturing vis-à-vis services. Such a gap is due not only to improvements in the manufacturing sector but also to a significant slowdown of productivity growth in services.
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31-Jan-2012
A carbon intensive energy system in the Czech Republic contributes to one of the highest ratios of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to GDP in the OECD.
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23-Jan-2012
Less income inequality and more growth - can both be achived? A recent OECD study sheds new light on the link between policies that boost growth and the distribution of income.
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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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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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on 23-Jun-2006
This Seminar is part of the EDRC Outreach Programme. Experts from the OECD Economics Department, the EBRD and independent academics discuss the scope for improving policies concerning oil exploration, production and transportation in the CIS. While production and reserves are small relative to OPEC they make a big contribution to covering the soaring demand from emerging economies and the United States. A re-emerging dirigisme throughout the region risks imposing a burden on CIS growth potential and limit the regions capacity to reduce OPEC monopoly power.
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