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17-Jun-2009
Italy is in a deep recession. The banking system resisted the first wave of the financial crisis, but credit conditions have tightened and households have suffered large financial losses. What is the outlook and what does Italy need to do to support long term growth? How can the education system be improved?
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28-Apr-2009
How is France affected by the global economic crisis and how can it eliminate the budget deficit? Can it raise employment rates for youth and older workers and should private research and development be supported by public funding? The Economic Survey looks at the policies needed to help pull the country out of the recession and restore sustained growth.
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28-Apr-2009
How is France affected by the global economic crisis and how can it eliminate the budget deficit? Can it raise employment rates for youth and older workers? The Economic Survey also looks at whether private reasearch and development should be supported by public funding and what measures can foster competition in the services sector.
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20-Apr-2009
Estonia grew faster than most emerging market economies during 2000-07, but it is now in a severe recession due to a collapse of domestic demand in the wake of the international financial crisis. The main challenge facing the policymakers is therefore to bring the economy quickly back to trend growth by re-orienting activity from serving domestic demand towards building up capacity to export.
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16-Apr-2009
The financial crisis heightens the risks associated with domestic macroeconomic imbalances, but responding to short-term challenges should not detract policy makers from the long-term goals of raising productivity growth and improving efficiency in the health sector.
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31-Mar-2009
Economic activity is expected to plummet by an average 4.3 percent in the OECD area in 2009 while by the end of 2010 unemployment rates in many countries will reach double figures for the first time since the early 1990s, according to the OECD’s Economic Outlook Interim Report.
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03-Mar-2009
The current crisis offers governments the opportunity of combining emergency action with the important structural reforms needed to improve long-term growth and resilience in their economies, according to OECD’s latest Going for Growth.
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16-Feb-2009
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría has welcomed the decision by G7 Finance Ministers to work towards setting up a set of common principles on integrity, transparency and propriety in global financial and business transactions.
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13-Feb-2009
In a statement issued today (12 February 2009), the OECD, the IMF and the World Bank underscored the urgent need for measures to restore banks’ lending capacity and for fiscal stimulus to combat the economic crisis. They also warned against protectionist policies, which they said would slow down global recovery. The statement was issued following a joint seminar held at OECD headquarters on 4 February 2009 to discuss the response to the crisis.
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23-Jan-2009
The crisis has shown the vulnerability of a global economy based on the idea that ever increasing production and consumption were the key to success, says OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría. But this crisis is “a big opportunity for change, a colossal opportunity to bring about a greener economic growth and a more inclusive and reliable globalisation.”
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