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Policy Insights 75: The Curse of Raw Materials?28-Aug-2008 Gøril Havro and Javier Santiso The “raw materials curse” is far from being an inevitability, as shown by Norway and Chile. Both examples offer valuable lessons to developing countries on how to sensibly manage mining and oil resources. Also available: |
Economic Survey of Norway 2008: Making the best of Norwegian schools20-Aug-2008 Given the significant resources spent in education, Norway’s modest performance on certain measures suggests that resources are used inefficiently. Many are the possible routes to improve efficiency. |
Economic Survey of Norway 2008: The labour market: supply constraints and immigration20-Aug-2008 The labour market has become very tight Increasing real wage growth, some increase in participation and a continuing increase in immigration flows have been the results. |
Economic Survey of Norway 2008: Macroeconomic policies for a soft landing20-Aug-2008 The economy is operating with great pressure but there are downside risks as well. Fiscal and monetary policy should thus remain vigilant and their stance adjusted if the outlook changes. |
Economic Survey of Norway 2008: Maintaining prosperity while dealing with overheating and labour supply constraints20-Aug-2008 The Norwegian mainland economy has expanded strongly in 2007, macroeconomic policy has been tightened, pressure on labour market showed in increasing wage inflation and inflows of foreign labour. |
Economic Survey of Norway 200820-Aug-2008 How will the current world slowdown affect Norway? How well has monetary policy succeeded in stabilising inflation? Is Norway managing its oil wealth intelligently? Is labour supply flexible enough to meet demand? How to improve performance in education? Also available: |
OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy: Norway01-Jul-2008 This volume reviews the strengths and weaknesses of Norway’s innovation system and recommends steps the government could take to foster innovation activity and increase the impact of innovation on the country’s future prosperity and social well-being. Related documents: |
Norway: Environmental performance of agriculture since 1990:16-Jun-2008 Agri-environmental indicators for Norway and data on the environmental performance of Norwegian agriculture. Extract from the publication Environmental Performance of Agriculture in OECD Countries since 1990 (2008). Also available:Related documents: |