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Better Regulation: Synthesis of the reports on Denmark, Netherlands, Portugal and United Kingdom

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15-Jul-2009

The EU 15 project is a partnership between the OECD and the EU Commission. It aims to assess regulatory management capacities in 15 member states of the EU, describes trends in their development, and identifies gaps in relation to good practice.

Better Regulation in the United Kingdom

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10-Jul-2009

The EU 15 project is a partnership between the OECD and the EU Commission. It aims to assess regulatory management capacities in 15 member states of the EU, describes trends in their development, and identifies gaps in relation to good practice.

Guidance Note Compliance Management of Large Business Task Group: Experiences and Practices of Eight OECD Countries

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03-Jul-2009

Large business taxpayers have different characteristics and tax compliance behaviour and, therefore, present different risks to the revenue. To manage risks effectively, the revenue body needs to develop ...

Briefing note for OECD Health Data 2009: How Does the United Kingdom Compare

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01-Jul-2009

Total health spending accounted for 8.4% of GDP in the United Kingdom in 2007, compared with an average of 8.9% across OECD countries.

Keep doors open to migrant workers to meet long-term labour needs, says OECD

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30-Jun-2009

The economic crisis is likely to cause the first major fall in the number of migrants coming to work in OECD countries since the 1980s, according to a new OECD report.

Economic Survey of the United Kingdom 2009: Structural policies to promote sustainable long-term growth

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29-Jun-2009

While the immediate imperative is to tackle the financial crisis and to steer the economy through the current downturn, there are also a number of longer-term challenges that need to be addressed to foster ...

Economic Survey of the United Kingdom 2009: Financial stability: banking on prudence

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29-Jun-2009

The UK financial market has been severely affected by the financial market crisis. The crisis has exposed weaknesses in the supervisory framework as well as that for crisis management and resolution. This ...

Economic Survey of the United Kingdom 2009: The NHS: an economic health check

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29-Jun-2009

The government’s health reform programme since 2000 has covered many aspects of the organisation of health care and was accompanied by a sizeable increase in spending on healthcare. Many of these reforms ...

Economic Survey of the United Kingdom 2009: Restoring sound public finances

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29-Jun-2009

As in most other OECD countries, the fiscal situation in the UK has deteriorated sharply. While to date the discretionary fiscal stimulus has been relatively modest, after around the turn of the century ...

Economic Survey of the United Kingdom 2009: Policies to overcome the crisis

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29-Jun-2009

The United Kingdom, like many OECD economies, is experiencing a severe recession as a consequence of a series of global shocks and any recovery in 2010 is likely to be slow. The financial crisis has severely ...