EO89 Special Chapter: Medium and long-term developments: Challenges and risks

The recovery is projected to strengthen in the near term, but there are concerns about the longer-term legacy of the crisis, particularly because of the emergence of unsustainable fiscal imbalances as well as the possible damage to long-term growth prospects.

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Capital Flows, Economics Department Policy Note No. 6

Increased international capital flows can support long-term income growth through a better international allocation of saving and investment.

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• OECD Economic Outlook No. 86, November 2009

Tax reforms to improve economic performance

Many governments are facing historic high levels of deficit and debt. Public spending has risen and they are taking in less money as tax revenues fall. Governments are attempting to consolidate their budgets, looking for the appropriate balance between expenditure cuts and revenue increases.

Taxing Wages - Information by Country

Taxing Wages - Information by Country

Tax and Development

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Policy frameworks in the post-crisis environment

The financial crisis revealed flaws in pre-crisis policy frameworks.

Working Paper No13: Tax competition between sub-central governments

Tax competition is the strategic interaction of tax policy between sub-central governments with the objective to attract and retain mobile tax bases. This paper evaluates the main issues regarding tax compettition.

Global imbalances, exchange rate pegs and capital flows: a closer look

This paper presents a stylised model in which either a savings glut or an exchange rate peg in emerging economies drives down the level of interest rates in advanced economies and, when it hits the zero-rate bound, produces a welfare loss.

Taxing Wages - Main Trends

The 2010 edition of Taxing Wages provides estimates of tax burdens and of the tax wedge between labour costs and net take-home pay for 2010.

Challenges and policies for promoting inclusive growth

Statement by Secretary-General Angel Gurría at the occasion of the OECD-WB Conference on challenges and policies for promoting inclusive growth, 24-25 March 2011 at OECD, Paris.