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OECD Economic Outlook, June 2022
The war in Ukraine is a major humanitarian crisis with associated economic shocks that threaten the post‑pandemic recovery. The latest OECD Economic Outlook highlights the implications and risks for growth, inflation and living standards from higher commodity prices and potential disruptions to energy and food supplies, and discusses the associated policy challenges.
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Belgium Economic Survey 2022
Belgium’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic has been robust thanks to extensive policy support. However, the new shock from the war in Ukraine is exacerbating inflation, and supply and labour market shortages, highlighting the importance of boosting the resilience of the Belgian economy.
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Tunisia Economic Survey 2022
Tunisians are facing the worst crisis in a generation, as COVID-19 hit an economy that was already slowing down. Macroeconomic policy through fiscal stimulus and monetary easing limited the depth and severity of the recession, but the pandemic has exacerbated structural weaknesses, in particular low investment and job creation, high unemployment and informality, mismatch between skills demand and supply, and outward migration of high-skilled professionals.
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Latvia Economic Survey 2022
Latvia has enjoyed continuing catch-up in per capita incomes with the more affluent OECD countries through the pandemic, despite slow progress in vaccination. Fiscal policy has handled the health-system challenges while protecting jobs and firms but could do more to ease inequality and poverty, especially among the elderly.
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Norway Economic Survey 2022
Norway has been more successful than many countries in limiting the spread and impact of COVID‑19. The country has maintained good outcomes on many economic and social indicators. GDP per capita remains among the highest in the OECD. However, there are challenges in sustaining good outcomes amid post‑pandemic economic adjustment, continued population aging and the urgency of tackling climate change.
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COVID-19 and the global economy: Macroeconomic and structural policy issues
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- Insolvency and debt overhang following the COVID-19 outbreak: Assessment of risks and policy responses
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- Housing amid Covid-19: Policy responses and challenges
- COVID – 19 and the low-carbon transition: Impacts and possible policy responses
- The COVID-19 crisis and state ownership in the economy: Issues and policy considerations
- Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 containment measures on activity and spending
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Indicators of Product Market Regulation
Pro-competition regulation in the markets for goods and services can help boost living standards, can raise output per capita by increasing investment and employment, and can encourage firms to be more innovative and efficient, thereby lifting productivity. To measure countries’ regulatory stance and to track reform progress over time, since 1998 the OECD has been producing a set of indicators of product market regulation (PMR). This set included an economy-wide indicator and a group of indicators that measures regulation at the sector level.