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Improving education outcomes is vital for achieving convergence with GDP per capita levels in Western European countries and for reducing income inequality. While some education outcomes are favourable, such as the low secondary-school drop-out rate, others have room for improvement: education...
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Improving education achievement in Luxembourg is a priority for strengthening productivity growth and enhancing residents. employment prospects in the private sector, where employers mainly hire cross-border workers. Student achievement in Luxembourg is below the OECD average according to the...
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The US innovation system has many strengths, including world class research universities and firms that thrive in … innovation-intensive sectors. However, fissures have begun to appear, notably in the areas of human capital development, the … curtailed by budget cuts. Revitalizing the dynamism of innovation has become a priority for US policymakers. To this end, it is …
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Strengthening the innovation system in the Netherlands is a priority for raising productivity growth, which has been … relatively weak in recent years. Knowledge creation in the Netherlands is strong -- scientific publications per capita are the … sixth highest in the OECD -- but innovation activity is only around the average for OECD countries according to the EIS …
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