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Denmark’s flexicurity model has performed well during the crisis. The actions and the improvement in economic conditions have restored overall stability to the banking system. Private consumption has been dented by the decline in housing prices and net household wealth. Exports have...
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innovation, education, and on continuing financial sector reforms. …
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The key policy challenge for Turkey in the years ahead will be to enhance and consolidate the advances made since the nation’s 2000-01 economic crisis. Higher growth could reduce unemployment and raise living standards toward European Union levels. This paper reviews Turkey’s...
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Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff and are published to elicit comment and to further debate. These papers are generally brief and written in nontechnical language, and so are aimed at a broad audience...
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, goods market efficiency, higher education, and innovation would permanently boost productivity growth by a total of 1 …
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Based on the economic literature, various policy measures and institutions in the product and labor markets that increase growth and employment are studied. From a cross-country approach, this study finds a significant relationship between Vertical Fiscal Imbalances (VFIs) and fiscal performance...
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Emerging and developing countries have grown faster than advanced countries since the 2000s. This shifting weight of global economic activity from 'the West'to 'East and South'is referred to as 'shifting wealth'. But in recent years, a number of factors, such as lower commodity prices, seem to...
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closed on the back of gains in competitiveness and improvements in export performance. Portugal has also been able to reduce … Portugal successfully exits the EU-IMF-ECB-supported programme and emerges from recession, it is more important than ever to …). It updates the OECD report Portugal: Reforming the State to Promote Growth, published in 2013. According to the OECD …
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Drawing on the OECD’s expertise in comparing country experiences and identifying best practices, the Better Policies series tailors the OECD’s policy advice to the specific and timely priorities of member and partner countries, focusing on how governments can make reform happen.
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