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greener energy sources, energy efficiency and less fuel intensive transport need to be strengthened.<P>Améliorer l …
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Australia’s productivity growth has decelerated markedly around the turn of the century. Part of the decline is probably temporary, but raising multifactor productivity is key to ensure that living standards continue to grow strongly, especially if the currently strong terms of trade weaken...
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efficiency of public transport to further support commuting.<P>Améliorer l'adéquation offre-demande de travail et promouvoir la …
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Transport can play an important role in promoting growth, diversification and regional convergence. However, with … insufficient investment and incomplete structural reforms, Russia faces very large challenges in modernising its large transport … system. Urban transport problems are intensifying, because of weak policy coordination and inadequate traffic management …
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and the strong expansion of road transport. Turning around these trends will require more appropriate pricing of the … externalities and better regional development policies to foster denser settlements that are well connected to public transport … development with transport and housing policies. This Working Paper relates to the 2013 OECD Economic Survey of Austria (http …
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While the single market has largely been achieved for the EU market for goods, the services sector has lagged behind. This has resulted in sluggish activity, low productivity growth, high prices, that show a wide dispersion and relatively high inflation in this sector. Both the OECD product...
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, telecommunication and transport sectors; policies to foster entrepreneurship; and financial market reform, including the implementation … markets (electricity, gas, oil), the telecommunications sector, maritime transport and financial markets. This Working Paper … particulier dans les secteurs de l’énergie, des télécommunications et du transport, mesures favorisant l’entrepreneuriat, et mise …
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Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth of productivity have been low in many...
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The unprecedented 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States caused massive casualties and damage, and ushered in an era of greater uncertainty. While a prompt and vigorous policy response helped limit the immediate economic impact of the aggression, the heightened terrorist threat...
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Following many years of underinvestment, renovating and building new transport infrastructure is an important policy … reliant on road transport but is lacking an efficient high-speed road network. It needs important renovation investments both … maritime transport as well as extending and upgrading airport facilities to cope with the fastest growing air market in Europe …
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