South Africa’s macroeconomic framework has served the economy well, but should be strengthened to make the economy more …

a result of international trade and the internationalisation of production by multinational companies, with a particular … focus on the impact of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from OECD countries on employment in the home country of the … investing firms. Existing studies suggest that the overall impact of trade and the internationalisation of production on …

future generations. Consolidation should focus on reducing primary spending and on enhancing tax revenues. This can be …

offers a partial explanation for the relative underperformance of the NZ economy, restrictive policies in some areas are also … government’s influence in competitive markets and lowering barriers to trade and FDI, including ongoing policy harmonisation and …

This paper presents the new OECD competition law and policies (CLP) indicators which measure the strength and scope of … competition regimes in 49 jurisdictions (OECD and non-OECD). The indicators cover areas for which there is a broad consensus among …’ policy settings captured by the indicators. On average, the design of competition laws and policies appears to be closer to …

developing countries. This paper uses the OECD's indicators of product market regulation (PMR) to assess the extent to which … markedly across the 21 Indian states for which the PMR indicators are estimated. The paper goes on to review various aspects of …

describes a new set of indicators that measure differences in the regulation of non-manufacturing sectors of OECD countries over … the past three decades. The indicators focus on regulations that affect competitive pressures in areas where competition … indicators and the patterns of product market regulation and regulatory reform that emerge from the analysis. The robustness of …

is based on summary indicators of product market regulation that measure the degree to which policies promote or inhibit … countries that have higher barriers to foreign trade and investment, and high levels of state control and barriers to …

Against a background of mounting demands for spending on services provided by sub-central governments, this paper … of rule. It then constructs a number of synthetic sub-indicators designed to assess the extent to which sub …