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Enhancing growth through more innovation has become a priority for Austrian policy makers in line with European … policies as laid down in the Lisbon Agenda. This paper discusses Austria’s innovation performance, its innovation policies, and … general framework conditions for innovation and growth. Austria has increased its R&D spending as a share of GDP over the last …
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liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …
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Key indicators show Germany belonging to the countries in the OECD with strong innovation activity even though some … technologies, such as ICT and biotechnology, as innovation activities continue to focus on sectors, such as machinery and … ...<BR><P>Selon les principaux indicateurs, l’Allemagne est l’un des pays de l’OCDE où l’activité d’innovation est soutenue …
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Increasing productivity growth through innovation is a key to raising living standards. Although R&D intensity in Japan …. The innovation system, which developed during the catchingup process, is largely input-driven and focused on incremental … innovation based on closed and stable corporate and employment systems. However, this approach is less appropriate in the current …
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factor productivity gains, which are in turn driven to a large extent by innovation. While a number of Korean firms are at …. Innovation also requires policies to ensure the supply of high-quality human capital through reforms of tertiary education. This ….oecd.org/eco/surveys/korea).<P>Maintenir une forte croissance grâce à l'innovation : Réforme des système de R-D et d'éducation<BR>Les apports de main-d’oeuvre et …
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This paper analyzes the effects of fiscal convergence on business cycle volatility and growth. Using a panel 21 OECD countries (including 11 EMU countries) and 40 years of data, we find that countries with similar government budget positions tend to have smoother business cycles. That is, fiscal...
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This paper investigates the design of tax structures to promote economic growth. It suggests a “tax and growth” ranking of taxes, confirming results from earlier literature but providing a more detailed disaggregation of taxes. Corporate taxes are found to be most harmful for growth,...
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This paper examines the recent literature on economic growth with a focus on policy issues and evidence relevant to OECD countries. The review begins with an overview of developments in the theory of economic growth and also comments generally on the nature of evidence exploring the influences...
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In this paper we present an international comparison of growth trends in the OECD countries, with a special attention to developments in labour productivity - allowing for human capital accumulation – and multifactor productivity (MFP) - allowing for changes in the composition of fixed...
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This paper surveys the empirical literature on the growth effects of education and social capital. The main focus is on the cross-country evidence for the OECD countries, but the paper also briefly reviews evidence from labour economics, to clarify where empirical work on education using macro...
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