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labour productivity, which in turn is related to economic geography as well as structural policy factors. The small size and … groundwork for creating this advantage and for a pick-up in productivity growth. But in recent years, New Zealand has lost ground … regulation. Policies should be refocused around the productivity goal in a number of areas, beginning with those covered in this …
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After nearly fifteen years of transition, the countries of Central Europe have entered the European Union on 1 May 2004. For the four countries that are members of the OECD (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovak Republic), accession follows multiyear efforts of economic stabilisation and...
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Impressive productivity performance during the last decades has weakened since 2007, reflecting the 2008-09 recession … raise long term productivity growth need to be pursued. Current project-based R&D-support and business subsidies seem … quality rather than block grants. Productivity performance could be enhanced by exposing sectors like health provision …
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sector is highly segmented, with a relatively small core of modern high-productivity corporations, and myriad small, less … formal and low-productivity entities. This hampers efficient resource allocation and tends to entrench social inequalities … to be overcome to raise productivity in the informal, low-skill and low-productivity sector, and to facilitate resource …
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examines, more particularly, levels and changes in labour productivity, unit labour costs and revealed comparative advantages … labour productivity have been achieved since 1997, especially during the post-crisis period. Secondly, this has been true for … productivity increased more in less productive sectors. Since the crisis, relative unit labour costs have also adjusted …
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compétitivité des industries russe et ukrainienne<BR>Cette étude analyse le développement de l’industrie russe en le comparant avec … celui de l’industrie ukrainienne sur la période 1995-2004, afin d’établir - si tel était le cas - dans quelle mesure l’industrie …
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growth and low productivity. Major structural measures have been legislated to improve competition, education, energy, the …
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potential effects of fiscal decentralisation on a set of outcomes such as GDP, productivity, public investment and school …
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China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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developments in labour productivity, allowing for human capital accumulation, and multifactor productivity (MFP), allowing for … capita growth, while differences in labour productivity have remained broadly stable. These patterns are explained by …
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