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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in France
Høj, Jens - 2006
Over the past decade, French economic growth has been insufficient to bring down high and persistent unemployment. Available cross-country evidence suggests that enhancing competition is an important means to improve economic performance. France is catching up with best practice in competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445441
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Vers une croissance plus inclusive en Tunisie
De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Larbi, Hédi; Dridi, Raja - 2018
Le niveau de vie moyen des Tunisiens a augmenté de façon continue depuis plusieurs décennies tandis que la pauvreté et les inégalités ont largement diminué grâce à la mise en oeuvre de nombreux programmes sociaux. L’accès aux infrastructures de base telles que l’eau potable ou...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011914230
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Measuring Competition in Slovenian Industries : Estimation of Mark-ups
Molnár, Margit - 2010
Product market regulation on average is Slovenia does not appear particularly stringent, but heavy state involvement … service industries in Slovenia and in addition, its novelty is that it i) estimates mark-ups at a detailed level of sectoral … Economic Survey of Slovenia (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/slovenia). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012447036
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Boosting productivity to improve living standards in South Africa
Cahu, Paul - 2022
Productivity growth has been falling for a decade, hindering improvements in living standards. Low productivity reflects, firstly, poor infrastructure in telecommunications and transport. Secondly, the regulatory environment is not always business-friendly and often raises obstacles to firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013523753
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COVID-19 and productivity-enhancing digitalisation: Firm-level evidence from Slovenia
Borowiecki, Martin - 2023
This paper provides evidence on the impact of digitalisation on productivity in Slovenia during the COVID-19 crisis …
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Digitalisation and the labour market: Worker-level evidence from Slovenia
Miho, Antonela - 2023
This paper provides evidence on the effects of digitalisation on the labour market in Slovenia using a unique dataset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014435869
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Digitalising the economy in Slovenia
Russo, Lucia - 2022
This paper discusses key priorities and policy recommendations to accelerate Slovenia’s digital transformation. The … government’s ambitious digitalisation strategy (Digital Slovenia 2030 Strategy) aims at putting Slovenia among the five most … effects of a declining labour force. While Slovenia performs well in several areas of the digital transformation, further …
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Challenges and Opportunities of India's Manufacturing Sector
Joumard, Isabelle - 2015
The manufacturing sector has contributed little to income growth and its share in total merchandise exports has been declining. Manufacturing has not brought much new employment, and most of the recent rise in manufacturing employment has been in the informal sector, where workers are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012449780
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Regulation, Productivity and Growth : OECD Evidence
Nicoletti, Giuseppe - 2003
In this paper, we relate the scope and depth of regulatory reforms to growth outcomes in OECD countries. By means of a new set of quantitative indicators of regulation, we show that the cross-country variation of regulatory settings has increased in recent years, despite extensive liberalisation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443921
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Japan
Høj, Jens - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444046