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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277005
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Improving Access and Quality in the Indian Education System
Hill, Sam; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
Education has been given high priority by India’s central and state governments and continues to grow fast. School access has been expanded by investment in school infrastructure and recruitment of teachers. In higher education too, the number of providers continues to rise rapidly. A new law...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009224863
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Mind the financing gap: Enhancing the contribution of intangible assets to productivity
Demmou, Lilas - 2021
Intangible assets are an important driver of productivity and ultimately output growth. Yet, despite their aggregate rise in the past decades, productivity has continued to grow modestly in the majority of OECD countries. This is in part because many firms – particularly young and small ones -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012661025
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The Challenge of Restoring French Competitiveness
Kierzenkowski, Rafal - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009
decade, before the apparition of the current crisis. An analysis of the deterioration in competitiveness points to supply … offshoring the entire production process. Restoring competitiveness will require steps to strengthen the country’s growth … rapidly. The lack of competitiveness is more often a symptom than the cause of one or more underlying economic weaknesses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034051
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Better Harnessing Talent and Knowledge to Boost Sustainable Medium-term Growth in Spain
Haugh, David; Westmore, Ben - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Structural transformation towards a more knowledge-based economy will strengthen Spain’s medium-term growth prospects. To deal with long standing impediments to higher growth the government has a substantial structural reform programme touching on education, the labour market and the business...
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Enhancing Portugal's Human Capital
Guichard, Stéphanie - 2006
The lack of human capital in Portugal has become a key obstacle to higher growth. This paper discusses the performance of education and training services in Portugal and shows that improvements are needed to narrow the significant human capital gap with other OECD countries. Despite progress in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446711
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Enhancing Portugal's Human Capital
Guichard, Stéphanie; Larre, Bénédicte - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
The lack of human capital in Portugal has become a key obstacle to higher growth. This paper discusses the performance of education and training services in Portugal and shows that improvements are needed to narrow the significant human capital gap with other OECD countries. Despite progress in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046031
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - 2010
In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been fairly steep since the 1980s. Policy action has taken the form of regional development measures and of reforms of various aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444749
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been fairly steep since the 1980s. Policy action has taken the form of regional development measures and of reforms of various aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480479
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Policies to support sustainable long-term growth in New Zealand
Cheung, Calista - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
As its workforce ages and major economies shift towards producing higher value-added goods and services, New Zealand will face increasing challenges to remain globally competitive and maintain high living standards. Future growth will need to come increasingly from productivity gains, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276855