Brazil has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty and inequality. This reduction is explained by strong growth … but also by effective social policies. Besides growth, public services and cash transfers have played the biggest role … Familia” and “Brasil sem Miseria” while limiting the real growth of pension expenditures in the future would improve the …

compensation scheme could also reduce the uneven distribution of transitional losses, but at the expense of lower aggregate gains … compensation adéquate pourrait aussi lisser une distribution inégale des pertes durant la période de transition, mais au prix d …

semi–formal and informal economy had a significant contribution to the expansion of the private sector. Productivity growth … was strong, but labour utilisation remained very low. Looking forward, higher employment and productivity growth will not …

Turkey can achieve strong sustainable growth and job creation but further reforms in the labour market, education and … product markets are required for such gains to materialise. In recent years, growth has been largely driven by the industrial … sector. Sustaining vigorous growth over the longer run therefore requires pushing ahead with a number of structural reforms …

raise long term productivity growth need to be pursued. Current project-based R&D-support and business subsidies seem … current targeted support. Capital taxation should be streamlined to improve incentives for entrepreneurship and growth. The …

and in relation to other countries, contributing to weak economic growth and an erosion in competitiveness. An examination …

Turkey’s business sector dynamism has underpinned broad-based and inclusive growth in the 2000s. However, the business …

Productivity growth has declined since the late 1990s, slowing the catching-up process. Structural reforms to …

requiring plausible long-term projections of economic growth by country or region. The workshop included presentations by …

In this paper, we relate the scope and depth of regulatory reforms to growth outcomes in OECD countries. By means of a … increased in recent years, despite extensive liberalisation and privatisation in the OECD area. We then look at the regulation-growth … multifactor productivity (MFP), which plays a crucial role in GDP growth and accounts for a significant share of its cross …