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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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Providing Greater Old-Age Security in China
Herd, Richard - 2010
China’s population is set to age fast, owing to low fertility and rising life expectancy. With ongoing migration of the younger cohorts to urban areas the increase in the old-age dependency ratio will be even more pronounced in rural than in urban areas. Very different pension arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444116
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Improving China's Health Care System
Herd, Richard - 2010
Overall, health outcomes in China have improved tremendously over the past three decades, especially thanks to the reduction in some traditional infectious diseases. However, death rates from chronic diseases have been on the rise, not least owing to changes in life styles and deteriorating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444453
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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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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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Providing Greater Old-Age Security in China
Herd, Richard; Hu, Hu-Wei; Koen, Vincent - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
China’s population is set to age fast, owing to low fertility and rising life expectancy. With ongoing migration of the younger cohorts to urban areas the increase in the old-age dependency ratio will be even more pronounced in rural than in urban areas. Very different pension arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542491
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Improving China's Health Care System
Herd, Richard; Hu, Yu-Wei; Koen, Vincent - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
Overall, health outcomes in China have improved tremendously over the past three decades, especially thanks to the reduction in some traditional infectious diseases. However, death rates from chronic diseases have been on the rise, not least owing to changes in life styles and deteriorating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480476
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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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Improving the quality and efficiency of education and training in Costa Rica to better support growth and equity
Maravalle, Alessandro - 2023
Education and training are a high priority for Costa Rica that devotes to them more than 6.5% of GDP, one of the highest spending shares among OECD countries. However, educational outcomes remain poor and firms struggle to fill their vacancies, particularly in technical and scientific positions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014324643
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Product market regulation in Indonesia : An international comparison
Lewis, Christine - 2022
resources both within and across industries. This paper provides a detailed review of PMR in Indonesia and analyses the country … Indicators, which have been recently compiled for Indonesia. These indicators assess the extent to which the regulatory framework … Indonesia is less conducive to competition than in most OECD countries. The scope for improvement is particularly great in areas …
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