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Building the evidence for OECD integrity and anticorruption agenda : the current situation and avenues for future analysis
Smidova, Zuzana - 2020
Potential economic benefits of integrity and anti-corruption policies seem large. Nevertheless, much of the existing … paper reviews OECD’s involvement in integrity and anti-corruption agenda as well as available indicators of integrity and … anti-corruption policies and outcomes. It outlines avenues for future analysis that include assessment of public …
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Boosting growth and reducing informality in Mexico
Dougherty, Sean M. - 2015
addressing corruption and weak enforcement of legal rights. The justice system is often slow and inefficient. And in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392836
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Recent trends in productivity in China : shift-share analysis of labour productivity growth and the evolution of the productivity gap
Molnár, Margit; Chalaux, Thomas - 2015
The Chinese economy has been undergoing fundamental structural changes since the start of reforms in 1978. An increasing number of farmers first got engaged in off-farm activities and then started to migrate to cities in the 1990s in search of jobs. Such movement of labour from less to more...
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Productivity spillovers from the global frontier and public policy : industry-level evidence
Saia, Alessandro; Andrews, Dan; Albrizio, Silvia - 2015
For much of the second half of the twentieth century, labour productivity grew rapidly in most OECD economies, fuelled by the adoption of a large stock of unexploited existing technologies. However, the slowdown in productivity growth over the past decade underscores the idea that as economies...
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Raising competitiveness and long-term growth of the Slovenian economy
Sila, Urban; Jemec, Nataša Todorović; Morgavi, Hermes - 2015
The rapid growth after independence stopped in 2008 as the global crisis exposed important structural weaknesses. Large state involvement and rigid labour and product markets lowered productivity. Weak corporate governance and easy credit before the crisis led to high indebtedness and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399555
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Policies for inclusive and sustainable growth in Indonesia
Vujanovic, Petar - 2015
Indonesia has a very good record of poverty reduction, having halved its incidence over the past two decades. Nevertheless, almost 30 million people still live below the national poverty line, mostly in rural areas and in certain provinces. In order to make further progress in lifting these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399569
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Sustaining the economic expansion in New Zealand
Luu, Corinne - 2015
The NZ economy has performed well over the past few years, having achieved relatively strong GDP and employment growth. However, some constraints to sustaining this momentum beyond the short term are emerging in the fields of skills, housing and urban infrastructure. Skills shortages have risen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399572
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Policy areas for increasing productivity in Latvia economics
Smidova, Zuzana - 2015
Much of the convergence of the Latvian economy needs to come from productivity increases. To achieve this, policy makers should do more to facilitate the integration of the economy into global trade and promote competitive business environment. By benchmarking Latvia vis-à-vis the other Baltic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399642
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Boosting export performance in Portugal
Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2015
In the years before the economic crisis, Portugal had low growth, a decline in export competitiveness and rising imbalances that included a large current account deficit and a strong expansion of the non-tradable sector. Strengthening export performance is therefore one of the principal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399650
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Structural policies and productivity : evidence from Portuguese firms
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Barbosa, Natália - 2015
This paper provides empirical evidence on links between the productivity of Portuguese firms and a number of policy variables in Portugal. The analysis is based on a census of Portuguese manufacturing companies, covering more than 40,000 firms between 2006 and 2011. The results suggest that a...
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