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the climate consistency of investments in transport infrastructure and vehicles in Latvia between 2008 and 2018, estimated … transport mode to a 2°C scenario from the International Energy Agency’s for the European Union and to projections from Latvia … highlights future investment and financing challenges, especially for road transport. The methodology piloted in this study can …
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Australia’s productivity growth has decelerated markedly around the turn of the century. Part of the decline is … probably temporary, but raising multifactor productivity is key to ensure that living standards continue to grow strongly … regulations across states would boost competition and productivity. …
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This paper derives estimates of the efficiency of welfare spending in Slovenia and the other OECD countries from data envelopment analysis based on model specifications used in earlier OECD studies. Results suggest that Slovenia ranks about 25th among OECD countries for output efficiency: for a...
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. Digital technologies offer opportunities to raise firms’ productivity and the population’s well-being. However, wide … productivity gaps between large firms and SMEs and between manufacturing and services weigh on economy-wide productivity, which is …
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services in output and its integration in the world economy. Productivity growth in the United Kingdom has consistently … financial crisis. Sluggish productivity growth in the service sectors was the main factor behind this weak performance. Raising … productivity will help to sustain employment and wages but will require a broad range of policies. Keeping low barriers to trade …
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This paper examines the link between barriers to trade and investment and productivity performance, in the United … a robust determinant of productivity in the long term. Control variables such as spending on R&D and human capital also … range of productivity measures as well as to changes in the sectoral coverage and the set of controls. …
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This paper investigates the causal effect of public administration efficiency on firm-level productivity. To this … administration efficiency and firm productivity because of large and persistent spatial disparities in economic performance and local …’ productivity growth. Increasing local public administration efficiency from the 25th percentile to the 75th percentile would raise …
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bank health and the consequences for aggregate productivity in 11 European countries. Controlling for cyclical effects, the … constrains the growth of more productive firms, to the detriment of aggregate productivity growth. Our results suggest that …
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