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Does FDI benefit incumbent SMEs? : FDI spillovers and competition effects at the local level

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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China

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Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...

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Enhancing public sector efficiency and effectiveness in the Czech Republic

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Spending on public administration itself is relatively low and so are indicators of its performance. Challenges include wastage in public procurement, insufficient management of the investment cycle and high levels of staff turnover. This paper considers ways of building on recent reforms,...

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Productivity spillovers from the global frontier and public policy : industry-level evidence

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spillovers from the global productivity frontier, and consequently, productivity growth. …

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Cross-country spillovers from fiscal consolidations

Goujard, Antoine - 2013

consolidation shocks via trade flows. Using a measure of exogenous fiscal shocks in export markets, fiscal consolidation spillovers … partner countries, fiscal policies have large spillover effects on output. Spillovers of fiscal consolidations on growth are … medium term. Larger spillovers of fiscal consolidation coincide with stronger shifts in bilateral trade flows in currency …

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