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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013
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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Policies for encouraging healthier food choices
Giner, Céline; Brooks, Jonathan - 2019
What is the role of government policies in encouraging healthier food choices to fight the current overweight and obesity epidemics? This report briefly examines the evidence base on unhealthy diets, including the associated burden on health systems. It then takes stock of current knowledge on...
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Tracking activity in real time with Google Trends
Woloszko, Nicolas - 2020
This paper introduces the OECD Weekly Tracker of economic activity for 46 OECD and G20 countries using Google Trends … model adds to the previous Google Trends literature in two respects: (1) the data are adjusted for common long-term bias and … (2) the data include variables based on both Google Search categories and topics (the latter being a collection of …
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Business cycle dynamics after the Great Recession : an extended Markov-Switching dynamic factor model
Doz, Catherine; Ferrara, Laurent; Pionnier, Pierre-Alain - 2020
, marginal likelihood comparisons and improved real-time GDP forecasting performance. …
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Potential impact of dietary changes on the triple challenge facing food systems : Three stylised scenarios
Tallard, Grégoire - 2022
A shift towards healthier diets is expected to address the challenge of providing food security and nutrition for a growing global population. This report explores whether such a shift would also have positive effects on the other two challenges food systems face: supporting livelihoods for...
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Reducing poverty in Chile : cash transfers and better jobs
Brandt, Nicola - 2012
Notwithstanding impressive progress, poverty and inequality remain high in Chile in OECD comparison, and the tax-benefit system does little to improve on this. The government plans to introduce a new cash transfer for the poor, the Ingreso Ético Familiar. This is a welcome initiative. However,...
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A revised approach to trend employment projections in long-term scenarios
Cavalleri, Maria Chiara; Guillemette, Yvan - 2017
The paper describes revisions to the trend employment component of the production function underpinning long-term economic scenarios. Starting with historical age and sex-specific employment rates, a novel approach is developed to correct for cyclical effects using the country-level employment...
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Disentangling urban and rural food security in West Africa
Wesenbeeck, Cornelia Francisca Adriana van - 2018
Strategies to fight hunger and early warning systems often focus on identifying food crises rather than longer-term trends, and concentrate on rural areas. Data on the food and nutrition security situation of West Africa’s growing urban population is scarce and fragmented. Using geo-referenced...
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Adaptive trees : a new approach to economic forecasting
Woloszko, Nicolas - 2020
forecasting. Economic forecasting is made difficult by economic complexity, which implies non-linearities (multiple interactions … the algorithm in forecasting GDP growth 3- to 12-months ahead is assessed through simulations in pseudo-real-time for six …
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Big data measures of well-being : evidence from a Google well-being index in the United States
Algan, Yann; Beasley, Elizabeth; Guyot, Florian; Higa, … - 2016
We build an indicator of individual subjective well-being in the United States based on Google Trends. The indicator is …
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