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This report investigates the effects of select climate policies, non-climate policies, as well as political economy factors on the decarbonisation of electricity in OECD countries from 2000 to 2015. Effects are analysed on the three phases of decarbonisation: (1) increasing the share of...
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Inclusive development is a key policy priority since growth processes have not always helped lowerincome groups …. Innovation is a major driver of growth and its relationship with inequalities in income and opportunities raises some important …
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Digital transformation is rapidly altering civic space, challenging the ways in which members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and other providers of development co-operation strive to promote an enabling environment for civil society to contribute to sustainable development....
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encourage advances in within-firm productivity growth. Improvements to the quality of education at all levels and increasing the …
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The Peace pillar of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development encompasses a diverse range of issues including stability and effective governance. Reforming the public sector is high on the government’s agenda, but involves a number of challenges: the gap between planning and implementation...
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This paper surveys the state and evolution of GDP per capita in 281 regions of OECD countries for the time period 1995 – 2013. It puts a special focus on the disparities between the regions. These can be substantial: In 2013, GDP per capita of the least and most developed region varied by a...
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productivity growth underperforming peer countries. Based on macroeconomic analysis and supported by firm-level data, results point … returns in output. Diversification, more knowledge sharing, a stronger role for higher education institutions and promotion of …
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The mixed growth performance of emerging market economies has revived angst about a "middle-income trap". However, a … both poorer and richer countries. At the same time, growth slowdowns are also more frequent in this group. Recent … econometric research confirms that the impact of economic policies on GDP growth is greater at middle than at lower and higher …
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by the adoption of a large stock of unexploited existing technologies. However, the slowdown in productivity growth over … investments in knowledge based capital, including managerial capital and R&D. Productivity growth, via more effective learning … spillovers from the global productivity frontier, and consequently, productivity growth. …
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between debt and economic growth has been extensively studied in the literature, only little attention has been paid to the … impact of debt on volatility and higher moments of output growth distributions. This paper fills in this gap. Debt … in output growth distributions. The induced welfare losses justify policy interventions aiming at preventing excessive …
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