growth. However, they do not account for intra-national spatial heterogeneity, even when regions, and not only countries … predictors of future GDP growth. These findings shed light on the determinants of regional convergence patterns. …

increasing labour supply (effective marginal tax rate). We also investigate the impact of reforms on poverty, income distribution …

Brazil has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty and inequality. This reduction is explained by strong growth … but also by effective social policies. Besides growth, public services and cash transfers have played the biggest role … Familia” and “Brasil sem Miseria” while limiting the real growth of pension expenditures in the future would improve the …

appears to reflect disproportionate wage growth at the very top of the wage distribution rather than stagnating median wages …Over the past two decades, aggregate labour productivity growth in most OECD countries has decoupled from real median … compensation growth, implying that raising productivity is no longer sufficient to raise real wages for the typical worker. This …

growth and low productivity. Major structural measures have been legislated to improve competition, education, energy, the … implemented, these reforms could increase annual trend per capita GDP growth by as much as one percentage point over the next ten … OECD best practices could increase potential growth by another percentage point annually. …

Turkey’s business sector dynamism has underpinned broad-based and inclusive growth in the 2000s. However, the business …