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China's march to prosperity : reforms to avoid the middle-income trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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Boosting productivity and living standards in Thailand
Koen, Vincent; Asada, Hidekatsu; Rahuman, Mohamed … - 2018
The Prosperity pillar of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls for an integrated approach based on boosting productivity through diversification, upgrading technology and innovation, and increasing employment and entrepreneurship. Thailand needs to address all these challenges to...
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Making the most of natural resources in Indonesia
Dutu, Richard - 2015
Indonesia abounds with natural resources. But the unique nature of its geography, coupled with the lack of transport … estates and easing constraints on foreign investment, Indonesia could raise its farmers’ productivity. Fossil fuels have … become central to Indonesia’s energy policy and its main source of export revenues. Growing environmental concerns, both …
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Decentralisation to promote Regional Development in Indonesia
Vujanovic, Petar Declan - 2017
In 1998 Indonesia embarked on an ambitious course of decentralisation. Over a period of a few years, facilitated by … of Indonesia (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-indonesia.htm). …
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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital with strong empirical links to productivity
Botev, Jarmila; Égert, Balázs; Smidova, Zuzana; … - 2019
This paper calculates new measures of human capital. Contrary to the existing literature, they are based on realistic rates of return to education, which are allowed to vary substantially across countries and to some extent over time. The new measures perform well in regression analysis...
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Educational outcomes : a literature review of policy drivers from a macroeconomic perspective
Smidova, Zuzana - 2019
This paper reviews recent empirical literature on policy drivers of two educational outcomes - years of schooling and rates of return - that form the OECD’s aggregate measure of human capital. The paper sets the literature findings into the context of current educational polices in place in...
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Policies for inclusive and sustainable growth in Indonesia
Vujanovic, Petar - 2015
Indonesia has a very good record of poverty reduction, having halved its incidence over the past two decades … infrastructure and a stable macroeconomic environment, Indonesia will have decades of strong growth ahead by virtue of economic … inequality. Moreover, it will set Indonesia up for the next phase of innovation-driven growth that will propel it into the ranks …
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Keadaan pekerja karyawan di Indonesia
Jakarta - 1989(1991) -
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Agricultural reforms and bridging the gap for rural China
Westmore, Ben - 2015
Urbanisation will continue in China, with the government planning to grant urban residential status to an additional 100 million rural workers by 2020. While this process is transforming the urban economy, the rural economy is also undergoing substantial structural change. Government policy...
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Enhancing dynamism and innovation in Japan's business sector
Jones, Randall Sidney; Kim, Myungkyoo - 2015
Innovation is key to boosting economic growth in the face of a rapidly ageing population. While Japan spends heavily on education and R&D, appropriate framework conditions are essential to increase the return on such investments by strengthening competition, both domestic and international, and...
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