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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277005
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Unleashing Business Innovation in Canada
Bibbee, Alexandra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
This paper discusses how to improve Canada’s business innovation in order to boost labour productivity and output … growth. Many general framework conditions are highly favourable to business risk-taking and innovation, including macro … should be on boosting manager and worker skills that are intrinsic to all forms of innovation, by filling gaps in training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276823
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From Bricks to Brains: Increasing the Contribution of Knowledge-based Capital to Growth in Ireland
Haugh, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276991
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Fostering Inclusive Growth in Turkey by Promoting Structural Change in the Business Sector
Gönenç, Rauf; Röhn, Oliver; Koen, Vincent; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Turkey’s business sector dynamism has underpinned broad-based and inclusive growth in the 2000s. However, the business sector is highly segmented, with a relatively small core of modern high-productivity corporations, and myriad small, less formal and low-productivity entities. This hampers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276955
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What Makes Mexicans Happy?
Dugain, Valéry; Olaberriá, Eduardo - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015
The growing literature studying the determinants of subjective wellbeing find that Mexicans report, on average, levels of life satisfaction that are above what would be predicted by the available objective measures of well-being. This paradox raises the following question: Are the drivers of...
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Summary of a Workshop on Global Convergence Scenarios: Structural and Policy Issues
Vanston, Nick - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
This document forms a record of a workshop held on 16 January 2006, aimed at examining the mechanisms underlying cross-country convergence of per capita GDP, to what extent they operate in practice, and the implications for policies, including those requiring plausible long-term projections of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046090
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Product Market Regulation and Economic Performance across Indian States
Conway, Paul; Herd, Richard; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008
This paper uses the OECD's indicators of product market regulation to assess the extent to which the regulatory environment affects economic performance across Indian states. The degree to which product market regulation is supportive of competition is found to vary considerably across states....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046145
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in the United States
Suppanz, Hannes; Wise, Michael; Kiley, Michael - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004
Regulatory reform efforts in a broad range of industries have resulted in increased importance of competitive forces as a means to allocate resources and improve economic efficiency. A number of indicators suggest that such forces have been stronger in the United States than in most other OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045769
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From Ideas to Development: The Determinants of R&D and Patenting
Jaumotte, Florence; Pain, Nigel - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005
This paper uses panel regressions to investigate the effects of innovation policies and framework factors on business R … brevets<BR>Ce papier examine au moyen de régressions de panel les effets des instruments de politique d’innovation et des … principaux déterminants du degré d’innovation semblent être la disponibilité de scientifiques et ingénieurs, la recherche …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049012
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Sustaining Korea's Convergence to the Highest-Income Countries
Jones, Randall S.; Urasawa, Satoshi - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
While Korea remains one of the fastest-growing OECD economies, its potential growth rate per capita is projected to decelerate from around 4% during the current decade to around 2¼ per cent during the 2030s. Sustaining growth requires policies to mitigate the impact of rapid population ageing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276834