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Égert, Balázs; Goujard, Antoine - 2014

Poland’s productivity has grown strongly over the past decade, and efforts to reduce the regulatory burden have been significant. Despite impressive progress, product market regulation remains more burdensome than in most OECD countries, partly due to the importance of red tape and the level...

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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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Labour market policies to promote growth and social cohesion in Korea

Jones, Randall Sidney; Urasawa, Satoshi - 2013

Labour market reform to improve growth prospects and reduce inequality is a top priority in the face of rapid population ageing and a dualistic labour market. Sustaining output growth requires policies to mitigate the impact of rapid population ageing by increasing labour inputs from...

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Import competition, domestic regulation and firm-level productivity growth in the OECD

Yahmed, Sarra Ben; Dougherty, Sean M. - 2012

This paper examines how import penetration affects firms' productivity growth taking into account the heterogeneity in firms' distance to the efficiency frontier and country differences in product market regulation. Using firm-level data for a large number of OECD countries, the analysis reveals...

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Boosting growth and reducing informality in Mexico

Dougherty, Sean M. - 2015

Mexico has embarked on a bold package of structural reforms that will help it to break away from three decades of slow growth and low productivity. Major structural measures have been legislated to improve competition, education, energy, the financial sector, labour, infrastructure and the tax...

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Enhancing competitiveness, purchasing power and employment by increasing competition in France

Goujard, Antoine - 2015

Over the past decade, France has substantially eased the burden of anti-competitive regulations and effectively enforced competition law against anti-competitive practices. Various sectors have been opened up more widely to competition, and the powers of the Competition Authority have been...

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Raising competitiveness and long-term growth of the Slovenian economy

Sila, Urban; Jemec, Nataša Todorović; Morgavi, Hermes - 2015

below the pre-crisis levels. Cost competitiveness and export market performance deteriorated, and there have been marked …’ performance could be improved and there are marked differences between students from different socioeconomic backgrounds. This …

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Restarting the growth engine in Finland

Braconier, Henrik - 2012

Impressive productivity performance during the last decades has weakened since 2007, reflecting the 2008-09 recession … but also a poor performance in important sectors, like the information and communication technology sector. Reforms to … performance of the higher education system could be improved through allocating more R&D funding and teaching resources based on …

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