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OECD Economic Outlook, Interim Report September 2024
The global economy remained resilient in the first half of 2024, and inflation has continued to moderate. These trends are projected to continue into 2025, with global growth stabilising at a moderate pace and inflation returning to target in most...
OECD Economic Surveys: Belgium 2024
Belgium’s economy has been relatively resilient to recent shocks and is expected to continue to grow steadily. Public finances have deteriorated though. In absence of fiscal consolidation, the debt-to-GDP ratio is projected to rise fast. Cutting...
Doombot versus other machine-learning methods for evaluating recession risks in OECD countries
An extensive literature explains recession risks using a variety of financial and business cycle variables. The problem of selecting a parsimonious set of explanatory variables, which can differ between countries and prediction horizons, is naturally...
SME Digitalisation to manage shocks and transitions
Although uptake of digital practices by SMEs continues to increase, so too has the “digital gap” with larger firms. Understanding the drivers and persisting bottlenecks of SME digitalisation as well as gaining a deeper understanding of their...
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Worn out: COVID-19, Women and the Great Exhaustion
It’s been a tough two years for women. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, women were hit harder by job losses, leading many to call it a “she-cession”. But as the pandemic worse on we started to see wider impacts too. We saw women on the front line of...
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Main Economic Indicators, Volume 2023 Issue 12
This monthly publication presents comparative statistics that provide an overview of recent international economic developments for all the OECD countries, the euro zone and a number of non-member economies...
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OECD Economic Outlook, November 2023
OECD Economic Outlook, November 2023
Restoring growth
November 2023 - The global economy continues to confront the challenges of inflation and low growth prospects. GDP growth has been stronger than expected so far in 2023, but is now moderating on the back of tighter financial conditions, weak trade growth and lower business and consumer confidence.
View the presentation:See also the publication: OECD Economic Outlook, Volume 2023 Issue 2 - November 2023