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07 jan 2009
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Budgeting in Greece
Ian Hawkesworth, Daniel Bergvall, Richard Emery, Joachim Wehner, Pages: 1–50
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Greece is undertaking important reforms with the aim of making the budget a more modern strategic policy document. This article examines Greece’s recent economic and fiscal performance and the developments that led to the launch of the programme ...
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07 jan 2009
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Budgeting in Portugal
Teresa Curristine, Chung-Keun Park, Richard Emery, Pages: 1–60
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
The Portuguese government has recently undertaken comprehensive structural reforms of the public sector and has successfully reduced its budget deficit. This article explores particular features of the Portuguese budget system and the proposed ...
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07 jan 2009
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Reforming Fiscal Institutions: The Elusive Art of the Budget Advisor
Richard Allen, Pages: 1–9
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
This article assesses the role and responsibilities of the budget advisor in developing countries and what factors make for success and failure. Since efficient budget institutions are important, the role of the budget advisor may include providing ...
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30 déc 2008
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Anglais
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Fostering Entrepreneurship for Innovation
Axel Mittelstädt, Fabienne Cerri, Pages: 129
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OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers
Entrepreneurship and firm creation have long been recognised as a vital force driving innovation. With globalization and the co-incident shift towards a knowledge-based economy, the link between entrepreneurship policy and innovation has received renewed attention. By underpinning firm...
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22 déc 2008
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Anglais
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Recovery and Beyond: Enhancing Competitiveness to Realise Indonesia's Trade Potential
Margit Molnár, Molly Lesher, Pages: 74
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OECD Trade Policy Papers
As Indonesia recovered from the 1997-98 Asian Financial Crisis, the economy underwent significant political and structural changes, and the role of trade policy evolved. It is clear that there is much scope for trade to enhance economic growth. However, there remain significant challenges in...
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19 déc 2008
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Anglais
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How do Taxes Affect Investment and Productivity?: An Industry-Level Analysis of OECD Countries
Laura Vartia, Pages: 41
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper analyses how different tax policies can affect investment and productivity. To address this
question the paper uses industry-level data from a set of OECD countries and examines whether different
industries are affected differently by taxation. Investment is shown to respond...
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18 déc 2008
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Anglais
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Enhancing Market Openness through Regulatory Reform in the People's Republic of China
Malory Greene, Charles Tsai, Pages: 153
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OECD Trade Policy Papers
This study analyses the People’s Republic of China’s trade policy environment with a focus on trade-related regulations and their role in supporting China’s market openness. It examines in particular to what extent China’s trade regulations comply with the principles of transparency and...
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18 déc 2008
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Anglais
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The Remuneration of General Practitioners and Specialists in 14 OECD Countries: What are the Factors Influencing Variations across Countries?
Rie Fujisawa, Gaetan Lafortune, Pages: 64
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OECD Health Working Papers
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the remuneration of doctors in 14 OECD countries for which reasonably comparable data were available in OECD Health Data 2007 (Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands,...
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17 déc 2008
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Anglais
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Fiscal Policy Responsiveness, Persistence, and Discretion
António Afonso, Luca Agnello, Davide Furceri, Pages: 35
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
In this working paper, we decompose fiscal policy in three components: i) responsiveness, ii) persistence
and iii) discretion. Using a sample of 132 countries, our results point out that fiscal policy tends to be more
persistent than responding to output variations. We also found that while the...
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17 déc 2008
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Anglais
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The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation: Policies and Options for the Future
Jean-Marc Burniaux, Jean Chateau, Romain Duval, Stéphanie Jamet, Pages: 129
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
Considering the costs and risks of inaction, ambitious action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is
economically rational. However, success in abating world emissions will ultimately require a least-cost set
of policy instruments that is applied as widely as possible across all emission sources...
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17 déc 2008
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Anglais
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Maximising Mexico's Gains from Integration in the World Economy
David Haugh, Roselyne Jamin, Bruno Rocha, Pages: 52
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
Considering the costs and risks of inaction, ambitious action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is
economically rational. However, success in abating world emissions will ultimately require a least-cost set
of policy instruments that is applied as widely as possible across all emission sources...
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17 déc 2008
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Anglais
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An Overview of the OECD ENV-Linkages Model
Jean-Marc Burniaux, Jean Chateau, Pages: 30
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This Working Paper presents a summary description of the OECD ENV-Linkages General Equilibrium model. This model has been developed by the Environment Directorate of the OECD Secretariat in order to assess the economic impact of abating Greenhouse Gases using several different economic...
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17 déc 2008
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Anglais
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Strategies for Countries with Favourable Fiscal Positions
Robert Price, Isabelle Joumard, Christophe André, Makoto Minegishi, Pages: 35
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
The financial crisis and economic downturn are going to weigh on fiscal positions in OECD countries over
the short to medium-term, both through the operation of automatic stabilisers and the enactment of
discretionary fiscal stimulus packages. However, the strategic policy options facing OECD...
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16 déc 2008
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Anglais
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Open Innovation in a Global Perspective: What Do Existing Data Tell Us?
Koen De Backer, Vladimir López-Bassols, Catalina Martinez, Pages: 37
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OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers
Open innovation has received a lot of attention in the business management literature and recently also in policy discussions. Until now, most of the empirical evidence has been based on case study work offering detailed insights into some best practices of open innovation in companies’...
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10 déc 2008
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Anglais
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The Economics of Climate Change Impacts and Policy Benefits at City Scale: A Conceptual Framework
Stéphane Hallegatte, Fanny Henriet, Jan Corfee-Morlot, Pages: 49
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OECD Environment Working Papers
Climate change has become a priority issue in global environmental governance and cities are important players. For over three decades, the OECD has been actively supporting member and non-member countries to design environmental policies that are both economically efficient and effective at...
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09 déc 2008
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Français
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Rationalité, aversion au risque et enjeu sociétal majeur
André de Palma, Pages: 25
Certains domaines associés aux thèmes discutés ici échappent à mes compétences, comme
par exemple l’évaluation des risques et des défauts de sûreté dans les transports. Ce qui
m’a convaincu de l’importance de ce sujet, ce sont quelques conclusions très générales, je
dirais volontiers quelques impressions que m’inspire depuis quelques années...
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09 déc 2008
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Anglais
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Main Features of the Public Employment Service in the Czech Republic
Daniela Kalužná, Pages: 56
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OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
in 1991 when the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic commenced transition to a market economy. Labour
offices, in addition to providing placement and related services, manage jobseeker retraining and subsidies
for job creation, administer unemployment insurance benefits, and provide guidance for...
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05 déc 2008
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Article
Anglais
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Waste Generation and Recycling
Ida Ferrara, Pages: 19–58
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OECD Journal: General Papers
There are two serious failures that arise in the management of solid waste. The first relates to the existence of negative externalities in the individual decision-making over waste generation and disposal. When individuals decide on how much to ...
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05 déc 2008
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Anglais
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Personal Transport Choice
Joyce Dargay, Pages: 59–93
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OECD Journal: General Papers
There are basically four means by which to reduce the negative environmental consequences of personal transport: by replacing personal vehicles with more environmentally-friendly ones; by replacing car journeys with public transport, walking or ...
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05 déc 2008
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Residential Water Use
Ida Ferrara, Pages: 153–180
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OECD Journal: General Papers
Although 72% of the earth surface is covered by water, less than 1% of the world’s fresh water is directly accessible for human uses. Given humans’ water consumption patterns and the world population growth rate, these fresh water reserves have been ...
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