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14 juin 2001
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R&D and Productivity Growth: Panel Data Analysis of 16 OECD Countries
Dominique Guellec, Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Pages: 26
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OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers
This study investigates the long-term effects of various types of R&D on multifactor productivity growth, which is the spillover effect of R&D. Econometric estimates are conducted on a panel of 16 OECD countries, over the period 1980-98. All results are averages over countries and time, and...
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27 oct 2007
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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Implementation in Germany: Challenges and Benefits
OCDE, Pages: 71
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OECD Digital Economy Papers
RFID technology is increasingly used in a wide range of tracking and tracing applications. This study compares the implementation of RFID across a broad range of sectors, drawing on interviews with early adopters of RFID technology in Germany.
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27 fév 2006
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Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID): Drivers, Challenges and Public Policy Considerations
OCDE, Pages: 36
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OECD Digital Economy Papers
RFID touches on several regulatory and/or policy issues with potentially wide-ranging social, economic, as well as national security implications, including international trade, intellectual property rights, standards, spectrum, security, and privacy.
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01 fév 2009
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Railway and Ports Organization in the Republic of South Africa and Turkey: The Integrator's Paradise?
Louis S. Thompson, Pages: 37
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OECD/ITF Joint Transport Research Centre Discussion Papers
This paper looks in detail at the cases of two countries that exhibit extreme cases of transport organization. In both countries,
the railway and most of the ports are under unitary control, with essentially no regulation and only limited information available to assess behavior. If economies...
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04 août 2006
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Raising Economic Performance by Fostering Product Market Competition in Germany
Andrés Fuentes, Eckhard Wurzel, Andreas Reindl, Pages: 43
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
Much scope remains to make regulation of product markets more conducive to competition ?
notwithstanding progress in recent years ? with substantial benefits for consumer welfare, productivity and employment. While the general competition legislation and enforcement framework is mostly...
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28 août 2008
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Raising Education Achievement and Breaking the Cycle of Inequality in the United Kingdom
Anne-Marie Brook, Pages: 36
in
OECD Economics Department Working Papers
Globalisation, together with skill-biased technical change, is changing the composition of jobs in
advanced economies and raising the level of skills required to do them. This has increased the importance
of educating a large proportion of the population to much higher standards than in the...
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21 sep 2009
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Raising Education Outcomes in Greece
Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou, Pages: 37
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
Despite progress over the past decades, Greece?s educational indicators lag behind those of other OECD countries. PISA scores are low, a large number of tertiary students study abroad, and attainment rates are low at all levels of education. Resources devoted to education are also modest....
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17 fév 2009
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Raising Education Outcomes in Spain
Andrés Fuentes, Pages: 40
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
Impressive progress has been made in raising participation in early childhood education as well as tertiary educational attainment over the past 30 years. However, the inflow of poorly educated youth into the labour market is unusually heavy for a high-income country, largely on account of high...
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13 oct 2005
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Raising Greece's Potential Output Growth
Vassiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou, Helmut Ziegelschmidt, Pages: 59
in
OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This Working Paper looks at structural policies which would improve Greece’s long-term economic performance and help speed economic and social convergence with average European Union member countries. It focuses on a number of key areas which are particularly important for rapid growth as they...
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21 oct 2011
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Raising Investment in Brazil
Jens Arnold, Pages: 38
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
Low investment rates are limiting Brazil’s future potential growth rate. This paper analyses a number of potential reasons for these low investment rates and discusses policy options to achieve faster capital accumulation. A shortage of domestic saving appears to be a major constraint to higher...
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18 jan 2011
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Raising Potential Growth After the Crisis: A Quantitative Assessment of the Potential Gains from Various Structural Reforms in the OECD Area and Beyond
Romain Bouis, Romain Duval, Pages: 36
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper provides an illustrative assessment of the impacts on potential GDP over a 5 to 10-year horizon of structural reform scenarios in the areas of product and labour markets, relying on existing OECD empirical studies. Results of simulations suggest that a gradual alignment of product...
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06 mars 2009
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Raising the Flexibility of the Slovak Economy during the Catch-Up Phase
Isabell Koske, Pages: 30
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
As in other catch-up countries inflation is likely to stay high going forward due to nominal
convergence. To better cope with the risk of a too rapid pick up of wages during the convergence process
on the one hand and to raise the adjustment potential of the economy to macroeconomic shocks on...
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31 oct 2000
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Raising the Speed Limit: US Economic Growth in the Information Age
Dale W. Jorgenson, Kevin J. Stiroh, Pages: 79
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper examines the underpinnings of the successful performance of the US economy in the late 1990s. Relative to the early 1990s, output growth has accelerated by nearly two percentage points. We attribute this to rapid capital accumulation, a surge in hours worked, and faster growth of...
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19 nov 2008
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Ranking Port Cities with High Exposure and Vulnerability to Climate Extremes: Exposure Estimates
R. J. Nicholls, S. Hanson, C. Herweijer, N. Patmore, S. Hallegatte, J. Corfee-Morlot, Jean Chateau, Robert Muir-Wood, Pages: 63
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OECD Environment Working Papers
This global screening study makes a first estimate of the exposure of the world's large port cities to coastal
flooding due to storm surge and damage due to high winds. This assessment also investigates how climate
change is likely to impact each port city's exposure to coastal flooding by the...
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20 avr 2009
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Anglais
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Rankings and the battle for world-class excellence: Institutional strategies and policy choices
Ellen Hazelkorn, Pages: 1–22
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Higher Education Management and Policy
Global rankings are creating a furore wherever or whenever they are published or mentioned. They have become a barometer of global competition measuring the knowledge-producing and talent-catching capacity of higher education institutions. These ...
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07 jui 2011
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Rapport 2009 de l'OCDE sur la division du travail
OCDE, Pages: 7–61
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Revue de l'OCDE sur le développement
Les pays en développement diffèrent grandement dans leur potentiel de développement et les défis auxquels ils font face. Dans un sens, toutefois, de nombreux ont un problème commun : trop peu d’aide des bailleurs de fonds de trop. Ce rapport retrace ...
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26 juin 2012
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Rapport sur la protection des consommateurs dans les paiements en ligne et mobiles
OCDE, Pages: 50
Cet examen de la problématique des paiements s’inscrit dans le cadre de la revue des Lignes directrices de l’OCDE de 1999 sur le commerce électronique. Le rapport examine dans quelle mesure les principes relatifs aux paiements énoncés dans les Lignes directrices ainsi que ceux concernant l’information du consommateur, la loyauté des pratiques...
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20 oct 2006
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Rapport sur la séparation structurelle
OCDE, Pages: 7–74
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Revue de l'OCDE sur le droit et la politique de la concurrence
Le rapport sur la séparation structurelle a été préparé par le Comité de la concurrence de l’OCDE pour examiner la mise en oeuvre de la Recommandation de 2001 du Conseil de l’OCDE concernant la séparation structurelle dans les secteurs réglementés ...
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02 nov 2001
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Rapport sur les contrats régissant les flux transfrontières de données dans le cadre plus général des mécanismes de protection de la vie privée sur les réseaux mondiaux
OCDE, Pages: 55
Le présent Rapport sur la place des contrats régissant les flux transfrontières de données dans le cadre plus
général des mécanismes de protection de la vie privée sur les réseaux mondiaux a été rédigé sous la
supervision du Secrétariat. Il se fonde sur l'engagement pris par les gouvernements des pays Membres de
l'OCDE, lors de la Conférence...
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01 nov 2003
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Ratings Since the Asian Crisis
Helmut Reisen, Pages: 31
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
The increased importance of rating agencies for emerging-market finance has brought their work to the attention of a wider group of observers — and under criticism. This paper evaluates whether the importance of ratings for developing-country finance has changed since the Asian Crisis and...
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