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01 Feb 2006
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Performance Information in the Budget Process: Results of the OECD 2005 Questionnaire
Teresa Curristine, Pages: 87–131
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Based on the results of the OECD 2005 questionnaire on performance information, this article provides an overview of the development and use of performance measures and evaluations in the budget process across OECD countries. This trend is both ...
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19 Dec 2003
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Working/Policy Paper
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OECD Capital Services Estimates: Methodology and a First Set of Results
Paul Schreyer, Pierre-Emmanuel Bignon, Julien Dupont, Pages: 38
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OECD Statistics Working Papers
This document presents the concepts underlying capital services measures, describes estimation methods and produces a first set of results. It also raises a number of outstanding conceptual issues in relation to capital services measures ...
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15 Dec 2003
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Working/Policy Paper
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The OECD Medium-Term Reference Scenario: Economic Outlook No.74
Peter Downes, Aaron Drew, Patrice Ollivaud, Pages: 15
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This working paper describes a medium-term reference scenario for the OECD based on the shortterm projections described in OECD Economic Outlook No.74. OECD-wide real GDP is projected to expand at 2¾ per cent per annum between 2006 and 2009 and the area-wide rate of unemployment to fall below 6...
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15 Dec 2003
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Working/Policy Paper
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Reforming the Public Expenditure System in Korea
Young-Sook Nam, Randall S. Jones, Pages: 43
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
Although Korea has the second-lowest level of public spending among OECD countries at 22½ per cent of GDP, it faces strong upward spending pressures over the medium and longer term, which could threaten fiscal sustainability. This paper analyses the main features of Korea’s public expenditure...
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12 Dec 2003
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Working/Policy Paper
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Female Labour Force Participation: Past Trends and Main Determinants in OECD Countries
Florence Jaumotte, Pages: 67
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper examines the determinants of female labour force participation in OECD countries, including a number of policy instruments such as the tax treatment of second earners (relative to single individuals), childcare subsidies, child benefits, paid maternity and parental leaves, and tax...
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12 Dec 2003
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Comparing Labour Productivity Growth in the OECD Area: The Role of Measurement
Nadim Ahmad, François Lequiller, Pascal Marianna, Dirk Pilat, Paul Schreyer, Anita Wölfl, Pages: 47
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OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers
This paper examines how measurement problems affect international comparisons of labour productivity. It suggests that these measurement problems do not significantly affect the assessment of aggregate productivity patterns in the OECD area. However, these problems do influence the more...
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12 Dec 2003
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Working/Policy Paper
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Comparing Labour Productivity Growth in the OECD Area: The Role of Measurement
Nadim Ahmad, François Lequiller, Pascal Marianna, Dirk Pilat, Paul Schreyer, Anita Wölfl, Pages: 47
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OECD Statistics Working Papers
This paper examines how measurement problems affect international comparisons of labour productivity. It suggests that these measurement problems do not significantly affect the assessment of aggregate productivity patterns in the OECD area. However, these problems do influence the more...
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11 Dec 2003
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Knowledge Management in Government: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Jean-Michel Saussois, Pages: 105–120
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Governments cannot afford to overlook a ground swell that is currently transforming companies, and more especially big companies. It is important that governments draw the appropriate conclusions, not by seeking to "copy" the private sector, but by ...
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11 Dec 2003
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Can Public Sector Organisations Learn?
Maria Barrados, John Mayne, Pages: 87–103
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
In recent years, considerable attention has been focused on the importance of managing information in organisations, as well as the challenges for organisations to make use of and adapt from it. Organisationsare expected to value information, to be ...
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11 Dec 2003
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The Role of Fiscal Rules in Budgeting
Allen Schick, Pages: 7–34
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Budgeting is a rule-driven process that regulates the raising and spending of public money. Detailed rules govern the submission of bids for resources by spending units, review of these bids by the Finance Ministry or another central organ ...
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11 Dec 2003
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The Role of Evaluations in Political and Administrative Learning and the Role of Learning in Evaluation Praxis
Jan-Eric Furubo, Pages: 67–85
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
The writing of this paper, is in reference to my contribution in Can Governments Learn?, one of the books published by the International Evaluation Research Group. My immediate and first reaction was that it is of course always very nice to be asked ...
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11 Dec 2003
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A Comparison Between Two Public Expenditure Management Systems in Africa
Ian Lienert, Pages: 35–66
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Many African countries are benefiting from reductions in their external debt. One important objective is to redirect the budgetary resources released from servicing external debt towards poverty-reducing expenditures. Several questions arise in this ...
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11 Dec 2003
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Public Management Reform: Reliable Knowledge and International Experience
Christopher Pollitt, Pages: 121–134
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
In this paper I want to address some fundamental questions concerning the nature of knowledge about public management reform, and particularly its transferability between countries and contexts. My main point will be that knowledge of what works and ...
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10 Dec 2003
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Tariff Bindings, Unused Protection and Agricultural Trade Liberalisation
Peter Walkenhorst, Nora Dihel, Pages: 231–249
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OECD Economic Studies
Prior quantitative assessments of the effects of agricultural trade liberalisation have assumed that negotiated reductions in bound tariffs translate into corresponding cuts in applied tariff rates. This approach, however, overestimates the actual ...
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10 Dec 2003
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The Decline in Private Saving Rates in the 1990s in OECD Countries: How Much Can Be Explained by Non-wealth Determinants?
Florian Pelgrin, Alain de Serres, Pages: 117–153
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OECD Economic Studies
The substantial decline in private-sector saving rates observed in several OECD countries in the late 1990s coincided in several cases with a sharp increase in household financial net worth. This was seen by many observers as evidence that the ...
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10 Dec 2003
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The Influence of Policies on Trade and Foreign Direct Investment
Stephen S. Golub, Dana Hajkova, Daniel Mirza, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Kwang-Yeol Yoo, Pages: 7–83
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OECD Economic Studies
This paper assesses the importance of border and non-border policies for global economic integration. The focus is on four widely-advocated policies: removing explicit restrictions to trade and FDI; promoting domestic competition; improving the ...
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10 Dec 2003
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Fiscal Relations across Government Levels
Isabelle Joumard, Per Mathis Kongsrud, Pages: 155–229
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OECD Economic Studies
Despite its apparent advantages, devolution of fiscal responsibilities has not proceeded evenly over the past two decades. Decentralisation can strengthen the democratic process, allow governments to tailor the supply of public goods to local ...
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10 Dec 2003
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Measures of Restrictions on Inward Foreign Direct Investment for OECD Countries
Stephen S. Golub, Pages: 85–116
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OECD Economic Studies
This paper provides new measures of restrictions on inward foreign direct investment (FDI) for OECD countries. Several different types of restrictions are considered: limitations on foreign ownership, screening or notification procedures, and ...
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10 Dec 2003
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Working/Policy Paper
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Fiscal Relations across Government Levels
Isabelle Joumard, Per Mathis Kongsrud, Pages: 64
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
Despite its apparent advantages, devolution of fiscal responsibilities has not proceeded evenly over the past two decades. Decentralisation can strengthen the democratic process, allow governments to tailor the supply of public goods to local preferences and introduce some competition across...
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08 Dec 2003
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Working/Policy Paper
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Venture Capital Policy Review: Norway
Günseli Baygan, Pages: 18
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OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers
The Norwegian venture capital market is oriented towards expansion investments in traditional sectors and suffers from a lack of private risk capital as well as of entrepreneurial demand. Norway needs to increase the entry of innovative start-ups in order to diversify the economy beyond its...
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