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01 Feb 2009
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Campania Region's Educational Quality Facilities Project
Giorgio Ponti, Pages: 6
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CELE Exchange, Centre for Effective Learning Environments
Thanks to financing from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) (2009-2013 Programme)
and other Italian funding programmes, the Campania Region has begun a project to improve the
quality of its school buildings, in partnership with the research centre CISEM of Milan.1 The...
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01 June 2010
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Can Emerging Asset Price Bubbles be Detected?
Jesús Crespo Crespo Cuaresma, Pages: 38
in
OECD Economics Department Working Papers
Bayesian Model Averaging techniques are used to analyse how robustly it is possible to identify factors that may lead to the bursting of asset price bubbles in OECD economies. A large set of variables put forward in the literature is assessed, as well as interactions of these variables with...
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21 July 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Can India Achieve Double-digit growth ?
Richard Herd, Paul Conway, Sam Hill, Vincent Koen, Thomas Chalaux, Pages: 41
in
OECD Economics Department Working Papers
In recent years, India has enjoyed one of the highest growth rates worldwide, weathering the global financial crisis better than many other countries. Prudent macroeconomic policies will be critical to prolonging the current expansion, given the risks associated with high inflation and volatile...
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05 Mar 2002
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Article
English
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Can National Legislatures Regain an Effective Voice in Budget Policy?
Allen Schick, Pages: 15–42
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Two contemporary developments are buffeting legislative work on the budget. One is the drive to discipline public finance by constraining the fiscal aggregates; the other is the effort to enlarge the legislature’s role in revenue and spending ...
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16 Dec 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Can Parents Afford to Work?: Childcare Costs, Tax-Benefit Policies and Work Incentives
Herwig Immervoll, David Barber, Pages: 73
in
OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
Finding a suitable balance of work and family life is not an easy task for parents who face multiple, and potentially conflicting, demands. Childcare policies play a crucial role in helping parents reconcile care and employment-related tasks. But inconsistent or poorly implemented policies can...
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11 Dec 2003
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Article
English
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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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15 Jan 2009
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Can the Financial Sector continue to be the Main Growth Engine in Luxembourg?
Arnaud Bourgain, Patrice Pieretti, Jens Høj, Pages: 32
in
OECD Economics Department Working Papers
The financial sector has emerged as the main economic engine over the past two decades. The comparative advantages of placing financial activities in Luxembourg have mostly been in terms of an adaptive legislative and
regulatory framework and low taxation. As a result, Luxembourg is today one...
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01 Nov 2010
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Can the Physical Environment Have an Impact on the Learning Environment?
Peter C. Lippman, Pages: 7
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CELE Exchange, Centre for Effective Learning Environments
How can designers create more innovative and sustainable learning environments? This paper argues in favour of challenging best practice" generally accepted by the architectural profession by embracing a responsive design approach. Such an approach accepts that the environment shapes the...
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01 Oct 1998
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Canadian Funding Competition for Research Infrastructure
OECD, Pages: 2
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PEB Exchange, Programme on Educational Building
Late last year the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) announced the launch of a national competition for funding infrastructure projects in Canadian research institutions.
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01 Nov 2003
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Working/Policy Paper
French
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Cap vert: Gouvernance et développement
Jaime Lourenço, Colm Foy, Pages: 60
in
OECD Development Centre Working Papers
Malgré la remarquable performance économique du Cap Vert, le secteur privé y reste dominé par des petites et micro-entreprises ayant un faible pouvoir de creation d'emplois. En outre, il ne contribue que faiblement aux recettes fiscales. Les auteurs de cette étude suggèrent d'établir de nouvelles formes de partenariat entre l'État, les...
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07 Apr 2003
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Article
English
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Capacity Building for Effective Competition Policy in Developing and Transitioning Economies
OECD, Pages: 7–23
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OECD Journal: Competition Law and Policy
This note begins by briefly addressing why competition policy is important for developing and transitioning economies. It then discusses some of the critical components of building a competition culture. Ideally, this process should begin by ...
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10 Feb 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Capacity Development for Environmental Management and Governance in the Energy Sector in Developing Countries
George Matheson, Laurie Giroux, Pages: 60
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OECD Environment Working Papers
The relationships between energy, the environment, and development are deep and complex. The International Energy Agency has noted that energy is deeply implicated in each of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of human development. Energy services provide an essential input to...
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10 Feb 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Capacity Development for Environmental Management in the Agricultural Sector in Developing Countries
Constance L. Neely, Pages: 72
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OECD Environment Working Papers
The relationships between agriculture, the environment, and development are deep and complex. By
2050 a 70 per cent increase in production will be needed to feed an additional 2.7 billion people on an
already degraded natural resource base. In light of this and amid the realities of climate...
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01 July 2000
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Capital Flows and Growth in Developing Countries: Recent Empirical Evidence
Marcelo Soto, Pages: 31
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
Are capital inflows associated with faster income growth? There are a large number of empirical studies that identify the most relevant determinants of a country’s growth rate. However, this literature has not explored the growth impact of the various types of capital inflows. The present study...
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01 July 1991
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Capital Flows and the External Financing of Turkey's Imports (Special Series on Mixed Credits, in Collaboration with ICEPS)
Ziya Önis, Süleyman Özmucur, Pages: 93
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
Subsidized capital flows have made a major contribution to the recovery of the Turkish economy from the acute balance of payments crisis of the late 1970s. The inflow of foreign capital on a substantial scale has facilitated rapid growth in imports of essential raw materials and investment...
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01 Jan 1997
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Working/Policy Paper
French
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Capital humain, ouverture extérieure et croissance: Estimation sur données de panel d'un modèle à coefficients variables
Jean-Claude Berthélemy, Sébastien Dessus, Aristomène Varoudakis, Pages: 28
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
La littérature récente n'apporte aucune validation économétrique, sur données de panel, de l'hypothèse selon laquelle le capital humain contribue à la croissance. Nous confirmons ce résultat à l'aide d'un échantillon comprenant 83 pays et six périodes entre 1960 et 1990. Cependant, l’estimation sur ces mêmes données de panel de modèles à...
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27 May 2009
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Capital Inflows, Household Debt and the Boom-bust Cycle in Estonia
Zuzana Brixiova, Laura Vartia, Andreas Wörgötter, Pages: 33
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
From 2000 to 2007, Estonia was one of the fastest growing emerging market economies. A housing boom,
fuelled by capital inflows and credit, resulted in skyrocketing house prices and an over-expanded construction sector.
However, the currency board limited the Bank of Estonia’s ability to curb...
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09 July 2004
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Article
English
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Capital Stocks, Capital Services and Multi-Factor Productivity Measures
Paul Schreyer, Pages: 163–184
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OECD Economic Studies
Capital services measures have long been recognised as the appropriate concept to capture capital input in production and productivity analysis. However, only few countries’ statistical agencies construct and publish such capital services measures ...
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04 July 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Capital's Grabbing Hand? A Cross-Country/Cross-Industry Analysis of the Decline of the Labour Share
Andrea Bassanini, Thomas Manfredi, Pages: 43
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OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
We examine the determinants of the within-industry decline of the labour share, using industry-level annual data for 25 OECD countries, 20 business-sector industries and covering up to 28 years. We find that total factor productivity growth – which captures (albeit imprecisely)...
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01 Mar 1983
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Capital, Energy and Labour Substitution: The Supply Block in OECD Medium-Term Models
Patrick Artus, Pages: 67
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper sets out the various stages in the construction and estimation of a supply block for medium-term projection models. It describes the theoretical basis for the specification chosen and the estimation results.The basic block is a set of production factor demand functions. It is refined...
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