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01 Aug 1998
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Determinants of Customs Fraud and Corruption: Evidence from Two African Countries
David Stasavage, Cécile Daubrée, Pages: 31
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
Corruption in customs administrations is a major problem in many African countries. Data from the period 1990-96 are used to examine several hypotheses concerning the determinants of customs fraud in Senegal and Mali. Statistical tests using product-by-product data support the widely held view...
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31 May 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Dynamics of Biotechnology Research and Industry in India: Statistics, Perspectives and Key Policy Issues
Sachin Chaturvedi, Pages: 62
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OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers
The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, an inventory is made of biotechnology data collection in India. This will include an assessment of how the need for biotechnology related statistics is being addressed, mainly in terms of patent data, commercialisation of genetically modified...
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01 Feb 2000
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Designing Schools for the Information Society: Libraries and Resource Centres
John Mayfield, Pages: 10
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PEB Exchange, Programme on Educational Building
The roles and functions of the school library are changing rapidly and in fundamental ways. The aim of the report is to provide a set of guidelines for people involved in the design of new and existing schools – especially those involved with school libraries and their links with the local...
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12 Oct 2000
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Determinants of Long-Term Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (Bace) Approach
Gernot Doppelhofer, Ronald I. Miller, Xavier Sala-i-Martin, Pages: 45
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper examines the robustness of explanatory variables in cross-country economic growth regressions. It employs a novel approach, Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE), which constructs estimates as a weighted average of OLS estimates for every possible combination of included...
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04 Mar 2004
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Differences in Resilience Between the Euro-Area and US Economies
Aaron Drew, Mike Kennedy, Torsten Sløk, Pages: 35
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper is concerned with how stylised differences in monetary policy transmission mechanisms and product and labour market rigidities between the US and euro-area economies affect their resilience to temporary shocks. To address this issue, a small general equilibrium model with long-run...
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01 Feb 1991
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Deregulation, Credit Rationing, Financial Fragility and Economic Performance
Michael Driscoll, Pages: 47
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper is one of four in this Working Paper Series, focusing on financial liberalisation, along with those of Miller and Weller, Kupiec and Blundell-Wignall and Browne. Its main purpose is to evaluate the imperfections still affecting deregulated credit markets. In particular, the paper...
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01 June 2002
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Disaster Management and Educational Facilities
Grace Kenny, Pages: 6
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PEB Exchange, Programme on Educational Building
Some 80 earthquake specialists, architects, engineers and civil servants from a dozen countries met to discuss the different relationships which may occur between educational facilities and natural disasters; the emphasis was on the implications and effects of earthquakes and the appropriate...
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01 Oct 2002
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Design Down Process: Designing a School in Iceland with Its Users
Bruce Jilk, Pages: 3
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PEB Exchange, Programme on Educational Building
This is an example of an architect working with future school users in Iceland to design their school. The architect has developed a process that he uses with students, staff and the local community to create a learning environment in which the design intends for freedom and creativity to be...
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01 June 2003
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Designing Tomorrow's School
Nicolas Chung, Giorgio Ponti, Naoto Fukabori, Jaime G. de la Garza Reyna, Pages: 6
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PEB Exchange, Programme on Educational Building
A seminar entitled "Designing Tomorrow's School" was organised by the OECD Decentralised Programme on Educational Building (PEB), the Irish Ministry of Education and Science and the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway, and was held in Galway, Ireland, in September 2002. Certain...
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01 June 2003
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Designs for Learning in the Knowledge Age
Kenn Fisher, Pages: 4
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PEB Exchange, Programme on Educational Building
This overview of designs for learning in the Knowledge Age briefly explores the relationship between learning and the built environment, and the role of teachers in designing educational spaces; it calls for a collaborative campaign and suggests future action.
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19 May 1999
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Description of National Innovation Surveys Carried Out, or Foreseen, in 1997-99 in OECD Non-CIS-2 Participants and NESTI Observer Countries
Geneviève Muzart, Pages: 68
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OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers
Following the revision of the Oslo Manual (1997) and the preparation of the second Community Innovation Survey (CIS-2), a number of OECD and NESTI observer countries have carried out (or are preparing) new innovation surveys. According to national policy needs, these new national innovation...
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01 Apr 2000
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Working/Policy Paper
French
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Dépenses d'éducation, qualité de l'éducation et pauvreté: L'exemple de cinq pays d'Afrique francophone
Katharina Michaelowa, Pages: 60
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
Quelles sont les mesures les plus efficaces pour assurer des connaissances de base à un grand nombre d'enfants ? Cette question est analysée par la base de données exceptionnellement riche du Programme d'Analyse des Systèmes Educatifs des pays de la CONFEMEN (PASEC), standardisées et comparables pour cinq pays (Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Côte...
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09 Dec 2004
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Design Choices in Market Competition for Employment Services for the Long-Term Unemployed
Ludo Struyven, Pages: 52
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OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
Most Western countries have a long tradition of employment service provision by public bodies and non-profit organisations, but not by for-profit organisations. The creation of a quasi-market arrangement is not a simple choice for government. This paper underscores the difficulties and...
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01 Dec 2001
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Distribution and Growth in Latin America in an Era of Structural Reform: The Impact of Globalisation
Samuel A. Morley, Pages: 34
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
Latin America has long had the most unequally distributed income in the world because of land ownership patterns, development and education policies and demography, which have swelled the supply of unskilled labour and demand for skilled workers, leading to widening inequality. Import...
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26 Jan 2010
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Does Trade Stimulate Innovation?: Evidence from Firm-Product Data
Ana Margarida Fernandes, Caroline Paunov, Pages: 60
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
This paper investigates whether increased import competition leads firms to engage in
incremental innovation reflected in product quality upgrading. The econometric analysis relies
on a rich dataset of Chilean manufacturing firms and their products. Product quality is measured
with unit values...
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01 Dec 2009
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Dedicated Lanes, Tolls and ITS Technology
Robin Lindsey, Pages: 20
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OECD/ITF Joint Transport Research Centre Discussion Papers
This paper reviews the potential benefits from separating cars and trucks onto different lanes or roads while treating road infrastructure as given. U.S. studies of mixed traffic operations, lane restrictions and differential speed limits do not provide consistent evidence whether separating...
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01 Dec 2009
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Does SEA Change Outcomes?
Mario R. Partidário, Pages: 17
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OECD/ITF Joint Transport Research Centre Discussion Papers
This paper addresses the advocacy role that SEA can strategically play towards more sustainable and environmental decision-making and how this can be achieved. It discusses the required conditions for this performance and also the frustrations of SEA when such conditions are absent or...
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10 Feb 2010
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Does Reading Proficiency at Age 15 Affect Pathways through Learning and Work
Tomasz Gluszynski, Justin Bayard, Pages: 20
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OECD Education Working Papers
Over the last decade, Canada has experienced a substantial increase in the number of individuals participating in post-secondary education (PSE). This trend emphasizes the importance of understanding the pathways leading to PSE enrolment and the competencies that are associated with them. This...
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23 Mar 2010
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Developments in Cable Broadband Networks
Hyun-Cheol Chung, Pages: 40
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OECD Digital Economy Papers
The position of cable operators within the pay TV market has changed drastically in recent years.
Although video service remains core to the cable industry’s business model, cable TV’s market share has
been dropping significantly with intense competition from direct broadcast satellite services...
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01 Apr 2010
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Developing International Campuses of Excellence in Spain
Màrius Rubiralta, Luis Delgado, Pages: 7
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CELE Exchange, Centre for Effective Learning Environments
In 2009 the Secretary General of Universities (SGU) of the Spanish Ministry of Education launched a new programme to foster the modernisation and internationalisation of Spanish university campuses. This initiative focused on teaching, research and aspects of technology transfer, but also...
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