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02 Mar 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Guidelines for Quality Provision in Cross-Border Higher Education: Where Do We Stand?
Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin, Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Pages: 65
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OECD Education Working Papers
The Guidelines for Quality Provision in Cross-border Higher Education were developed and adopted to support
and encourage international cooperation and enhance the understanding of the importance of quality provision
in cross-border higher education. The purposes of the Guidelines are to...
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09 Nov 2005
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Article
English
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Guidelines for Insurers' Governance
OECD, Pages: 183–212
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Financial Market Trends
On 28 April 2005, the OECD Council approved the Recommendation on Guidelines for Insurers’ Governance. Guidelines were first endorsed by the OECD Insurance and Private Pensions Committee in collaboration and wide consultation with the 30 member ...
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26 May 2010
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Guidelines for Improving the Comparability and Availability of Private Health Expenditures Under the System of Health Accounts Framework
Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya, Luca Lorenzoni, Pages: 68
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OECD Health Working Papers
This paper reports on a project to improve the comparability and availability of private health expenditure under the joint health accounts questionnaire (JHAQ) data collection. The JHAQ is a framework for joint data collection in the area of health expenditure data developed by OECD, Eurostat,...
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19 Oct 2006
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Article
English
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Guidance for Managing Joint Evaluations
OECD, Pages: 1–23
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OECD Papers
This booklet is a practical guide for managers of joint evaluations of development assistance programmes. It is a revision and update, in view of new experiences, of the DAC publication Effective Practices in Conducting a Joint Multi-Donor ...
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20 Sep 2011
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Article
English
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Guarantee Arrangements for Financial Promises: How Widely Should the Safety Net be Cast?
Sebastian Schich, Byoung-Hwan Kim, Pages: 201–235
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OECD Journal: Financial Market Trends
Guarantees have become the preferred instrument to address many financial policy objectives. The incidence of financial sector guarantee arrangements that address specific policy objectives, such as supporting financial stability, protecting ...
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29 June 2001
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Growth, Inequality and Social Protection
Roman Arjona, Maxime Ladaique, Mark Pearson, Pages: 81
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OECD Labour Market and Social Policy Occasional Papers
Economic growth is, ultimately, the result of the myriad of transactions which take place in a market economy. Similarly, the distribution of income depends on who has ownership of factors of production, how much they can sell them for, and whether the resultant income is redistributed or not....
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01 Oct 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Growth, Aid and Policies in Countries Recovering from War
Anke Hoeffler, Pages: 23
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OECD Development Co-operation Working Papers
What happens to countries after civil war or other conflict comes to an end? This paper shows that post-war economies can experience a peace dividend involving higher than average growth rates, and that aid can increase this dividend. Since post-war countries face the twin challenges of...
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20 Apr 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Growth in Services - Fostering Employment, Productivity and Innovation
OECD, Pages: 24
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OECD Digital Economy Papers
The services sector now accounts for over 70% of total employment and value added in OECD economies. It also accounts for almost all employment growth in the OECD area. But despite its growing weight, productivity growth in services has been slow in many OECD countries and the share of the...
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14 Jan 2002
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Article
English
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Growth effects of education and social capital in the OECD countries
Jonathan Temple, Pages: 57–101
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OECD Economic Studies
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the growth effects of education and social capital. The main focus is on the cross-country evidence for the OECD countries, but the paper also briefly reviews evidence from labour economics, to clarify ...
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12 Oct 2000
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Growth Effects of Education and Social Capital in the OECD Countries
Jonathan Temple, Pages: 39
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the growth effects of education and social capital. The main focus is on the cross-country evidence for the OECD countries, but the paper also briefly reviews evidence from labour economics, to clarify where empirical work on education using macro...
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01 Sep 2001
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Growth and Human Capital: Good Data, Good Results
Daniel Cohen, Marcelo Soto, Pages: 41
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
This paper presents a new data set on human capital. It is based upon data released at the OECD for a subgroup of 38 member and non-member countries, and an effort performed at the Development Centre to expand this data set to other developing countries. The key to our methodology is to...
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07 Apr 2004
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Article
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Growing Research: Challenges for Latedevelopers and Newcomers
Ellen Hazelkorn, Pages: 119–140
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Higher Education Management and Policy
Across OECD countries, governments, policy makers and university managers are examining the future of higher education and questioning the role of educational research. These discussions are taking place against the backdrop that knowledge ...
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01 Mar 1996
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Grow Now/Clean Later, or the Pursuit of Sustainable Development?
David O’Connor, Pages: 44
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
This paper is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the relationship between economic growth and the environment. Through a contrast of the experiences of two regional groupings of countries — East Asia and Eastern Europe — that have both experienced rapid industrialisation, it makes clear...
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01 July 2010
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Greening Jobs and Skills: Labour Market Implications of Addressing Climate Change
Cristina Martinez-Fernandez, Carlos Hinojosa, Gabriela Miranda, Pages: 71
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OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Working Papers
The impacts of climate change - and especially the subsequent mitigation and adaptation policies - on labour markets are still largely unknown despite the recent demand for knowledge production and diffusion on this topic and the increasing avalanche of reports and studies from public, private...
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18 Mar 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Greening Growth in Japan
Ivana Capozza, Pages: 42
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OECD Environment Working Papers
A decade of sluggish economic growth, concluding with the sharpest recession since the Second
World War, has underlined the need for Japan to develop a new growth model. Such a model should
restore public finances and long-term growth while preserving environmental quality and ensuring...
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06 May 2013
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Greening Global Value Chains: Innovation and the International Diffusion of Technologies and Knowledge
Matthieu Glachant, Pages: 20
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OECD Green Growth Papers
The objective of the paper is to lay out the state of knowledge on the role of innovation and the diffusion of technologies in the greening of global value chains as well as some of the main policy issues and key research gaps1. A special emphasis will be put on developing countries in which...
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06 May 2013
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Working/Policy Paper
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Greening Global Value Chains: Implementation Challenges
Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné, Pages: 25
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OECD Green Growth Papers
The objective of this paper is to highlight some of the most important implementation issues associated with the greening of global value chains (GVCs). Special attention is given to how public policies and business strategies can support each other in meeting the challenge, particularly in...
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26 Jan 2009
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Working/Policy Paper
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Greening Development Planning: A Review of Country Case Studies for Making the Economic Case for Improved Management of Environment and Natural Resources
Olof Drakenberg, Sandra Paulsen, Jessica Andersson, Emelie Dahlberg, Kristoffer Darin Mattsson, Elisabeth Wikstrom, Pages: 58
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OECD Environment Working Papers
Different approaches to making the economic case for improved management of natural capital in national planning are reviewed in this report. In many low-income countries natural resources sectors (agriculture,
mining, forestry, fishery, nature-based tourism) are identified as the engines of...
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01 June 2009
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Working/Policy Paper
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Potential from International Shipping
Philippe Crist, Pages: 48
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OECD/ITF Joint Transport Research Centre Discussion Papers
In this paper, we discuss the greenhouse gas emission reduction potential from international
shipping. Drawing from the International Maritime Organization’s most recent assessment of
maritime greenhouse gas emissions and other sources, we investigate the current level of
emissions from...
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26 Apr 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Price Elasticities of Transport Fuel Demand in Belgium
Tom Schmitz, Pages: 43
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
Since 1990, Belgium has managed to bring down greenhouse gas emissions in most domains of economic
activity. Road transport, as in many other countries, is a notable exception to this pattern: emissions have
steadily increased, driven by an ever higher consumption of petrol and diesel. Even...
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