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13 Jan 2009
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Article
English
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U.S.–India Nuclear Cooperation and Non-Proliferation
Yash Thomas Mannully, Pages: 9–26
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Nuclear Law Bulletin
he "Agreement for Cooperation Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of India Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy"1 (hereinafter referred to as "U.S.-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement" or "123 agreement ...
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02 Jan 2007
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Article
English
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Uganda: A Decade of Budget Reform and Poverty Reduction
Florence Kuteesa, Ishmael Magona, Maris Wanyera, James Wokadala, Pages: 1–25
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Uganda’s economy has undergone major fluctuations from a vibrant economy in the 1960s, to suffering severe macroeconomic imbalances in the 1970s and 1980s, to enjoying an economic revival since the late 1980s. A key focus of recent public financial ...
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01 Sep 2006
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Ulysses, the Sirens and the Art of Navigation: Political and Technical Rationality in Latin America
Javier Santiso, Laurence Whitehead, Pages: 77
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
The paper focuses on relations between experts and politicians in Latin America. It is
divided into three parts. The first outlines the distinctive features of the political economy of
expertise in Latin America. This provides the context to the second part, which focuses on the
analysis of...
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05 Sep 2007
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Unauthorized Migrants in the United States: Estimates, Methods, and Characteristics
Jeffrey Passel, Pages: 37
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OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
This report discusses methods of measuring unauthorized migration to the United States. The
"residual method" involves comparing an analytic estimate of the legal foreign-born population with a
survey-based measure of the total foreign-born population. The difference between the two...
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10 Oct 2008
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Understanding Russian Regions' Economic Performance during Periods of Decline and Growth: An Extreme-bound Analysis Approach
Rudiger Ahrend, Pages: 29
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This article uses "extreme-bound"-type analysis to revisit the determinants behind widely differing economic growth
in Russian regions. Using data of 77 regions for 1993-2004, it separately examines the growth drivers for the phase of
economic decline up to 1998, and for the period of strong...
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14 May 2013
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Understanding School Building Policy and Practice in Belgium's Flemish Community
Geert Leemans, Hannah von Ahlefeld, Pages: 30
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OECD Education Working Papers
This paper describes a conceptual framework that can be used to interpret the general policy issues
driving the design, construction, maintenance and evaluation of school buildings in Belgium’s Flemish
Community. Within the context of this framework, eight policy challenges relating to the...
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24 Nov 2009
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Article
English
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Understanding sectoral growth cycles and the impact of monetary policy in Turkish manufacturing
Saygin Sahinöz, Evren Erdogan Cosar, Pages: 43–69
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OECD Journal: Journal of Business Cycle Measurement and Analysis
We pursue a two-fold objective in this paper. First, we try to describe comprehensively the behaviour of sectoral growth cycles in Turkish manufacturing by using several statistical measures and to analyse the co-movement between them via ...
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01 Jan 2001
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Understanding the Digital Divide
OECD, Pages: 33
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OECD Digital Economy Papers
The term "digital divide" refers to the gap between individuals, households, businesses and geographic areas at different socio-economic levels with regard to their opportunities to access information and communication technologies (ICTs).
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24 May 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Understanding the Recent Surge in the Accumulation of International Reserves
Petar Vujanovic, Pages: 29
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper looks at the empirical determinates of foreign currency reserve holdings across a panel of around 130 countries between 1980 and 2008. The paper builds on the existing literature by adopting a panel error-correction model specification and by extending the sample to include the...
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09 July 2007
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Understanding the Regional Contribution of Higher Education Institutions: A Literature Review
Peter Arbo, Paul Benneworth, Pages: 79
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OECD Education Working Papers
The contribution of higher education institutions to regional development is a theme that has attracted
growing attention in recent years. Knowledge institutions are increasingly expected not only to conduct
education and research, but also to play an active role in the economic, social and...
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30 July 2002
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Article
English
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Understanding the waves of agencification and the governance problems they have raised in Central and Eastern European Countries
Miroslav Beblavý, Pages: 121–139
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
The goal of this paper is to provide tools to understand and analyse waves of "agencification" in transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Agencification is a shorthand for the process of delegation and devolution, in which more autonomy ...
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30 Oct 2009
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Understanding the World Trade Collapse
Calista Cheung, Stéphanie Guichard, Pages: 36
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
The collapse in world trade volumes at the end of 2008 and beginning of 2009 was exceptional by
historical standards. This paper shows that world demand (to which trade has become more responsive in
recent decades) can explain most of the collapse in world trade, but that tight credit...
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14 Sep 2006
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Undertaking Revisions and Real-Time Data Analysis using the OECD Main Economic Indicators Original Release Data and Revisions Database
Richard McKenzie, Pages: 38
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OECD Statistics Working Papers
The first releases of official statistics are often revised in subsequent releases, sometimes
substantially. Such revisions can impact on policy decisions, as revisions to first published data may alter
the previous assessment of the state of the economy. This may occur through a changed...
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01 May 2000
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Working/Policy Paper
French
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Une estimation de la pauvreté en Afrique subsaharienne d'après les données anthropométriques
Christian Morrisson, Hélène Guilmeau, Charles Linskens, Pages: 47
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
Ce document technique présente la première estimation de la pauvreté en Afrique subsaharienne fondée sur les données anthropométriques collectées dans 19 pays par les Demographic and Health Surveys. La pauvreté étudiée est la pauvreté absolue (les deux autres concepts, de pauvreté relative et de pauvreté subjective, ont été exclus), qui est...
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01 Apr 1993
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Unemployment and Labour Force Participation: Trends and Cycles
Jørgen Elmeskov, Karl Pichelmann, Pages: 61
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper deals with trends and cycles of unemployment and labour-force participation. Empirical evidence on both trends and cyclical movements in unemployment and participation is presented. Some of the mechanisms behind the observed developments are also analysed, examining how well they fit...
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01 July 1990
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Unemployment in Developing Countries: New Light on an Old Problem
David Turnham, Deniz Eröcal, Pages: 59
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
In the 1960s and 1970s a number of views were formed about unemployment in developing countries, which have remained largely accepted since then. The views can be summarized as three propositions: a) the poor cannot afford to become unemployed; b) labour markets in developing countries are...
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01 Feb 1991
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Unemployment Persistence and Insider-Outsider Forces in Wage Determination
Bertil Holmlund, Pages: 44
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
The rise in European unemployment has inspired much new research on the causes and mechanisms of unemployment, analogous to the interest devoted to unemployment in the 1930s. The new research has to a large extent focused on wage-setting behaviour, as is revealed by the rapid growth of...
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01 June 1991
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Universal Service and Rate Restructuring in Telecommunications, No. 23
OECD, Pages: 199
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OECD Digital Economy Papers
This report examines two issues at the centre of the debate concerning the restructuring of telecommunications services.
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22 Jan 2003
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Universal Service Obligations and Broadband
OECD, Pages: 34
in
OECD Digital Economy Papers
This paper examines the question of whether the scope of universal service should be widened to
include broadband. A common concern in OECD countries is that some groups without access to highspeed
broadband networks, such as those residing in rural and sparsely populated remote areas, will...
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27 July 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Universal Service Policies in the Context of National Broadband Plans
Angela Garcia Calvo, Pages: 85
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OECD Digital Economy Papers
This report discusses the main areas in which national strategies to expand broadband networks affect universal service objectives, proposes criteria to rethink the terms of universal service policies, and shares the latest developments across a selected group of OECD countries.
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