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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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02 Jan 2007
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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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11 July 2007
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Article
English
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Update on Financial Market Developments
OECD, Pages: 23–33
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Financial Market Trends
Triggered by sub-prime and Shanghai stock exchange volatility, major stock markets suffered a significant correction at the end of February. Markets have since recovered and European markets have over the past few weeks more than compensated these ...
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29 May 2008
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English
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Use of derivatives for debt management and domestic debt market development: Key conclusions
Hans J. Blommestein, Das Udaibir, Alison Harwood, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, Anderson Silva, Pages: 223–235
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OECD Journal: Financial Market Trends
The Ninth OECD/World Bank/IMF Annual Global Bond Market Forum held on 22-23 May 2007 in Paris, France, highlighted that there has been very sharp growth in the use of derivative instruments in both mature and emerging market countries. The use of ...
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18 Nov 2003
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Article
English
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University Roles and Career Paths: Trends, Scenarios and Motivational Challenges
George Gordon, Pages: 89–103
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Higher Education Management and Policy
The substantial pressures upon higher education systems and institutions are impacting upon individual roles and career paths. Yet recent research on academic identities (Henkel, 2000) suggests the responses are largely adaptive and evolutionary ...
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05 May 2003
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Article
English
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University Research Activities: On-going Transformations and New Challenges
Philippe Larédo, Pages: 105–123
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Higher Education Management and Policy
In times when excellence is at the top of the research agenda of all research and innovation policies, especially in Europe, research universities are the implicit reference model of most policy makers and most public debates. However, the ...
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06 Jan 2005
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English
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Universities and Innovation in the Knowledge Economy: Cases from English Regions
Fumi Kitagawa, Pages: 53–75
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Higher Education Management and Policy
The last decade has seen a growing increase in policy discourse in many countries on entrepreneurship and innovation with a prominent emphasis on the role to be played by universities. However, it is far from clear to what extent institutional ...
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07 Apr 2004
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Article
English
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Universality or Specialisation?
Christian Allies, Michel Troquet, Pages: 49–64
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Higher Education Management and Policy
Trade globalisation is beginning to affect universities worldwide. In response to this outside pressure, institutions have become more geared to gaining international repute through research than to maintaining their reputation at home for the ...
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22 Aug 2007
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Article
English
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Universities on the Catwalk: Models for Performance Ranking in Australia
Hamish Coates, Pages: 1–17
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Higher Education Management and Policy
National and international rankings of institutional performance are playing a growing role in contemporary higher education. It is critical that researchers develop pragmatic, educationally sensitive and methodologically informed approaches for ...
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29 Nov 2007
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English
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Universities, the State and the Market: Changing Patterns of University Governance in Sweden and Beyond
Lars Engwall, Pages: 1–18
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Higher Education Management and Policy
This paper analyses changes in the governance of universities as a result of growing demands from society as well as of a strong penetration of management ideology into all kinds of institutions. For this purpose the paper uses a theoretical ...
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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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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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25 Oct 2006
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English
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Uses of Pollutant Release and Transfer Register Data and Tools for their Presentation: A Reference Manual
OECD, Pages: 1–87
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OECD Papers
This report presents numerous examples of the variety of tools for presenting and illustrating PRTR data and the types of uses of PRTR data in OECD member countries. It presents examples of uses for the purposes of the public, community groups ...
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19 Sep 2006
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Article
English
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Using ODA to Promote Private Investment for Development: Policy Guidance for Donors
OECD, Pages: 1–20
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OECD Papers
This report provides guidance to members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) on using ODA more effectively to mobilise private investment for development (investment-enhancing ODA). It focuses on how development agencies can help ...
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07 Dec 2007
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English
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Use of Discount Rates in the Estimation of the Costs of Inaction with Respect to Selected Environmental Concerns
OECD, Pages: 1–42
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OECD Papers
This paper reviewed current discounting practice in the OECD. It found a wide variance in guidance across countries (which may or may not be justifiable by different economic conditions), and significant differences in guidance within countries ...
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01 Mar 1983
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Working/Policy Paper
French
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Utilisation des élasticités de la demande dans l'estimation de la demande de l'énergie
Axel Mittelstädt, Pages: 54
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
La question des réactions de la demande de pétrole et d'énergie aux variations du revenu et des prix reste au premier plan des débats consacrés à la politique économique. Comme l'on n'escompte qu'un ...
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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 Sep 2007
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Using Minimum Energy in Ireland's Schools
John Dolan, Pages: 7
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PEB Exchange, Programme on Educational Building
This article explains how Ireland has incorporated low energy design into primary and post-primary
schools and gives an overview of projects that have helped inform this approach.
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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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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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