Raising Productivity

This chapter looks at structural policies which would improve Greece’s long-term productivity performance and help speed economic and social convergence with European Union member countries. It focuses on a number of key areas which are particularly important for rapid productivity growth as they offer substantial scope for catching up with international best practice. These areas are: competition policy reform fostering a knowledge-based economy the liberalisation of product markets, in particular the energy, telecommunication and transport sectors policies to foster entrepreneurship and the implementation of a better corporate governance regime....