28-July-2011
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OECD work prior to the financial crisis suggested that real prices in several housing markets had become vulnerable to a change in financial and economic conditions, with the risk of a subsequent downturn becoming increasingly possible, as proved to be the case.
28-July-2011
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Education has been given high priority by India’s central and state governments and continues to grow fast. Nevertheless, high drop-out rates and low attendance continues to be a challenge at lower levels and enrolment at higher levels remains modest by international standards.
21-July-2011
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OECD work prior to the financial crisis suggested that real prices in several housing markets had become vulnerable to a change in financial and economic conditions, with the risk of a subsequent downturn becoming increasingly possible, as proved to be the case.
21-July-2011
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From the mid 1980s, New Zealand was widely considered to be a leader in liberalising product market regulation (PMR).
5-July-2011
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A considerable housing boom has been a key feature of persistently large saving investment imbalances in New Zealand over the past decade.
4-July-2011
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This paper addresses the often neglected question of how macroeconomic risk is shared across and within economies, and identifies reforms that could contribute towards achieving more desirable risk-sharing outcomes.
24-June-2011
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Estonia has already experienced many benefits of increasing international integration, most obviously in significant convergence.
23-June-2011
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This paper uses an impulse-response function approach to assess the magnitude and persistence of the labour force participation effects of downturns for a sample of 30 countries over the period 1960-2008.
6-June-2011
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This paper assesses empirically whether or not current account reversals have permanent growth effects and the role of macroeconomic policies in this process.
6-June-2011
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This paper critically reviews the current state of cross-country research on informality and discusses how existing data sources can be more effectively employed and extended to shed light on the link between public policies and informality.