21-November-2017
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The database contains indicators capturing structural policies (including institutions, framework condition policies and policies specifically related to labour markets and drivers of productivity and investment such as trade, skills and innovation).
14-November-2017
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Building on a large volume of cross-country research, the OECD project on “Exit Policies and Productivity Growth” presents new evidence on policies affecting the exit and restructuring of weak firm and the channels through which they shape aggregate productivity growth.
18-October-2017
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Over the past decade, sound macroeconomic policies and an improved business environment have helped generate relatively strong GDP growth.
11-October-2017
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A key priority in China’s "new normal" period -- where returns on investment are slackening -- is corporate governance, which could lead to enhanced productivity by a better management of resources at the firm level.
11-October-2017
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Technological change is increasing the productivity of highly skilled workers but creating more challenging labour-market conditions for their low-skilled counterparts.
11-October-2017
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New Zealand ranks highly on most indicators of well-being, but incomes are below the OECD average due to low labour productivity.
11-October-2017
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Luxembourg’s workforce is highly skilled, reflecting the concentration in the country of sophisticated firms in the financial sector and other top-end international services.
28-September-2017
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Never in the past 30 years has productivity growth been lower than since the 2008 global financial crisis, and never has income inequality been higher than it is today in Japan, and in the OECD area
27-September-2017
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While India’s per capita income is converging towards that of the richer countries, inequality has drifted up.
11-September-2017
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Living standards in China have greatly improved over the past few decades. Both sustained economic growth and an expansion of the social security system have contributed to a sharp reduction in the number of people in poverty.