11-September-2017
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With persisting slower growth worldwide and in China, over-capacity in some heavy industry sectors, declining profitability, and intensifying competition from other, lower-cost emerging economies, corporate behaviour in China needs to change and focus more on efficiency and sustainability.
7-August-2017
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Despite improvements over the past few decades, Slovak health outcomes remains poor compared with most other OECD countries, even after controlling for differences in per capita income and other social, cultural and lifestyle factors.
7-August-2017
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This paper extends earlier OECD work exploring the link between skills mismatch, productivity and policies to include the countries in the second wave of OECD Survey of Adult Skills, with a special focus on New Zealand.
7-August-2017
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This paper presents the global income distribution between all individuals living in the developed world.
30-June-2017
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This paper explores cross-country differences in the design of insolvency regimes and their potential links with two inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of "zombie" firms (firms that would typically exit in a competitive market) and capital misallocation.
8-June-2017
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R&D activity can play a central role in raising productivity.
8-June-2017
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This paper investigates the relationship linking investment (capital stock) and structural policies.
8-June-2017
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Innovation is key to boosting Australia’s productivity and inclusiveness.
30-May-2017
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Boosting investment is key to supporting the nascent recovery and reviving stagnant productivity.
29-May-2017
English
Spain has chronically low productivity growth, which undermines its ability to generate higher living standards.