30-October-2023
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Brazil is currently discussing a major tax reform. This Policy Brief provides background and a preliminary high-level assessment of the current tax system, the reform and its potential implications for growth and productivity.
17-June-2015
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Finance is a vital ingredient of economic growth, but there can be too much of it. Over the past 50 years, credit by banks and other institutions to households and businesses has grown three times as fast as economic activity. At these levels, further expansion is likely to slow long-term growth and raise inequality.
17-June-2015
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Finance is a vital ingredient of economic growth, but there can be too much of it. Over the past 50 years, credit by banks and other institutions to households and businesses has grown three times as fast as economic activity. At these levels, further expansion is likely to slow long-term growth and raise inequality.
12-April-2012
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Large fiscal challenges will pre-occupy OECD governments for some time to come. The economic crisis that began in 2008 caused deficits to surge, and fiscal imbalances were swollen further by stimulus measures and bank rescue operations.
12-July-2011
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Although the automobile industry accounts for only a small share of industrial output in most OECD economies (around 5½ per cent in the median OECD economy), it is comparatively volatile and can thus
11-March-2011
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Rising energy prices stemming from turbulence across N. Africa and the Middle East will only have a modest impact on GDP and inflation in the near term, according to a new OECD report.
4-March-2011
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Global current account imbalances widened markedly in the years preceding the global economic crisis.
29-November-2010
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Policy Note: Health care systems: getting more value for money