4-July-2018
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With still large government debt and interest payments in many OECD countries, actively adjusting debt maturity can help to minimise debt servicing costs.
12-June-2018
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Slow productivity growth in advanced economies holds back income gains and therefore improvements in well-being.
31-May-2018
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Thailand’s "sufficiency economy philosophy" encourages the prioritisation of long-term sustainability over short-term benefits.
29-May-2018
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Finland raises a large amount of taxes to finance high-quality public services and redistribute income.
25-May-2018
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The analysis suggests that countries with a counter-cyclical fiscal stance typically have a public spending structure that is more supportive of inclusive growth.
23-February-2018
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This paper investigates if higher public spending in education and better teacher qualifications are related to student’s performance, using data from Saber 11, a national standardized test conducted by Instituto Colombiano para la Evaluación de la Educación.
10-January-2018
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France’s health-care system offers high-quality care. Average health outcomes are good, public satisfaction with the health-care system is high, and average household out-of-pocket expenditures are low.
22-December-2017
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Redistribution is quantified as the relative reduction in market income inequality achieved by personal income taxes, employees’ social security contributions and cash transfers, based on household-level micro data.
19-December-2017
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Can reforms that shift the balance among different taxes in the revenue mix lastingly influence the overall prosperity of an economy and the distribution of income across households?
12-December-2017
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The personal tax system has a large influence on incentives to work, save and invest and hence growth. At the same time it is a key policy lever for income redistribution.