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Major budgeting reforms have been initiated in a number of OECD countries in recent years. These reforms focus on giving spending agencies greater flexibility in using resources, in exchange for holding them responsible for achieving results. This publication examines how five Member countries...
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Less than two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s illegal, unprovoked and unjustifiable war of aggression against Ukraine has triggered the biggest military confrontation in Europe since World War II. Many OECD countries have reacted to Russia’s aggression by providing...
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The quality of corporate governance regulations matters. If they are well designed, they can help governments achieve important policy objectives, such as higher levels of investment, increased productivity and better business sector dynamics. But for this to happen, the rules and regulations...
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At the end of 1997, Korea was hit by a major financial and economic crisis, which resulted, among other things, in a huge rise in unemployment. The event caught the country’s labour and social institutions unprepared, so that many workers and their families were hit hard. The economy has now...
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The present report on Japan is the seventh report in the Investing in Youth series. In three statistical chapters, the … report provides an overview of the labour market situation of young people in Japan, presents a portrait of young people who … are not in employment, education or training (the NEETs) and analyses the income situation of young people in Japan. Two …
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This report, part of a series covering around 20 OECD countries, contains a survey of Japan's main barriers to …
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Currently, Japan has the highest old-age dependency ratio of all OECD countries, with a ratio in 2017 of over 50 … rapid population ageing in Japan is a major challenge for achieving further increases in living standards and ensuring the …
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This publication focuses on business dynamics across eight countries (Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Japan, New …
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