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boosting growth. Poverty and inequality have increased despite policies to mitigate the social impacts of Greece’s deep … depression since 2009. Better social policies are needed to strengthen the social safety net and make growth more inclusive. Much …
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Turkey’s business sector dynamism has underpinned broad-based and inclusive growth in the 2000s. However, the business …
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documents the drivers of its recent growth and diversification, and the factors that have held it back. It documents its … segmentation and the outsized tail of poorly performing firms, which undermines aggregate productivity growth. Low productivity …
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raising female labour force participation with a package of pro-growth and pro-women policies could boost the growth rate by …This paper studies how public policies, including pro-women interventions, can raise female labour force participation … and promote economic growth in India. The first part provides a brief review of gender issues in the country. The second …
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the algorithm in forecasting GDP growth 3- to 12-months ahead is assessed through simulations in pseudo-real-time for six …
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This paper reviews the main issues related to the short-term impact of structural reforms in different macroeconomic contexts and takes stock of existing theoretical and empirical studies. Taking reforms introduced in “normal” times as a benchmark, it reviews the available evidence on the...
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This paper analyses the structure of Greek exports and presents policy recommendations to boost export performance. Despite recent improvements, export performance deteriorated in the last decade particularly in the service sector. The decline in unit labour costs since the beginning of the...
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This paper analyses the effects of product market reforms in the short and medium term across 10 regulated industries and 18 advanced economies for the period 1998-2013 using internationally comparable firm-level data based on Orbis. It provides four key insights. First, product market reforms...
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This paper presents country-specific effects of structural reforms. It discusses how sizeable and interesting country-specific effects can be identified in a panel setting by conditioning the impact of individual policies on their own level or on the stance of other policies and institutions....
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contributions of changes in relative prices, health care volumes and coverage to the slowdown in health care expenditure growth. Our … health care expenditure growth was accounted for by health care prices growing less than general prices and a reduction in …). We conclude that structural changes in publicly financed health care have constrained the growth of care volumes …
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