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Van Dender, Kurt - 2019

road transport. In heavily congested areas, targeted charges are a cost-effective way of reducing congestion. Fiscal …

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Regulations in services sectors and their impact on downstream industries : the OECD 2013 REGIMPACT indicator

Égert, Balázs; Wanner, Isabelle - 2016

This document presents the new 2013 set of the OECD Regulatory Impact (REGIMPACT) indicator. It measures the impact of regulatory barriers to competition in non-manufacturing sectors on all industries, through intermediate inputs. The paper describes how the indicator is calculated and discusses...

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Costa Rica : boosting productivity to sustain income convergence

Pisu, Mauro - 2016

In the latest 30 years, Costa Rica's real GDP per capita has more than doubled, driven by increasing labour utilisation. Labour productivity has instead stagnated at around 30% of the more advanced OECD countries. Productivity growth has been lacklustre despite the opening up of markets to...

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A bird-eye view of Costa Rica's transport infrastructure

Pisu, Mauro; Villalobos, Federico - 2016

Costa Rica's transport infrastructure sector has long suffered from insufficient and ineffective investment and maintenance spending, resulting in a congested and poor-quality transport network. Public spending has been below the OECD average and private sector participation is limited. The road...

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Improving infrastructure in the United Kingdom

Pisu, Mauro; Pels, Barbara; Bottini, Novella - 2015

The United Kingdom (UK) has spent less on infrastructure compared to other OECD countries over the past three decades. The perceived quality of UK infrastructure assets is close to the OECD average but lower than in other G7 countries. Capacity constraints have emerged in some sectors, such as...

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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in a cost effective way in Switzerland

Wölfl, Anita; Sicari, Patrizio - 2012

Switzerland has low greenhouse gas emissions per capita as compared to other countries, which reflects the strong reliance on energy sources emitting few greenhouse gas emissions, especially in electricity generation, and little heavy industry. Greenhouse gas emissions have remained almost the...

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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013

-urban income differential has narrowed. Urbanisation also entails costs, however, notably in the form of congestion, all the more …

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Evaluating the impact of urban road pricing on the use of green transport modes : the case of Milan

Cornago, Elisabetta; Dimitropoulos, Alexandros; … - 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of congestion pricing on the demand for clean transport modes …. To this end, it draws on an empirical analysis of the effect of Milan’s congestion charge on the use of bike sharing. The … analysis indicates that congestion pricing increases daily bike-sharing use by at least 5% in the short term. Extending the …

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Wahrnehmungsbericht des Rechnungshofes über die Mautvignette

Österreich / Rechnungshof - 1998

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Eurotoll : European research project for toll effects and pricing strategies

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