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Economic Survey of the United States 2008

09-Dec-2008

Despite high expenditures, health outcomes in the United States rank relatively poorly. Reforms to expand health insurance coverage and increase cost efficiency would improve outcomes relative to costs.

Economic Survey of Sweden 2008: Taxation and growth: what direction should Sweden take?

03-Dec-2008

In recent years, Sweden has implemented ambitious tax cuts to boost growth. Further reforms focused at the top marginal tax bracket could improve average working hours, entrepreneurship, human capital formation and retention or attraction of highly-skilled staff from abroad.

Speed of adjustment to selected labour market and tax reforms

29-Oct-2008

This paper examines the nature and the length of economic adjustments to selected structural reforms, drawing on a variety of approaches: descriptive analysis and simulations using Dynamic General Equilibrium and macro-economic neo-Keynesian models.

Short-term distributional effects of structural reforms: selected simulations in a DGSE framework

29-Oct-2008

This paper examines the short-term distributional effects of a number of tax and labour market reforms in the euro area, drawing on simulations using a micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium model.

Do tax structures affect aggregate economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of OECD countries

14-Oct-2008

This paper examines the relationship between tax structures and economic growth by entering indicators of the tax structure into a set of panel growth regressions for 21 OECD countries, in which both the accumulation of physical and human capital are taken into account.

Improving the business and investment climate in Indonesia

23-Sep-2008

Indonesia’s business environment is discouraging entrepreneurship and holding back private sector growth and development. Weaknesses in the regulatory framework, infrastructure bottlenecks and poor governance continue to weigh down on investment. Policies have been put in place to address these problems, but much remains to be done.




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2008 Edition of Revenue Statistics. Special feature: The balance between direct and indirect taxation

Revenue Statistics 1965-2007, 2008 Edition