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• Italy

  - 2008-06-01

  Economic activity seems to have stalled since the first half of 2007. The weakening external environment and knock-on effects from tighter credit conditions will constrain growth to below its potential rate of around 1 1/4 per cent this year, while unemployment may rise again. The recent surge in consumer price...

  Tags: FINANCE, financial, inflation, investment, Italy, OECD

• Statistical annex

  - 2008-06-01

  Annex Table 29. General government primary balances Surplus (+) or deficit (-) as a per cent of nominal GDP 1990 1991 1992 ...

  Tags: Asia, Australia, Belgium, financial, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Investment, Italy, Korea, Luxembourg, OECD, U.K., U.S.

• Why do Europeans work less? It is taxes and government spending

  - 2008-04-01

  I. INTRODUCTION The reason why Europeans work less than Americans is the subject of intense discussion in recent literature. Prescott (2004), Cardia, Kozhaya, and Ruge-Murcia (2003), and Roeger and De Fiore (1999) emphasize the negative effects of high taxes in Europe. Other authors, like Blanchard (2004) and Alesina, Glaeser,...

  Tags: benefit, Europe, FINANCE, government, income, Italy, OECD, Taxes, U.S.

• Italy

  - 2007-12-01

  GDP slowed in the first half of 2007, as export growth weakened, rebounded in the third quarter but may weaken again in the fourth. Growth over the course of 2008-09 is projected at near its potential rate of just under 1 1/2 per cent. Unemployment, which continued to fall through...

  Tags: financial, Italy, OECD, tax

• Industry Watch: View from the Bridge.

  - 2007-07-09

  Italy abolishes pensions This week's View from the bridge comes not from the big bridge in London, but from a small bridge near Urbino in the Le Marche region of Italy. Researching Le Marche (which is to the east of Tuscany...

  Tags: Benefits, Italy, OECD, pension

• Appendix I.2: Supplementary tables

  - 2007-05-01

  Real GDP Percentage changes from previous year 2001 ...

  Tags: database, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, OECD, Portugal, Republic

• Grey power; Italian education.

  - 2007-04-28

  Little maids from lousy schools The biggest fault in Italian education is that there are too many old teachers THE Bar Cristal, beneath an elevated section of Rome's inner ringway, caters mostly to travellers from the nearby bus and rail stations....

  Tags: education, Italy, OECD, teacher

• Labour market flexibility and social protection in European welfare states—contrasts and similarities

  - 2006-06-01

  Abstract The concept of 'flexicurity' is gaining momentum both within research and policy debates. As a research concept it is focused on the interplay between various forms of labour market flexibility and social protection. As a political strategy, 'flexicurity' offers a third way combining the virtues of flexible labour...

  Tags: Benefits, Denmark, FINANCE, income, Italy, OECD, Sweden, Tenure, U.K., unemployment, Unemployment, worker

• Italy

  - 2006-05-01

  After stalling in late 2005, the economy now appears to be back on a recovery track. Average annual growth over the next two years is expected to be around potential (1 1/4 per cent), helped by buoyant world demand and the lagged impact of easy monetary conditions. The negative output...

  Tags: FINANCE, inflation, Italy, OECD

• Who's winning? The shape of global competition: we are delighted to bring this exclusive and special paper by the Australian Industry Group on Australia's export competitiveness with the rest of the world

  - 2005-03-01

  Australia's record current account deficit has raised attention about the nation's flagging export performance. Export volumes in the 1990s grew strongly (by 7.5 percent per annum), under the influence of a super-competitive low Australian dollar and a thirst by companies for export dollars. This along with supportive microeconomic reforms...

  Tags: Australia, China, FINANCE, Germany, inflation, Italy, Korea, manufacturing, OECD, performance