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• Chapter 3: corporate saving and investment: recent trends and prospects

  - 2007-12-01

  Introduction and summary of the main results Since 2001, OECD corporate net lending has risen sharply For the aggregate OECD corporate sector, the excess of gross saving over fixed investment (i.e. net lending) has been unusually large since 2002, even allowing for the recent fall (Figure 3.1). Indeed,...

  Tags: buyback, dividend, FINANCE, financial, Investment, Japan, M., OECD, surplus, U.K., U.S.

• $5bn budget gap if boom comes to an end.

  - 2006-10-23

  Byline: Fleur Anderson Oct 23, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- It is only the commodity boom that is keeping Australia's Budget in surplus. According to research firm Access Economics the Budget would be at least $A5bn in deficit...

  Tags: Australia, Databases, FINANCE, OECD, SOFTWARE, surplus, Taxes

• Chapter III: globalization and external imbalances.(implications of globalization for external imbalances and their adjustments, International Monetary Fund and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)

  - 2005-04-01

  External current account deficits or surpluses in some major economic areas--notably the United States and Asia--have reached record-high levels, and expectations are that they will stay large or increase for some time. Many observers, including IMF staff, have expressed concern that corrections to sustainable levels will...

  Tags: adjustment, Asia, asset, Delta, equity, financial, Globalization, imbalance, IMF, inflation, investor, Lane, OECD, Strategy, surplus, U.S., valuation, Working

• The federal deficit and the national debt: why they matter more than we think

  - 2005-01-01

  Using historical data from the Office of Management and Budget, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the author argues that that the current method of expressing the federal deficit and/or debt as a percentage of GDP obscures the danger posed by potentially higher interest...

  Tags: Congressional Budget Office, FINANCE, OECD, payment, surplus, tax, U.S.

• II. Developments in individual OECD countries: Spain

  - 2004-06-01

  Output accelerated during the second half of 2003, driven by buoyant domestic demand. Inflation has drifted down in recent months partly due to the appreciation of the euro, while the inflation differential with the euro area has fallen to 1/2 percentage point. Activity should continue to firm over the projection...

  Tags: appreciation, FINANCE, inflation, OECD, surplus

• Chapter III: fostering structural reforms in industrial countries.(economic policymakers, an detail analysis of financial sector's growth)

  - 2004-04-01

  With the rebound in the global economy, economic policymakers in industrial countries have increased the attention they devote to structural policy issues. Impediments to competition, labor market and price flexibility, and innovation are a primary concern in this regard, given their adverse effects on growth in...

  Tags: adjustment, analysis, benefit, FINANCE, financial, GMM, government, IMF, income, Labor, liberalization, OECD, policymaker, Regulation, surplus, Taxes, unemployment, Working

• SOUTH KOREA RANKS NINTH IN TRADE SURPLUS AMONG OECD NATIONS.

  - 2003-11-25

  SEOUL, Nov 25 Asia Pulse - South Korea ranks ninth in the OECD bloc in trade surplus, the Korea International Trade Association KITA said today, citing the latest trade figures released by the IMF. SEOUL, Nov 25 Asia Pulse - South Korea ranks ninth...

  Tags: OECD, surplus

• The rising tide of red ink.

  - 2003-08-26

  Aug 26, 2003 (The Economist - ABIX via COMTEX) Many rich governments, in 2000, went on a "borrowing binge". They borrowed and borrowed, reducing their budget surpluses and going into debt. Most countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...

  Tags: FINANCE, Government, IMF, OECD, SOFTWARE, surplus, Taxes

• Fiscal sustainability: the contribution of fiscal rules

  - 2002-12-01

  Introduction The 1990s saw considerable progress in fiscal consolidation, but fiscal positions have recently deteriorated in most OECD countries, both in actual and cyclically-adjusted terms. Public debt ratios, which except in Japan had been declining in the second half of the 1990s, have stopped falling and even started to...

  Tags: Charter, Government, M., OECD, pension, sanction, surplus, sustainability, tax, U.S.

• BRIEFING - ASIA ECONOMIC NEWS - SEPT 13, 2002.

  - 2002-09-13

  An executive briefing on the economies of Asia for Sept 13, 2002, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities. INTEREST IN DOING BUSINESS WITH CHINA INTENSIFIES POST-WTO ENTRY XIAMEN - Keenly aware of the...

  Tags: Asia, China, FINANCE, import, Investment, OECD, president, surplus