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An earlier version of this paper was prepared for the joint OECD/Eurostat workshop on innovation surveys, OECD, Paris, June 3

Productivity Growth in the OECD Area: Some Recent Findings

32 Productivity is, once more, on the agenda in many OECD countries. It has long been regarded as the long-run driver of economic growth, but attention for productivity-related issues has waxed and waned over the past decades. In recent years, productivity growth has received a great deal of attention in several OECD countries, notably Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and ...

OECD ENVIRONMENTAL OUTLOOK TO 2050: The Consequences of Inaction

The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050 projects demographic and economic trends over the next four decades, using joint modelling by the OECD and the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. It assesses the impacts of these trends on the environment if we do not introduce more ambitious policies to better manage natural assets. It then examines some of the policies that could change tha...

OECD WORKSHOP ON BUSINESS AND CONSUMER TENDENCY SURVEYS Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: What Do We Know About What People Know?

The Sources of Economic Growth in OECD Countries: A Review Article

1 In early 2003 the OECD published a major report entitled The Sources of Economic Growth in OECD Countries1 that summarized the main findings of the OECD growth project initiated in 1999. The objective of the project had been to explain the reasons for different growth experiences across OECD countries and to identify policies, institutions and other factors that could contribute to enhancing ...