“…The left-hand page explains the significance of the indicator, discusses the main findings, examines key trends and provides readers with a roadmap for finding out more in the OECD education databases and in other OECD education publications. …”

“…Government spending on social programmes is budgeted to rise considerably, in line with the authorities’ emphasis on social development. The main challenge in the macroeconomic area is to maintain the policy setting that has served Chile so well over the recent copper-price upswing, while tempering demands for hiking public social spending and maintaining a lean public sector in a low-tax, low-debt environment. …”

“…The analysis is based on stochastic simulations in which random shocks affect the main economic variables in the framework of a small macroeconomic model. …”

“…The analysis yields three main findings. First, it takes time for reforms to pay off, typically at least a couple of years. …”

“…While external imbalances have been the main focus in recent times, current account balances can only be properly interpreted in the context of understanding the overall international balance sheet and the dynamics of the net foreign asset. …”

“…Monetary policy has been one of the main pillars of the post-2001 stabilisation programme. …”

“…This paper reviews key policy messages and warnings about developments in the run-up to the global financial and economic crisis that began in mid-2007 which are contained in the main publications of the IMF, the OECD and the BIS and discuss issues relevant to strengthening their surveillance activities for making appropriate policy recommendations and issuing warnings in order to prevent such crisis in the future. …”

“…The traditional focus on energy savings as the main goal of energy efficiency policy has, at times, led to an underestimation of the full value of energy efficiency in both national and global economies. …”

“…In medium- and high-tech sectors, the contribution is mainly driven by stronger productivity growth of existing foreign affiliates. …”

“…Among the variables considered are proxies of politico-institutional features, indicators of economic reform, and measurements of both economic and non-economic initial conditions. The main findings, based on close to one million regressions, are as follows: during the period of economic decline up to 1998, differences in Russian regional growth were almost entirely driven by initial conditions, with resource and human capital endowments, industrial structure, and geographical location playing the dominant roles. …”

“…-Aggravation du marasme sur le marché du travail -Persistance des pressions inflationnistes -Accélération de la hausse des coûts de main-d'iuvre -Aggravation de la balance extérieure courante II. …”

“…It highlights the roles of institutions and policies and concludes that higher expectations and better incentives for the main actors – workers, employers, doctors, public agencies and service providers – are crucial. …”

“…La flexibilité du marché du travail -Principaux aspects et problèmes -Facteurs affectant l'offre et la demande de main-d'oeuvre -Concurrence des importations et place croissante des services -Conclusions Résumé et conclusions Notes et références Annexes -1. …”

“…Not surprisingly, countries that export mainly commodities face lower competition, because China is a net importer of raw materials. …”

“…If merger plans prove insufficient to achieve efficient public service provision, the government could impose mergers on smaller municipalities, especially around the main urban areas. Responsibilities of smaller municipalities could be scaled back in all functions where economies of scale and scope can be achieved. …”

“…There are a limit test and a main test. The limit test can be used efficiently to identify chemicals that are likely to have low toxicity. …”

“…Against this backdrop, Sweden has highly developed and longstanding integration policies that mainly aim at upskilling immigrants while temporarily lowering the cost of hiring, while other tools that work more strongly with the social partners and the civil society are less well developed and need strengthening…”

“…The OECD and infoDev joined forces at a workshop on 10-11 September 2009 to examine some of the main challenges in reducing the discrepancies in access to ICTs and use of ICTs between developing countries. …”

“…This paper reviews, for a number of OECD economies, macroeconomic developments in household balance sheets over the past two decades. The main findings show that the rise in household debt to historical levels has been driven by a combination of favourable financial conditions and buoyant housing markets. …”

“…Though less advanced, the reforms in the gas sector are progressing well. The report shows the main challenges which the government will need to resolve for the market to deliver its promises…”