“…Mexico Politics and government 21st century…”

“…This paper explores the relationship between policy settings and extreme positive and negative growth events, what we call GDP tail risks, using quantile regression methods. …”

“…Another challenge is to help some people to acquire skills by facilitating their labour market integration – in particular first- and second-generation immigrants, long-term unemployed, and people with low educational attainment and health problems -, which requires stronger targeted active labour market policies…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Conducting the peer review -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Sweden's aid at a glance -- Context of the peer review of Sweden -- Political and economic context -- Development co-operation system -- References -- The DAC's main findings and recommendations -- Sweden is a strong development partner -- Sweden is an adept, ambitious and influential actor on global sustainable development -- Sweden is a generous donor with a comprehensive toolbox for leaving no one behind and promoting gender equality Sweden is a long-term and valued partner to multilateral organisations and civil society -- Decentralisation enables responsive programming, and Sweden takes a proactive approach to addressing corruption -- Sweden is an effective and principled humanitarian donor -- Sweden can build on its achievements -- Sweden could better align Swedfund's investments to its strategic priorities -- Recommendation: -- A new, more joined-up approach to addressing development, humanitarian and peace needs to be systematically applied -- Recommendation: To support Sweden's pioneering approach to delivering long-term, sustainable results, capacity needs to be built up and systems reformed -- Recommendation: -- Sweden could further enhance its strong commitment to development effectiveness by working more directly with and through the systems of partner country governments -- Recommendation: -- Sweden should continue to ensure its development co-operation is guided by relevant and strategic independent evaluations -- Recommendation: -- Sweden needs to address ongoing challenges Sweden's broad policy framework requires consolidation and synergies among its numerous strategies could be better exploited -- Recommendations: -- Sweden's development co-operation still lacks geographical concentration -- Recommendation: -- Sweden's growing and increasingly complex set of programmes requires sufficient staff capacity -- Recommendation: -- Summary of recommendations -- Secretariat's Report -- Chapter 1. …”

“…In doing so the paper focuses on the key channels through which different reforms influence short-term activity via the main components of demand and discusses how these channels operate under different macro conditions. …”

“…This leaves the burden of raising tax revenues falling almost exclusively on the federal government and reduces incentives for efficient spending and active tax collection at the subnational level. It can also lead to moral hazard and fiscal slippages. …”

“…While this is in part a symptom of limited development and low productivity, it can also be to some extent its cause, as informal firms stay small to hide their activities and have limited access to productivity-enhancing government services, such a protection of property rights and training. …”

“…They take an integrated, system-wide perspective on the development co-operation activities of the member under review and its approach to fragility, crisis and humanitarian assistance. …”

“…This Regulatory Reform Review of Brazil analyses sectors that create barriers to competition, such as regulations that create obstacles to the entry of firms, inhibit the entry of firms, or restrict activities in professional and network sectors. In a complementary way, the review also identifies government efforts to develop policies and tools to improve the quality of regulations, such as ex ante assessment of draft regulations, stakeholder engagement in rule making, and administrative simplification. …”

“…In addition, the Inclusive Framework agreed on a new standard for substantial activities requirements for no or only nominal tax jurisdictions. …”

“…These reforms should be carried out in such a way that they help build effective links to industrial activity and lead to the creation of marketable products…”

“…M2M devices are defined, in this paper, as those that are actively communicating using wired and wireless networks, are not computers in the traditional sense and are using the Internet in some form or another. …”

“…More recently the meeting of OECD Labour Ministers last October emphasised the need for policies for low-paid and unskilled job seekers, enhancing the effectiveness of active labour market policies and lifelong learning to maintain employability, issues ..…”

“…Time spent walking or exercising is positively correlated with happiness, while working more than 50 hours per week or spending time on health-related activities is negatively correlated with subjective well-being, and higher levels of anxiety. …”

“…Sustaining universal access to good health care is also essential. Well-designed activation policies are important to bring the unemployed, especially the young, to work. …”

“…To address this question the paper uses industry-level data from a set of OECD countries and examines whether different industries are affected differently by taxation. …”

“…Cross-country differences in trial length are related to the shares of the justice budget devoted to computerisation, the systematic production of statistics on case-flow, the active management of the progress of cases by courts, the presence of specialised commercial courts and systems of court governance assigning greater managerial responsibilities to the chief judge. …”

“…By providing information on this highly specialised field of government activity and policy, papers aim to stimulate discussions among a wider audience as well as further analysis…”

“…Key areas of public sector activity are subject to complex relations across the three layers of government. …”

“…Yet, like most institutional arrangements, fiscal relations affect the behaviour of firms, households and governments and thereby economic activity. This paper presents empirical research on the potential effects of fiscal decentralisation on a set of outcomes such as GDP, productivity, public investment and school performance. …”