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The OECD monitors the patterns of economic growth in Member countries on a regular basis. This involves the assessment of output and productivity growth trends and the analysis of the effects on these trends of changes in institutional and policy settings. Bookmark this page: www.oecd.org/eco/structural/growth

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Understanding Russian regions' economic performance during periods of decline and growth: An extreme bound analysis approach

14-Oct-2008

This article uses “extreme-bound”-type analysis to revisit the determinants behind widely differing economic growth in Russian regions. Using data from 77 regions for 1993-2004, it examines the growth drivers for the phase of economic decline up to 1998 and for the period of strong growth afterwards.

Do tax structures affect aggregate economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of OECD countries

14-Oct-2008

This paper examines the relationship between tax structures and economic growth by entering indicators of the tax structure into a set of panel growth regressions for 21 OECD countries, in which both the accumulation of physical and human capital are taken into account.
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