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Navigating demographic headwinds in Croatia

Croatia’s economy has experienced robust and resilient GDP growth and improved living standards over the past decade. Yet a rapidly shrinking and ageing population threatens future growth and fiscal sustainability. Advancing pension, health care and labour market reforms will be essential to extend working lives, improve healthy ageing and raise labour force participation.

By Federica De Pace and Oliver Roehn, OECD Economics Department

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Strengthening Romania’s competitiveness

Romania has made remarkable progress in converging toward OECD income levels over the past two decades, supported by deeper integration into global markets, substantial capital inflows, and wide‑ranging economic reforms.

by Katja Schmidt, OECD Economics Department

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Aprovechar el impulso de España para sostener el crecimiento y la convergencia de ingresos

Por Aida Caldera, Claudia Ramírez y Dimitris Mavridis, OCDE Versión en inglés Desde la pandemia, la economía española ha crecido… Read More »Aprovechar el impulso de España para sostener el crecimiento y la convergencia de ingresos

Leveraging Spain’s momentum to sustain growth and income convergence

By Aida Caldera, Claudia Ramírez and Dimitris Mavridis, OECD Spanish version Since the pandemic, Spain’s economy has grown robustly and… Read More »Leveraging Spain’s momentum to sustain growth and income convergence

Time for a regulatory reset? Clearing the path for productivity and dynamism

By Dan Andrews, Joana Duran-Franch and Sébastien Turban, OECD Economics Department. Over recent years, governments across the OECD have expressed… Read More »Time for a regulatory reset? Clearing the path for productivity and dynamism

Un sector público más digital para una América Latina más productiva

Jens Arnold, Aida Caldera, Priscilla Fialho, Paula Garda, Alberto González Pandiella, Michael Koelle, Alessandro Maravalle, Dimitris Mavridis, Claudia Ramírez y… Read More »Un sector público más digital para una América Latina más productiva

Making Reforms Happen in Latin America: Key Insights from the IMF–OECD High-Level Conference

Senior policymakers, ministers, academics and experts gathered in Montevideo on 17 and 18 November for the IMF–OECD High-Level Conference “Making… Read More »Making Reforms Happen in Latin America: Key Insights from the IMF–OECD High-Level Conference

Monetary policy and productivity: Unpacking multifaceted links

By Guido Franco and Filiz Unsal, OECD. Over the past decades, productivity growth has experienced a significant slowdown across most… Read More »Monetary policy and productivity: Unpacking multifaceted links

The market implications of industrial subsidies

By Valentine Millot, Łukasz Rawdanowicz, Jehan Sauvage and Elisabeth van Lieshout, OECD. Do government subsidies fuel firm growth or just… Read More »The market implications of industrial subsidies

Overcoming persistent obstacles to growth in South Africa

By Nikki Kergozou and Lilas Demmou, OECD. South Africa, under the Presidency’s Operation Vulindlela, has embarked on bold reforms to… Read More »Overcoming persistent obstacles to growth in South Africa