Reading Time: 4 minutesBlog post accompanying the launch of the 2025 Economic Survey of Argentina. Read the version in Spanish here. By Priscilla… Read More »Argentina: Consolidating the economic recovery
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy 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
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy Martin Borowiecki and Federico Giovannelli, Economics Department Strengthening productivity remains a key challenge Productivity has grown more slowly in… Read More »Boosting EU productivity through a stronger Single Market
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy Dennis Dlugosch, Max Glanville, John Hooley, Fatih Ozturk and Ben Westmore, OECD. Despite strong corporate profits and historically low… Read More »What has been holding back investment?
Reading Time: 5 minutesBy Caroline Roulet and Srdan Tatomir The international trade landscape is changing. The new tariffs introduced by the United States… Read More »Winds of change: The effects of tariffs on equity markets
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy Hansjörg Blöchliger Rather small, rather remote, and prone to volcanic shocks — Iceland might not seem predestined for economic… Read More »Iceland: Starting the reform engine to maintain high living standards
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy Cassie Castle, OECD. The OECD has released the 2023 update of its Energy, Transport & Communication Regulation (ETCR) indicators.… Read More »New time-series data shed light on regulatory trends in energy, transport, and telecoms since 1975
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy Ben Conigrave, OECD. After falling relative to overall public expenditure and GDP in the three decades after the Cold… Read More »Higher defence spending brings forward hard fiscal policy choices and has an uncertain economic impact
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy Christophe André, Manuel Bétin, Peter Gal and Paul Peltier. The release of Deepseek’s R1 model on January 20th stunned… Read More »Developments in Artificial Intelligence markets: New evidence on model characteristics, prices and providers
Reading Time: 3 minutesKatja Schmidt & Gilles Thirion, OECD. Canada’s economy has shown resilience to crisis, including the recent Covid19-crisis. However, growth in… Read More »Boosting business sector productivity in Canada