Economic Policy Reforms 2009: Going for Growth

Going for Growth 2009 highlights the most appropriate structural reforms to pursue to improve performance, takes stock of recent progress in implementing structural policy reforms and identifies five policy priorities for each OECD country that could lift economic growth in the long run. It calls for reforms in a number of areas in order to strengthen labour productivity and employment, including reforms to education systems, product market regulation, agricultural policies, tax and benefit systems, health care and labour market policies. In addition, this issue contains four analytical chapters covering taxation and economic growth, reform of product market regulation, infrastructure investment and the effect of population structure on employment and productivity. Table of Content : Executive Summary PART I. TAKING STOCK OF STRUCTURAL POLICIES IN OECD COUNTRIES Chapter 1. Structural Reform in a Time of Financial Crisis Chapter 2. Structural Policy Priorities in 2009: An Overview -Annex 2.A1. How Policy Priorities are Chosen in Going for Growth -Annex 2.A2. Structural Policy Priorities by Country and Performance Area -Annex 2.A3. Choice of the Numéraire in Going for Growth Chapter 3. Country Notes Chapter 4. Structural Policy Indicators PART II THEMATIC STUDIES Chapter 5. Taxation and Economic Growth Chapter 6. Infrastructure Investment: Links to Growth and the Role of Public Policy -Annex 6.A1. Public-Private Partnerships: An Indicators of Framework Conditions Chapter 7. Reform of Product Market Regulation in OECD Countries 1998-2008 -Annex 7.A1. The OECD Indicators of Product Market Regulation Chapter 8. Population Structure, Employment and Productivity