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This paper’s goal is to make use of a human capital proxy that takes into account quantitative and qualitative aspects of this factor to measure with a higher level of accuracy the impact of human capital on countries’ income level and rate of growth.

Using data for 17 OECD countries from 1983 to 2003, this paper establishes a non-linear relationship between private consumption and the level of government debt. In countries with a high level of government debt, a fiscal expansion is partly crowded out by a fall in private consumption.

The report argues that a sound basis for policy decisions is a necessary, albeit not a sufficient, precondition for high quality effective and efficient policy. The AWT is also convinced that this requires a well developed ‘policy for knowledge’, or knowledge policy.

In response to increasing demand for better measures to analyse the trends of globalisation, the OECD took the initiative to draw up a conceptual and methodological framework for gathering quantitative information and constructing indicators.

This policy brief reviews the economics literature on enterprise zones, focusing on empirical studies of the effects of zone programs.

The Commissions comprehensive five-year reform of state aid policy is designed to promote growth, jobs and cohesion.

Several new measures of national technological capabilities have recently been developed. These attempts are a result of an often-implicit theoretical consensus about the nature of technology, according to the authors. The aim of this article is to compare their methodologies and results.

This review of 14 case studies of large international services firms shows factors common to their success and highlights the importance of internal factors, such as organisation of work, entrepreneurial management, worker motivation and company culture, which can differ considerably between firms.

This paper surveys our current state of knowledge about alternative mechanisms for governance at the local and community level to formulate business attraction and economic development strategies, within the context of multilevel governance.

This paper focuses on the issues surrounding regional governance in Waterloo. While there may have been obstacles to meaningful regional economic governance, according to the author, recent evidence suggests that these institutional factors are becoming less significant.