Norway 2013

This book reviews development co-operation efforts of Norway over the past five years. It examines both policy and implementation and takes an integrated, system-wide perspective on Norway's development co-operation and humanitarian assistance activities.

This report presents the results of the assessment of the organisation of the central government of Norway.

This report provides an overview of the substantial ageing and employment policy initiatives already implemented over the past decade in Norway identifies areas where more should be done, covering both supply-side and demand-side aspects.

This Selected Issues paper examines migration patterns in Norway and their implications for estimates of potential output. It applies a new methodology proposed by Borio and others (2013) to estimate potential output by drawing on information about immigration and oil price movements. The paper also provides an overview of the recent trend in immigration in Norway and discusses various estimates of potential output using standard approaches. The results indicate that immigration plays a small but statistically significant role in the estimation of potential output for Norway. The data show that immigration inflows into Norway vary across source countries. The largest share of immigrants is from Poland, accounting for 15 percent of the total in 2012. Immigration patterns in Norway contain both cyclical and structural elements, but the latter seems dominant at least for now. Empirical results also suggest that immigration plays some role in determining potential output, however, its impact is quite small, consistent with the view that the recent immigration patterns are structural.

This 2016 OECD Economic Survey of Norway examines recent economic developments, policies and prospects. The special chapters cover: Higher education; Agriculture and rural policy.

This book presents a comprehensive review of health care quality in Norway.

Skills are central to Norway’s future prosperity and the well-being of its people. This diagnostic report identifies 12 skills challenges for Norway which were distilled from a series of interactive diagnostic workshops held in the course of 2013 with a wide range of stakeholders in Oslo ...

This review provides policy advice to support the Norwegian government in implementing digital government.