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OECD Economic Surveys: United States 2007
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- Table of contents
- Basic statistics of the United States
- Executive summary
- Assessment and recommendations
- + Chapter 1. Challenges facing the US economy
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Chapter 2. Potential employment
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Chapter 3. Ensuring fiscal sustainability
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Chapter 4. Household debt
- Figure 4.1. Household liabilities and assets
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Household debt and the housing market
- + Vulnerability of indebted households
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The implication for US policies
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Housing taxation
- Table 4.4. Main characteristics of housing-related tax concessions
- Table 4.5. Tax expenditures on housing
- Box 4.1. Neutral taxation of housing
- Table 4.6. Taxation of residential property
- Figure 4.5. Tax revenue from property taxes
- Box 4.2. Externalities from housing support
- Box 4.3. Tax subsidies for households with mortgage loans
- + Government sponsorship of mortgage enterprises
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Housing taxation
- + Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
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Chapter 5. Improving primary and secondary education
- + Dimensions of the problem
- + Why do US school students perform below the international average?
- Centralisation and academic schooling standards
- Past attempts to improve schooling performance fell short
- A stronger federal role to raise academic standards
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Early signs of progress
- Box 5.1. Main provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)
- Table 5.6. Changes in reading and math achievement, during early years of NCLB, as measured by NAEP
- Table 5.7. Trends in proportion of students at proficient level in reading and mathematics before and after implementation of NCLB, as measured by NAEP
- The urgent need for challenging standards
- + Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
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Annex 5.A1. Further evidence on school performance
- Table 5.A1.1. Number of states showing an increase in the percentage of 4th grade students performing at or above the state’s proficient level from 2000-01 to 2002-03
- Table 5.A1.2. Summary of results of selected surveys of achievement trends in states (per cent of states)
- Table 5.A1.3. Trends in reading and mathematics results, during early years of NCLB, as measured by NAEP
- Table 5.A1.4. Changes in reading and math achievement gaps for selected groups during early years of NCLB, as measured by NAEP
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Chapter 6. Financing higher education
This edition of OECD's periodic survey of the US economy assesses recent economic developments and examines challenges the US faces includingemployment limits that are slowing economic growth, fiscal sustainability, household debt, improving primary and secondary education, and financing higher education. This book includes StatLinks, URLs under tables and graphs linking to Excel® spreadsheet files containing the underlying data.
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Publication year : 2007
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