Lisbon five years later. What future for European employment and growth?
London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance
LSE - London
2006
13 p.
competitiveness ; economic development ; employment ; labour market reform ; productivity ; statistics ; Lisbon strategy
CEP Occasional Paper
20
Economic development
English
Bibliogr.
0-7530-2031-9
"At the Lisbon summit of 2000 the European Union (EU) set an agenda for making Europe the most competitive economy in the world. The targets that were set then are unlikely to be achieved. European countries need to concentrate on change in the lower productivity, more labour-intensive service sectors of the economy to improve their poor employment performance. "
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