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'Mirzya': Pretentious And Uninspiring

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's "Mirzya", loosely inspired by the eternal love story of Mirza-Sahiban of Punjab, is about childhood lovers Monish (Harshvardhan Kapoor) and Suchitra (Saiyami Kher).




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'Miss Peregrine's Home...': Evokes Mixed Reactions

Layered with metaphors and allegories that give varied meanings to the narration, on the surface, the film is the adventure of a young boy named Jake (Asa Butterfield), who shuttles in time.




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'Anna: Kisan Baburao Hazare': Simply Appealing

"Anna: Kisan Baburao Hazare"; Director: Shashank Udapurkar; Cast: Shashank Udapurkar, Tanishaa Mukerji, Rajit Kapur, Govind Namdeo, Kishor Kadam, Sharat Saxena and Daya Shankar Pandey; Rating: **1/2




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'Saat Uchakkey': Pretentious Yet Entertaining

A cop and robbers story, "Saat Uchakkey" is a pretentiously creative film that offers lessons of life regarding hope, desire and fate.




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'Jack Reacher: Never Go Back': Desperate Attempt To Replicate A Franchise

"Jack Reacher: Never Go Back"; Director: Edward Zwick; Cast: Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh, Patrick Heusinger, Holt McCallany, Robert Knepper; Rating: **1/2




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Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) in the Czech Republic and other countries

The aim of this workshop was to present recent developments in implementing Regulatory Impact Assessment in the Czech Republic as well as to enable an exposure to different approaches in some leading OECD countries.




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Guide to Improve the Regulatory Quality of State and Municipal Formalities and boost Mexico's competitiveness

This Guide provides concrete recommendations of high impact reforms to simplify the processes of business start ups, construction permits, property registration, procurement, and to upgrade regulatory transparency and efficiency in the management of formalities in Mexico.




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Inspections Reforms: Why, How and With What Results

This report summarises experience of OECD and non-OECD countries with reforming inspections, attempts to present some of the most interesting and successful experiences suggesting that some good practices may be valid beyond the countries where they were initially pioneered.




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Reform of Regulatory Enforcement and Inspections in OECD Countries

This report summarises the results of the survey on regulatory enforcement and inspections conducted among OECD countries in 2012. The report draws some general conclusions from this survey and provides theoretical background on the topic. It also suggests some recommendations for organising and reforming inspections.




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Health care reform and long-term care in the Netherlands

The Netherlands, as other OECD countries, faces the challenge of providing high quality health and long term care services to an ageing population in a cost-efficient manner.




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Reforming policies for the business sector to harvest the benefits of globalisation in the Netherlands

The Netherlands has strongly benefited from globalisation, which boosted international trade, cross-border investment and economic growth over the latest decades.




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Accountability, Transparency, Participation: Key Elements of Good Governance

In collaboration with the Federal Government of Germany, the OECD organised four workshops at the International Regulatory Reform Conference (IRRC) 2013 in Berlin. The workshops focused on the use of cost-benefit analysis in governmental decision making, as well as on the role of key actors of regulatory governance in the regulatory policy cycle: Parliaments, regulatory agencies and audit offices.




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Measuring regulatory performance at sub-national level: Benefits and challenges

This workshop served to discuss how benchmarking and measuring regulatory performance can help advance a regulatory policy at the sub-national level.




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Workshop on competition assessment in Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA)

The OECD, in co-ordination with Mexico's Ministry of Economy and COFEMER, organised a workshop to train federal officials to understake competition assessment as part of the RIA framework.




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Regulatory improvement in the Municipality of San Luis Potosí, Mexico

The OECD and the Municipality of San Luis Potosí in Mexico launched a programme to improve municipal formalities according to the OECD Guide.




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Regulatory Reform in the Middle East and North Africa: Implementing Regulatory Policy Principles to Foster Inclusive Growth

This report assesses progress in the implementation of regulatory policy within the MENA region and highlights good practices from Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority and Tunisia.




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The role of parliaments in promoting better regulation

The OECD and the Scrutiny Committee on Law Implementation of the French Senate co-organised a conference on 5 December 2013 on “Law evaluation and better regulation: the role for parliaments” at the Luxembourg Palace in Paris.




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Regulatory Policy and Behavioural Economics

Behavioural economics is being applied increasingly in the regulatory policy cycle. This report captures the current trends across OECD member countries.




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Reducing red tape in business would boost Greek productivity, OECD says

Greece could save its businesses hundreds of millions of euros a year and improve their competitiveness by reducing administrative burdens, according to a new OECD report.




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6th Expert Meeting on Measuring Regulatory Performance: Evaluating Stakeholder Engagement in Regulatory Policy

Workshop held in The Hague on 17-18 June 2014 to evaluate stakeholder engagement in regulatory policy




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OECD Framework for Regulatory Policy Evaluation

The OECD Framework for Regulatory Policy Evaluation assists countries in systematically evaluating the design and implementation of regulatory policy, against the achievement of strategic regulatory objectives.




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Hermosillo progresses steadily in the implementation of OECD recommendations to simplify formalities

The Municipality of Hermosillo in Mexico shows a 12% progress in the implementation of OECD recommendations to simplify formalities to boost entrepreneurship and create employment.




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Workshop: Elaboration and evaluation of regulatory impact assessment (RIA) at sub-national level

This workshop provided practical information and learning through case studies, group exercises and presentations from government officials with extensive experience in applying regulatory impact assessment (RIA) systems.




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Implementation of OECD recommendations to improve business formalities in the Municipality of Hermosillo

The second progress report in the implementation of regulatory improvement actions shows a 52% progress for the Municipality of Hermosillo.




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OECD and the Municipality of Metepec launch tramitesmetepec.mx, the new on-line registry for formalities

The tramitesmetepec.mx website organises formalities by “life events”, facilitating the search of information for citizens and entrepreneurs, and reducing the cost of regulatory compliance.




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Workshop on the elaboration and evaluation of regulatory impact assessment, Colombia

The objective of this workshop was to provide basic facts and theory related to RIA and best practices when undertaking RIA.




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Hermosillo scores high in improving the regulatory quality of formalities

Hermosillo scores 96% in implementing the recommendations of the Guide on improving the regulatory quality of formalities at the municipal level




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ASEAN-OECD Good Regulatory Practice Conference 2015: Connectivity, Competitiveness and Regulatory Coherence

This conference provided a multi-disciplinary forum to discuss issues of regulatory reform involving both government and non-government actors.




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Supporting regulatory reform in Malaysia

The OECD is supporting Malaysia to implement regulatory reforms supporting the country’s economic, social and environmental goals, as well as regional and global competitiveness.




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Cities need new finance options and better governance to tackle future water risks

Rapid population growth, ageing infrastructure and new weather risks are straining the ability of cities in OECD countries to provide clean water and to protect against floods and droughts, according to a new OECD report. Cities will need large-scale investment and more effective tariffs and taxes to pay for upgrades to water systems.




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First Expert Dialogue on Regulatory Policy in Latin America

The main objective of this meeting was to create a Latin American Network to contribute to the better functioning of markets and the improvement of public services in Latin American countries.




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OECD Ministers reinforce importance of investment for strong, green and inclusive growth

The OECD’s Annual Meeting at Ministerial Level reinforced member governments’ support across a broad range of key OECD work.




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Regulatory improvement in the Municipality of Torreon, Mexico

Launch of the OECD programme for regulatory improvement in the Municipality of Torreon, Mexico.




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Implementing the OECD Guide to Improve the Quality of State and Municipal Regulations, San Luis Potosi, Mexico

The Municipality of San Luis Potosi scores an 87% progress in implementing the OECD Guide to Improve the Quality of State and Municipal Regulations.




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Effective regulation is a lever for inclusive growth

Governments should do more to improve the design and delivery of new laws, as even small efforts to fix regulatory shortcomings can have a tangible positive impact on economic activity and well-being, according to a new OECD report.




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2015 Indicators of Regulatory Policy and Governance: Design, Methodology and Key Results

This OECD Regulatory Policy Working Paper presents the methodology, key results and statistical analysis of the 2015 Indicators of Regulatory Policy and Governance (iREG) to complement the OECD Regulatory Policy Outlook 2015.




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The Contribution of Mutual Recognition to International Regulatory Co-operation

This OECD Regulatory Policy Working Paper relies on an empirical stocktaking of mutual recognition agreements (MRAs) among selected OECD countries. It aims to build a greater understanding of the benefits and pitfalls of one of the 11 mechanisms of international regulatory co-operation.




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Political finance needs tighter regulation and enforcement

Many economically advanced countries are failing to fully enforce regulations on political party funding and campaign donations or are leaving loopholes that can be exploited by powerful private interest groups, according to a new OECD report.




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Third Expert Dialogue on Regulatory Policy in Latin America

Discussion of progress to enhance regulatory quality and promote inclusive economic growth in the Latin American region.




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Torreon marks an adequate pace in improving the quality of regulations and administrative procedures

The Municipality of Torreon sets the foundations to address and implement the 267 recommendations delivered by the OECD in February 2016




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Torreon maintains pace in implementing the OECD recommendations to improve regulatory quality

The Municipality of Torreon has reached 49% progress in implementing the 267 recommendations delivered by OECD to improve its regulatory framework.




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Reaping the benefits of global value chains in Turkey

Despite major progress, Turkey still lags behind most comparable countries in terms of exported value added per capita. Its remarkable economic performance over the past 15 years has not been sufficiently backed by gains in export market shares, in particular when measured in value added terms.




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Rebalancing Turkey’s growth by improving resource allocation and productivity in manufacturing

Turkey’s manufacturing sector has expanded considerably but not efficiently and competitively enough.




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The quantification of structural reforms in OECD countries: a new framework

This document describes and discusses a new supply side framework that quantifies the impact of structural reforms on per capita income in OECD countries.




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OSINERGMIN, Peru's energy regulator, begins RIA implementation

OSINERGMIN, the Supervisory Agency for Investment in Energy and Mining of Peru, advances in transparency and accountability to improve its regulation.




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Public consultation on the draft OECD Best Practice Principles on Stakeholder Engagement in Regulatory Policy

Comments on the draft OECD Best Practice Principles on Stakeholder Engagement in Regulatory Policy are to be sent to regstakeholders@oecd.org by 15 March 2017.




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Forum on competition and regulation: In pursuit of market efficiency

Forum on competition and regulation: In pursuit of market efficiency




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4th expert dialogue of the Latin American Network of Good Regulatory Practices

OECD promotes the exchange of experiences and good practices for the improvement of regulation among Latin American countries




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5th meeting of the Latin American and the Caribbean Network on Regulatory Improvement

Promoting co-operation and fostering the exchange of good practices among policy makers in LAC countries, OECD member and non-member countries, and international organisations.




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Reform services trade policies to boost the global economy, OECD says

Better services trade policy can stimulate inclusive economic growth by promoting access to the information, skills, technology, funding and markets needed for success in an increasingly digital global economy, according to a new OECD report.