Executive summary
Key recommendations
-Macroeconomic policies to promote a sustainable recovery
-Policies to promote job creation and earnings growth
-Reducing income inequality and combating poverty
-Fostering innovation
Assessment and recommendations
-Macroeconomic and financial policies
-Labour market policies
-Income inequality
-Innovation policy
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-Annex A1. Progress in structural reform
Chapter 1. Labour market policies
-US unemployment is largely cyclical
-Recent policy initiatives
-Long-term challenges
-Bibliography
Chapter 2. Strengthening innovation
-Innovation performance is high but showing signs of faltering
-Strengthening government support for R&D investments
-Taking patent reform further
-Government action to increase green innovation
-Measures to strengthen innovation in manufacturing
-Further investments in upgrading American workers’ skills
-Encouraging entrepreneurship and firm start-ups
-Establish a national innovation agency to enhance coherence, continuity and coordination in innovation policy development and implementation
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