Watch the live broadcast of the OECD forum 2008

03-Jun-2008

Listen our high-level speakers addressing the key issues of this year’s Forum: climate change, growth and stability. How to build a solid economic framework for combating climate change beyond Kyoto? How to deal with risks following the shocks of financial turmoil, cooling housing markets and higher energy and commodity prices?

Entrepreneurship and innovation are engines of economic growth, OECD workshop concludes

13-May-2008

A three-day international workshop on innovation and the global impact of high-growth small and medium-sized firms (SMEs), organized by OECD with the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, hailed entrepreneurship and the fast growth of innovative small firms as the engines of economic growth.

Germany signs OECD-Council of Europe Convention on Mutual Tax Assistance

18-Apr-2008

Germany has joined 15 other countries in signing the OECD-Council of Europe Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters, in a step that will help it to combat cross-border tax evasion more effectively in today’s open global economy.

Hungary must consolidate its public finances and persist with structural reforms to ensure stronger growth, says new OECD report

10-Apr-2008

"Reforms for Stability and Sustainable Growth: an OECD Perspective on Hungary" emphasises the need to persevere in the ongoing programme of fiscal consolidation and to forge ahead with structural reforms for Hungary to resume the process of catching up with the better performing OECD countries.

Helping immigrants integrate better into society must become a priority, says OECD Secretary-General

20-Feb-2008

OECD governments need to do more to help immigrants integrate and make better use of their skills, according to OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría.

India needs more economic reforms to widen benefits from growth, says OECD report

09-Oct-2007

India’s annual economic growth could reach a sustainable 10 percent and be spread more evenly across the country if it pursues ambitious and wide-ranging reforms, says a new OECD report.

Secretary-General's speech to the Enlarged Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

04-Oct-2006

Angel Gurría notes the risks to economic growth and the challenges ahead for OECD countries.  He delivered this speech to the Assembly, in Strasbourg, France, on 4 October 2006.

OECD Factbook 2006 includes broader range of statistics, countries

28-Mar-2006

How does France compare with other EU countries in terms of growth in labour productivity? Where does Japan rank versus the other major developed countries in public spending on health? People and politicians want to know how their countries and regions are performing. The OECD’s Factbook is designed to help them.

China needs far-reaching reforms in public and corporate governance, OECD says

07-Sep-2005

China needs to make wide-ranging changes in the way it runs its public and private sectors if it is to continue on a stable growth path leading to full integration into the world economy, according to a new report from the OECD.

OECD Invited Comment on Draft Revision of its Corporate Governance Principles

12-Jan-2004

The OECD invited public comment on a draft of the revision of its Principles of Corporate Governance that were adopted by OECD governments in 1999. This follows a request from OECD governments for reinforcement of the Principles in response to recent corporate scandals.