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16-Jul-2008
Government support of biofuel production in OECD countries is costly, has a limited impact on reducing greenhouse gases and improving energy security, and has a significant impact on world crop prices, according to a new study of policies to promote greater production and use of biofuel in OECD countries.
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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?
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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.
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21-Apr-2008
OECD governments could boost economic growth and help create jobs if local agencies and authorities had more power and autonomy to adjust employment and training programmes to meet local needs, concluded OECD employment ministers.
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15-Apr-2008
Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel has been appointed Chief Economist of OECD. A national of both Germany and Chile, he joins OECD after twelve years as Chief of Economic Research at the Central Bank of Chile.
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09-Apr-2008
More than 150 high-level representatives from Africa, G8 and OECD countries met in Tokyo this week to discuss key issues affecting Africa, ahead of the G8 Summit in Hokkaido on 7-9 July.
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Financial crisis: Save our savings
Amid the worst current financial crisis since the 1930s, EU leaders have pledged to protect savers’ deposits. Already most OECD countries have explicit deposit insurance schemes for savings up to certain limits. In a number of countries these have now been raised temporarily.
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