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22-Nov-2006
Milan ranks among wealthy OECD metropolitan regions and is often identified with the “Made in Italy” brand on the international arena, notably for fashion and design. Industrial activities still drive the region’s periphery while the centre of Milan is veering towards becoming a service platform for a significant share of northern Italy. Rapid metropolitan governance reforms will help design and implement a competitiveness strategy for the entire metropolitan region.
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20-Oct-2006
Email, online shopping and banking have become a fact of life. How does cyberfraud impact the digital economy and what can governments do to protect e-commerce and use of the Net?
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17-Oct-2006
In OECD countries, rural areas account for three-quarters of the land and are home to a quarter of the population. Rapid changes in the international economy clearly have a different effect on these regions than on cities and towns, offering different challenges but also different opportunities.
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17-Oct-2006
Governments cannot wave a magic wand to make youngsters safer overnight, and there are no short cuts to experience. But there are measures that can help reduce the risks associated with young drivers. This Policy Brief looks at how we can improve young drivers’ safety, a vital task if governments hope to reduce the overall impact of road transport on human health.
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19-Oct-2006
Accounts of meetings with trade union experts on Implementing the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention and Implementing the OECD Environmental Strategy are available.
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18-Oct-2006
Substantial progress in macroeconomic stabilisation and institutional reform has laid a foundation for strong GDP growth. However, the recent inflation shock and turmoil in the financial markets highlight Turkey’s on-going vulnerabilities. A further comprehensive programme of structural reform would increase productivity growth, expand the formal sector of the economy and consolidate macroeconomic stability.
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12-Oct-2006
In the past 25 years Argentina has made considerable, if uneven, progress toward building a successful market economy. In any country, an effective competition policy is an important part of that effort. Argentina’s progress in competition policy has also been uneven, having been affected in many ways by the country’s turbulent political and economic history.
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13-Sep-2006
Private investment is essential for ensuring economic growth, sustainable development and poverty reduction. It increases the productive capacity of an economy, drives job creation, brings innovation and new technologies, and boosts income growth. But the amount of private investment, particularly in African and developing economies, falls short of development needs. And the benefits of investment in emerging and transition economies are unevenly shared among sectors and regions.
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20-Jun-2006
Is it true that environmental policies hit the pockets of poorer households harder than those of wealthier ones? And that the poor receive less of the benefit of such policies as they are more likely to live closer to industry or hazardous waste treatment plants and further from parks or the countryside? This is a widespread perception, and in many cases one that is supported by the available evidence.
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12-Sep-2006
The most effective way to make trade work for development and poverty reduction is for countries to agree on much improved market access under the Doha round of talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO). Ambitious trade liberalisation can generate more gains for developing countries than any other area of international economic co-operation or development assistance.
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This Annual Report highlights some of the OECD's achievements in 2008 and describes how it is helping its member countries respond to new challenges ahead.
2008 Edition
An easy-to-read series to help understand the economic and social issues high on everyone's agenda, from economic growth to health, pensions, trade and development.
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