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25-Mar-2008
Speech by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the China Development Forum 2008 (Beijing, March 23, 2008)
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04-Jul-2007
This report with tables and charts summarizes statistics on aid focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment extended by each DAC member in 2004-2005. See also individual donor charts .
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28-Jun-2007
The OECD has released a new OECD Health Working Paper from the Pharmaceutical Pricing Policies and Innovation project. The paper describes and assesses pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies in Switzerland, in the context of the broader policy and market environment. See also Working Papers on pharmaceutical pricing policies in Canada and Mexico .
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03-Apr-2007
The OECD has released a new OECD Health Working Paper from the Disability Trends Among Older Populations and the Implications for Long-Term Care project. This paper assesses the most recent evidence on trends in disability among the population aged 65 and over in 12 OECD countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. The focus is on reviewing trends in severe disability (or dependency), defined where possible as one or more limitations in basic activities of daily living.
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27-Mar-2007
An OECD project has been launched on the valuation of environment-related health impacts for children. An original survey instrument will be applied in three OECD countries (United Kingdom, Italy and the Czech Republic). This survey will be developed to provide estimates of WTP for risk reductions to adult and child populations which will allow for cross-country comparisons.
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12-Mar-2007
This report analyses ways of improving the governance of environmental health issues, based largely on findings derived from three case studies (United Kingdom, France and Canada), as well as from secondary literature.
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05-Feb-2007
The Development Centre's Gender Institutions and Development Data Base (GID) has been updated. It is a new tool to help researchers and policy makers determine and analyse obstacles to women’s economic development. The GID is also now available through the OECD's on-line statistical database (OECD.Stat).
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16-Oct-2006
The 2006 edition of the OECD Employment Outlook provides a broad assessment of the Jobs Strategy which was released in the early 1990s.
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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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22-Feb-2006
This OECD book proposes an in depth analysis of the main methodological difficulties associated with estimating the social value of a reduction in environmental health risks to children.
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