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		      <pubDate>Thu Jul 09 18:03:57 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[G8 Summit to discuss principles and standards for global business dealings]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[One of the agenda items at the G8 Summit in L’Aquila this week is expected to be a discussion of a proposed new “Global Standard” for international business dealings (see www.oecd.org/globalstandard). An Italian-led working group has drawn up, with the assistance of the OECD, a list of 12 “common principles and standards” in support of this project. To promote discussion of the issues raised by the proposed Global Standard, the OECD has launched a blog to which comments are invited.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[OECD’s Gurría welcomes strengthening of G8/G5 dialogue through HAP]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[“Closer and stronger ties between the G8 and G5 countries are critical for tackling the increasingly complex global challenges facing our countries, and never more so than in  the current economic crisis,” OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría said today at the G8 Summit.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Luxembourg makes progress in OECD standards on tax information exchange]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Luxembourg has signed a protocol to its double taxation convention with Norway, bringing to 12 the number of agreements it has on exchange of information for tax purposes and thus crossing the threshold for being considered to have substantially implemented the internationally agreed standard in this area.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Further farm policy reform urgent as public finances remain under pressure, says OECD report]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[OECD governments provided 265 billion US dollars in support to farmers last year, says a new OECD report. This represented 21 % of total farm receipts, down from 22% in 2007 and 26% in 2006. The falls were due mainly to the rise in agricultural commodity prices, rather than to policy decisions. With higher world prices, lower levels of support were needed to prop up domestic prices.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Mon Jul 06 11:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Aid for Trade is building stronger economies]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[All countries need to trade, with their neighbours and  globally, to sustain  long-term economic growth. Some low-income countries lack the instutitions, infrastructure and supply-side capacity to benefit from open markets and lift their people out of poverty.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[OECD Health Data 2009 – comparing health statistics across OECD countries ]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[The number of doctors per capita increased 2% per year on average across OECD countries between 1990 and 2007, but in some countries the trend is reversing. These are some of the findings from OECD Health Data 2009, the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across the 30 OECD countries.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Keep doors open to migrant workers to meet long-term labour needs, says OECD]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[The economic crisis is likely to cause the first major fall in the number of migrants coming to work in OECD countries since the 1980s, according to a new OECD report. This is already happening, for example, in Ireland, Spain and the UK, which were among the countries first hit by the downturn.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Jun 30 09:15:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Annual inflation in OECD area slows sharply in May 2009]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Consumer prices in the OECD area rose by 0.1 % in the year to May 2009, compared with 0.6 % in the year to April, continuing the sharp fall in annual inflation since its peak of 4.9% in July 2008.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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