30-September-2010
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Welcoming remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General
30-September-2010
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"The pursuit of relevance continues to be my guiding objective in order to improve the well-being of our citizens and help design better policies for better lives (...) We will do it armed with our foundational values: openness, objectivity, boldness, pioneering spirit and sound ethics", said OECD Secretary-General.
27-September-2010
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O desafio mais imediato é o fomento da confiança dos investidores, já que spreads elevados não só põem em perigo a sustentabilidade orçamental, mas também colocam em risco a retoma da actividade , ao aumentarem os custos de financiamento em toda a economia.
27-September-2010
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According to A. Gurría, the most immediate challenge for Portugal is to foster investor confidence and to avoid the cyclical increase in unemployment from becoming structural.
21-September-2010
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Absent a major push in the next five years, we will fail to meet our commitment to the world’s poorest, according to Angel Gurría. He added that raising inequality will not jeopardise future growth and prosperity only in the developing world, it will threaten the global economy as a whole.
20-September-2010
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Smarter partnerships can leverage the maximum out of aid and become the main driver of progress towards achieving the MDGs by 2015, according to Angel Gurría.
20-September-2010
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OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría encourages all countries to meet their commitments to the world’s poorest by achieving the MDGs by 2015.
20-September-2010
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Attending the UN summit on the Millenium Development Goals, Angel Gurría highlighted four priority issues for Africa: we need to complement Africa’s efforts in domestic resource mobilisation by an effective international action to tackle tax havens, illicit financial flows, bribery and corruption. We also need to re-double our efforts to drive forward multilateral trade liberalisation. We must direct aid to where the need is greatest
20-September-2010
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Supported by substantial stimulus measures, the US economy has started to grow again after the economic crisis but Mr. Gurría argued that efficient spending would be key to strenghten public finances. In this respect, the recent health-care reform, which includes measures to reduce the growth in health-care spending, is an important landmark, Mr. Gurría stated.
20-September-2010
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Equitable and efficient tax systems and administrations have an important role to play in securing domestic funding for development, according to Angel Gurría. He added that African policy makers need to reform tax systems and generate revenues, to complement external sources of financing, such as official development assistance, remittances and foreign direct investment.