15-February-2017
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Despite the challenging global environment, Italy has made important reforms. We now predict the Italian economy will grow at a rate of 1% for 2017 and 2018. Reforms have helped to create 3.2 million new permanent contracts and boost total employment by 2% since early 2015.
9-February-2017
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A significant number of people, especially in OECD countries, feel left behind. Many have not experienced gains in their real incomes in more than two decades. Often, they lack the means and skills to adapt and thrive in a digitalised economy. Today we have an important opportunity to address these issues.
8-February-2017
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Sweden weathered the global financial and economic crisis with limited damage. With GDP growing at a rate of over 3% in 2016 despite sluggish global demand, Sweden is outpacing major advanced economies, including Germany and the United States, as well as its Nordic neighbours.
8-February-2017
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Sweden, with its ambitious new climate policy legislative framework, complete with the goal to achieve zero net GHG emissions by 2045, and signpost goals for 2030 and 2040, is leading by example, building a truly “Fossil Free Sweden”, promoting growth, sustainability and inclusiveness all at once.
6-February-2017
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Portugal has carved the way to a brighter future with its reform agenda. It now needs to sustain this momentum. Please count on the OECD to continue working with Portugal and for Portugal in order to design, develop and deliver better policies for better lives.
27-January-2017
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Given the very pressing and very present challenges, it may seem paradoxical that we would gather today to discuss the world in 2050. But it is precisely because of the challenges that we face today that we need to be thinking ahead, so we are not caught by surprise, so we are not left behind, so we are not overwhelmed by successive crises we don’t fully understand.
17-January-2017
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Developing knowledge-driven health systems will depend on our ability to use health data more effectively. The OECD is leading the way on managing the potential of health data to improve clinical practice, research, health system management and surveillance. The Council Recommendation on Health Data Governance that you released today reflects international consensus on a set of guiding conditions to achieve these important public goals.
17-January-2017
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The people in this room today have expertise in areas as diverse as nuclear regulation, radioactive waste management, radiological protection, nuclear law, technology and public affairs. Despite the great differences between your respective fields, a common thread which runs through all of your work is the need to build transparency, trust and support with members of the public.
17-January-2017
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Good health is the foundation for well-being, for labour-markets, and for inclusive societies. We cannot afford to get health policy wrong. The lives of citizens depend on it. To build the health systems of tomorrow, the hard work must start today. Together, we can build the evidence, identify the best practices, and set the vision that we need for stronger health systems, better health policies, and better, healthier, lives.
16-January-2017
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The speed and intensity with which the OECD’s collaboration with Peru has increased in just a few years has been remarkable. Peru has made the best use of our ambitious Country Programme, launched in 2015.