Education: Reduce school failure to boost equity and growth, says OECD

Governments should invest more in disadvantaged schools and students to ensure that everyone gets a fair chance, according to a new OECD report.

OECD Statistical Profile of Belgium

The country statistical profiles include a wide range of indicators on economy, education, energy, environment, foreign aid, health, information and communication, labour, migration, R&D, trade and society.

OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: School Evaluation in the Flemish Community of Belgium 2011

This report provides, for the Flemish community of Belgium, an independent analysis of major issues facing the educational evaluation and assessment framework, current policy initiatives, and possible future approaches.

Regional Outlook 2011: Information by country

These country notes provide detailed quantitative and qualitative information on regional performance, institutions and policy settings in OECD members. They include a description of the country's administrative structure, regional policies and the contribution of regions to national growth.

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• OECD Regional Outlook 2011

Greener growth in the Belgian federation

The degradation of the environment due to climate change and pollution can harm living standards and damage growth prospects.

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• Economic Survey of Belgium 2011

Belgium: Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the OECD

Biographical note of Belgium's Permanent Representative to the OECD.

Fostering Innovation for Green Growth

This book draws on work on green innovation across several parts of the OECD to show how it can drive sustainable growth and job creation. It explores policy actions for the deployment of new technologies and innovations as they emerge.

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• OECD work on green growth
• OECD Sustainable Manufacturing Toolkit
• Green Growth & Eco-Innovation
• Eco-Innovation in Industry: Enabling Green Growth
• Towards Green Growth
• The OECD Innovation Strategy

Tax: Jurisdictions move towards full tax transparency

Furthering efforts to fight against international tax evasion and bank secrecy, members of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes have issued 12 new peer review reports.

Dispute Resolution: Country Mutual Agreement Procedure Statistics for 2010

As part of its ongoing work on the mutual agreement procedure (MAP) under tax treaties, the OECD makes available to the public annual statistics on the MAP caseloads of member countries and of certain non-OECD economies. MAP statistics have now been released for 2010.

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• 2007 Report: Improving the Resolution of Tax Treaty Disputes

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• Statistiques sur la procédure amiable pour 2011
• Mutual Agreement Procedure Statistics for 2011

Economic Survey of Belgium 2011

Belgium weathered the crisis well. Nevertheless, with public debt at 97% of GDP, a sustained effort to restore fiscal sustainability is needed. To boost subdued potential growth, reforms to increase employment are required while more reliance on environmental taxation should secure greener growt