Going for Growth in Canada: key challenges and how the OECD can help

Canada’s challenge is to develop a sustainable green growth strategy centred on innovation and human capital, and design “even better policies for even better lives”, declared A. Gurría at a conference in Ottawa.

Canada and the OECD: 50 Years of Converging Interests

"Canada and the OECD have been working together for five decades to produce better policies for better lives. We must use this partnership to reshape the global economy according to new values of inclusiveness, environmental respect and creative interdependence", said Mr. Gurría.

OECD-FCAC Conference on Financial Literacy: Partnering to Turn Financial Literacy into Action

This conference focused on how we can help individuals improve their financial knowledge and the way they manage their personal finances.

Doing Better for Families country note - Canada

This note highlights the most pressing issues on families and children in Canada, as discussed in the OECD publication Doing Better for Families.

OECD Health Working Paper No. 56. Description of Alternative Approaches to Measure and Place a Value on Hospital Products in Seven OECD Countries

To assess the feasibility of using secondary data sets information to feed an output-based PPP approach for hospital services, we reviewed the main characteristics of diagnoses and procedures coding standards, DRG classification systems, and cost-finding methods used in selected OECD countries.

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Society at a Glance 2011 - OECD Social Indicators: Key findings for Canada

This one-pager note presents key findings for Canada from Society at a Glance 2011 - OECD Social indicators. This 2011 publication also provides a special chapter on unpaid work across the OECD.

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• Society at a Glance 2009 - OECD Social Indicators

Greening Household Behaviour: The Role of Public Policy

This publication presents the main results and policy implications of an OECD survey of more than 10 000 households in 10 countries. It offers new insight into what policy measures really work, looking at what factors affect people’s behaviour towards the environment.

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• Politique d'environnement et comportement des ménages

Canada - OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

This page contains all information relating to implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in Canada.

Canada’s enforcement of the foreign bribery offence still lagging; must urgently boost efforts to prosecute

Although Canada has recently made progress in investigating the bribery of foreign public officials by Canadian businesses, Canada has only completed one prosecution since it enacted its foreign bribery law in 1999.

Better Policies to Support Eco-innovation

This report reviews policies in OECD countries. It studies selected eco-innovations (e.g. carbon capture and storage, electric vehicles and fuel cells) and explains why policies differ in Canada, France, or Germany.

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• Taxation, Innovation and the Environment
• Environmental Policy, Technological Innovation and Patents (2008)
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• Measuring Innovation: A New Perspective
• The OECD Innovation Strategy: Getting a Head Start on Tomorrow