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February 2009
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Tackling the financial and economic crisis: OECD posts a new website with commentary, analysis and statistics on the crisis we are facing: New Website
Falling stock markets have hit pension funds hard, underlining need for reforms of pension systems, says OECD Pensions Outlook: Book Announcement | Highlights (751 kb) | Book on Online Bookshop | Book on SourceOECD
Development Co-operation Report 2009 calls for heightened collective action by donors in this time of financial crisis: Book on Online Bookshop (to be available shortly) | Book on SourceOECD (freely available)
OECD Forum 2009 is planned for 23-24 June 2009 with the theme "For a stronger, cleaner, fairer economy": Website | Registration
SECRETARY-GENERAL GURRÍA'S ACTIVITIES
OECD’s Gurría calls for strong competition policy to speed recovery:
Press Release |
Global Forum Website
OECD’s Gurría welcomes G7 move
to establish set of ethical principles on global business:
Press
Release | SG Speech Fundamentals of global
governance: what are the challenges ahead? Remarks by
Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General - Follow-up
meeting at the invitation of Chancellor Merkel:
SG's Remarks The world needs to rewrite the rules of finance
and global business:
SG Speech Business ethics and OECD
principles: What can be done to avoid another crisis? Remarks by Angel Gurría,
OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the European
Business Ethics Forum (EBEF),
Paris, France, 22 January 2009:
SG's Remarks The
challenge of the financial crisis and faith in multilateralism: Remarks
by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the
seminar in the Finnish Institute of International Affairs:
SG's Remarks Euro
area needs more integrated financial market supervision, says
OECD’s Gurría at launch of the OECD
Economic Survey: Euro Area 2009:
Press
Release | Book
Announcement | Book
on Online Bookshop | Book on SourceOECD Managing
our future water needs: What can be done to provide the right
incentives? Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General,
at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009:
SG's Remarks Joint press release on the
global economic crisis by Chancellor Angela Merkel, OECD Secretary-General,
WTO Director-General, ILO Director-General, IMF Managing Director
and World Bank President:
Press Release Official Visit to Finland:
Visit Official Visit to Slovak Republic:
Visit OECD launches Key Tables
Service. The service
will ultimately consist of approximately 500 key tables sorted
according to the 17 subject themes used in SourceOECD. The tables
will cover the most requested data series and each will be regularly
updated. Tables will be available in three formats: Excel®, PDF,
and HTML. See the first tables in the first five themes:
Key Tables
Webbook of Development Co-operation Report 2009
(also known as the DAC Report) is now freely available on SourceOECD. Highlights of Education at a Glance will
be freely available as a webbook under the At a Glance tab of SourceOECD shortly.
DAC Report
on Online Bookshop (to be available shortly) | DAC Report
on SourceOECD (freely available) OECD
publications will be on exhibit at the Following Events in the Coming
Months:
See List of Forthcoming Books: Below
AGRICULTURE / FOOD / FISHERIES
Reducing Fishing Capacity: Best Practices for Decommissioning Schemes: Book on Online Bookshop | Book on SourceOECD
OECD’s Gurría calls for strong competition policy to speed recovery:
Press Release |
Global Forum Website
Business ethics and OECD principles:
What can be done to avoid another crisis? Remarks
by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at
the European Business
Ethics Forum (EBEF), Paris, France, 21-23 January 2009:
SG's Remarks Falling stock markets have hit pension
funds hard, underlining need for reforms of pension systems,
says OECD Pensions Outlook:
Book
Announcement | Highlights (751
kb) | Book
on Online Bookshop | Book
on SourceOECD OECD
Investment Policy Perspectives 2008 includes article
on FDI spillovers, regulatory takings, investment guarantees and
political risk insurance, and financial sector liberalisation in
Ethiopia:
Book
Announcement | Book
on Online Bookshop | Book
on SourceOECD Pension Coverage and Informal
Sector Workers:
Working Paper (274
kb) Pension Fund Investment
in Infrastructure:
Working
Paper (690 kb) OECD's FDI Regulatory Restrictiveness
Index: Working
Paper (71 kb) Development Co-operation Report 2009
calls for heightened collective action by donors in this time of financial crisis:
Book on Online Bookshop (to be available shortly) |
Book on SourceOECD (freely available) Development Aid at a Glance 2008: Statistics
by Region presents foreign aid data in easily understandable graphs and charts:
Book
on Online Bookshop | Book on SourceOECD Geographical Distribution of Financial
Flows to Developing Countries 2003-2007:
Book
Announcement | Book
on Online Bookshop | Book on SourceOECD Aid Effectiveness: A Progress Report on
Implementing the Paris Declaration:
Book on Online Bookshop |
Book on SourceOECD Natural
Resources and Pro-Poor Growth: The Economics and Politics:
Book on Online Bookshop |
Book on SourceOECD The Fallout from the Financial
Crisis (1): Emerging Markets under Stress:
OECD
Development Centre Policy Insight (327 kb) The Fallout from the Financial
Crisis (2): External Debt Sustainability - Should More Be Done for the Poor?
OECD
Development Centre Policy Insight (307 kb) The Fallout from the Financial
Crisis (3): Will Aid Budgets Fall Victim to the Credit Crisis?
OECD Development Centre Policy Insight (754 kb) The Fallout from the Financial
Crisis (4): Implications for FDI to Developing Countries:
OECD Development Centre Policy Insight (334 kb) The Fallout from the Financial
Crisis (5): The End of Public Support for Development Aid?
OECD
Development Centre Policy Insight (318 kb) Wall Street and Elections in Latin American
Emerging Economies:
OECD
Development Centre Working Paper (1.19 mb) Aid Volatility and Macro
Risks in Low-Income Countries:
OECD
Development Centre Working Paper (1.15 mb) Who Saw Sovereign Debt
Crises Coming?
OECD
Development Centre Working Paper (1.28 mb) Development Aid and Portfolio
Funds:
OECD
Development Centre Working Paper (3.02 mb) The challenge of the financial crisis
and faith in multilateralism: Remarks by Angel Gurría,
OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the seminar in the Finnish
Institute of International Affairs:
SG's
Remarks Tackling the financial and economic crisis:
OECD posts a new website with commentary, analysis and statistics
on the crisis we are facing:
New
Website Financial
crises: Past lessons and policy implications:
Report (PDF
800 kb) The
following OECD Economic Surveys were
released during the past month. Policy
Briefs summarising
the findings of Surveys released during the past year are available: OECD
Economics
Department Working
Papers released during
the past month: The Recession Hits
Home: OECD Statistics Portal Spotlight:
Webpage Financial
crisis sees collapse in OECD consumer confidence:
Webpage Upcoming
changes to the Main Economic Indicators paper publication:
Announcement (PDF 43 kb) National
Accounts of OECD Countries: Volume I - Main Aggregates, 1996-2007, 2009 Edition:
Book
Announcement | Book
on Online Bookshop | Book
on SourceOECD | Statistics on OECD.Stat National
Accounts of OECD Countries - Vol. IV: General Government Accounts,
1996-2007 - 2008 Edition:
Book
Announcement | Book
on Online Bookshop | Book
on SourceOECD | Data on SourceOECD OECD
Statistics on International Trade in Services: Detailed Tables
by Service Category, 1997-2006, 2008 Edition:
Book
Announcement | Book
on Online Bookshop | Book
on SourceOECD | Data on SourceOECD Latest
OECD Consumer Prices: Inflation slows further
to 1.5% in OECD area: More
Latest
OECD Composite Leading Indicators: OECD
Composite Leading Indicators fall to lowest levels since 1970s: More Latest Standardised
Unemployment Rates. Unemployment in the OECD area
up to 6.8%: More Unit
Labour Cost growth
decelerates in Second Quarter 2008:
More Quarterly
GDP Growth:
Quarterly
Release |
Spreadsheet G7
merchandise trade growth slows further in 3rd quarter
2008:
More (PDF
326 kb) Main Economic Indicators for Non-member Countries:
More (183
kb) IEA Monthly Oil Market Report:
More OECD
Statistics Portal: Website Take the Test: Sample Questions from the
OECD's PISA Assessments:
Book
Announcement | Book
on Online Bookshop | Book on SourceOECD PISA
2006 Technical Reportdescribes the methodology underlying the PISA
2006 survey:
Book
Announcement | Book
on Online Bookshop | Book on SourceOECD Portuguese
primary school reforms bearing fruit, says independent report:
Announcement OECD/Germany
Workshop on Advancing Innovation: Human Resources, Education and Training, 17-18 November 2008:
Workshop
Report (PDF 170 kb) What Works in Migrant Education?
A Review of Evidence and Policy Options:
Working
Paper (398 kb) Making the most of Norwegian
schools:
Working Paper (PDF
1.12 mb) An Evaluation
of the Tax-Transfer Treatment of Married Couples in European Countries:
Working Paper (PDF 743 kb) Pensions, Purchasing-Power
Risk, Inflation and Indexation:
Working
Paper (1.6 mb) Filling the Pension
Gap:
Working
Paper (559 kb) Realising South Africa’s employment
potential
Working
Paper (PDF 1.48 mb) The Global Competition for Talent:
Policy
Brief (PDF 235 kb) ENERGY
(Also
see Nuclear Energy) IEA calls for more
focus on policy implementation in Energy Policies of IEA Countries: Netherlands 2008:
Press
Release | Book on Online Bookshop |
Book on SourceOECD IEA Offers New Data on Member Countries’ Oil
Stocks. Data will be updated monthly:
Data IEA Energy Policy Efficiency Recommendations:
Report
(2.23 mb) ENTREPRENEURSHIP
/ SMEs / LOCAL DEVELOPMENT The Changing Boundaries of Social
Enterprises contains recommendations for national and local policy makers and presents
a set of international best practices for social enterprises:
Book on Online Bookshop |
Book on SourceOECD ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT The
Water Challenge: OECD's Response:
Webpage Managing our future water needs:
What can be done to provide the right incentives? Remarks by Angel Gurría,
OECD Secretary-General, at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009:
SG's Remarks Greening Development Planning:
Working Paper (613 kb) The Role of R&D and Technology Diffusion in
Climate Change Mitigation: New Perspectives using the WITCH Model:
Working Paper: (860 kb) Health Care Reform in the United States:
Working Paper INFORMATION
/ COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY The Influence of Market Development and P
olicies on Telecommunication Investment:
Report (972 kb) Nuclear Law Bulletin, No. 82:
Subscribe
on Online Bookshop | Issue on SourceOECD
Chemical
Thermodynamics of Thorium (Volume 11 of Chemical Thermodynamics):
Book on Online Bookshop |
Book on SourceOECD The Role of Human and Organisational Factors:
CSNI Technical Opinion Paper (84 kb) Nuclear Fuel Cycle Transition Scenario Studies:
Status Report (2.7 mb) PUBLIC
MANAGEMENT / GOVERNANCE / URBAN, RURAL AND REGIONAL
AFFAIRS Managing Change in OECD Governments:
Working
Paper (518 kb) OECD Journal on Budgeting, Volume 2008 Issue 3
includes articles on reforming fiscal institutions, the political economy of fiscal reform in Central
and Eastern Europe, and on budgeting in Portugal and Greece:
Subscribe on Online Bookshop |
Issue on SourceOECD SCIENCE
/ INNOVATION / INDUSTRY OECD Patent Statistics Manual 2009:
Book
Announcement | Book on
Online Bookshop | Book on SourceOECD Innovation: A Stocktaking of Existing OECD Work
provides a broad overview of “what we know” about good policy practices for innovation:
Working
Paper (634 kb) The Influence of Market Development and Policies
on Telecommunication Investment:
Report (972 kb) Measuring China's Innovation System:
National Specificities and International Comparisons:
Working Paper (1.07 mb) The Measurement of CO2 Embodiments
in International Trade : Evidence from the Harmonised Input-Output and Bilateral Trade Database:
Working Paper (1.7 mb) OECD Input-Output Tables 2009:
Announcement Public comments on draft new Article 7
(Business Profits) of the OECD Model Tax Convention and related Commentary changes:
Comments Guernsey signs tax information exchange
agreement with the United Kingdom:
Announcement Tax Administration in OECD and Selected
Non-OECD Countries: Comparative Information Series (2008):
Report (PDF 4.77 mb) Taxes on consumption continue to grow,
says latest edition of Consumption Tax Trends 2008:
Press
Release | Book
Announcement | Book
on Online Bookshop | Book
on SourceOECD OECD Releases Reports relating to Claims for Treaty
Benefits by Portfolio Investors:
Announcement |
Granting
of Treaty Benefits with respect to the Income of Collective Investment
Vehicles (PDF 398 kb) | Possible
Improvements to Procedures for Tax Relief for Cross-Border Investors (PDF 814 kb) Overcoming Border Bottlenecks: The Costs and Benefits of Trade Facilitation:
Book on
Online Bookshop | Book on SourceOECD Recovery and Beyond: Enhancing
Competitiveness to Realise Indonesia's Trade Potential:
Working Paper (PDF 1.04 mb) Enhancing Market Openness through
Regulatory Reform in the People's Republic of China:
Working Paper (1.0 mb) The Global Economic
Crisis Needs Global Answers from the Transport Sector,
says Jack Short, Secretary-General of the International Transport
Forum:
Press Release(54 kb) Cognitive Impairment, Mental Health
and Transport:
Book on Online Bookshop |
Book on SourceOECD Charges for the Use of Rail
Infrastructure 2008:
Report (471
kb) | Spreadsheet Empirical Evidence for Integration
and Disintegration of Maritime Shipping, Port and Logistics Activities:
Working Paper (535 kb) Market Power and Vertical
and Horizontal Integration in the Maritime Shipping and Port Industry:
Working Paper (311 kb) Agricultural Policies in Emerging Economies:
Monitoring and Evaluation 2009:
Book Listing Annual Report on the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises 2008: Employment and Industrial Relations:
Book Listing Cleaner
Coal in China:
Book Listing Economic Policy Reforms:
Going for Growth 2009:
Book Listing Energy Policies of IEA Countries:
Luxembourg 2008:
Book Listing Highlights from Education at a Glance 2008 (with free webbook on SourceOECD):
Book Listing Managing
Water for All: An OECD Perspective on Pricing and Financing:
Book Listing Managing Development Resources: The Use of
Country Systems in Public Financial Management:
Book Listing OECD Regions at a Glance 2009:
(also with free webbook on SourceOECD):
Book Listing OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies,
Japan: Large-Scale Floods and Earthquakes:
Book Listing OECD Territorial Reviews: Copenhagen, Denmark:
Book Listing Private Sector Participation in Water
Infrastructure: OECD Checklist for Public Action:
Book Listing Tertiary Education in Chile:
Book Listing * For a few books, SourceOECD links
may not yet be live. They should be active within a few days
