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  • New study 'How's Life?' by OECD says Indians are more satisfied with life than Chinese - Economic Times
    14/10/2011 - "In the current difficult political context, it is of utmost importance to define core objectives besides level of income, such as improving our citizens' well-being, ensuring access to opportunities and preserving our social and natural environment," OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria said. He stressed that it was important to be concerned about the well-being of the populace while a country focuses its attention on economic growth.  "I strongly believe that today, even more than two years ago, we have to consider a broader picture in our policy making, because a 'growth as usual' approach is simply not enough," Gurria said.
  • Private Sector Must Take Bigger Greek Burden: Gurria - CNBC
    13/10/2011 - The public sector has borne the brunt of the Greek bailout to date, and the private sector must start making a greater contribution, Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of the OECD, told CNBC Thursday. The warning came after reports that banks will be asked to accept losses of up to 50 percent on their holdings of Greek debt by euro zone countries. The struggling Mediterranean country's deficit has widened by 15 percent in the first nine months of 2011, despite two high-profile bailouts from other European countries worried about the possibility of contagion if Greece defaults.
  • OCDE : Gurria prône des stress tests incluant le risque souverain - Dow Jones 
     12/10/2011 - Le secrétaire général de l'OCDE a appelé mercredi la zone euro à intégrer des tests de résistance tenant compte de l'exposition des banques à la dette souveraine dans le plan d'action complet promis par l'Allemagne et la France pour résoudre la crise de la dette de la région. "Ce plan doit comprendre une approche au problème bancaire. Cela comporte trois volets : l'un est la capitalisation, le deuxième est le financement [...] et le troisième est ce que l'on appelle des tests de résistance, prenant en considération tous les liens à la dette souveraine", a expliqué Angel Gurria à la presse en marge d'une conférence à l'OCDE à Paris.
  • L'OCDE exhorte la BCE à baisser les taux pour la croissance - Reuters
    06/10/2011 - ...Angel Gurria a laissé entendre que la politique monétaire de la BCE pourrait prendre une orientation différente le mois prochain, lorsque Mario Draghi aura succédé à Jean-Claude Trichet à la présidence de l'institut d'émission, le premier passant pour moins rigoriste que le second vis-à-vis de l'inflation. "A mon avis, il a peut-être repoussé la décision et ce sera peut-être à Mario Draghi de l'abaisser un peu", a déclaré Gurria, au sujet de la décision de la BCE de ne pas modifier ses taux directeurs jeudi en dépit des signes d'un fort ralentissement économique en Europe.
  • Angel Gurria: "Go structural and social to tackle employment challenge" - The Financial
    05/10/2011 - High unemployment is the big elephant in the room: this job crisis is the human face of the crisis", highlighted OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria while addressing PACE on Wednesday. The former Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs underlined many interconnections between areas of expertise of both OECD and Council of Europe, such as youth unemployment, gender, and tax havens.
  • Zapatero analiza con el secretario general de la OCDE la evolución de la situación económica en la eurozona - Economia de hoy
    04/10/2011 - Rodríguez Zapatero y Gurría han abordado también en la reunión las políticas económicas adoptadas para hacer frente a la crisis en los mercados europeos de deuda soberana. Ángel Gurría ha transmitido a Rodríguez Zapatero una positiva valoración de la OCDE de la política de reformas estructurales y de consolidación fiscal emprendida por España, que ha permitido aumentar la credibilidad de la economía española en los mercados internacionales.
  •  OECD’s Gurria Says Investors Should Take Bigger Greek Losses - Business week
    03/10/2011 - Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, said investors should take larger losses on Greek debt than those outlined in agreements reached in July. The existing plan “doesn’t reduce the debt practically, but rather it increases it,” Gurria said in an interview in Madrid today. “What we need to do is reduce the burden” with private-sector involvement, he said.
  • “El euro no está en peligro”: Gurría - CNN Expansion
    03/10/2011 - El secretario general de la OCDE, José Ángel Gurría, descartó este lunes que el euro esté en peligro y afirmó que fue un error vincular la crisis de Grecia a la estabilidad de esa moneda en general.  El que un país cuya representación en la economía regional es del 2% tenga problemas de deuda no significa que la moneda común esté en peligro, dijo Gurría  al diario español El País. "El error estratégico fue vincular estos asuntos a la estabilidad del euro en general. A partir de ahora, el asunto es sencillo: si quieren una red de salvamento poderosa, hay que tener elementos que aseguren que no se va a usar esa red", consideró.
  • Gurría quiere la reforma laboral en México con la actual administración - EFE
    26/09/2011 - El secretario general de la OCDE, el mexicano Ángel Gurría, pidió hoy que se saque adelante la reforma laboral en México, que se encuentra atascada en el Congreso, porque hay tiempo para hacerlo antes de que entre en funciones la nueva administración a finales de 2012. "Todavía hay más de un año" antes de que entre en funciones el nuevo Gobierno que salga de las elecciones de julio del año próximo, destacó Gurría en una declaración a la prensa antes del inicio de la reunión de ministros de Empleo del G20 hoy y mañana en París.
  • Eurozone needs to speak in one voice in crisis: OECD chief – Xinhua
    25/09/2011 - Eurozone countries should speak in one voice and take fast and flexible steps to soothe market fears, said Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the OECD on Saturday. This is particularly important for Europe, as there are many stakeholders for this region, including 17 sovereign states, the European Central Bank, the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and parliaments of eurozone members, Gurria said in an interview with Xinhua on the sidelines of the annual meetings of the Washington-based World Bank and IMF.
  • OECD praise for India's macroeconomic management – The Hindu
    25/09/2011 - India and other emerging markets such as China have done well to post high growth rates and yet closely manage inflationary pressures in their economies, according to Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of the OECD. Speaking to a small group of journalists on the margins of the annual World Bank-International Monetary Fund meeting here, Mr. Gurria said there was no doubt that India and China were engines of growth for the world economy.
  • OECD Chief: Backs International Facility To Guarantee Bank Debt – Dow Jones
    24/09/2011 - The head of the OECD Saturday backed a proposal to create an international facility to guarantee bank debt to prevent another credit crunch.  Credit started to dry up in euro-zone banks in the summer as fears escalated over the European sovereign debt crisis. No bank has been able to issue senior debt since then. World financial leaders at the annual International Monetary Fund meetings warned there is an increased risk the euro-zone crisis may create another global financial meltdown.  Angel Gurria, OECD secretary-general, said he supports creation of an explicit government-supported arrangement for guaranteeing bank debt "to address the tensions in bank term funding markets."
  • Pourquoi le chômage n'a pas fini d'augmenter – Challenges
    23/09/2011 - Perché au-dessus de 8% dans les pays de l'OCDE, de 9% en France et aux Etats-Unis, le chômage de masse s'installe. La réunion des ministres du Travail et de l'Emploi du G 20, que présidera Xavier Bertrand les 26 et 27 septembre à Paris, sera cruciale. Pour Angel Gurria, le secrétaire général de l'OCDE, la lutte contre le chômage doit devenir la priorité numéro un, y compris en France, l'un des pays occidentaux les plus ravagés par le phénomène. Le rapport "Perspectives de l'emploi" de l'organisation est alarmant.
  • Stubborn unemployment must be tackled, OECD says - CBC.ca
    15/09/2011 - The head of the OECD is telling governments to do more about the problem of stubborn unemployment. In a report released Thursday, the OECD said the risk of high unemployment becoming entrenched has increased with a steep rise in long-term joblessness. "Of all the facets of the financial and economic crisis, high unemployment is the most visible manifestation of the challenge to restore sustained growth," OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría said, calling it the "human face" of the economic crisis.
  • 'Nobody's Leaving the Euro': OECD Secretary-General - CNBC
    12/09/2011 - Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the OECD, issued a strong defense of the euro over the weekend. Several plans have been floated in hopes of binding the euro zone countries more closely, including a single Finance Ministry co-ordinating all 17 countries, or the issuance of Eurobonds. "There doesn't have to be a single minister of finance," Gurria, who spoke to CNBC during the G7 meeting in Marseilles, France last weekend, said. "There does have to be something pretty close to de facto fiscal union." "If you don't have the solution of both fiscal and political integration, then asking that (other euro zone members) issue Eurobonds or share the pain of others is very difficult," he added.
  • Central banks should brace for weaker growth-OECD - Reuters
    08/09/2011 - Developed countries face a sharp year-end slowdown led by a contraction in Germany, the OECD said on Thursday, urging central banks to keep rates low or pursue other forms of monetary easing if the downturn becomes entrenched.  The estimates marked a sharp downgrade from the Paris-based organisation's last forecasts in May but used different methodology so were hard to compare precisely. OECD chief Angel Gurria said last month the OECD was preparing to cut its outlook for Europe and Japan
  • L'OCDE prévoit une reprise mondiale plus lente - Gurria - Dow Jones
    01/09/2011 - L'OCDE table maintenant sur un ralentissement de la reprise mondiale, car les risques contre lesquels elle avait mis en garde précédemment commencent à se matérialiser, a déclaré mercredi son secrétaire général..."Vous ne serez pas surpris de voir que nous prévoyons un ralentissement de la reprise", a déclaré Angel Gurria à Dow Jones Newswires en marge de la conférence annuelle du Medef. Nombre de risques pour les perspectives économiques se sont concrétisés, notamment la flambée des prix des matières premières, l'instabilité des marchés de l'immobilier, les problèmes du système financier et l'absence de progrès dans les négociations sur le commerce international.
  • OECD sees cutting Europe, Japan growth forecasts - Reuters
    26/08/2011 - "We're not talking about a contraction of the economies, but a slowdown of the growth," Angel Gurria, secretary-general, of the OECD club of industrialized nations, said in an interview with Reuters Insider in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where central bankers are gathered for an annual meeting. Only a few countries, like Turkey, are still experiencing strong growth. The rest are linked together in what has become a general slowdown: "In open economies, if they are not growing of course they don't buy from the others," Gurria said.
  • Bernanke speech 'very sobering' - OECD chief - Reuters
    26/08/2011 - "It's always good to listen to the head of the Fed saying, 'We're here, we're vigilant, we will do whatever it takes,'" Angel Gurria, Secretary-General, of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development club of industrialized nations, said in an interview with Reuters Insider in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where central bankers are gathered for an annual meeting.
  • L'OCDE félicite la détermination italienne - Boursier.com
    16/08/2011 - Le Secrétaire Général de l'OCDE, Angel Gurría, a loué la décision italienne de mettre en place un nouveau plan d'austérité, dont l'objectif est de pouvoir présenter un budget à l'équilibre dès 2013. Le responsable a souligné les bienfaits de ce programme pour l'Italie, "mais aussi pour la résistance de la zone euro dans son ensemble". L'OCDE se tient prête à apporter son appui au gouvernement transalpin dans les prochaines semaines, dans le suivi de son économie et la mise en place des réformes.
  • Relief on debt deal but more cuts needed: OECD - Reuters
    02/08/2011 - A last-minute deal on the U.S. debt brings welcome relief but further negotiations involving much bigger cuts will be needed to resolve America's debt problem, the OECD's top official said Tuesday. The deal to raise the $14.3 trillion borrowing limit by enough to last into 2013, with $2.1 trillion in spending cuts, cleared its biggest hurdle when the House of Representatives approved it Monday despite opposition from lawmakers on both sides. "There is a general sense of relief because an agreement was achieved, this allows time," Angel Gurria, head of the OECD club of industrialized nations, told Reuters in an interview. "Clearly we've now overcome a very important hurdle."
  • EU deal will only slightly reduce Greek debt – OECD - Reuters
    02/08/2011 - ... "We came here to give a vote of confidence but we are also here to say we will support the Greek government for a full generation, which is what it is going to take to get to those numbers of lower debt-to-GDP (ratio)," Angel Gurria, head of the OECD club of industrialised nations, told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday... "The baseline scenario may not be your more desirable scenario," Gurria said, adding that Greece is capable of doing better on privatisations and structural changes. "It is doable, it is possible," he said.
  • Positive message from the OECD - Kathemerini
    02/08/2011 - With the message “Greece, you can,” the head of the OECD, Angel Gurria, in Athens on Tuesday praised government efforts to deal with Greece’s economic crisis and attempted to bolster the country’s resolve to keep going with the necessary measures set to come in the next 20 years. That, after all, is the time frame during which OECD technocrats expect the country’s debt to drop to the 60 percent level of gross domestic product required by the European Union’s Stability Pact and it will require strict measures that will allow for a gradual return to the markets and to growth.
  • Greek austerity plan will work, says OECD - The Guardian
    02/08/2011 - A leading economic thinktank has backed the embattled Greek government by predicting that the country's hugely unpopular austerity measures will work… Angel Gurría, the OECD's secretary general, praised the difficult decisions already taken by the Greek government as he presented the assessment in Athens. The OECD said improved competitiveness and an increase in exports were the first signs that tough measures were turning the economy around, but cautioned that it would be next year before the country emerged from recession. He said: "Reforms carried out over the past year are impressive. This achievement does not always seem to be properly appreciated, in Greece or abroad."
  • Italy now under fire in eurozone crisis - Montreal Gazette
    03/08/2011 - … The head of the OECD, a rich nations' intergovernmental think tank, told Reuters that Italy had its public finances under control and was taking the right decisions to reduce its deficit. "Therefore it does not need foreign savings to finance its deficits and therefore it is OK," OECD secretary-general Angel Gurria said in an interview in Athens, noting that Italy had a high domestic savings rate.
  • 'Too Many Cooks' in Euro Debt Crisis: OECD Head - CNBC
    13/07/2011 - Finding a solution to the euro zone crisis is such a complex task that investors, as well as many citizens of the European Union, have grown disgruntled with attempts to sort out the debt. “The complexity of the issue is such that you have to discuss, you have to talk about it, you have to analyze it," Angel Gurria, the Secretary-General of the OECD, said in an interview  with CNBC following the latest meeting of euro zone policy makers in Brussels.
  • Greece Bailout Less Painful Than Bank Bailout – OECD - Dow Jones
    12/07/2011 - A bailout for Greece may be painful, but it will hurt less than bailing out the continent's banks  for a second time, said Angel Gurria Secretary General of the OECD. "There's only one thing more  difficult than having to support Greece, and that would be going back to support the banks a  second time," Gurria said Tuesday. "A Greek default is not necessary, what is necessary is that  the private sector participates in the solution". "It is possible to have an arrangement where  the big focus is in the private sector, and an arrangement that can fit the European Central  Bank, the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and ultimately the Greeks as well."
  • OECD's Gurria: default not necessary for Greece - Reuters
    12/07/2011 - Private sector creditors must play a role in dealing with Greece's debt problems, but a default is not necessary for Athens to manage its obligations, the head of the OECD club of industrialised nations said on Tuesday. "Greek default is not necessary, what is necessary is that the private sector participates in the solution," Angel Gurria, head of the OECD told a news conference in Brussels
  • OECD warns Europe to agree Greece deal quickly - Reuters
    11/07/2011 - Europe needs to come up with a plan now to get private investors to contribute to a bailout for Greece and give Athens time to deal with its problems, the head of the OECD club of industrialised nations said on Monday.  "Time is critical, time is important to avoid a liquidity problem becoming a solvency problem. Time is of the essence also in order to allow for a recovery of everyone," Angel Gurria, head of the OECD, told reporters.
  • OECD fordert Beteiligung Privater bei Eurokrise - Austria.com
    11/07/2011 - OECD- Generalsekretär Angel Gurria hat sich am Montag in Wien eindinglich für eine Beteiligung der privaten Gläubiger an der Lösung der Schuldenkrise in einigen Eurozonen- Ländern ausgesprochen… Für Österreich rechnet Gurria nicht mit negativen Auswirkungen durch die Krise in den Eurozonen- Ländern Griechenland, Italien, Spanien und Portugal.
  • OECD's Gurria warns ECB against aggressive rate hikes - Reuters
    04/07/2011 - The European Central Bank should not hike interest rates aggressively and wait for stronger euro zone growth before increasing rates after this week's expected move, OECD head Angel Gurria said on Monday. The ECB's second rate hike of the year, a move that will lift euro zone rates to 1.5 percent, is seen as a virtual certainly on Thursday [ECB/INT] after the bank's recent reiterations that it is in a mode of "strong vigilance" -- a phrase traditionally used to signal an upcoming rate rise.
  • Greece Certain to Find ‘Life After Debt,’ OECD’s Gurria Says - Bloomberg
    04/07/2011 - Greece will overcome its fiscal problems and find that “there’s life after debt,” said Angel Gurria, secretary general of the Paris-based OECD.  Gurria, a former Mexican finance minister, said Greece faces problems similar to those once tackled by his own nation.
  • OECD head Angel Gurria wishes Greece to be freed from debt: Reports - Reuters
    30/06/2011 - OECD head Angel Gurria wants Greece to be freed from its heavy debt pile to help its economy recover, he was quoted as saying in an interview published in the Netherlands on Thursday. "The current state of affairs where all the Greek taxpayer's money goes to the creditors cannot continue. It can be temporary but does not offer a long-term solution," Gurria was quoted as saying in Dutch daily Het Financieele Dagblad.
  • OECD's Gurria sees no global double-dip slump - Reuters
    20/06/2011 - The world economy is slowing down due to a combination of factors such as the euro zone's debt problems and a weak U.S. housing sector, but it is not headed for a double-dip slump, the head of the OECD said on Monday. "We do not believe there is a return to a recession," Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the OECD, told reporters when asked if recent signs of a slowdown pointed to a major weakening in the global economy
  • OECD chief says nuclear energy still important - AFP
    20/06/2011 - Nuclear power is still a viable source of global energy despite the crisis in Japan, the OECD chief said Monday. Angel Gurria, head of the OECD, said nuclear power remains necessary to meet growing energy needs but also voiced support for fuel sources such as solar and water power.
  • We'll be honoured, but India has to make the first move on joining OECD: Angel Gurria - Economic Times
    15/06/2011 - The Paris-based OECD has said that it was up to India to decide whether it wants to join the 34-member group that represents more than 60% of world output, indicating that it was keen to have the fast rising economy to increase its clout.  "We'll be very honoured but it's up to them to start the process. We have made clear to Indian authorities that they can start the process," OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria told ET in an interview.
  • Gurria Says Europe Debt Woes Will Be Limited to Greece, Portugal - SF Gate
    14/06/2011 - Europe's debt crisis will be limited to Greece, Portugal and Ireland and won't spread to other parts of the continent, Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the OECD said. "There are three countries - one is Greece which has a fiscal problem, second is Ireland which has a banking problem and third is Portugal," Gurria told reporters in New Delhi today. "I do not see that there are other countries that are going to join the number that are requesting help from European Union and the IMF."
  • OECD’s Gurria Says Food Production Needs ‘Big’ Investment Boost - Bloomberg
    07/06/2011 - OECD Secretary General Jose Angel Gurria said boosting food stockpiles in emerging and developing nations will require increased government and private spending. “Most of the potential to increase production is outside the OECD countries,” Gurria, head of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, said today at a conference in Montreal. “That is where there is land available and where the gap between the current and the potential yields is enormous. But a big increase in investment is needed there.”
  • OECD: Canada underproducing - The Chronicle Herald
    07/06/2011 - Canada must tackle its low productivity now that it has largely escaped the most severe economic challenges facing many countries around the world, says the head of the OECD. "The great challenge for Canada is productivity," Angel Gurria, secretary general of the global agency, told the 17th annual International Economic Forum of the Americas.Gurria didn’t provide any specific prescriptions for boosting the persistent problem, but said the government needs to address the issue for Canada to maintain its global competitiveness.
  • L'Europe devrait s'inspirer du Canada en matière budgétaire, soutient Trichet - AFP
    06/06/2011 - ...En matinée, le secrétaire général de l'OCDE, Angel Gurria, avait pressé non seulement les pays européens, mais l'ensemble des gouvernements occidentaux, à faire le ménage dans leurs finances. M. Gurria a relevé que le taux de chômage moyen s'élevait à quelque 10 pour cent dans les 34 pays de l'OCDE — et à près de 20 pour cent chez les jeunes. «Nous ne serons pas sortis de la crise tant que nous n'aurons pas réduit le chômage», a-t-il dit
  • ¿Un nuevo déjà vu? By Angel Gurria - El Economista
    25/05/2011 - Nos gustaría pensar que ya hemos pasado por lo peor de la mayor crisis en 70 años. Y, sin embargo, los derivados, principales culpables de la crisis financiera, siguen representando 10 veces el PIB mundial y contando. Una importante adquisición de US8,500 millones tiene a los analistas especulando sobre una nueva burbuja punto com.  Algunas economías emergentes están mostrando signos clásicos de recalentamiento en los precios de los inmuebles, los créditos al consumidor y las ganancias bancarias que llegan a los máximos históricos.
  • OECD chief: Lagarde would benefit IMF diversity - Associated Press
    24/05/2011 - The head of the OECD says appointing French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde as new director of the International Monetary Fund would benefit diversity at the bank. Angel Gurria says Lagarde meets all criteria to be a very good replacement for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who quit last week after he was accused of attempting to rape a New York hotel maid. He says "the Europeans have clearly picked up their best and the brightest" in Lagarde.
  • OECD head: rescheduling Greek debt lesser of two evils - Reuters
    24/05/2011 - OECD head Angel Gurria said in an interview published on Tuesday that rescheduling Greece's debt would not be a bad idea as it would be the lesser of two evils, with many fearing the country could default. "The decision to move toward a rescheduling of Greek debt doesn't seem like a bad one to me," Gurria was quoted as saying in daily Le Figaro when asked whether Greece should restructure its huge debt.
  • Gurría apoya ingreso de China en OCDE - El Universal
    24/05/2011 - El secretario general de la OCDE, José Angel Gurría, se mostró favorable al ingreso de China en el organismo considerado 'el club de los países ricos'. No hay 'nada' que impida a China 'comenzar las negociaciones de ingreso mañana mismo si lo desea ". " Es China la que debe hacer la gestión, decidir si quiere ser miembro o no', subrayó el funcionario en entrevista que publica este martes el diario Le Figaro.
  • "Se vigilaba a los países en desarrollo y la crisis la causaron los ricos" - El Pais
    23/05/2011 - En la primera semana de mayo, la OCDE celebró su 50º aniversario con una gran conferencia internacional en su sede, París, a la que asistieron jefes de Gobierno y ministros de Economía de sus 36 países miembros. Paradójicamente, al frente de este "club de ricos" se encuentra un economista y político mexicano, Ángel Gurría, que no se recata al hacer autocrítica por el papel que desempeñaron las principales instituciones internacionales en la prevención de la crisis: "Mirábamos en la dirección equivocada y no gritamos lo suficientemente alto para advertir de la magnitud de la crisis".
  • Gurría: España debe abordar el desempleo sin perjudicar el ajuste fiscal - EFE
    04/05/2011 - El secretario general de la OCDE, José Ángel Gurría, recalcó hoy que el principal problema de la economía española es el desempleo, en particular el juvenil, pero recordó que es un reto que debe abordarse con la "restricción" de mantener la consolidación fiscal.En declaraciones previas a pronunciar una conferencia en la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (AECID), Gurría explicó que mantener la dinámica de recuperación con el necesario ajuste fiscal es "el más difícil acto de equilibrio que deben llevar a cabo los países del mundo"
  • Desigualdad, reto para AL: OCDE - Notimex
    04/05/2011 - El secretario general de la OCDE, Ángel Gurría, dijo hoy que tras superar bien la crisis económica internacional, el reto de América Latina es reducir la desigualdad. En declaraciones a periodistas en esta capital con motivo de su participación en un acto de celebración del 50 aniversario del Comité de Ayuda al Desarrollo de la OCDE, Gurría expuso que “se trata de retos importantes y deberes aún pendientes” en la región.
  • Russia should not hurry to join OECD says Secretary General - RIA Novosti
    26/04/2011 -  Russia should not rush to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, but prepare for accesion properly, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria said on Monday. Last November Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina said Russia could join the OECD in 2012, if it joined the World Trade Organization in 2011. One of the main obstacles to Russia's entering the OECD is that it is not a WTO member.
  • OECD ready to send experts to help Japan's nuclear crisis - Kyodo news
    23/04/2011 - The OECD is ready to dispatch its nuclear experts to help check the safety of existing nuclear power plants following the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, its head Angel Gurria said Friday… Gurria also expressed the Paris-based body's intention to provide data of past nuclear accidents that occurred at plants across the world. Gurria quoted Kan as telling him, "We will employ every possible means to respond" to the nuclear accident.
  • Inflation may be future G20 focus: OECD head - Reuters
    16/04/2011  - World finance leaders must find a way to bring down debt while creating jobs and watching over their shoulders for the threat of inflation, the head of the OECD said on Saturday."It's one of the most difficult policy moments... one of the most complex challenges I've ever seen, certainly in my lifetime," Angel Gurria said in an interview with Reuters Insider.OECD’s Gurria Says Reforms Needed to Avert ‘Mediocre’ Decade - Bloomberg
    15/04/2011 - The largest developed nations must improve education and fiscal reforms to prevent the economic malaise that followed the financial crisis from extending for a decade, said Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the OECD. “The greatest concern we have at the OECD is that this undesirable or mediocre scenario, it’s not just for this year and next,” Gurria said in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Washington yesterday.
  • 'Reform for growth and jobs' says OECD - The Guardian
    08/04/2011 - OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría said: "The capacity of fiscal and monetary policies to further support the recovery is pretty much exhausted, so a new emphasis on implementing structural reforms is the only way to boost growth and job creation."Structural reforms are essential to turn today's policy-driven recovery into self-sustained growth. It can also make significant contributions to global rebalancing and fiscal consolidation. New policy initiatives are essential to ensure that the recovery creates jobs, particularly for the young."
  • Dette: l'OCDE juge erroné de comparer Espagne et Portugal - AFP
    07/04/2011 - Le secrétaire général de l'OCDE, Angel Gurria, a jugé jeudi "complètement erroné" de comparer les situations budgétaires de l'Espagne et du Portugal, soulignant que l'Espagne "ne connaîtrait pas les mêmes problèmes" que le Portugal. "L'Espagne ne connaîtra pas les mêmes problèmes que ceux que le Portugal a connu", a souligné le dirigeant de l'OCDE, lors d'une conférence de presse à Budapest.
  • OECD wants emphasis on short term help for Portugal - Reuters
    07/04/2011 - Measures taken by Portugal to address its fiscal woes were not given enough time to show results and emphasis should now be placed on solving short term liquidity problems, OECD head Angel Gurria said on Thursday. Gurria said steps announced by Portugal, including freezing the number of public servants and wages, as well as other cuts in spending could not produce results so swiftly and there was a risk of a liquidity problem turning into a solvency challenge.
  • Mejores políticas para el desarrollo de Chile by Angel Gurria - La Tercera
    05/04/2011 - CHILE INGRESÓ a la Ocde en mayo de 2010, tras dos decenios de transformaciones económicas y sociales y coincidiendo con el 50 aniversario de nuestra organización. Los países de la Ocde pueden aprender de la experiencia chilena y, a la vez, Chile se beneficiará de los años de análisis e identificación de buenas políticas para mejorar la vida de los ciudadanos.
  • Angel Gurría: “La energía nuclear es parte de la solución para alcanzar el desarrollo” - Diario Financiero
    05/04/2011 - El secretario general de la OCDE, Angel Gurría, realizó un pormenorizado balance del desempeño de Chile a un poco más de un año de la incorporación formal de nuestro país al organismo internacional. Junto con destacar la positiva evolución que ha tenido Chile en el cumplimiento de las propuestas, Gurría señaló que ante la crisis nuclear que vive Japón es necesario realizar un análisis profundo, entregar soluciones para que el desarrollo de la energía nuclear no se vea postergado, dado que esta tecnología es parte de la solución.
  • Portugal bailout not inevitable-OECD head - Reuters
    24/03/11 - Angel Gurria, the secretary-general of the OECD, expressed frustration that political turmoil in Portugal had led to what he called a partly "self-inflicted injury," and said troubles there would pile pressure on other vulnerable euro zone countries."If you're giving signs of distress, the markets pick those up immediately. The markets are like heat-seeking missiles -- they're weakness-seeking missiles -- and wherever they see vulnerability, they focus" ...
  • OECD's Gurria worried about anti-nuclear backlash - Reuters
    17/03/2011 - The head of the OECD said on Thursday he was concerned that the nuclear crisis in Japan after last week's earthquake could lead to an unmerited global backlash against nuclear power.
  • OECD chief says economic restructuring is China’s biggest challenge - Xinhua
    11/03/2011 - Economic restructuring is the greatest task that needs to be handled for China's future development, says Angel Gurria, chief of the OECD. China's further progress is a function of many important factors, but if picking one out of all, "I would say the greatest one is changing the structure of the economy," he told Xinhua in a recent interview at OECD headquarters in Paris.
  • Q&A: Angel Gurria, Secretary General, OECD - Business Standard
    07/03/2011 - Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee listed India’s membership of the Global Forum of Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, an initiative of the Paris-based OECD, in his Budget speech as the one way to track black money. OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria was in India recently and met Mukherjee, among others. He tells Indivjal Dhasmana the forum will create peer pressure on non-cooperative jurisdictions.
  • Will be 'honoured' to welcome India as OECD member: Gurria - Economic Times
    06/03/2011 - Appreciating the country's overall efforts, OECD chief Angel Gurria has said the 34-nation grouping would be "very honoured" to welcome India as a member. "We want to work closer with Brazil, India, Indonesia , China and South Africa (BIICS). If any of them decides that they want to join the OECD, we would be very honoured to start the process," OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria told PTI in an interview.
  • Banks facing over-regulation, says OECD head - AFP
    04/03/2011 - Banks face a period of over-regulation caused by public outrage over lax supervision that led to the global financial crisis, OECD chief Jose Angel Gurría said on Friday. Ever since the 2007-2008 slump, regulators worldwide have moved to strengthen supervision of large banks and other financial institutions. "We blew it so badly that right now there is a pendular movement toward too much regulation"...
  • Strengthen the world economy: let's do Doha!, by Angel Gurria - Times Live
    27/02/2011 - After 10 years of discussions, there are basically two options if we are to reach an agreement.  The first is to conclude the best deal possible in the areas of agricultural and non-agricultural goods. This is where the most progress has been made and where agreement is in sight.  The second option is to try to go further and also liberalise trade in services.
  • Amnesty schemes helping governments recover taxes: interview with Angel Gurría - Economic Times
    24/02/2011 - Black money is now on the global center stage. Governments worldwide are seized of the threat such flows have on revenues. They have signed as many as 600 tax information exchange agreements. Peer reviews are being conducted among members of the Global Forum for Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes. This initiative is changing attitudes in the financial sector. Excerpts from an interview with Angel Gurria...
  • OECD's Gurria suggests greater role for the yuan - China Daily
    18/02/2011 - The head of the OECD has "warmly welcomed" moves to internationalize the Chinese currency.
    However, Jose Angel Gurria has also ruled out the possibility that the appreciation of the renminbi, also known as the yuan, will reduce the trade imbalance between China and the United States.
  • ‘Turkey seen as economically comfortable’ - Todays Zaman
    29/01/2011 - OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría touched upon the negative effects of rising debt stocks on OECD countries during a meeting in Davos on Thursday. When he noticed Babacan, the OECD secretary-general said Turkey’s economic situation is far better than that of other countries. “This is why Babacan is sitting comfortably,” Gurría added.
  • OECD welcomes Spain's pension reform - Eastday
    28/01/2011 - The OECD welcomed on Friday Spain's pension reform plan to extend retirement age. "The reform is an important step toward improving long-term sustainability of public spending,"OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria said in a statement posted on the website of the Paris- based agency.
  • Rating agencies are making things worse, says Angel Gurría - Bloomberg
    27/01/2011 - Angel Gurría, secretary general of the OECD, said the actions of rating agencies “are making things worse, they’re not helping.” “The rating agencies are famous for not having their timing very well. They don’t act in a preventative way, they just make the hole deeper,” Gurría said in an interview today with Bloomberg at the WEF meeting in Davos.
  • Italy’s outlook ‘stable’ despite turbulence, says the OECD - AGI
    27/01/2011 - OECD secretary general Gurría denies any prospect of Italy being dragged into the Eurozone debt speculation spiral. According to Angel Gurría, Italy benefits by "a stable economic policy", despite domestic "political turbulence", and "high levels" of private savings. Speaking at the WEF in Davos, Gurría went on to say that Italy "has high levels of [private] savings to offset its [public] debt."
  • No need to worry over Spain and Portugal, says OECD - Reuters
    27/01/2011 - Spain and Portugal are unlikely to need to restructure their debt and a plan to stabilise Spain's savings banks is likely to work, the head of the OECD said on Thursday. "One country may need restructuring, that is Greece. I'm not worried about Spain and Portugal; they are treated unfairly by the markets," Gurría told Reuters Insider television on the sidelines of the annual World Economic Forum meetings.
  • OECD's Gurria says UK inflation under control - Reuters
    26/01/2011 - OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria urged the British government on Wednesday to stick to its deficit-cutting plans and said he believed inflation in Britain was under control. Britain's coalition government should not think again about the speed of deficit cuts despite a shock contraction of the economy in the fourth quarter of last year, Gurria said.
  • Davos WEF 2011: OECD Secretary-General insists UK should press on with deficit cuts- Daily Telegraph
    26/01/2011 - Angel Gurria, OECD Secretary-General insisted that the UK government should press ahead with deficit cuts.  "They should stay the course. The package was an ambitious, far-reaching package. It cleared the markets in terms of its credibility. It's what was necessary. The fiscal situation in the UK absolutely requires this approach," he said in an interview with the BBC at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos.
  • Sweden 'strong like Pippi Longstocking': OECD - The Local
    20/01/2011 - "The Swedish economy is strong like Pippi Longstocking," OECD secretary general José Ángel Gurría said. The organisation forecast continued strong Swedish growth of 3.9 percent this year and 3.4 percent in 2012. Despite the impressive numbers, Ángel Gurría warned that a number of elements were out of the country's hands.
  • La postcrisis será a ‘cuchillada limpia’- CNN Expansion
    10/01/2011 - México tiene que hacer las reformas estructurales y mantener una productividad suficiente para competir con el exterior, porque la época de la postcrisis será a ‘cuchillada limpia' y los países tratarán de recuperar el terreno perdido, recomienda el secretario general de la OCDE, José Ángel Gurría Treviño.
  • México, sin competitividad y con alto desempleo: OCDE - El Universal
    08/01/2011 - l secretario general de la Organización para la OCDE, José Ángel Gurría, advirtió que en México hay un rezago en la competitividad, una débil distribución del ingreso y altas tasas de desempleo. Aseguró que hay la posibilidad de tener otro México, con un mejor sistema educativo, menor desigualdad y un buen sistema de justicia.  
  • OCDE convoca a aprovechar crecimiento en AL - El Universal
    03/12/2010 - El secretario general de la OCDE, José Ángel Gurría, llamó hoy aquí a América Latina a aprovechar su buen desempeño económico para institucionalizar las buenas prácticas fiscales y consolidar a su clase media.  Al intervenir en la XX Cumbre Iberoamericana, que se desarrolla en esta ciudad argentina, Gurría dijo que Latinoamérica 'ha logrado resistir a la crisis económica y financiera mundial con mayor éxito que muchas otras regiones del mundo'.
  • G20 : le SG de l'OCDE optimiste des progrès sous la présidence française - Xinhua
    02/12/2010 - Le secrétaire général de l'OCDE, Angel Gurria, a exprimé mercredi son optimisme que le G20 fera des progrès sous la présidence de la France. "Les Français ont un programme très ambitieux vis-à-vis des questions sur lesquelles le consensus n'est pas là, du moins pas encore là. Je cite, par exemple, la réforme du système monétaire international, ou la volatilité des prix des matières premières", a observé M. Gurria dans une interview écrite à Xinhua.
  • Euro alive and kicking, eurozone to grow: OECD - AFP
    25/11/2010 - The eurozone has a long and productive future ahead of it, the head of the OECD said Thursday in the face of mounting concern for the bloc's financial health. "The euro as a currency has a long life, it is alive, well and kicking and more countries will be joining in the future instead of leaving," Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Secretary-General Angel Gurria told journalists in Bratislava.
  • OECD’s Gurría Says Global Economy’s ‘Soft Patch’ Won’t Last Long - Business Week
    18/11/2010 - OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría said the slowing of the global economy in the months ahead won’t last. “We have a soft patch, yes, but we don’t think it’s going to last long,” Gurría said in an interview with Bloomberg television from Paris after the organization released new growth forecasts. “We’re going to recover in the second half of 2011 and have a better 2012.”
  • Indonesia is on the right track, but further reforms are needed- The Jakarta Post, Angel Gurria
    02/11/2010 - The OECD has been working with Indonesia with growing intensity in recent years. Our mission is to help countries foster international cooperation and mutual learning, identify good policy practices that can improve the functioning of their national economies and the world economy more broadly. This work is relevant to emerging and advanced economies alike. We have a lot to learn from each other.
  • Le Mexicain Angel Gurria reconduit pour cinq ans à la tête de l'OCDE - Les Echos
    30/09/2010 - ...Ancien ministre mexicain des Affaires étrangères puis des Finances, Angel Gurria est secrétaire général de l'OCDE depuis juin 2006. Son mandat actuel prend fin le 1er juin 2011, et c'est donc avec plusieurs mois d'avance qu'il a été renouvelé.
  • El mexicano Ángel Gurría renovará su mandato al frente de la OCDE - EFE
    30/09/2010 - El mexicano Ángel Gurría revalidará su mandato al frente de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico durante otros cinco años, según decidió hoy su Consejo de Gobierno.
  • OECD Secretary General Angel Guirra Visits Turkish Parliament Speaker - Turkish Weekly
    15/09/2010 - OECD Secretary General Angel Guirra, who is in Turkey for OECD's Forum on Tax Administration (FTA), paid a visit Wednesday to Turkish Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin in Ankara. Sahin who spoke during the visit said OECD was a respected organization making objective analysis, and Turkey often resorted to OECD's advise in economic issues.
  • OECD rules out double-dip recession in world economy - Reuters
    14/09/2010 - The world economic recovery is slowing down but there is no prospect of a double-dip recession in the rich world excluding Japan, the OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria said on Tuesday.
  • Universidades e innovación - El Financierocr
    06/09/2010 - De acuerdo con Ángel Gurría, secretario general de la OCDE, “el conocimiento es el principal movilizador de la economía global actual”... Las políticas de la OCDE claramente contrastan con las propuestas del Gobierno de Costa Rica para el financiamiento de la educación superior.
  • Global economy is exiting crisis: Lamy - Gulf Times
    02/09/2010 - Angel Gurria, secretary general of the OECD agreed that the world recovery is tepid, citing the weakness of employment and property markets in the US, lingering deflation concerns in Japan as well as heterogeneous growth patterns in Europe. Gurria added that the patchy nature of the global recovery meant governments have to carefully balance measures aimed at sustaining growth and steps to cut public deficits.
  • Market patience with UK, U.S. could change-OECD chief - Reuters
    15/07/2010 - Markets are relatively patient about the budget-cutting efforts of Britain, the United States, Germany and Japan, but that could change if governments are slow to act, OECD chief Angel Gurria said on Thursday. Asked why the British government was still able to borrow at a fairly low rate, despite a record peacetime budget deficit, Gurria said: "We don't want ... the advantage the UK has today to turn into a problem because it is borrowing too much or because its borrowing is considered unsustainable."
  • G20: la croissance des pays émergents, une opportunité pour les pays riches - Le Point
    25/06/2010 - Le centre de gravité économique du monde a changé, souligne le secrétaire général de l'OCDE, Angel Gurria, dans un communiqué.La croissance mondiale de la dernière décennie a ainsi été principalement tirée par les pays en développement, non par les pays riches, indique-t-il.
  • Q&A with Angel Gurría - Financial Post
    11/06/2010 - Angel Gurría is never short of words, or emotion. The secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development will talk about almost anything economic-related, and do it with a passion that’s to be expected from a native of Mexico. Mr. Gurría, a former finance and foreign affairs minister in Mexico, has been head of the Paris think-tank since 2006, and has tried to provide a voice of reason during the economic crisis.
  • Fossil-Fuel Aid Cuts Would Lower CO2 Output 10%, OECD Says - Business Week
    09/06/2010 - “Many governments are giving subsidies to fossil fuel production and consumption that encourage greenhouse gas emissions,” said Angel Gurria, OECD Secretary-General. “This is a wasteful use of scarce budget resources.”
  • Quand BP fait changer les mentalités - La Presse Affaires
    09/06/2010 - «La croissance verte sera un dérivé de l'innovation», a-t-il dit, révélant que l'OCDE planche justement sur une stratégie concernant l'économie verte.M. Gurria craint comme la peste que les gouvernements endettés ne choisissent de retirer leur soutien à l'innovation pour retrouver l'équilibre budgétaire. «Ce serait une erreur, a-t-il averti. Ces coupes apportaient un soulagement fiscal à court terme, mais si elles sont faites au mauvais endroit, elles nuiront à la croissance à long terme.»
  • G-20 Countries Out of Public Money for Stimulus, Gurria Says - Business Week
    08/06/2010 - “Countries need flexibility in labor markets, exchange rates; they need structural adjustment policies like competition, education, innovation,” Gurria, secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, said in an interview in Montreal today. “These are the things that are going to make the recovery hold, because you can’t hold it up with public money any more. It’s gone.”
  • OECD Urges Korea to Raise Key Interest Rates - The Chosun Ilbo
    07/06/2010 - Visiting Busan for a meeting of the finance ministers and governors of central banks of the G20 countries held last week, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria said in an interview with Yonhap News that Korea's rapid recovery is attributed to growing exports fueled in part by the weak Korean won and strong demand from China.
  • Trichet (BCE) et Gurria (OCDE) volent au secours de l'euro - Le Parisien
    22/05/2010 - ...Même son de cloche à l'Organisation de coopération et développement économiques (OCDE): "L'euro est une construction formidable, il va perdurer, et encore plus de pays vont adopter la monnaie unique", a déclaré M. Gurria à l'édition en ligne du magazine Der Spiegel."Les baisses de cours reposent sur des turbulences de court terme. Elles ne justifient pas de douter de l'existence de l'ensemble de la monnaie", a-t-il ajouté, affirmant même que "la zone euro est le bloc économique le plus fort du monde, dans lequel la monnaie a oeuvré des années durant à la stabilité des prix".
  • L'OCDE engage la France à réformer et redresser ses finances publiques - La Tribune
    21/05/2010 - "La France est bien placée pour assurer une reprise solide suite à la crise économique, à condition qu'elle redresse ses finances publiques en opérant des coupes dans les dépenses et en réformant son système de retraites", juge le secrétaire général de l'OCDE, Angel Gurria, qui présentait ce vendredi un rapport sur l'économie française devant la Commission Attali pour la libéralisation de la croissance."Pour utiliser les ressources de main d'œuvre de façon plus efficace, le coût du travail doit être réduit, et les taux d'emploi parmi les travailleurs âgés et les jeunes peu qualifiés, doivent être accrus" estime encore Angel Gurria.
  • L'OCDE conseille à la France d'augmenter les impôts - L'Express
    21/05/2010 - L'OCDE évoque ainsi "l'accroissement des prélèvements sur la propriété, sur les biens et services qui bénéficient de taux réduits de TVA, et les émissions de carbone". Selon l'organisation qui réunit les principaux pays riches de la planète, ces mesures auraient un impact "moins fort" sur la croissance économique. Or, insiste Angel Gurria, "les mesures pour réduire le déficit public en France devront être prises avec précaution, compte tenu de la fragilité de l'économie globale".
  • No Europe policy rate change seen soon -OECD chief - Reuters
    19/05/2010 - The head of the OECD said on Wednesday he expected no change before at least end 2010 or early 2011 in accommodative European policy interest rates. "I don't see it before the end of this year, beginning of next year"...
  • Barroso Urges Budget Cuts; Gurria Hails Size of Aid - Business Week
    11/05/2010 - Gurria praised the package, which also includes the purchase of government bonds by the European Central Bank. The commission, the 27-nation EU’s executive arm, helped draft the package of measures, which Gurria called “the right size.” “They decided to make it big,” he said. “Size counts. It’s also a very well structured package in the sense that it is liquidity with some conditionality, but also liquidity for the financial system.”
  • OECD chief sees no ECB rush to change rates - Reuters
    11/05/2010 - The European Central Bank has done what is to be expected of it in the face of an "emergency situation" for the euro zone economy and is unlikely to rush into interest rate changes, OECD chief Angel Gurria said on Tuesday.
  • OCDE: le plan de soutien européen est très positif –Gurria – Dow Jones
    10/05/2010 - Le plan de sauvetage de 750 milliards d'euros de la zone euro est très positif et revient à dire que l'Europe fera "tout ce qu'il faudra", a estimé lundi Angel Gurria, secrétaire général de l'Organisation pour la coopération et le développement économiques. "Cela démontre une volonté politique. Cela démontre également l'existence de moyens financiers, juridiques et institutionnels. Et de grande ampleur qui plus est", a déclaré A.Gurria, en marge d'un événement à Paris.
  • Italy Needs to Increase Productivity to Fuel Growth, OECD Says - Business Week
    04/05/2010 - Easing regulation on the electricity and gas industries and on retail and professional services could boost productivity in Italy by 14 percent over 10 years, the OECD said. “The Italian government’s commitment to reform has helped secure the good results achieved to date,” OECD Secretary- General Angel Gurria said at the presentation of a report in Rome today. “Further reforms are needed both to strengthen Italy’s short-term recovery from the crisis and long-term sustainable growth.”
  • Greece Turning Viral Sparks Search for EU Solutions – Bloomberg
    29/04/2010 - “This is like Ebola,” Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Secretary General Gurria told Bloomberg Television yesterday. “It’s threatening the stability of the financial system.” The World Health Organization calls Ebola “one of the most virulent viral diseases known to humankind.”
  • La UE y el FMI negocian para cerrar la ayuda a Grecia - El Pais
    29/04/2010 - Los líderes europeos han multiplicado sus manifestaciones de apoyo al Gobierno de Atenas...Sin embargo, las críticas a las instituciones por la lentitud en el apoyo a Grecia son cada vez más explícitas. Ángel Gurría, secretario general de la OCDE, manifestó ayer la UE debía haberse decidido "hace dos o tres meses".
  • Experts call for hike in global water price - Guardian
    27/04/2010 - World Bank and OECD say water is a finite resource that must be valued at a higher price in order to repair old supply systems and build new ones... The OECD, which represents the world's major economies, issued three water reports calling for prices to rise. "Putting a price on water will make us aware of the scarcity and make us take better care of it," said Angel Gurría, the OECD secretary-general.
  • OECD's Gurria Says 'Serious Risk' Recovery Won't Generate Jobs - BusinessWeek
    20/04/2010 - "The recovery is under way, but it will not be strong enough to bring the millions of new unemployed back to work," Gurria told Group of 20 labor ministers in Washington today, according to a statement from the Paris-based organization. "The short-term labor-market outlook is not rosy."
  • Gurria (OCDE) plus optimiste sur les perspectives économiques - Reuters
    06/04/2010 - Les perspectives concernant l'économie mondiale se sont améliorées, a estimé mardi le secrétaire général de l'OCDE Angel Gurria. "Je crois aujourd'hui que nous sommes prêts à voir les choses avec davantage d'optimisme, mais il s'agit d'une reprise à trois vitesses", a-t-il déclaré lors d'une conférence de presse à Prague.
  • Gurría: el apoyo del FMI y la UE sería la mejor ayuda para Grecia - La Jornada
    22/03/2010 - Un apoyo combinado del FMI y la UE para Grecia debería ser la mejor forma de ayudar al sobrendeudado país a resolver su crisis crediticia, opinó el secretario general de la OCDE, José Angel Gurría. Grecia, que paga casi el doble de lo que destina Alemania para refinanciar su deuda, presiona por un paquete de apoyo de sus pares de la UE para ayudar a reducir sus costos.
  • The Global Economy: Light at the End of the Tunnel? - Angel Gurria, The Globalist
    18/03/2010 - The current financial crisis stands out for the strength of many emerging market economies, in contrast to persistent weakness in the “advanced” countries. OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría argues that, given this new balance of economic power, the time has come to pursue a model investment treaty.
  • The global economy – is there light at the end of the tunnel? - Michael Roberts, Balkans
    15/03/2010 - Secretary General of the OECD, Angel Gurria delivered a speech at the USCIB Global Investment Conference in Washington. In his speech he stated "We are still facing very difficult times. The financial crisis that erupted in September of 2008 plunged the global economy into its most severe economic crisis in the post-war period.
  • OCDE pide analizar subsidios por crisis - José Arteaga, El Universal
    20/02/2010 - El secretario general de la OCDE, José Ángel Gurría Treviño, demandó analizar la política de subsidios que aplican los países miembros.“Es necesario que examinemos el papel y efecto de la política de subsidios en tiempos de la crisis”, expuso ayer el funcionario internacional.
  • Gurria Endorses `Clear Separation' of Banking Activities - Bloomberg
    29/01/2010 - Angel Gurria, secretary general of the OECD, talks with Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua and Andrea Catherwood about financial regulation and risks to the global economy. They speak at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
  • Chilean president signs document for OECD membership – China.com
    11/01/2010 – President Michelle Bachelet on Monday signed a document for Chile's membership of the OECD. The document still needs the ratification of the National Congress. With parliamentary approval, Chile will become the OECD's first member in South America.
  • Chile y la OCDE – Angel Gurría, El País
    11/01/2010 – …Chile, con una economía que ha crecido en más de un 5% anual durante los últimos 20 años, es un ejemplo para América Latina. Ha avanzado en la reducción de la pobreza. Ha sabido reformar su sistema de pensiones, dotándose de un sistema privado que sirve como modelo para muchos otros países.
  • Hoy se concreta el ingreso de Chile a la OCDE – El Paradiario 14
    11/01/2010 – En el Palacio de la Moneda la Presidenta Michelle Bachelet, junto al secretario general de la entidad, el economista mexicano Angel Gurría, suscribirán el ingreso de nuestro país al llamado "club de los naciones ricas".
  • Chile’s Accession to OECD a Major Milestone – Angel Gurría, Global Perspectives
    11/01/2010 – …Chile has worked hard to join the OECD. In doing so, it joins an organization whose members work together to find solutions to global problems, from economic policy to climate change. As a club of countries committed to championing the highest standards in all areas of public policy, our aim is to provide the best possible education, healthcare and employment opportunities for our citizens and to help other countries do the same.
  • Chile y la OCDE – Angel Gurría, El Mercurio
    10/01/2010 – Este es un momento trascendental para Chile y para la OCDE. Para Chile marca el reconocimiento de casi dos décadas de reforma democrática y políticas económicas sólidas. Para la OCDE, es un hito en su misión de construir una economía global más fuerte, más sana y más justa.
  • The end of corruption ? – Michael R. Czinkota, The Korea Times
    20/12/2009 – I recently attended a breakfast meeting with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Angel Gurria… The issue of bribery has taken on new momentum. Thirty-eight countries, (eight more than its membership of 30 nations) are now subscribing to the OECD rules which prohibit the bribery of public officials, among them South Korea, Japan, Mexico, South Africa and Argentina.
  • Dubai woes signal ‘fragile’ recovery, OECD chief – Gulf Times
    01/12/2009 – The financial-market turmoil triggered by the announcement that Dubai World may delay payments on $59bn of debt is a reminder of how fragile the economic recovery is, said Angel Gurria, secretary general of the OECD.
  • OECD chief upbeat about Korea's economy – Korea Herald
    27/10/2009 – Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, said yesterday he was optimistic about the future direction of the Korean economy.
  • Meeting challenges of globalized financial markets: the tax dimension – Angel Gurria, China Daily
    26/10/2009 – As countries start to come through the global economic crisis, their governments are looking more and more to tax systems to help secure long-term financial stability. Their determination to shore up their revenues by closing off loopholes for tax evaders was given a huge boost by G20 leaders at Pittsburgh last month with the announcement of plans to monitor the clean-up of secretive tax havens.
  • OECD chief urges start to fiscal consolidation – Forbes
    25/10/2009 – China and other countries need to start looking at how they will bring down budget deficits bloated by spending sprees to prop up their economies, the head of the OECD said on Monday.
  • The end of the tax-haven era – Angel Gurria, The Guardian.co.uk
    31/08/2009 – A quiet revolution is under way in international governance. Building on more than a decade of work at the OECD, governments are finally getting to grips with one of the biggest threats to fair and effective public financing.
  • Need to look well ahead – Angel Gurria, The Washington Times
    24/08/2009 – ...The need for fiscal consolidations prompted by massive annual deficits and growing levels of debt is evident in many member countries of the OECD in addition to the United States. In the United Kingdom, for example, declining tax receipts have forced government borrowing to its highest level for the month of July since records began.
  • Muslim Europe: the demographic time bomb transforming our continent - Adrian Michaels, Daily Telegraph
    08/08/2009 - ...Angel Gurría, the OECD secretary-general, said in June: "Migration is not a tap that can be turned on and off at will. We need fair and effective migration and integration policies; policies that work and adjust to both good economic times and bad ones."
  • Angel Gurria Sees Improvement in Trade Financing - Alan M. Field, The Journal of Commerce Online
    06/07/2009  - Although trade financing is becoming easier for exporters to access, many major transactions are still frozen because of financing trouble, said Angel Gurria, secretary general of the OECD on Monday. Gurria said trade finance had gone "from being closed at the beginning of the year to now being selectively more open."
  • Setting standards and building confidence - Angel Gurría, New Europe
    21/06/2009 - First signs that the worst of the economic crisis may be behind us are bringing relief after months of gloom. When leaders of government, international organisations, business and civil society gather for the OECD’s annual summit meetings in Paris next week, however, one question will dominate the agenda: Is enough being done to restore confidence and long-term growth and break the grip of the worst global crisis of our times?
  • Tax Fairness and the Developing World - Angel Gurría, The Globalist
    01/05/2009 - With aid budgets under pressure amid the global economic crisis, governments are looking to tax systems as a new frontier for development policies. OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría explains why a solid tax base is critical for long-term financial stability.
  • "Die Schweiz verdient Respekt" - Neue Zürcher Zeitung
    19/04/2009 - Interview mit OECD-Generalsekretär Angel Gurría zum Einlenken beim Bankgeheimnis.
  • Paradis fiscaux : restaurer la confiance - Angel Gurría, Le Figaro
    06/04/2009 - ...En s'appuyant sur l'expertise développée à l'OCDE depuis près de quinze ans, les dirigeants du G20 ont exprimé avec fermeté leur souhait de voir la fin des paradis fiscaux et du secret bancaire, indiquant les mesures de rétorsion qu'ils envisageaient de prendre contre les juridictions qui resteraient non coopératives.
  • Angel Gurría : "La transparence fiscale finira par s'appliquer partout" - Les Echos
    06/04/2009 - ...Dans un entretien aux « Echos », le secrétaire général de l'OCDE, Angel Gurria, se justifie sur les critères de classement des pays sur liste blanche, grise ou noire, en soulignant qu'ils n'ont rien d'arbitraire.
  • Shine a light on these dark recesses - The Independent
    04/04/2009 - Angel Gurria, the Secretary General of the OECD, sounded like someone who could not believe his luck yesterday. Asked about the unprecedented attention given by G20 leaders in London to tax havens, Mr Gurria remarked: "We've had more progress in the past two weeks on this matter than we've had in the past 10 or 12 years."
  • Cleaning up the world economy, by Angel Gurría The Guardian
    31/03/2009 - The G20 is achieving progress on international tax haven abuse – but there is still a long way to go... The foundations for these developments were laid by the OECD in 2000, through a global forum in which OECD and non-OECD countries worked together to draw up agreed principles of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes.
  • Ángel Gurría: "Todas las locomotoras económicas están en el taller de reparaciones" - El Pais
    02/03/2009 - Hace unos días, Ángel Gurría (México, 1950) dio una alegría al vicepresidente económico, Pedro Solbes. Viajó a Madrid para presentar un informe de la OCDE que sitúa a España como el país que más ha progresado en la liberalización de su economía. El secretario general de la OCDE defiende la capacidad de recuperación de España. Y está metido de lleno en la reconstrucción de un sistema de controles del mercado que la crisis ha dejado en evidencia.
  • Evasione, riciclaggio, corruzione i centri off-shore gonfiano la crisi - Luca Iezzi, La Repubblica
    23/02/2009 - "Nel momento in cui i governi stanno cercando di forgiare un sistema finanziario mondiale più stabile, la lotta ai paradisi fiscali è uno dei temi che vanno affrontati con urgenza". Le parole del segretario generale dell'Ocse, Angel Gurria, dell'ottobre scorso, sono profetiche.
  • L’Ocse avverte: per risolvere la crisi non serve la «politica del rubamazzo» - Il Giornale
    22/02/2009 - José Angel Gurria, segretario generale dell’Ocse dal 2006, è un vigoroso avversario delle tentazioni protezionistiche che stanno emergendo nel mondo in questo momento di grave crisi.
  • OECD Encourages Competition To Speed Recovery - Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com
    22/02/2009 - Governments must resist protectionism and keep markets open to competition as they seek ways to get their economies going again, according to OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría. “We must ensure that today’s policies to manage the crisis will not be the source of tomorrow’s problems,” Mr. Gurría said in his opening address at the OECD Global Forum on Competition in Paris
  • Top Economist: Govt Plans Right - Sky News
    11/02/2009 - One of the world's top economists has told Sky News that the Government is right to pour tens of billions of pounds into the economy.
  • OECD's Gurria: We must fight protectionism - Forbes
    09/02/2009 - Reuters - ...When asked to comment on a recent increase in protectionist remarks by global leaders, OECD General Secretary Angel Gurria told a conference in Slovakia: 'It is a natural reflex, but it is not one that leads to positive results'.
  • Economists express doubts over Brown's ring-rencing plan for toxic debts in British banks - Gary Duncan and Gráinne Gilmore, The Times
    02/02/2009 - ...Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD, said that bad bank schemes were the least worst option. The absence of viable alternatives meant that there was no choice.
  • "Die Wirtschaftskrise könnte noch vier Jahre dauern" - Andre Exner, Wirtschaftsblatt
    02/02/2009 - ..."Damit tauscht man Cash gegen Trash", sagte Nobelpreisträger Joseph Stiglitz. "Dem schlechten Geld wirft man also gutes nach und der Steuerzahler bezahlt für die jahrelange übertrieben lockere Kreditpolitik der Banken." Dem widersprach Mexikos Ex-Finanzminister Angel Gurria, Generalsekretär der OECD: "Sicher bringt das moralisch- ethische Probeme, aber irgendwer muß die Verluste tragen", sagte er. "Wir müssen der Wirtschaft einen wichtigen Impuls geben."
  • Stiglitz Criticizes Bad Bank Plan as Swapping ‘Cash for Trash’ - Simon Kennedy, Bloomberg
    01/02/2009 - ...Stiglitz drew criticism from panel participant Angel Gurria, head of the OECD, who says a bad bank is necessary for lending to resume. “I agree about the moral, ethical fallout, but you’ve got to face the music and someone has to take the loss,” said Gurria, Mexico’s former finance minister. “It’s the only way to jumpstart the economy.”
  • OECD urges tough action on debt cuts - Sam Fleming, Daily Mail
    29/01/2009 - ...Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Paris-based watchdog, said the UK and other Western powers must offer a 'fully developed road map' showing how they will use higher taxes or lower spending to pull public borrowing to sustainable levels.
  • Britain risks gilts strike, OECD warns - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Daily Telegraph
    28/01/2009 - “The markets are going to set the limit to all this borrowing, and I’m afraid they’re not going to wait a long time,” said Angel Gurria, the OECD’s secretary-general.
  • OECD sees no deflation, banks cleaned up this year - Forbes
    28/01/2009 - Reuters -'The OECD does not see deflation on the radar, at least for the time being in the OECD group of countries,' OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria told Reuters at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
  • WTO chief Pascal Lamy: rich countries’ bailouts could harm developing states - Gráinne Gilmore, The Times
    28/01/2009 - Mr Lamy’s warnings were echoed by Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of the OECD, who said that governments should not be lured into protectionism in an attempt to boost economic activity.
  • OECD aims to fight "dark sides" of globalisation - Reuters
    27/01/2009 - The OECD aims to fight the "dark sides" of globalization, such as corruption and tax evasion, as world leaders focus on stabilizing their crisis-hit financial systems, the head of the Paris-based economics forum said on Tuesday.
  • At Davos, crisis culls the guest list - Nelson D. Schwartz, International Herald Tribune
    25/01/2009 - To Angel Gurría, secretary general of the OECD, which does research for the richest industrial democracies, "Davos is reflecting what's happened in real life: the main protagonists and the ones setting the agenda are the political leaders."
  • OECD: World Finance Needs A New Boss - Javier Espinoza, Forbes
    14/01/2009 - ...“There is the need to have a greater coordination among the regulators, the supervisors and the policy authorities and that can be achieved by having a single regulator or a system in place,” Secretary General Angel Gurria of the OECD told Forbes on Wednesday...
  • OECD warns global jobless to rise by 25 million - Edmund Conway, Daily Telegraph
    23/12/2008 - Angel Gurria, who heads up the Paris-based institution, also blamed "a truly scandalous failure" of regulatory supervision for the crisis and urged European countries to spend more Keynesian-style plans to boost their economies.
  • Ángel Gurría: "Die Doha-Konferenz ist eine riesige Chance" - Deutsche Welle
    30/11/2008 - Ángel Gurría kennt sich mit Krisen aus. In den 1990er-Jahren, zur Zeit der mexikanischen Wirtschaftskrise, war er erst Außenminister, dann Finanzminister Mexikos.
  • The global tax dodgers - Angel Gurría, The Guardian
    27/11/2008 - The global economic slowdown will hit the poorest nations hardest. Demand for their exports is falling. Prices of raw materials are plunging. Flows of money from migrant workers to families back home will shrink as unemployment rises elsewhere. In these circumstances it is more important than ever that rich countries deliver on aid promises. That is why the OECD has called on the world's main donors to join an Aid Pledge to stick by their commitments.
  • OECD backs export credit support - Naomi Mapstone, Financial Times
    24/11/2008 - ...Angel Gurría, secretary general of the OECD, said in an interview with the Financial Times that guaranteed export credit was “absolutely critical” to “oil the wheels” of global finance.
  • OECD Secretary-General highlights the role of the ILO and the OECD in the current economic and social crisis - ILO News
    17/11/2008 - The Secretary-General of the OECD Angel Gurría today made an urgent call for increased collaboration between the OECD and the ILO in response to the global financial crisis.
  • Crisis deals under pressure, economies slide - Forbes
    12/11/2008 - ...The head of the OECD, Angel Gurria, said there was room for further interest rate cuts in the stagnating euro zone.
  • The Global Economy and OECD: Distilling Lessons from a Financial Crisis - Angel Gurría, Council of Europe
    01/10/2008 - ...I would like now to share with you a few brush-strokes on the OECD’s perspective of the global economy in the context of the current financial crisis...
  • OECD supports US financial rescue plan, sees markets recovering - The Economic Times
    23/09/2008 - ...Gurria said: "Such a recovery should continue as the plan's operational, fiscal, and legal details are worked out in ongoing negotiations between the US government and Congress and are enacted as federal law."
  • Global meltdown continues - Jill Treanor and Larry Elliott David Teather, The Guardian
    16/09/2008 - ...Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the OECD, said the West's leading economic think tank said the turmoil in the markets had put back recovery by a year. "It has turned into a much bigger, more widespread and more threatening situation," Gurria said in an interview with the Guardian.
  • Development: Unravelling the knots of tied aid - Interview with Angel Gurria - IPS Terraviva
    15/09/2008 - The forum on aid effectiveness in Accra has delivered "profound" decisions to change the way aid is structured, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria told IPS in an interview.
  • España en la nueva OCDE - Ángel Gurría, El Pais
    08/09/2008 - ...La importancia que España le otorga a la OCDE, y su propia contribución a la resolución de los desafíos globales son para nosotros motivo de gran satisfacción y orgullo.
  • Inaugurará Gurría conferencia contra corrupción y cohecho - Cronica
    19/08/2008 - El secretario general de la OCDE, José Angel Gurría, y el titular de la Función Pública, Salvador Vega, inaugurarán la Conferencia Regional Latinoamericana: Compromiso y Cooperación en la Lucha Contra la Corrupción y el Cohecho Internacional 2008. La conferencia, convocada por el gobierno de México y la OCDE con la colaboración del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) y la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), se llevará a cabo el 29 y 30 de septiembre en la cancillería.
  • OECD secretary-general talks about credit crunch - Richard Lindell, ABC.net
    08/08/2008 - Estimates of total losses from the credit crunch seem to grow daily.... Estimates by the IMF and the OECD are still in the hundreds of billions of dollars, but both organisations have been criticised for failing to predict how badly the credit squeeze would hurt the real economy 12 months ago. The secretary-general of the OECD, Angel Gurria visiting Australia spoke to Richard Lindell... I think we have to put these figures in context because they get out of hand and then they start being bandied around and they create all sorts of undesirable effects.  
  • Angel of OECD approves bank rescue - Marc Moncrief, The Age
    06/08/2008 - The world's lenders would lose up to $4 trillion if central banks were not moving to help them through the US subprime crisis, according to one of the world's foremost economic diplomats. Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, told BusinessDay that the OECD estimated banks would have lost $400 billion in hard capital during the crisis. Protecting the banking system from the implications of that loss, he said, was a more pressing matter — for now — than apportioning blame.
  • OECD chief sings the blues - Brian Fallow, The New Zealand Herald
    31/07/2008 - The collapse of world trade talks in Geneva is disappointing, and does not augur well for the world's ability to meet the challenge of a climate change treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, OECD secretary-general Angel Gurria says.
  • OECD seeks more active dialogue with Indonesia - Angel Gurria, The Jakarta Post
    25/07/2008 - The OECD is publishing its first comprehensive Economic Assessment of Indonesia. This initiative is important because it is linked to our efforts to strengthen cooperation with a number of important non-member countries.
  • Indonesia's Growth `Insufficient' to Reduce Poverty - Arijit Ghosh, Bloomberg
    24/07/2008 - ...Accelerating inflation is also a threat for Indonesia, Angel Gurria, secretary general of the OECD, said at a briefing in Jakarta today. (OECD report)
  • OECD urges anti-poverty reform on Jakarta - Lisa Murray, Financial Times
    24/07/2008 - ...Mr Gurría was in Jakarta to release the OECD’s first comprehensive study of the Indonesian economy. Its report recommended Indonesia introduce a mechanism linking increases in local fuel prices to world energy markets, with a view to obviating politically motivated adjustments and eventually wiping out all subsidies. (OECD report)
  • Germany Punishes First of Liechtenstein Tax Dodgers - Deutsche Welle
    18/07/2008 - ..."Excessive bank secrecy rules and a failure to exchange information on foreign tax evaders are relics of a different time and have no role to play in the relations between democratic societies," OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria said Tuesday in a statement.
  • Rift With Emerging Economies Grows Amid Calls to Expand G-8 - James G. Neuger, Bloomberg
    09/07/2008 - ..."Don't call it G-13, don't call it G-16,'' said Jose Angel Gurria, a Mexican who is secretary-general of the OECD in an interview. ``Just keep the quality of the dialogue."
  • The Angel watching over global finance - Nick Mathiason and Heather Stewart, The Observer
    06/07/2008 - ...Corruption, the credit crunch, protectionism, tax havens ... they're all on OECD chief Gurria's agenda.
  • Net a key productivity driver: OECD - Karen Dearne, The Australian
    01/07/2008 - Policies affecting the internet can no longer be seen as narrow sectoral telecommunications issues, according to OECD secretary general Angel Gurria.
  • OECD chief concerned at 'protectionist mood' in US Congress - The Economic Times
    19/06/2008 - ...OECD secretary-general Angel Gurria expressed concern Wednesday at a "protectionist mood" in the US Congress, saying it could threaten planned trade pacts with South Korea and other countries.
  • Future Economy Now - Angel Gurria, The Korea Times
    16/06/2008 - It is a great honor to open the OECD Ministerial meeting on the Future of theInternet Economy in the Republic of Korea, a country where Information and Communication Technologies have played a prominent role. Korea has one ofthe highest "broadband connectivity" rates in the world.
  • Environment 'more vital than economy' - Steve Schifferes, BBC News
    03/06/2008 - ...In a wide-ranging interview for BBC News, Angel Gurria said that the long-term damage that would occur if the world did nothing about greenhouse gases would far outweigh the short-term problems of the credit crunch.
  • Gurria does not expect any dramatic reduction in oil - Forbes
    03/06/2008 - ...'We are not envisaging a very dramatic reduction. We may see some easing but ... there are many uncertainties to do with the supply side,' OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria told journalists.
  • Angel Gurria - Trade agreement needed now - International Herald Tribune
    26/04/2008 - Governments around the world face weakening economies and soaring food prices. Amid the hand-wringing, an important and immediate step they can take to help would be to agree on a new multilateral trade deal...
  • Sovereign wealth funds an opportunity, not a threat - Angel Gurría, The Guardian
    09/04/2008 - Sovereign wealth funds, welcome! OECD markets are open for your investments. That's the message from OECD countries. The emergence of SWFs should be seen as an opportunity, not a threat.

 

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