OECD in the news (articles by topic) - L'OCDE dans les médias (articles par sujet)

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• 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...
• OECD chief sees crisis on markets continuing in 2008, easing at start of 2009 - Forbes
  24/04/2008 - ...The OECD expects the crisis on global financial markets to continue longer than previously expected, not easing until the beginning of 2009, its Secretary-General Angel Gurria was cited as saying in an interview with Czech daily Hospodarske Noviny.
• OECD nations pledge against discrimination of sovereign wealth funds - Forbes
  12/04/2008 - ...As members of the Paris-based OECD, the 30 countries are 'saying we are open for business,' OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria told reporters in a briefing on the sidelines of the IMF meeting.
• 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.
• Angel Gurria : "Toute la chaîne institutionnelle est remise en cause" - Christian Losson, Libération
  09/04/2008 - Ancien ministre des Finances du Mexique, Angel Gurria, 57 ans, est le secrétaire général de l’OCDE, l’organisation des trente pays les plus développés.
• China sees the world differently - Alan Wheatley, International Herald Tribune
  31/03/2008 - (Reuters) - ...The problem is that while China participates in a range of OECD activities, it is not a member. And Gurría, though suggesting that China might join other emerging economies in the OECD's Development Center, said Beijing had expressed no particular wish for full membership.
• Grim economy no reason for protectionism - OECD boss - The Guardian
  27/03/2008 - (Reuters) - Economic downturn in the United States and a global confidence crisis is no reason to restrict cross-border investment or resort to other forms of protectionism, OECD chief Angel Gurria said on Thursday.
• OECD head says favours strong ties with China - Forbes
  25/03/2008 - OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria called for greater cooperation with China, and even suggested full membership of the organisation, although he insisted talks are not ongoing.
• EU told to transform social security rules - John Thornhill and Scheherzade Daneshkhu, Financial Times
  25/03/2008 - Failure to address labour and product market reforms could hobble Europe for years to come even if the region can escape the worst of the US-led downturn, according to to Angel Gurría, secretary general of the OECD.
• OECD head says sovereign wealth curbs unneeded, no political moves seen - International Herald Tribune
  25/03/2008 - The head of the OECD said Tuesday there is no need to restrict investments by government funds so long as they are motivated by profit, not politics.
• OECD's Gurria says strength of euro poses competitive challenge for Europe - Forbes
  17/03/2008 - OECD secretary general Angel Gurria said the strength of the euro poses a competitive challenge for Europe.
• Cris d'alarme du FMI et de l'OCDE sur la crise financière - La Tribune
  17/03/2008 - Le directeur général du FMI pense que la crise financière sera globale et durable. Selon Dominique Strauss-Kahn, elle peut même empirer. Il appelle à la poursuite des réformes structurelles. De son côté, l'OCDE estime que les grandes instititions en difficulté peuvent créer des "risques systémiques"
• Angel Gurria, Secrétaire général de l'OCDE - France 24
  14/03/2008 - L'une des missions essentielles de l'OCDE est d'envisager tous les scénarios possibles de catastrophes - naturelles, krachs boursiers, humanitaires - pour tenter de mieux les prévenir.
• OECD Cuts Growth Forecast to Below 2%, Gurria Says - Robin Wigglesworth and Simon Kennedy, Bloomberg
  06/03/2008 - ...This "will be a difficult of lower growth and some more unpleasant surprises,"OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria said in an interview in Oslo. "We have revised downwards a number of our projections."
• This tax haven has to act to restore its reputation - Angel Gurría, Financial Times
  21/02/2008 - ...Almost all the jurisdictions identified as potential tax havens by the OECD in 1998 have committed to the principles of transparency and effective exchange of information.
• Can banks self-regulate? - Carter Dougherty, International Herald Tribune
  25/01/2008 -  ...Ángel Gurría, who is Mexican and heads the OECD, seemed to sum up the mood in a comment delivered with shaking, outstretched arms - and a bit of Latin flair.
• La dépense qui crée la dépense - Favilla, Les Echos
  12/12/2007 - Le secrétaire général de l'OCDE, Angel Gurria, ne prend pas son rôle à la légère. Auditionné récemment par la commission Attali, il ne s'est pas contenté de répondre aux questions : il est arrivé avec un remarquable opuscule de 190 pages intitulé « Le Pari de la croissance » (consultable en ligne), qui fournit le diagnostic et le traitement de nos maux économiques dans les domaines essentiels, de l'emploi à l'efficacité de l'Etat et de l'éducation à la fiscalité.

Ageing society

• Pensions slashed in OECD states - BBC
  08/07/2007 -The generosity of state pension systems has been slashed in many advanced countries, says the OECD.  An OECD report says the value of compulsory pension systems will drop by an average of 22% in 16 member states. (OECD report)
• Les retraités du monde entier confrontés à la baisse des pensions - L'Expansion
  07/06/2007 - Dans un rapport, l'OCDE note que les populations des pays membres devront épargner d'avantage en vue de leur retraite. Car la promesse de pension moyenne dans les 16 pays de l'OCDE a été réduite de 22% depuis les réformes entreprises (OECD report)
• Pensionen: OECD-Kritik an Österreich - Die Presse
  07/06/2007 - Wer länger arbeitet, wird bestraft – System zu teuer, Reformen „dringend geboten“.
  Die „Entschärfung“ der schwarz-blauen Pensionsreform wurde erst am Mittwoch vom Nationalrat in Wien beschlossen. Nur einen Tag später kommt von der OECD deutliche Kritik an Österreich. (OECD report)
  

Agriculture

• Die Preisspitze ist erreicht - Die Zeit
  29/04/2008 - Nahrungsmittel sind teuer wie nie. Trotz 50 Milliarden Euro an Agrarsubventionen trägt die EU daran keine Schuld, sagt OECD-Direktor Tangermann. Dennoch könnte sie die Folgen lindern.
• OECD-Direktor Lebensmittelpreise werden wieder sinken  - Wirtschaftswoche
  26/04/2008 - Die extrem hohen Nahrungsmittelpreise werden nicht von Dauer sein. Davon geht Stefan Tangermann, Direktor für Handel und Landwirtschaft bei der Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (OECD), aus.
• Fertig mit billigem Essen - Peter Keller, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  20/04/2008 - ...Die OECD geht davon aus, dass sich die Weizenpreise bis 2016 auf einem hohen, wenn auch gegenüber dem zweiten Halbjahr 2007 etwas abgeschwächten Niveau einpendeln werden.
• Bad Policy, Not Biofuel, Drive Food Prices - Planet Ark
  18/04/2008 - ...The FAO and the OECD have said biofuels were "one of the main drivers" for forecasts of food price increases of 20 percent to 50 percent by 2016.
• World food prices soar as Asia consumes more - Russell Blinch and Brian Love, International Herald Tribune
  31/03/2008 - (Reuters) - ..."This is an additional setback for the world economy, at a time when we are already going through major turbulence, but the biggest drama is the impact of higher food prices on the poor," Angel Gurría, head of the OECD, said.

Corporate Governance

• Comparing Russia and China: Growing, Globalizing, and Gambling with the Stock Market - Irina Aervitz, Russia Profile
  18/06/2007 - ...The Russian government has acted, however, to increase the inflow of FDI by adopting the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance, reforming its land law, its customs code and foreign exchange regulations.

Fighting Corruption

• Woolf report into BAE throws a cloak of goodwill over an immoral trade - Carl Mortished, The Times
  04/05/2008 - ...There is an OECD convention (of which Britain is a signatory) that denounces bribery and the US Department of Justice is active in the pursuit of American executive corrupters.
• The fall guy - David Leigh, The Guardian
  18/04/2008 - ...Since then, as the OECD and other critics have pointedly reminded him, he has failed to bring a single prosecution.
• SFO unlawful in ending BAE probe - BBC News
  10/04/2008 - CAAT had argued that the SFO's decision to drop the probe was illegal under the OECD's Anti-Bribery Convention.
• The pressure mounts on Britain to stamp out the brown-envelope culture - David Connett, The Independent
  06/04/2008 - Britain's woeful record in combating bribery and corruption is again in the spotlight after an OECD team arrived in London to examine why we are failing to bring prosecutions against UK firms accused of kickbacks and graft.
• Government faces OECD bribery probe - Nick Mathiason, The Observer
  30/03/2008 - The UK government will this week face an unprecedented investigation by the powerful OECD over its failures to comply with international anti-corruption and bribery protocols.
  

Development

• OECD: Krise wäre Chance für Afrika - Der Standard
  14/05/2008 - Das Wirtschafts­wachstum in Afrika werde heuer knapp sechs Prozent erreichen. Allerdings profitieren derzeit laut OECD vornehmlich Ölexporteure. (OECD report)
• Major nations urged to help combat youth unemployment in Africa - The Earth Times
  13/05/2008 - The OECD called on industrial nations Tuesday to do more to combat youth unemployment in Africa. (OECD report)
• Africa: Continental Economic Outlook Launched - AllAfrica.com
  11/05/2008 - Strong growth in Africa's gross domestic product is expected to continue in 2008 and 2009, according to Louis Kasekende, the chief economist at the ADB. He was speaking in Maputo at the launch on Sunday of the seventh edition of the "African Economic Outlook", a report on the health of the continent's economy compiled by the ADB, the United Nations ECA, and the OECD. (OECD report)
• Kaffeebauern gegen Starbucks - Tobias Käufer, Financial Times Deutschland
  25/04/2008 - ...OECD-Direktor Santiso beobachtet den Wandel des kolumbianischen Kaffeeproduzenten zum Direktanbieter genau: "Der Erfolg von Juan Valdez ist deswegen so interessant, weil sich erstmals ein lateinamerikanisches Unternehmen aus der Landwirtschaft anschickt, in diesem Segment des globalen Marktes seinen Platz zu erkämpfen. Sie haben das Wertschöpfungspotenzial ihres Produkts erkannt."
• Global report says foreign aid by major donor countries slumping, threatening targets - International Herald Tribune
  04/04/2008 - The Associated Press - ...The OECD warned in a new report that the United States and other donors are falling behind ambitious targets set in 2005 to increase global aid to the needy and backtracking on pledges. (OECD report)
• Aid practice fails to match promise - Alan Beattie, Financial Times
  15/02/2008 - ...Last week’s annual report from the OECD, the Paris-based intergovernmental policy institute that acts as a global aid watchdog, reviewed an international drive towards making assistance more substantive and efficient. The OECD’s verdict was that the campaign has a fair way to go. (OECD report)
  

Economics

• OECD warning as stagflation goes global - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Daily Telegraph
  15/05/2008 - The OECD's early warning signal is flashing clear signs of economic weakness across the world, with mounting evidence that China, India, and Brazil may soon succumb to the downturn.
• OECD March composite leading indicator 98.1 vs 98.6; points to slowdown - Forbes
  14/05/2008 - The OECD said its composite leading indicator fell to 98.1 in March from a revised 98.6 in February, showing a decline of 3.2 points from a year earlier.
• "Deepest US housing slump" OECD warns - James Quinn, Daily Telegraph
  21/03/2008 - The United States will come to an economic standstill in the second quarter of this year as it struggles under the weight of what could prove to be the worst housing slump in history, the OECD has predicted.
• US recession looms as growth heads for zero - Gary Duncan, The Times
  21/03/2008 - The US economy is on the brink of recession, with growth grinding to a halt because of what will probably be America’s worst housing slump on record, the OECD said yesterday.
• OECD slashes US growth forecast - BBC News
  20/03/2008 - The OECD says the US economy is "moving sideways".
• OECD: Finanzkrise trifft vor allem USA - Handelsblatt
  20/03/2008 - Die OECD hat ihre Wachstumsprognose für die USA deutlich gesenkt und rechnet für das kommende Quartal sogar mit Stillstand. Die US-Wirtschaft bewege sich nun seitwärts, hieß es – oder schlimmer. Anders sieht die Lage für die Wirtschaft in Europa aus.
• OECD says US economy moving sideways, if not contracting outright - Forbes
  20/03/2008 - The OECD said the US economy is now moving sideways, if not contracting outright, but it is too early to say whether it is in recession.
• US-Wirtschaft wächst nicht mehr - Die Welt
  20/03/2008 - Renommierte Ökonomen haben ihre Prognose für das Wirtschaftswachstum in den USA drastisch gesenkt. Sie rechnen für das kommende Quartal mit Stillstand. Die Experten der OECD fürchten sogar, dass die amerikanische Wirtschaft schrumpfen könnte.

Education

• China earthquake brings faulty school design to the fore - Andrew C. Revkin, International Herald Tribune
  14/05/2008 - In 2004, the 30-nation OECD released a study, "Keeping Schools Safe in Earthquakes," concluding that schools "routinely" collapsed in earthquakes around the world because of avoidable design or construction errors, or because existing laws and building codes were not enforced. (OECD report)
• When the lights go on - Fran Abrams, The Guardian
  06/05/2008 - ...The report from the OECD is the result of nine years' work by neuroscientists. Using new magnetic resonance imaging technology, scientists can watch the physical processes by which we learn.
• A beacon of excellence – or just a recipe for confusion? - Fiona MacLeod, The Scotsman
  23/04/2008 - ...A December 2007 report by the OECD backed scrapping Standard grades, saying they are low-level and have little status.
• Was gute Bildung kostet - WirtschaftsWoche
  22/04/2008 - ...Der in diesem April erschienene OECD-Wirtschaftsbericht listet gleich 15 Punkte auf, an denen das deutsche Bildungssystem krankt.
• Let's applaud what's been achieved -  David Eastwood, The Guardian
  26/02/2008 - ...OECD comparisons reinforce this. The UK lies fifth in the OECD world table for "survival rates" for higher education.
• PISA study results bring thousands of foreign visitors to Finnish schools - Helsingin Sanomat
  25/02/2008 - ...Finland's high scores in the PISA studies conducted by the OECD on the scholastic skills of 15-year-olds have led to a stream of foreign education professionals travelling to Finland to learn about Finnish special education, teachers' training, and the school system in general.
• When modern life just doesn't add up - Peter Kingston, The Guardian
  19/02/2008 - ...Adult illiteracy is a headache for much of the developed world, as anyone strolling into a conference hosted by the OECD in Paris last week would have quickly picked up.
• Schulen sind moderner geworden - Die Welt
  06/02/2008 - Bei dem Gedanken an die Pisa-Studie wird so manchem Bildungspolitiker in Deutschland mulmig.
• A league table to worry us all - Peter Mortimore, The Guardian
  08/01/2008 - The results of the third phase of Pisa make interesting reading. (OECD report)
• Never again: a nation works to cure ills that made teenager into a killer - Roger Boyes, The Times
  05/01/2008 - ...The new scheme was designed to cut the dropout rate, apparently one of the few blemishes on a system that regularly turns out top scores in the OECD international performance surveys.

Employment

• OECD area standardised unemployment rate falls to 5.5 pct in November - Forbes
  11/01/2008 - (Thomson Financial) - The OECD said the standardised unemployment rate for the OECD area was 5.5 pct in November, 0.1 percentage point lower than the upwardly revised October figure and 0.4 percentage point lower than a year ago.

Energy

• Oil lower amid profit taking as IEA downgrades 2008 global demand forecast - Forbes
  13/05/2008 - Oil was lower midday as traders took profits after yesterday's record high, with a demand downgrade for 2008 from the IEA weighing on sentiment.
• 'Entente nucleaire': What, why? - Richard Black, BBC News
  27/03/2008 - ..."The UK is the only country in Europe that could soon be setting up a new nuclear programme with lots of reactors," notes Luis Echavarri, director-general of the OECD's Nuclear Energy Agency.
• IEA cuts 2008 oil demand forecast by 100,000 bpd on slowing OECD growth - Forbes
  11/03/2008 - ...'Projected global oil product demand in 2008 is little changed at 87.5 mln bpd, with downward pressures from weaker economic growth in the OECD mostly offset by stronger former Soviet Union projections,' said the IEA.
• Biofuels: 'Green gold' or problems untold? - Rachel Oliver, CNN
  25/02/2008 - ...Europe only has a limited amount of land to set aside for biofuels, and according to the Soil Association, quoting OECD figures, if the EU gave up 72 per cent of its arable land, it would only only be able to serve 10 percent of its fuel needs.
• Oil edges up, Venezuela-Exxon dispute supports - The Guardian
  14/02/2008 - ...The IEA cut its world oil demand growth forecast this year due to the economic slowdown in the world's top energy consumer.
• Oil drops towards 90 usd mark on lower demand outlook - IEA cuts 2008 forecast - CNN
  16/01/2008 - ...'The 2008 forecast, however, may be further revised if forthcoming assessments from the IMF and the OECD point to a weaker-than-expected outlook for the US economy, which may be only partly offset by strong GDP growth in the Middle East and China,' said the IEA.
  

Enterprise, Industry and Services

• Slowakei strebt Unabhängigkeit von Autoindustrie an - Tomas Czwitkovics, Financial Times Deutschland
  18/04/2007 - ...Ángel Gurría, Generalsekretär der OECD, hatte bei einem Besuch Anfang April in der Hauptstadt Bratislava gewarnt, der Anstieg der Autoproduktion berge auch Risiken.
• OECD seeks to close SME financing gaps in MENA - Lucia Dore, Khaleej Times
  25/03/2007 - ..."SME financing is very difficult, which is paradox because there is so much money in the region," said Rainer Geiger, deputy director, directorate for financial and enterprise affairs at the OECD, who was in Dubai last week to take part in the MENA-OECD Enterprise Financing Network.
  

Environment

• OECD berät über Klimawandel - Der Standard
  14/05/2008 - Die wirtschaftlichen Folgen des Klimawandels, die Verteuerung der Nahrungsmittel sowie Fragen zu Wirtschaftswachstum und Konjunkturentwicklung stehen im Mittelpunkt des OECD-Ministerrats, der am 4. und 5. Juni in Paris stattfindet.
• OECD ministers plead for environment despite economic concerns - Energy Daily
  29/04/2008 - OECD environment ministers on Tuesday stood by efforts to tackle climate change, despite arguments in some quarters that at a time of economic uncertainty, spending on green issues could damage competitiveness.... In a speech on Monday, OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria urged governments to ignore arguments that green reforms damage overall competitiveness."We found no convincing evidence that environmental policies to date have harmed competitiveness at a macro-economic level," he said.
• OECD environment ministers urge global tie-up - Associated Press
  29/04/2008 - (Kyodo) Environmental ministers of the OECD on Tuesday called for international cooperation to prevent efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from damaging industrial competitiveness. [They] made the pitch in a statement issued after their two-day meeting in Paris on the environment and competitiveness.
• Klimawandel heizt Wirtschaft an - Blick
  29/04/2008 - In der Klimadebatte geben Pessimisten den Ton an. Doch es gibt auch Chancen... Anlass der Erklärung war die Konferenz der Umweltminister der OECD in Paris, an der auch die Schweiz teilnahm... In ihrem «Klimaausblick 2030» rechnet die OECD vor, dass die Kosten des Klima- und Umweltschutzes sich auf gerade mal 0,03 Prozent Wirtschaftswachstum pro Jahr beschränken liessen.(OECD report)
• Germany to Use Heat-Warning System to Cope With Global Warming - Jeremy van Loon, Bloomberg
  15/04/2008 - ...By 2030, the number of premature deaths worldwide caused by airborne particles will double to almost 400 per million inhabitants, while deaths from ground-level ozone, a condition worsened by higher temperatures, will quadruple, according to the Paris-based OECD.

Finance

• Governments and industry should invest more in financial education, warns OECD - James Langton,
  Investment Executive
  29/04/2008 - The OECD says that governments, and the financial industry, have to do more to ensure financial literacy. Many people have a poor understanding of the financial issues that affect their lives, according to OECD analysis. It reports that surveys conducted in OECD countries and some non-member economies show that people often overestimate their understanding of risks and are typically not saving enough to secure an adequate retirement income.
  
• OECD fordert fundamentale Reform der Finanzmärkte - Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  16/04/2008 - Die OECD hat eine fundamentale Reform der Finanzmärkte und ihrer Aufsicht gefordert. Für eine rasche Rekapitalisierung der Banken sei aber der Einsatz öffentlicher Gelder notwendig.
• OECD raises subprime loss tally to $350-420 bln - Brian Love, Reuters
  15/04/2008 - The cost of the financial crisis caused by the collapse of the U.S. sub-prime mortgage market may be around $350-420 billion, and a $1-trillion figure floated by the IMF is misleading, OECD officials said on Tuesday.
• Sovereign Wealth Funds and Europe - Peter Mandelson, eGov monitor
  31/03/2008 - ...So when we clear away all these misconceptions we are left with a question: what expectations should be placed on states that wish to become investors? That is the question that the European Commission offered an answer to a month ago and on which the OECD and the IMF are doing important work.
• Bank accounts linked to Eta are frozen in Liechtenstein - Elizabeth Nash, The Independent
  31/03/2008 - ...Liechtenstein generally ignores requests to investigate tax evasion, and is on an OECD blacklist for its opaque practices and uncooperative attitude.
• OECD relaxed on sovereign funds - BBC News
  25/03/2008 - The OECD, which groups 30 of the world's richest economies, has found no cases where sovereign wealth funds have acted to further political goals. OECD boss Angel Gurria said these funds should not be unduly restricted.
• Sovereign wealth funds reach agreement with US Treasury - Tom Bawden and James Rossiter, The Times
  21/03/2008 - ...“The US welcomes sovereign wealth fund investment and looks forward to continuing to work with these two countries and others to support the initiatives under way at the IMF and OECD to develop best practices for sovereign wealth funds and recipient countries.”
• US deal with Abu Dhabi and Singapore funds - James Quinn, Daily Telegraph
  21/03/2008 - ...The trio will now work with the IMF, the OECD and other governments to push for an international code to ensure the principles laid out will operate on a more global basis.
• EU to agree code of principles for sovereign wealth funds - Sean O'Grady, The Independent
  26/02/2008 - ...Mr Barroso said the code would be discussed by EU leaders at a summit next month and the IMF and OECD will be asked to win international approval for the idea.
  

Health

• A common market for health - Jeremy Laurance, The Independent
  20/12/2007 - ...The health statistics published on our front page, taken from the OECD report Health at a Glance 2007, provide a snapshot of the overall performance on health of a selection of EU countries. (OECD report)
• The World's Hardest-Drinking Countries - Forbes
  28/11/2007 - Our top 15 listing comes from a 2006 survey by the OECD, which tracks per capita alcohol consumption around the globe. Rankings are based on the number of liters of pure alcohol consumed per person per year, from beer, wine and spirits combined (the three have progressively higher percentages of alcohol content).
• NZ tops OECD heart list - New Zealand Herald
  15/11/2007 - New Zealand and Australia had the best immediate survival rates for heart attacks when treated, an OECD report has found. (OECD report)
• Schweiz bei den Gesundheitsausgaben führend - Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  14/11/2007 - Die Schweiz gehört zu den Ländern mit den höchsten Gesundheitsausgaben: 2005 wurden pro Kopf 4177 Dollar für die Gesundheitsversorgung aufgewendet. Damit belegt die Schweiz in einer OECD-Studie den vierten Platz. (OECD report)
  

Information Technology

• Bringing the poor online - The Economist
  22/02/2008 - ...A recent OECD report called “Global Opportunities for Internet Access Development,” considers this problem. It blames national telecom-firms with monopolies over the “international gateways” for inflating access costs.
• Sarkozy proposes taxing new technology to finance the old - Katrin Bennhold and Victoria Shannon, International Herald Tribune
  09/01/2008 - ..."This could be seen as drawing on new technology to fund old technology," said Taylor Reynolds, economist at the OECD, based in Paris.
  

Insurance and Pensions

• OECD says more pension reforms needed, action too slow in some countries - Forbes
  11/06/2007 - The OECD said governments still need to carry out further reforms of their pension systems, on top of the substantial reforms already implemented. (OECD report)
• Pensions slashed in OECD states - BBC News
  08/06/2007 - An OECD report says the value of compulsory pension systems will drop by an average of 22% in 16 member states. (OECD report)
  

International Migration

• The forces driving the middle class into exile - Minette Marrin, The Times
  24/02/2008 - ...There are now more than 3.2m British-born people living abroad; of them 1.1m are highly skilled university graduates, according to the exhaustive OECD report.
• Migration strains rich and poor - Steve Schifferes, BBC News
  20/02/2008 - Migration is putting growing strains on rich and poor countries alike, according to the OECD. (OECD report)
• Influx of migrants brings a ‘brain gain’ for the UK - Alexi Mostrous, The Times
  21/02/2008 - ...The OECD found that 1.1 million Britons with university degrees are living overseas in other developed countries, about 10.3 per cent of the total. (OECD report)
• Brain drain from poorer countries not so big - OECD - Reuters
  20/02/2008 - The belief that rich countries are draining poorer ones of their best-qualified people is largely unfounded, the OECD said in a report published on Wednesday. (OECD report)
• North-south divide opens for migrant jobs in Europe - International Herald Tribune
  13/02/2008 - ..."It's a contrasting trend," said Jean-Pierre Garson, head of the international migration division at the OECD. "The European Union is a free market, with free settlement of people. Qualified people are now more mobile."

Investment

• US call to keep investment free - David Gow, The Guardian
  12/10/2007 - ...Acknowledging the case for greater transparency about the funds' role and activities, Mr Kimmitt said these could come under closer surveillance by global bodies such as the World Bank and IMF - or the Paris-based OECD, where he will discuss the issue next week.
• China and Blackstone: A marriage of two manias - International Herald Tribune
  23/05/2007 - ...The budding relationship between China and private equity dovetails with a report this week from the OECD. It said that the boom in buyouts is due to excess liquidity and low yields caused by distortions in the global system - mainly in China and Japan. (OECD report)

Public Governance and Management

• Why governments miss their targets - Hamish McRae, The Independent
  06/02/2008 - ...According to the OECD, which monitors government performance across the developed world, we are about the middle of the pack.
• MENA-OECD meeting to be held in Cairo - Alarabonline
  11/10/2007 - The MENA-OECD Investment Programme which entered into operation early 2005 is a regional effort initiated and led by countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
• The greatest gift that we possess - David Walker, The Guardian
  05/10/2007 - ...Internationally, through the OECD and Unesco, efforts are being made to revise the way we measure development

Regulatory reform

• OECD hilser kinesisk skattereform velkommen - Mette Mandrup, Dagbladet Børsen
  27/03/2007 - Da den kinesiske folkekongres var forsamlet for 10 dage siden, vedtog den at lave ens beskatning for alle virksomheder. Det er meget positivt, melder OECD nu ud i en analyse. (OECD report)
• Korea, Land of Regulations - The Chosun Ilbo
  23/03/2007 - ...On Monday, the OECD released its policy review of Korea’s regulatory reform efforts over the past five years. (OECD report)
• OECD Slams Restrictions on Higher Education in Korea - The Chosun Ilbo
  20/03/2007 - The Korean government should reform the nation’s higher education, an OECD report advised Monday. (OECD report)
  

Science and Innovation

• Nanotechnology at the OECD - Nanowerk News
  28/02/2008 - The OECD has prepared an overview of its work on nanotechnologies for Forum VI of the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety. This event will be held in Dakar, Senegal, September 15-19, 2008. 
• Langsamer steigende Forschungsausgaben - Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  25/10/2007 - ...Die Unterschiede zwischen den einzelnen OECD-Ländern im finanziellen Forschungsaufwand sind beträchtlich. (OECD report)
• Spending on the future - Anthony Scott, The New Zealand Herald
  24/09/07 - ...As the recent OECD review on New Zealand's innovation policy notes: "The most important economic challenge is to raise income per capita sustainably by boosting productivity growth." That is a research, science and technology challenge. (OECD report)
• China needs innovation, OECD says - International Herald Tribune
  27/08/2007 - ...Better protection of patents and other intellectual property, more cooperation between the government and the private sector and reforms to foster competitive markets are among the top needs the Paris-based OECD outlined in a report issued in collaboration with China's Ministry of Science and Technology. (OECD report)

Social Issues

• Fair wages are a fantasy in the brutal underside of Cowboy Boss Britain - Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian
  05/05/2008 - ...The OECD puts Britain second only to the US for the lowest levels of employment protection in the developed world.
• L'OCDE ouvre le Wikipédia des inégalités hommes-femmes - Véronique Lorelle, Le Monde
  17/03/2008 - Sur www.wikigender.org, l'internaute peut consulter les informations issues des travaux de recherche du Centre de développement de l'OCDE, mais il est aussi invité à les compléter et à les enrichir en publiant de nouveaux articles ou des témoignages.
• G7 Finance in Tokyo: Unions call for aggressive and coordinated fiscal and monetary response to counter economic crisis - Union Network International
  05/02/2008 - ...On 31 January the OECD released figures showing that labour costs in industry fell for most major OECD economies in the third quarter of 2007.
• One-third of OECD countries cutting unemployment benefits - Forbes
  13/12/2007 - The OECD said one in three OECD countries has cut unemployment benefits in the last six years with a view to encouraging unemployed people to find jobs. (OECD report)
• Gekürzte Arbeitslosenhilfe in OECD-Ländern - Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  13/12/2007 - Rund ein Drittel der Industriestaaten haben in den vergangenen sechs Jahren die Unterstützungszahlungen an Arbeitslose im Bemühen gekürzt, Anreize für die Wiederaufnahme von bezahlter Arbeit zu geben und das Verweilen auf dem Arbeitslosenregister unattraktiv zu machen. In der vergleichenden Studie «Benefits and Wages» kommt die OECD zum Schluss, dass viele Länder ihre Strategie verändert hätten. (OECD report)
• The nanny state? - International Herald Tribune
  21/08/2007 - ...The OECD's definition of social spending includes  programs to help people overcome such challenges as old age, poverty  and unemployment.
  

Taxation

• OECD's Heady says VAT, property tax may rise to compensate falling company tax - Forbes
  08/04/2008 - Chistopher Heady, head of the OECD's centre for tax policy and administration said changes in European tax system could lead to higher VAT and property tax a corporate tax rates decline.
• Spain wants 'tax haven' Gibraltar blacklisted - Fiona Govan, Daily Telegraph
  17/03/2008 - ...Spanish authorities will this week ask the OECD to list the disputed territory as "uncooperative" because it is failing to help investigate financial corruption.
• Budget 2008: Labour declares war on the middle class - Iain Martin, Daily Telegraph
  13/03/2008 - ...The OECD revealed on Tuesday that British middle-class families are paying an extra £1,250 a year after enduring the sharpest rise in their tax bill of any leading Western economy in the past five years. Of course, our rivals spent the same period reducing tax burdens. (OECD report)
• Tax rise on middle class 'highest in the West' - Edmund Conway and Andrew Porter, Daily Telegraph
  12/03/2008 - ...During the same period the average tax burden in most countries actually declined, according to the report from the OECD. (OECD report)
• Germany urges crackdown on tax havens - Ian Traynor, The Guardian
  05/03/2008 - ...But Steinbrück extended his criticism to EU countries Austria, Luxembourg and Belgium, whom he criticised for their secrecy and because they were negotiating double taxation agreements with tax havens in the far east that failed to observe the OECD's code on tax transparency.
• Targeting the tax havens - Mark Mardell, BBC News
  04/03/2008 - ...But what they can do? Britain would be keen on putting pressure on the small countries to at least abide by OECD rules on openness.
• Europe vs the super-rich - Sean O'Grady, The Independent
  04/03/2008 - ...Crime has pushed many governments against tax havens. In 2000, for example the OECD published its blacklist of 35 "uncooperative" tax regimes; action was taken.
  

Territorial Economy

• Country may do more good than you thought - Alan Cochrane, The Daily Telegraph
  23/02/2008 - A remarkable report from the OECD on life in rural Scotland was published this week; remarkable for the fact that few of the people who actually live in those parts of the country covered by the report would have recognised its generally positive conclusions.
• México pierde terreno en el agro ante EU - El Universal
  24/07/2007 - ...Según la OCDE, sólo 10 productos agrícolas de exportación de México representan cerca de la mitad de las ventas al exterior, pero ha habido algunos cambios en la composición de estos productos en los últimos años.
  

Trade

• OECD's Gurria says protectionism a backwards step, work needed on Doha - Forbes
  23/11/2007 - OECD secretary general Angel Gurria said protectionism by European countries 'will take us back in time', adding greater cooperation is needed between countries to complete the WTO's Doha round of trade talks.
• China 'changes its tone on trade' - BBC News
  12/06/2007 - China is the world's main source of pirated goods, the OECD says.

Transport

• World economy is consuming around 30 billion barrels of oil every year - Matthew Knight, CNN
  14/05/2008 - ...According to an OECD International Transport Forum discussion paper published in 2007 there are around 47,000 oil fields in the world. But only a fraction of these -- around 500 - are considered 'giant' -- harboring upwards of 500 million barrels.
• Shipping's impact on the air - CNN
  20/01/2008 - ...The opening statement of a 2005 report issued by the OECD's Maritime Transport Committee is quite revealing in this regard...
• Drohender Verkehrsinfarkt in den niederländischen Metropolen - Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  27/02/2007 - In den Niederlanden wird es immer schwieriger, sich im Ballungsgebiet Randstad fortzubewegen. Die Staus werden von Jahr zu Jahr länger, und die Kapazitäten der Bahn gehören zu den am wenigsten entwickelten in Westeuropa. Die Situation ist laut einem Bericht der OECD ernster als in anderen Ballungsräumen des Kontinents.