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

About the OECD

• Is Israel ready for the OECD? - Sharon Wrobel, The Jerusalem Post
  02/09/2008 - The OECD is coming this week to Israel to compile a macroeconomic review of the local economy and evaluate its compatibility with the norms and standards set by the organization.
• Chief Statistician of the OECD to visit Statistics Estonia - Baltic Course
  27/08/2009 - From 28 to 29 August Enrico Giovannini, the Chief Statistician and Director of Statistics Directorate of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will be visiting Statistics Estonia in order to discuss statistical requirements for candidate countries in joining the OECD.
• U.S. ambassador to OECD maps world growth in Boylston speech - Elaine Thompson, Telegram.com
  21/08/2008 - The rest of this year and into 2009, some of the world’s leading economists predict strong economic growth in China and Brazil, a slowdown of economies in the U.S., Germany, Japan and the U.K. and a strong slowdown in France and Italy. That was some of the global information Christopher F. Egan presented to the Corridor Nine Area Chamber of Commerce... yesterday. Mr. Egan... who was appointed 10 months ago to be the U.S. ambassador for the OECD based in Paris said the 50-year-old OECD, while not well-known in the U.S., is at the forefront of shaping policy affecting citizens around the world.
• 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.
• OECD offers closer economic cooperation with RI - Antara News
  24/07/2008 - ...Indonesia needs to improve the business environment and make better use of labour inputs to put the economy on a higher growth trajectory, the OECD said. (OECD report)
• Bush urges Europe to unite with U.S. ideals - International Herald Tribune
  13/06/2008 - ...The White House has billed the Paris speech at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development as the centerpiece of the trip and a way for the president to lay out his view that relations between the United States and Europe are now in a "new era."
• Bush expects warm welcome on his farewell trip to Europe - RIA Novosti
  11/06/2008 - ...The president is not planning to make any major statements, except for a speech at the OECD summit in Paris on June 13.
• 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".
• 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.

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)
• 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

• Gordon Brown: Stop wasting food - Robert Winnett, The Daily Telegraph
  07/07/2008 - ...Meanwhile, overall food and drink costs are up by 6 per cent - the highest rate in the Western world, according to the OECD.
• OECD will niedrigere Agrar-Subventionen - Die Zeit
  26/06/2008 - Landwirte brauchen die "größtmögliche Freiheit", um auf den Markt reagieren zu können, fordert die OECD. So wollen ihre Ökonomen die Nahrungskrise bekämpfen. Ihre Vorschläge bedeuten auch: Weniger Geld vom Staat (Rapport OCDE)
• Faut-il encore aider les agriculteurs ? - Laetitia Clavreul, Le Monde
  26/06/2008 - ...Selon un rapport de l'OCDE publié jeudi 26 juin, la part des soutiens dans les recettes des agriculteurs de ses membres (Etats-Unis, Union européenne, Japon, Australie...) a baissé en 2007, pour la troisième année consécutive. (Rapport OCDE)
• OECD official urges that biofuel subsidies be scrapped - Forbes
  09/06/2008 - ...Stefan Tangermann, agriculture director for the OECD said: 'I call urgently for reduced support for biofuels.'It is the only lever on which we can act rapidly,' he added during an address to a farm forum in Berlin.
• Food prices to stay high for a decade - Gary Duncan, The Times
  30/05/2008 - ...Much bigger family food bills will remain an everyday fact of life for consumers across the West, while for poor nations permanently dearer food will spell widespread hunger, famine and civil conflict, the study from the OECD and the UN FAO said.
• Food crisis talks set to begin - BBC News
  30/05/2008 - Prices would fall, but only gradually, the report by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation and the OECD said. (OECD report)
• Report forecasts higher food prices for next decade - Andrew Martin, International Herald Tribune
  30/05/2008 - Record prices for farm crops should gradually recede, but they will remain substantially higher than average over the next decade because of fundamental changes in demand, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations and the OECD. (OECD report)
• Food Prices To Stay High, "Grain Drain" Fuel Blamed - Planet Ark
  30/05/2008 - Food prices will remain high over the next decade even if they fall from current records, meaning millions more risk further hardship or hunger, the OECD and the UN's FAO food agency said in a report published on Thursday. (OECD report)
• No quick fix for escalating food prices, Alistair Darling told - Steve Hawkes, The Times
  23/05/2008 - ...An agricultural outlook compiled by the United Nations and the OECD said that prices for cereals, rice and oilseeds were forecast to be between 10 per cent to 35 per cent higher by 2017. (OECD report)
• 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.
• 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

• G8 summit: Encouraging words for CSR - Ethical Corporation
  22/07/2008 - ...Another sign of government interest in CSR was the release in June by the OECD Secretariat of an overview paper on global CSR initiatives and instruments.
• Governance flaws seen as 'red flag' for short selling - Kate Burgess, Financial Times
  23/06/2008 - ...Angel Gurria, secretary general of the OECD, said at the ICGN conference that the arrival and increasing activity of new types of investors in global markets, such as hedge funds, "is obviously welcome. It provides countries and companies with deeper capital markets and a wider range of capital providers.
• Jesover Says OECD Focused on Global Standards for Governance - Bernard Lo and Sumit Sharma, Bloomberg
  18/06/2008 - Fianna Jesover, senior policy manager at the OECD, comments on the outlook for corporate governance in Asia.
  

Fighting Corruption

• Inaugurará Gurría conferencia contra corrupción y cohecho - Cronica
  19/0/2008 - 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... Entre los conferencistas se encuentran funcionarios de la OCDE como Patrick Moullete, jefe de la División Anticorrupción; Nicola Ehlermann-Cache, analista senior de Políticas Públicas, División Anticorrupción, y Mark Pieth, presidente del Grupo de Trabajo sobre Cohecho 2008.
• OECD slams Britain's corporate bribery record: report - Agence France Presse
  17/08/2008 - OECD member-states have written to Britain criticising London's failure to deal with corporate bribery, the Financial Times said Sunday...  The Paris-based OECD sent a team of anti-bribery experts to Britain in April to compile a report on London's corruption-fighting efforts, which is due to be completed in October
• UK accused of 'lacking political will' to punish bribery - Haroon Siddique, The Guardian
  24/06/2008 - ...Transparency International found the UK to be "lagging" in its enforcement of the 1997 OECD.
• Football clubs investigated over money laundering - Rupert Neate, Daily Telegraph
  19/06/2008 - The FATF, which concentrates on terrorist financing and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, will now investigate dirty money in the beautiful game.
• German corporate scandals now hit Deutsche Telekom - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Daily Telegraph
  27/05/2008 - ...The German government has in the past seemed to wink at the use of the "black funds" to help gain export contracts abroad. It allowed companies to offset foreign bribes against tax as recently as 2000, three years after an OECD accord prohibiting bribery.
• 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

• A scramble in Africa - The Economist
  04/09/2008 - ...So it is good news that Britain, Sweden, Ireland and the Netherlands are untying their aid and that, in Accra, the OECD revealed evidence that things are moving further in the right direction.
• Donor resistance threatens aid talks: Breakthrough on real reforms urgently needed, says Oxfam - The Statesman
  04/09/2008 - ...The 2008 OECD monitoring report on aid effectiveness shows that there has been little progress by donors on meeting many of the Paris targets.
• In Accra „das Gute noch besser machen“ - Africa Online
  01/09/2008 - ...Der anlässlich der Accra-Konferenz veröffentlichte Fortschrittsbericht der OECD zeigt, dass die in der Paris Erklärung gesetzten Ziele trotz gewisser Fortschritte voraussichtlich nicht bis 2010 zu erreichen sind.
• World poverty 'more widespread' - Steve Schifferes, BBC News 
  28/08/2008 - The World Bank has warned that... 1.4 billion people live in poverty, based on a new poverty line of $1.25 per day. These findings come as the OECD has reported that many rich countries have cut back on their foreign aid budgets, with little sign that the pledge made at the G8 summit at Gleneagles in 2005 to double aid to Africa by 2010 is being met.
• 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)
  

Economics

• OECD leading indicators show G7 outlook weakening - Forbes
  05/09/2008 - Reuters - The economic outlook continues to weaken for the world's seven major economies, according to July leading indicators published by the OECD on Friday.
• OECD Predicts Stormy Economic Times Ahead for Europe - Tom Rivers, Voice of America
  02/09/2008 - Economists define a recession as two quarters of negative growth and that is exactly what the OECD forecasts for Britain.
• OECD Cuts Growth Forecasts For Europe - Forbes
  03/09/2008 - A gloomy outlook for European economies lies ahead for the rest of this year, according to the OECD's latest forecasts, with the U.K. facing outright recession later this year.
• Economy: OECD predicts UK recession this year - Ashley Seager, The Guardian
  02/09/2008 - ...The Paris-based OECD, releasing its latest set of economic forecasts, said the ongoing effects of the credit crunch and weakening housing market will cause the British economy - the world's fifth largest - to shrink by 0.3% in the current quarter and by 0.4% in the October to December period.
• Britain will fall into recession this year - Angela Jameson, The Times
  02/09/2008 - ...Jorgen Elmeskov, acting head of the economics department of the OECD, said that economic activity in the UK was expected to remain "broadly flat".
• UK recession this year, OECD says - Steve Schifferes, BBC News
  02/09/2008 - The UK economy is likely to fall into recession this year, according to the OECD.
• L'OCDE revoit à la baisse les perspectives de croissance de la zone euro en 2008 - Alain Faujas, Le Monde
  02/09/2008 - L'OCDE renoue avec le pessimisme.
• Zone euro : l'OCDE baisse sa prévision de croissance 2008 - Les Echos
  02/09/2008 - L'OCDE a révisé mardi ses prévisions de croissance pour les principales zones géographiques dans ses perspectives économiques intérimaires.
• OECD 2Q Growth Slowest In Almost Seven Years - Paul Hannon, Dow Jones
  20/08/2008 - ... The OECD said the combined gross domestic product of its 30 members between April and June increased 0.2% from the first quarter of 2008 and 1.9% from the second quarter of 2007. That represented a marked slowdown as the combined effects of the credit crunch and high commodity prices took an increasing toll on activity. (OECD report)
• El PIB de la OCDE aumentó un 0,2% en el segundo trimestre - CincoDías
  20/08/2008 - El Producto Interior Bruto (PIB) de la OCDE aumentó un 1,9% en el segundo trimestre en términos interanuales, seis décimas menos que en el primer trimestre (2,5%), informó hoy la institución en un comunicado. En términos intertrimestrales, el PIB de la OCDE avanzó un 0,2%, reduciéndose en tres décimas frente al 0,5% del primer trimestre del año.(OECD report)
• OECD sees weakness in top economies - Business Report
  11/08/2008 - The economic growth of the seven biggest economies was set to weaken still further, the OECD signalled on Friday, pointing also to a mixed outlook for big emerging economies.The warning fits the picture of a sharp slowdown in many advanced countries that has emerged so far this year as the repercussions of the credit crisis and high oil prices reached ever deeper into economic activity and lending
• OECD sees slower economic growth - BBC
  09/08/2008 - The 30-strong OECD said its research for June indicated "a continued weakening outlook for all the major seven economies". But it warned that the slowdown was likely to be deeper than expected in the eurozone and the UK. In contrast, economic growth in China and Brazil was still strong. The OECD comments are based on its composite index of leading indicators (CLI), which predicts economic conditions in six months' time.
• OECD area inflation accelerates to seven-year high in May - Forbes
  01/07/2008 - The OECD said inflation in the area accelerated to a seven-year high of 3.9 percent in May from 3.5 percent in April.
• After the credit boom comes the long and painful squeeze - David Smith, The Sunday Times
  15/06/2008 - ...The OECD has seen plenty of global economic crises during the past 60 years, but probably never anything quite as unusual as this one. What Jorgen Elmeskov, its head of economics, describes as months of “market turmoil” have left the outlook “particularly unsettled”. For an organisation whose natural language is understatement, this shows how worried it is.
• Zentralbanken brauchen ruhige Hand - Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  04/06/2008 - Die OECD empfiehlt den Zentralbanken der USA, der Euro-Zone und Japans eine Politik der ruhigen Hand. Trotz hoher Inflation bei gleichzeitiger Konjunkturabschwächung... «Die Leitzinsen sollten dieses Jahr in den grösseren Regionen unverändert belassen werden», schreibt die OECD. Nur für Grossbritannien verlangt sie weitere kräftige Zinssenkungen. (OECD report)
• OECD erwartet Wachstumsknick für 2009 - Financial Times Deutschland
  04/06/2008 - In diesem Jahr werde das deutsche Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP) um 1,9 Prozent zulegen, heißt es im neuesten OECD-Bericht - das ist ein Zuwachs von 0,1 Punkten im Vergleich zur Dezember-Prognose. (OECD report)
  

Education

• English pupils 'among the most tested in the world'   - Aislinn Simpson, Daily Telegraph
   29/08/2008 -... The report by the OECD says the level of regulation imposed on schools risks backfiring and emphasises concerns about Ofsted inspections and league tables (OECD report)
• Education woes haunt Brazil's economic revival - ABC News
  26/08/2008 - Among the so-called BRIC countries of leading emerging economies, Brazil's literacy rate at 89 per cent of the adult population lags Russia's 99 per cent and China's 91 per cent... The latest education survey published by the OECD ranks Brazilian high school students 53rd and 51st out of 57 countries for their mathematics and reading proficiency, respectively.
• El debate que viene sobre la educación superior   - José Joaquín Brunner, El Mercurio
  24/08/2008 - ¿Hacia dónde deben apuntar las reformas de nuestro sistema universitario? Un revelador informe de la OCDE entrega pistas. Un voluminoso informe de la OCDE sobre la educación terciaria vuelve a poner de relieve su importancia para el desarrollo de los países. El propio informe es el mayor esfuerzo de síntesis realizado durante la última década sobre este sector.
• El modelo finlandés se implanta en España - Noelia Hernández, Gaceta.es
  20/08/2008 -  El país nórdico lidera el ránking de los 28 que analiza la OCDE, al obtener la mejor puntuación en las tres materias que se evalúan —Matemáticas, Ciencias y Lectura—. A gran distancia se queda España, que ocupa el puesto 24, por debajo de la media de los países de la OCDE  y superada por República Checa, Irlanda, Polonia, Suecia, Eslovenia, Hungría...
• OECD bestraft deutsche Pisa-Forscher - Barbara Gillmann, Handelsblatt
  01/06/2008 - ...Deutsche Bildungsforscher und Bildungspolitiker werden nach Informationen des Handelsblatts vorerst bis Ende 2008 von exklusiven Vorabinformationen der Pisa-Forschung der OECD ausgeschlossen.
• 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)
  

Employment

• Skilled workers fear for future as jobless figures point to recession - Kathryn Hopkins, The Guardian
  13/08/2008 - Unemployment figures out today will add to fears that the UK is about to enter recession for the first time since the early 1990s... The OECD predicted last month that UK unemployment was likely to rise by more than 100,000, sending the jobless rate up to about 5.8% by the end of next year.  (OECD report)
• Job shortage for unskilled youths - BBC News
  09/07/2008 - ...A report from the OECD shows worsening conditions for poorly-qualified 16 to 24 year olds. (OECD report)
• Unskilled faring worse internationally - Natasha Gilbert, The Guardian
  09/07/2008 - ...But more highly qualified young people find work than their counterparts in many other countries, says the figures in a report from the OECD, out today. (OECD report)
• Recession threat as UK jobs vanish - Richard Blackden, The Daily Telegraph
  07/07/2008 - ...This snapshot of the labour market follows hot on the heels of a warning from the OECD that unemployment in Britain will rise by 100,000 over the next two years. (OECD report)
• In Canada, we work hard for the money - Eric Beauchesne, National Post
  02/07/2008 - ..."Labour market discrimination is still a big obstacle," said OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria. "Many workplaces not only have a glass ceiling but also a glass door, which keeps out women and ethnic minorities." (OECD report)
• Waging War On Wages - Vidya Ram, Forbes
  03/07/2008 - ...The OECD predicts that the number of unemployed in its 30-member nations will rise by one million this year and by two million in 2009. (OECD report)
• OECD: Thinktank predicts Britain's unemployment will rise by more than 100,000 - Ashley Seager, The Guardian
  03/07/2008 - Unemployment in Britain is likely to rise by more than 100,000 as a result of the credit crunch and slumping housing market, the OECD said yesterday. (OECD report)
• En 2008, les pays de l'OCDE compteront 1 million de chômeurs en plus - Rémi Barroux, Le Monde
  03/07/2008 - ...Dans son rapport Perspectives de l'emploi 2008, rendu public mercredi 2 juillet, l'organisation internationale prévoit une dégradation dans la plupart de ses trente pays membres. (Rapport OCDE)
• OECD gibt dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt schlechte Noten - Die Welt
  03/07/2008 - ...Unter den 30 OECD-Ländern wiesen 2007 lediglich Polen und die Slowakei noch höhere Quoten als Deutschland auf, geht aus dem Beschäftigungsausblick der OECD hervor. (OECD report)
• OECD: Japan Wasting Its Female Labor Power - Shu-Ching Jean Chen, Forbes
  03/07/2008 - ...The OECD made the assertion in its first report on the issue of discrimination. (OECD report)
• Report: Unemployment to Rise in OECD Countries - VOA News
  02/07/2008 - ...A report issued Wednesday shows the average unemployment rate in the 30 OECD countries rising to six percent next year, reversing the downward trend of past years. The OECD attributes increased joblessness to a worldwide economic slowdown. (OECD report)
• OECD-Studie: Zahl der Arbeitslosen wird steigen - Die Presse
  02/07/2008 - Der Arbeitsmarkt der OECD-Ländern hat sich in den letzten Jahren stark verbessert. 2007 ist die durchschnittliche Arbeitslosenquote auf 5,6 Prozent gefallen, in einigen Ländern ist das der niedrigste Wert seit den 1980er Jahren. (OECD report)
• OECD says unemployment to start rising this year as growth slows - Forbes
  02/07/2008 - The OECD said unemployment is expected to start increasing this year after declining steadily in recent years. (OECD report)

Energy

• 'We Live in an Era of High Energy Prices' - Spiegel 
  13/08/2008 - After rising for months, oil prices are now on the decline. Spiegel (Dieter Bednarz and Alexander Jung) spoke with Nobuo Tanaka the head of the IEA about the future of oil prices, the growing importance of nuclear power and the quantity of oil left in the world.
• IEA says oil price weighing on OECD demand - International Herald Tribune
  12/08/2008 - Oil prices will remain high despite their recent drop and are weighing on demand, especially in developed countries, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.The Paris-based energy watchdog said in its monthly report that it's too early to say whether the recent fall in oil prices is the start of a longer-term trend, as demand in developing countries could still offset declines in developed nations that are part of the OECD.
• Rubbish idea that could make driving cheaper - Catherine Boyle, The Times
  21/07/2008 - ...The OECD said this month that it believed that current biofuel production in North America and the European Union did little to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. (OECD report)
• Die Biospritbranche steht vor dem Ruin - Die Welt
  18/07/2008 - ...Als dann vor wenigen Monaten auch noch Greenpeace gemeinsam mit der Weltbank und der OECD den Biodiesel für den Hunger in der Welt verantwortlich machte, war es um die Branche geschehen. Der Direktor der OECD Stefan Tangermann sagte: "Die weltweit hohen Preise für Weizen und Mais sind auch eine Folge der Politik in den reichen Ländern. Das ist überhaupt keine Frage." (OECD report)
• Les agrocarburants accusés de tous les maux - Christian Losson, Libération
  17/07/2008 - Biocarburants = biocatastrophe ? Un nouveau rapport réalisé par l’OCDE flingue une alternative présentée un peu vite comme révolutionnaire. Moratoire ? Le mot ne figure pas dans le rapport. Ou a été gommé. Mais le constat, accablant, revient au même. (Rapport OCDE)
• OECD report says massive biofuel subsidies not helping to cut greenhouse gases - International Herald Tribune
  16/07/2008 - Massive government subsidies for biofuels are not helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to an OECD report released Wednesday. (OECD report)
• Biofuel Aid Worth $11 Billion Called Ineffective at Cutting CO2 - Jeremy van Loon, Bloomberg
  16/07/2008 - The U.S., Canada and the European Union's combined $11 billion in annual subsidies for plant- derived fuels does little to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions, the OECD said. (OECD report)
• OECD blasts biofuels as costly, ineffective - The Bangkok Post
  16/07/2008 - Government support of the production of biofuels is costly and has only a limited impact on the reduction of greenhouse gases, the OECD said Wednesday. (OECD report)
• Speculators are not to blame for oil, says IEA - Carl Mortished, The Times
  02/07/2008 - The oil market is tight and speculators are not to blame for the high price of crude, the IEA said in a detailed criticism of the call for action against speculators in the crude oil futures market.
• South Korea gets serious about reducing its dependence on foreign oil - Sarah J. Wachter, International Herald Tribune
  20/06/2008 - ...That has put pressure on the Korean currency, the won, which by mid-June had lost about 11 percent of its value against the dollar so far this year, adding to the pain of high oil prices, said Randall Jones, an economist at the OECD.
  

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

• Conquering the World's Waste Mountains - Planet Ark
  27/08/2008 - ...Countries such as Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark are among the best performers with least sent to landfills, according to the OECD.
• Wie wir unsere Nachfahren vor Atommüll warnen - Die Welt
  16/07/2008 -  ..."Wir dürfen keine Endlager einrichten, die völlig abgeschnitten sind von bewohnten Gebieten", sagt Claude Pescatore, Atomexperte bei der OECD.
• High water marks for city - John Schmid, Journal Sentinel
  05/07/2008 - ...The OECD in Paris projects that 47% of the world’s population will live with scarce or unhealthy water by 2030.
• L'OCDE veut des actes contre le réchauffement - Marc-André Miserez, Swissinfo
  01/06/2008 - Il y a deux mois, l'OCDE publiait un rapport censé réveiller les gouvernements face à l'urgence climatique. Cette semaine, pour son Forum annuel à Paris, l'OCDE en débat avec la société civile.
• Desalination, for a World Short of Water - Vaughan Scully, Business Week
  21/05/2008 - ...Already, 2.8 billion people—or 44% of the world's population—live in areas of high water stress, according to a March report by the OECD. (OECD report)
• 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.
  

Finance

• IMF deal on foreign wealth funds - BBC News
  03/09/2008 - ...The OECD has said that any moves against sovereign wealth funds would be hypocritical, since Western governments have long urged other countries to open their markets to foreign investment.
• Regulator role in crisis up for debate -  David Uren, The Australian
  21/07/2008 - ...What role did banking regulators play in the financial crisis still sweeping the globe?
  A primary cause _ according to the OECD's deputy director of financial markets, Adrian Blundell-Wignall.
• Battle of the Bulges: Obesity, Financial Illiteracy and the Role of Behavior - Jamie Zimmerman, The New America Foundation
  28/05/2008 - ...At the high-level International Conference on Financial Education host this month by the US Department of Treasury and the OECD, INSEAD Professor Klaus Wertenbroch presented is research on psychological biases in financial decision-making.
• 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.
• 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.”
  

Health

• Do the French do it better? - BBC News
  03/07/2008 - ...Valerie Paris, a health economist at the OECD, says: "In France the access to physicians and hospitals is easier than in the UK. We don't have waiting lists."
• 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)
  

Information Technology

• Addressing the growth of the net - Bill Thompson, BBC News
  20/08/2008 - Regular commentator Bill Thompson sees no reason to worry about the future of the internet... When the OECD announced that we will run out of network addresses in 2010 or early 2011, describing the situation as "critical for the future of the Internet economy" and likely to affect "all businesses that require IP addresses for their growth" it generated a lot of attention on and off-line.
• Waiting for the internet meltdown - Mark Harris, The Times
  06/07/2008 - ...The end of the internet is nigh - and in less than three years, according to the OECD.
• The world's most wired countries - International Herald Tribune
  01/07/2008 - Forbes - ...The OECD publishes an annual report on broadband growth and policies among its member countries.
• 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.
• Britain finally signs up to making government data free for re-use - Michael Cross, The Guardian
  26/06/2008 - ...The commitment to make public sector information free, or charge no more than the marginal cost of maintaining and distributing the extra copy, appears in the Seoul declaration for the future of the internet economy, signed in the South Korean capital last week. The UK was one of nearly 40 countries to endorse the declaration, drawn up by the OECD club of developed nations.
• Cybercrime risk to the internet economy - Ambrose McNevin, Computing
  18/06/2008 - Government ministers from across the world have issued a call for greater vigilance against cybercrime at the close of meeting on the future of the internet economy.
• Le coût exorbitant de l'usurpation d'identité sur le Net - Eric Nunès, Le Monde
  18/06/2008 - L'usurpation d'identité en ligne devient un mal majeur sur le Net. Une épidémie qui trouble tant le cyber-commerce planétaire qu'elle devait être analysée par les représentants des pays membres de l'OCDE, lors d'une conférence ministérielle sur le "Futur de l'économie" sur Internet, les 17 et 18 juin à Séoul.
• Lee Calls Internet 'Double-Edged Sword' - Kim Yon-se, The Korea Times
  17/06/2008 - Lee made the remarks in a speech at the opening session of the two-day OECD Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, with global leaders warning that pressing issues such as Internet security and a growing information gap pose a significant threat to the future of the emerging Internet-based economy.
• No Vacancy: Make Room for New Internet Addresses - The Korea Times
  17/06/2008 - ...But when the OECD Ministerial Meeting on The Future of the Internet Economy takes place in Seoul, Korea, discussions about those underlying technologies and systems will be front and center.
• OECD IT Ministerial Meeting Kicks off in Korea - Telecoms Korea
  17/06/2008 - The 2008 OECD Ministerial Meeting on information technology kicked off in Seoul Tuesday, bringing together more than 2,500 IT experts and officials from around the world to discuss how the Internet can play a role in aiding economic growth.
• 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.
• OECD teams with YouTube to build a better world - IT Wire
  30/05/2008 - ...In June the OECD will hold a ministerial meeting on the Future of the Internet in Seoul. It will be attended by at least 40 ministers from OECD member countries along with leaders from international government organisations, business, organised labour, the Internet's technical community and civil society.
• The broadband myth - The Economist
  23/05/2008 - ...The OECD regularly releases a ranking of broadband penetration, speeds and prices across its 30 countries.
  

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

• French illegal workers' strike puts their value to test - Celestine Bohlen, International Herald Tribune
  27/05/2008 - Bloomberg - ...These workers do jobs the French don't want to do. The hotel and restaurant industries have 35,000 to 40,000 vacancies, employers say, even though the French jobless rate is 7.8 percent, one of the highest in Europe, according to the OECD.
• 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

• OECD says FDI outflows expected to fall sharply in 2008 - Forbes
  24/06/2008 - The OECD said foreign direct investment outflows from member countries are projected to fall sharply in 2008.
• 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.

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.

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)
  

Science and Innovation

• OECD issues final report for nanotechnology standards workshop - Nanowerk News
  28/07/2008 - ...In the area of nanomaterials characterization, there is a need for clarity in the identification of measurands related to several materials properties, including those corresponding to endpoints addressed by the OECD Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials’ Sponsorship Programme for the Testing of Manufactured Nanomaterials.
• Could nuclear warheads go off 'like popcorn'? - Rob Edwards, New Scientist
  26/06/2008 - ...Stefan Michalowski, a senior scientist at the OECD in Paris, France, who researched warhead safety at Stanford University in California in the 1990s, is concerned about the risks of an extreme event such as a firefight with direct gunshots. "The explosion of a boatload of missiles in a port would be an unimaginable catastrophe," he says. "It's a very, very scary thought."
• 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. 
  

Social Issues

• An older population demands new thinking - James Forsyth, Daily Telegraph
  24/08/2008 - .Every time Britain looks on the mirror she is a little greyer.. According to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics there are now more pensioners than under-16s in this country... There are three main worries about an aging population. First, the dependency ratio - the number of working people to non-working people - gets skewed. The OECD projects that the ratio of the inactive population over 65 to the total workforce will go from 31 per cent to 51 per cent between now and 2030.
• El coste laboral sube un 2,7% en España y merma la ya deteriorada competitividad - ABC
  19/08/2008 - El sector industrial sigue perdiendo competitividad debido al aumento de los costes laborales, que crecieron un 2,7% en un año en España según datos de la OCDE.
• OECD Unit Labor Costs Picked Up Strongly In 1Q - Paul Hannon, Dow Jones Newswires
  18/08/2008 - The growth of unit labor costs picked up in most developing economies during the first three months of this year, setting alarm bells ringing at central banks. The OECD Monday said that in its 30 member economies, unit labor costs in industry rose 0.5% on the quarter, compared with a 0.1% increase in the final three months of 2007.
• Abstieg von Staats wegen - Dorothea Siems, Die Welt
  20/05/2008 - ...Die OECD hatte im vergangenen Herbst ebenfallsgerügt, dass die Steuer- und Abgabenbelastung in Deutschland im unteren und mittleren Einkommensbereich Spitzenwerte erreiche.
• Mindestlohn und Marmeladenbrot - Der Spiegel
  19/05/2008 - ...Allerdings: Die Steuergesetze allein sind nicht das Problem, wie "Kalix" schreibt: "Es gibt kein Argument, das widerspricht, wenn die 'Reichen' gleich hoch oder niedrig besteuert werden, wie dies innerhalb der OECD üblich ist.
• 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.
  

Taxation

• Taxmen are cracking down on executives abroad - Economist.com
  19/08/2008 - ... A new approach to taxation being adopted by OECD countries is creating a big headache for both peripatetic businesspeople and the firms that employ them. The OECD’s guidelines to its model income tax treaty, which are the basis for much national legislation governing the tax treatment of workers moving across borders, state that a person’s activities should be taxed wherever they take place
• US Corporate Taxes Now 50% Higher Than OECD Average - Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com
  15/08/2008 - A new study by the OECD has shown that the United States is effectively moving backwards in terms of corporate tax competitiveness with its continued failure to lower rates.
  The OECD study shows that for the 17th consecutive year, the average rate of corporate taxes in non-US countries fell while the US corporate tax rate stayed the same. 
• Liechtenstein Plans More Tax Cooperation, Alois Says - Marc Wolfensberger, Bloomberg
  15/08/2008 - Liechtenstein plans to take more steps to facilitate cooperation with other countries on tax evasion, Crown Prince Alois said...  Liechtenstein, Monaco and Andorra are on a list of ``uncooperative tax havens'' published by the Paris-based OECD. Germany wants to force countries with strict bank-secrecy rules to disclose information about the identity of account holders, and favors EU-wide implementation of OECD tax guidelines
• Liechtenstein signals tax reform - BBC News
  15/08/2008 - Liechtenstein, which has been at the centre of an international row over tax evasion, has announced that it will co-operate more fully on tax matters. It said it would offer "comprehensive co-operation" in future, but would maintain its "culture of privacy"...  It has been on an international list of "unco-operative tax havens". The OECD had named Liechtenstein as one of only three states remaining on its blacklist.
• Steueraffäre kann Liechtenstein nichts anhaben - Detlef Gürtler, Die Welt
  21/07/2008 - ...Als Mitte 2000 die Einsatztruppe der OECD für den Kampf gegen Geldwäsche ihre erste schwarze Liste nicht kooperativer Staaten veröffentlichte, stand Liechtenstein mit 14 anderen Staaten am Pranger: Das Fürstentum war eine Art Schurkenstaat geworden, der einzige in Europa.
• 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.
• Que faire face aux paradis fiscaux ? - Elise Vincent, Le Monde
  08/07/2008 - ...Depuis 2002, l'OCDE a lancé un vaste programme - le Forum mondial pour la fiscalité - visant à instaurer une "équité et une concurrence loyale" en matière fiscale. A terme, le but est d'obliger les paradis fiscaux, par la négociation, à limiter leur "dumping fiscal".
• 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.
  

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.
  

Trade

• OECD: Doha collapse clouds world's future - By Carrie Berdon, The Australian
  08/08/2008 - The collapse of the Doha trade talks is "a major blow" and casts doubt over global efforts to tackle major issues, OECD secretary-general Angel Gurria says. Speaking at a globalisation conference in Sydney today, he urged better coordination between governments, a strong sense of political will and a clear accountability to deal with future challenges.
• 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.
• Letzte Runde für die Doha-Runde - Peter Deselaers, Deutsche Welle
  20/07/2008 - ...Nach Berechnungen der OECD bezogen die Landwirte der 30 OECD-Länder 2007 direkte und indirekte öffentliche Hilfen in Höhe von 258 Milliarden US-Dollar.
• Globalisation is good - Peter Mandelson, The Guardian
  09/06/2008 - ...Look at OECD data for the last 20 years and it is clear that where they have encouraged labour market flexibility, high levels of education and retraining, and helped women and older people stay in the workforce, strong welfare states have equipped countries for globalisation much better than weak ones.
• Trade debate rages at OECD meeting - Steve Schifferes, BBC News
  04/06/2008 - While the OECD discussed high-minded but long-term measures to tackle global warming and economic development, a fierce debate has been going on at the sidelines of the meeting over the growing protectionist pressures around the world.
• OECD says steel demand slowing in mature economies, strong in emerging markets - Forbes
  23/05/2008 - The OECD said steel demand in advanced economies is slowing but demand from emerging economies remains strong.

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...