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

About the OECD

• A crisis of statistics - Angel Gurría, European Voice
  27/10/2009 - We need our statistics to give a more accurate picture of society and the economy, writes the head of the OECD.
• Il n'y a pas de bonne relance sans intégrité - Angel Gurría, La Tribune
  18/08/2009 - Quand beaucoup d'argent public est dépensé d'un coup, comme c'est le cas avec les plans de relance budgétaire, il faut redoubler de vigilance. Pour assurer la transparence, la concurrence et la probité dans la passation des marchés publics, l'OCDE a élaboré des principes qui peuvent aider les gouvernements.
• Integrity and Fiscal Stimulus - Angel Gurría, The Globalist
  28/07/2009  - Weak governance and lack of transparency were some of the root causes of today’s financial turmoil. OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría explains how governments can safeguard integrity and avoid bias in public procurement as they spend massive stimulus packages.
• 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?
• L'OCDE veut rebâtir la confiance - Swissinfo
  22/06/2009 - «La crise et au delà: pour une économie plus forte, plus saine et plus juste»: après le réchauffement climatique l'an dernier, le thème du Forum et de la réunion ministérielle 2009 de l'OCDE s'est imposé de lui-même. Car le but est précisément d'empoigner les grandes questions du moment.
• The G20 Summit: A Critical Assessment - The Globalist
  07/04/2009 - ...The G20 decided to endorse the OECD approach of exchanging information about companies and individuals suspected of evading taxes on request, rather than the more stringent automatic exchange of information called for by the Tax Justice Network and others.
• Critiquée en Suisse, l'OCDE défend son travail - Swissinfo
  07/04/2009 - L'organisation installée à Paris revendique une impartialité totale et rejette l'idée de sanctions. Son secrétaire général, Angel Gurria, se défend de vouloir pénaliser les «petits pays».
• OECD head endorses China push for bigger IMF role - International Herald Tribune
  20/03/2009 - The head of the OECD, the club of rich countries, endorsed China's appeal for more say in global finance bodies Friday ahead of a summit of world leaders.
• 5 world financial organizations to strengthen ties - International Herald Tribune
  05/02/2009 - The Associated Press - ...In a joint statement issued after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the heads of the OECD, World Trade Organization, International Labor Organization, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank said they would, "strengthen their cooperation in support of a stronger, cleaner and fairer economy."

Ageing society

• Suffer the little children - The Economist
  25/06/2009 - ...Anna Cristina d’Addio, an expert on fertility policy at the OECD in Paris, thinks they will probably have fewer children in total than if they had started earlier, even though more of them now give birth in their 40s.
• A slow-burning fuse - The Economist
  25/06/2009 - ...The OECD has estimated that over the next three decades the age-related decline in the labour force could cut growth in its member countries by a third compared with the previous three decades.
  

Agriculture

• Agriculture should reap long-term benefits - Garry White, Daily Telegraph
  18/06/2009 - This week, the United Nations' FAO and the OECD released their Agricultural Outlook for the years 2009-2018. (OECD report)
• Study Finds Prices for Crops Ease - Matthew Saltmarsh, The New York Times
  17/06/2009 - The report was prepared by the OECD and the United Nations FAO. (OECD report)
• Farming 'resilient to recession' - BBC News
  17/06/2009 - Output and consumption will fall less if recovery starts within three years, say the OECD and the UN's FAO. (OECD report)
• Les prix agricoles devraient rester soutenus sur les dix prochaines années - Laetitia Clavreul, Le Monde
  17/06/2009 - ...Les bonnes récoltes de 2008, la chute du pétrole et la crise économique ne suffisent pas à inverser la tendance, selon un rapport publié par l'OCDE et l'Organisation pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture, mercredi 17 juin. (OECD report)
• La OCDE destaca el potencial del medio rural para afrontar la crisis - Europa Press
  16/02/2009 - El secretario general de la OCDE, Ángel Gurría, advirtió hoy de que las zonas rurales "no se escapan" del impacto de la crisis, pero destacó que su "enorme" potencial económico abre una oportunidad "excepcional" para la recuperación de la economía.
• Espinosa aboga por una agricultura que favorezca la biodiversidad - El Economista
  16/02/2009 - En la presentación del informe de la OCDE sobre política rural en España MADRID, 16 (SERVIMEDIA) La ministra de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino, Elena Espinosa, abogó hoy por una agricultura que incorpore funciones a favor de la biodiversidad, el paisaje y el bienestar para el conjunto de la sociedad Espinosa realizó estas declaraciones en la presentación del informe de la OCDE sobre política rural en España, según informa el ministerio en nota de prensa.
  

Corporate Governance

• OECD exec welcomes RP transparency effort - BusinessWorld
  15/09/2009 - The OECD has urged policy makers to join in the fight against tax havens as Congress gears up to deliberate legislation mandating improved transparency. OECD Deputy Secretary General Pier Carlo Padoan who was in Manila for a forum on governance, last week said the Philippines had taken big steps in pursuing legislation aimed at allowing the exchange of tax information.
• Corporate governance revisited - Tristan H. Macapanpan, BusinessWorld
  In the past decade or so, corporate governance has been given special attention by various entities, including regulatory bodies and academic institutions... A 2009 OECD report ("Corporate Governance Lessons from the Financial Crisis" by Grant Kirkpatrick) analyzed the impact of the weaknesses and failures in corporate governance on the financial crisis.
• 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.
  

Fighting Corruption

• Fraud Office takes on BAE: Cleaning up in a murky business - Chandrashekhar Krishnan, Daily Telegraph
  02/10/2009 - ...Since ratifying the 1997 OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, the United Kingdom has fallen behind other G7 countries in investigating and prosecuting companies for foreign bribery.
• The firm with a 'back door key to Number 10' - Andy McSmith, The Independent
  02/10/2009 - ...In 2001, a year after that Hawk spare parts deal, a convention against bribery drawn up by the OECD, was incorporated in UK law. The convention bans bribery even where the national interest or good relations between friendly governments are at stake.
• China Inc taps into seam of bribery - Olivia Chung, Asia Times
  18/08/2009 - ...The rod to the backs of most overseas businessmen is a convention adopted by the 30-member OECD that prohibits the bribing of foreign public officials.
• Good ideas, but you're out of time - Michael White, The Guardian
  26/03/2009 - ...Corporate interests and practical politics will guarantee that a further weakness - a lack of extra resources for reorganisation of rival agencies (Serious Fraud Office, National Criminal Intelligence Service, etc) - is conspicuous by its absence. The OECD and other critics identify it as part of the problem.
• Swiss finance minister: UBS case not the end for banking secrecy - David Gow, The Guardian
  19/02/2009 - ...Gordon Brown has embarked on a mini-EU tour, ahead of the G20 summit he will chair in London on April 2, to drum up support for the clamp-down, which is being co-ordinated globally among tax authorities through the OECD. He has identified Switzerland — excluded from a recent top-level OECD meeting — as a serious culprit.
• Welcome to 2009: the year of the regulator - Michael Herman, The Times
  02/01/2009 - ...Last year saw a number of successful SFO bribery cases. Crucially, the British Government has responded to criticism from the OECD and other commentators and proposed a new Bribery Bill.
  

Development

• African economic growth rate to halve amid global crisis; reforms to help rebound - Celean Jacobson, The Canadian Press
  28/07/2009 -  The 2009 African Economic Outlook finds that after half a decade of above five per cent economic growth, the continent can expect only 2.8 per cent growth in 2009. The annual report covers 47 of the 53 African countries and is a key document that influences government policy and donor spending. It was produced jointly by the Development Center of the Paris-based OECD made up of countries from the developed world, and the African Development Bank with support by the economic agencies of the United Nation and the European Commission.
• Breaking even - Property iafrica
  28/07/2009 - Economic growth in South Africa is expected to fall to 1.1 per cent in 2009 due to the impact of the global economic crisis on demand for its mineral exports compounded by a contraction in private consumption and investment, according to an OECD report on Monday.
  The report notes that economic growth in Southern Africa registered 5.2 percent in 2008, down from seven percent in 2007. It is expected to slow dramatically in 2009 to 0.2 percent before recovering to 4.6 percent in 2010.
• Düstere Aussichten für Afrika? - Deutsche Welle
  12/05/2009 - Einmal im Jahr veröffentlicht die OECD einen Bericht zu den wirtschaftlichen Aussichten Afrikas. Nun prognostiziert er einen starken Wachstumsrückgang als Folge der Weltwirtschaftskrise. Doch es gibt Hoffnung. (OECD report)
• OECD says African Economic Growth Will be Cut by Half - Lisa Bryant, Voice of America
  11/05/2009 - A new report by the OECD predicts Africa's economic growth will be cut in half this year and political tensions may soar as the continent struggles with the global economic downturn. But the Paris-based organization also says Africa is in better shape to deal with the crisis than a decade ago. (OECD report)
• "Brutales Absacken" - Silvia Liebrich, Süddeutsche Zeitung
  11/05/2009 - Die OECD sieht darin eine ernsthafte Gefahr für die politische Stabilität des Kontinents. Besonders problematisch sei die Lage in Ländern wie Sudan, Guinea, Somalia, Madagaskar und Zimbabwe. (OECD report)
• Aid in the downturn: In need of more - The Economist
  04/03/2009 - ...A rising tide of economic nationalism makes the practice of giving recipient countries more control over the funds they receive less appealing. The OECD reckons this is one aspect of aid reform where considerable progress has been made since 2001.
• Davos, the Poor, and the Crash of '08  - Laurie A. Garrett, Council on Foreign Relations
  09/02/2009 - ...Given Italy's example, it is tempting to conclude that Rwanda's Kagame is correct--the wealthy will use the economic catastrophe as an excuse to cut aid. OECD's Gurria counters that to date, only Italy has made such a move, and most donor nations claim they will maintain support for global health and development efforts through 2009.
• Foreign aid to survive cutbacks - Mark Dodd, The Australian
  05/02/2009 - ..."This aid should translate into real benefits both to the partner countries and to Australia in terms of a more prosperous and stable neighbourhood," said OECD report chief, Eckhard Deutscher, in Canberra.
  

Economics

• A Better Measure than GDP - Stephan Faris, Time Magazine
  02/11/2009 - ...Focusing on economic growth blinds policymakers to other measures of progress. "If a policy is going to hurt GDP then it's difficult for that policy to survive," says Jon Hall, who is overseeing a search for better measures of progress by the OECD.
• A crisis of statistics - Angel Gurría, European Voice
  27/10/2009 - We need our statistics to give a more accurate picture of society and the economy, writes the head of the OECD.
• OECD World Forum to talk quality, not quantity - The Korea Herald
  21/10/2009 - The upcoming World Forum in Busan will serve as a great opportunity to introduce the Korean economy's growth in terms of quality, Yi In-sill, commissioner of the National Statistical Office, said yesterday.
• Global Recession Is Over, Says OECD - BusinessWeek
  14/09/2009 - The Paris-based organization of wealthy nations sees "clear signs of recovery" in the top seven Western countries and key emerging economies The global downturn was effectively declared over yesterday, with the OECD revealing that "clear signs of recovery are now visible" in all seven of the leading Western economies, as well as in each of the key "Bric" nations.
• Signes forts de reprise dans la plupart des économies de l'OCDE - Marc Joanny, Le Point
  11/09/2009 - Des signes forts de reprise sont perceptibles dans la plupart des économies de l'OCDE, selon les indicateurs composites avancés pour le mois de juillet publiés par l'OCDE.
• Is the world really on the road to a full recovery? - Ruth Sunderland, The Observer
  06/09/2009 - The timing could not have been worse for Alistair Darling. Just as the chancellor prepared to host a meeting of fellow G20 finance ministers in London, the OECD spoiled his day by saying the UK would emerge from recession behind other countries.
• George Osborne: electioneering is putting confidence in Britain's economy at risk - George Osborne, Daily Telegraph
  05/09/2009 - As G20 finance ministers meet in London today, the OECD is forecasting that the host country will be the only major economy to see no growth at all this year.
• Europe and America's economies to beat UK, OECD says - Harry Wallop, Daily Telegraph
  04/09/2009 - The OECD, an influential group of the world's richest countries, has updated its forecasts for the world's seven biggest economies.
• UK economic outlook deteriorates: OECD forecasts - Daily Telegraph
  03/09/2009 - The OECD said the UK economy would shrink by 4.7 per cent this year – worse than its 4.3 per cent forecast in June and will not return to growth until 2010.
• Why Are Germany and Japan Beating the Recession? - Stefan Theil, Newsweek
  20/08/2009 - ...This week, unexpected OECD data showed Japan growing 0.9 percent in the second quarter. That's on top of the surprise news last week that Germany and France each grew 0.3 percent from April to June, after the consensus predicted another contraction.
• Wave of optimism heralds a return to worldwide growth - Sean O'Grady, The Independent
  19/08/2009 - OECD says world's 30 leading economies have stopped contracting; Bank of England and CBI see signs that the British economy is stabilising. (OECD report)
• OECD says rich nations stabilised - BBC News
  19/08/2009 - The OECD has said the economies of its members stabilised in the last quarter. (OECD report)
• Can the G-8 Help L'Aquila Recover? - Jeff Israely, Time Magazine
  07/07/2009 - ...Mario Pezzini, a director at the Paris-based OECD, who helped spearhead a recent OECD conference between government and university officials in L'Aquila and international experts on projects to restore the area's economy, sees an opportunity to rethink the very concept of worldwide disaster response.

Education

• So where will education axe fall? - BBC News
  02/10/2009 - ...However, recent figures from the OECD might help the next government identify which areas of education are relatively well funded compared to spending patterns in other countries.
• OECD Education at a Glance Report: UK Compares Well Against Other OECD Countries - eGov monitor
  09/09/2009 - The DCSF ministers while responding to the OECD Report pointed to a positive analysis across the education system – from pre-primary education to higher education – and said that this independent report recognised the benefits of prioritising education. (OECD report)
• Education policies can spur recovery, study shows - EUobserver
  09/09/2009 - National governments need to invest in education as the economies move out of recession because the demand for highly trained workers will be higher, OECD's annual study on education shows. (OECD report)
• OECD comparison report: Finns educate themselves longer and longer - Helsingin Sanomat
  09/09/2009 - According to a report published by the OECD, Finns over 20 years of age attend education clearly more than young people in OECD countries on average. (OECD report)
• UK urged to increase investment in higher education - Phil Baty, Times Higher Education
  08/09/2009 - ...Angel Gurria, OECD secretary general, said: “As we emerge from the global economic crisis, demand for higher education will be higher than ever. To the extent that institutions are able to respond, investments in human capital will contribute to recovery.” (OECD report)
• University 'way out of recession' - BBC
  08/09/2009 - Extra university places should be funded as a way out of recession and unemployment, says the OECD. (OECD report)
• Spending cuts would jeopardise UK's education reputation, study warns - Polly Curtis, The Guardian
  08/09/2009 - UK schools and universities risk being left behind if recession leads to reduced investment, says global OECD report. (OECD report)
• UK slides in university league, says OECD - Graeme Paton, Daily Telegraph
  08/09/2009 - Teenagers in Britain are less likely to go to university than their counterparts in Slovakia as the UK slides down a major international league table complied by the OECD. (OECD report)
• Invest in education to beat recession - OECD - The Inquirer
  08/09/2009 - Investing in higher education will help states move out of recession and also bring lifelong financial rewards to people who choose to study for longer, the OECD said in a report Tuesday. (OECD report)
• Good teachers given no incentive - Justine Ferrari, The Australian
  17/06/2009 - ...The first international study comparing teaching and learning, released last night by the OECD, found Australian teachers reported one of the lowest rates of rewarding or recognising effective or innovative teaching. (OECD report)
• Pupil misbehaviour is an international problem - The Guardian
  16/06/2009 - What claims to be the first international survey to focus on the working conditions of teachers in schools has found that students disrupt lessons all over the world. (OECD report)
• Weltweite Klagen über Rüpel-Schüler - Der Spiegel
  16/06/2009 - Ungezogene Schüler und desinteressierte Kollegen und Vorgesetzte machen Lehrern international am stärksten zu schaffen. Das zeigt die Talis-Studie der OECD. Deutschland nahm nicht teil, weil die Kultusminister nicht wollten. Die GEW startete aber eine eigene Umfrage. (OECD report)
• Lehrermangel immer dramatischer - Handelsblatt
  16/06/2009 - Die Situation an deutschen Schulen ist zwei neuen Studien zufolge besorgniserregend. Über 300 000 Pädagogen werden nach Berechnungen des Bildungsforschers Klaus Klemm allein bis 2015 aus Altersgründen ausscheiden. Und diejenigen, die im Dienst sind, sind häufig schlecht auf den Schulalltag vorbereitet, so eine OECD-Untersuchung. (OECD report)
  

Employment

• The Lost Generation - Peter Coy, BusinessWeek
  08/10/2009 - ...The system for moving young people into the workforce was functioning poorly in many nations even before the global economic downturn began, says a new report from the OECD. The 26-page report, called "Helping Youth to Get a Firm Foothold in the Labour Market," was prepared for an OECD meeting in Paris on Sept. 28-29.
• Call for action on unemployment - BBC News
  29/09/2009 - The OECD has called for innovative policies to tackle high global unemployment.
• OCDE pide contener los despidos - Roberto Jiménez, Excelsior
  29/09/2009 - ...Al igual que enfrentaron la crisis financiera internacional, los gobiernos deben enfocarse en impulsar medidas orientadas a limitar el creciente desempleo, afirmó ayer José Ángel Gurría, secretario general de la OCDE.
• OECD Says Governments Must Shift Focus From Economy To Jobs - MorningStar/DowJones
  29/09/2009 - ... "Over the past year, we have seen an unprecedented global effort dedicated to curing the financial crisis and boosting aggregate demand. This global effort has worked," OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria said, opening a two-day ministerial meeting at the think-tank's Paris headquarters.
• L'OCDE appelle les gouvernements à réagir à la crise de l'emploi - Easybourse.com
  29/09/2009 - ... L'OCDE a appelé lundi 28 septembre ses membres à tourner leur attention vers la crise de l'emploi plutôt que vers la crise économique et financière.
• Recession 'may see 25m jobs lost' - BBC News
  16/09/2009 - The OECD says the global recession could cost 25 million people their jobs. (OECD report)
• OECD says Unemployment Will Continue to Rise - Lisa Bryant, Voice of America
  16/09/2009 - Despite reports that many industrialized economies are beginning to emerge from their worst economic crisis in decades, unemployment is rising and will likely reach a historic peak of nearly 10 percent next year. The findings come from the OECD in Paris. (OECD report)
• High Jobless Rates Could Last Years, O.E.C.D. Warns - Matthew Saltmarsh, New York Times
  16/09/2009 - Unless government programs for the unemployed are refined, there is a danger that high jobless rates will persist beyond 2010 in advanced economies, the OECD warned on Wednesday. (OECD report)
• Governments must take urgent action to prevent unemployment crisis, OECD warns - Angela Monaghan, Daily Telegraph
  16/09/2009 - The OECD forecast that the unemployment rate, as measured by the OECD, could hit a new post World War II high of 10pc, with 57m people out of work. The current OECD rate is 8.5pc, compared with 7.9pc in Britain. “We cannot claim victory simply because certain economic indicators improve. (OECD report)

Energy

• Oil demand falls at fastest rate since 1982, says BP - Sarah Arnott, The Independent
  11/06/2009 - ...Total worldwide consumption dropped by 0.6 per cent – equivalent to 420,000 barrels per day (bpd) – and demand from developing economies, particularly China, outstripped that from OECD countries for the first time.
• Energy price cuts fail to help hundreds of thousands in fuel poverty - Myra Butterworth, Daily Telegraph
  19/02/2009 - ...Figures from the OECD reveal that energy prices in Britain have increased by 16.7 per cent over the past year.
  

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

• World forum backs water as 'basic need' - EurActiv
  24/03/2009 - ...According to the OECD, around 880 million people do not have access to a decent source of drinking water and 2.5 billion people do not have access to proper sanitation.
• Billion people face famine by mid-century, says top US scientist - Lewis Smith, The Times
  23/03/2009 - ...Even wealthy countries like Britain and the United States, said Dr Fedoroff, will struggle to feed many of their citizens, with the poorest in society likely to suffer the most. “I think that’s what we are facing,” she told The Times on a brief visit to London before heading to a OECD conference in Paris later this week, where she will call on governments to do more to guard against food shortages in the coming decades.
• Managing water is the real issue, says OECD - Hürriyet
  18/03/2009 - The OECD, which has been working for the effective management of water resources for the past two years, releases a report called ’Managing Water for All: An OECD Perspective in Pricing and Financing.’
• World Water Forum Opens To Address Deepening Crisis - Easybourse
  16/03/2009 - Dowjones - ...The need for better management of water "is becoming more urgent," the head of the OECD, Angel Gurria, warned in a report to be issued on Tuesday. "We witness increasing pressure, competition and, in some regions, even conflict over the use of water resources. Poor governance and inadequate investment are resulting in billions of people not having access to water and sanitation services."
  

Finance

• PM hopes G20 will back plans to end banking secrecy - Patrick Wintour, The Guardian
  03/03/2009 - ...Countries placed on an OECD blacklist are put at a disadvantage in terms of mutual cooperation and recognition of jurisdictions.
• "No talk of putting Switzerland on blacklist" - Swissinfo
  02/03/2009 - ...Negotiations on greater transparency have been going on at the OECD for an extremely long time.
• La leçon des fonds souverains - Philippe Delmas et Alain Bauer, Les Echos
  25/01/2009 - ...La note attribuée par des économistes américains ne dépasse pas 5 sur 20 pour la plupart des fonds du Moyen-Orient et à peine la moyenne en Asie, contre 18 en Norvège. Combiné avec les ambitions politiques de certains des Etats propriétaires, cela nourrit les fantasmes. Cependant, le FMI a émis des directives précises à ce sujet en 2008, qui seront complétées par l'OCDE en 2009, afin de remédier à cette lacune.
• One Regulator To Rule Them All - Javier Espinoza, Forbes
  14/01/2009 - Head of OECD says European banks need a "single regulator," highlights Gordon Brown's ability to unite initiatives.
• OECD blames weak bank regulation for financial crisis - Patrick Hosking, The Times
  09/01/2009 - ...A “gobsmacking” weakness in the way banks are regulated led to the current financial crisis, the OECD says today. The club of rich nations, in its twice-yearly financial review, blasted the regulatory framework as “very poor” because not only did it fail to prevent the crisis but also contributed to it.
• One 'bad bank' may allow the rest to be good - David Wighton, The Times
  09/01/2009 - ...As the OECD says today, omitting to remove the bad debts on bank balance sheets before recapitalising them could prove to have been a mistake for the UK.
• Interest rate cut to lowest for 300 years - Robert Winnett, Daily Telegraph
  09/01/2009 - ...The OECD indicated that the Government may have to consider buying up bad debts from the banks. The OECD believe that the economic crisis may be "dragged out for a longer period of time" without such action.
  

Health

• Too Few Doctors? - Catherine Rampell, The New York Times
  02/07/2009 - The United States spends more money per person, and a larger share of its gross domestic product, on health care than any other country in the OECD — by a long shot. There are many, many explanations. (OECD report)
• Swiss spend more on health than most - Swissinfo
  02/07/2009 - Switzerland ranks third in health spending in industrialised countries, according a study produced by the OECD. (OECD report)
• Spitäler unter der Lupe - Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  03/02/2009 - ...Laut OECD sei die Qualität in den Schweizer Spitälern zwar gut. Es gebe aber keine Kriterien, nach welchen die Patienten diese vergleichen könnten.
  

Information Technology

• Wide spread in global mobile fees - BBC News
  11/08/2009 - The OECD found that Canada, Spain and the US had the highest mobile charges.
• OECD: Mobile phone calls in Finland cheapest in major developed countries - Xinhua
  11/08/2009 - The OECD reported Tuesday that Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden have the cheapest mobile phone calls among the major developed countries.
• Cellphone talk isn't cheap - The Globe and Mail
  12/08/2009 - OECD ranks Canada third in 'medium-use' usage plans, and has far fewer subscribers than other nations. (OECD report)
• Australia has "most expensive" mobile broadband says OECD - Stuart Corner, ITWire
  11/08/2009 - The OECD has just released its mammoth "Communications Outlook for 2009" and it shows Australia as one of the most expensive countries for communications services in the OECD, in particular, Australia is the most expensive country for high usage mobile broadband. (OECD report)
• OECD: Broadband networks lead market recovery - Brett Winterford , ITNews
  31/07/2009  - A report released this week claimed the global ICT sector was showing signs of recovery, with investments in national broadband network plans forming a central component of government efforts to stimulate growth. The report, prepared by the OECD, said the global ICT sector is in a stronger position than it was at the end of the dotcom bust.
• OECD sees signs of tech turnaround - Matthew Broersma, ZDNet.
  31/07/2009 - The global ICT industry is showing signs of recovery from the economic downturn, according to a report by the OECD. The report, The Impact of the Crisis on ICTs and Their Role in the Recovery, found that while the ICT industry started off 2009 in a bad way, key indicators turned around in May and June.
• IT industry on road to recovery - Siobhan Chapman, ComputerworldUK
  28/07/2009 - The worst of the recession may be over for the Inforamtion and communications technology (ICT) industries, according to a new OECD report which compares the current economic crisis with the 201-2002 "dot-com bust"..
• Report Sees Recovery for Global Tech Firms - Eric Pfanner, New York Times
  27/07/2009 - The global technology industry may have passed a turning point, showing a marked recovery in recent weeks after an extraordinarily deep downturn, according to the OECD. Production of semiconductors, computers, mobile phones and other electronic equipment is still considerably below pre-crisis levels but has rebounded strongly from the end of 2008 and early 2009.
• The Man is in your virtual world - Aleks Krotoski, The Guardian
  06/02/2009 - ...Finally, all this is coming together in one happy event, next month in Paris. The OECD is hosting a Workshop on Innovation and Governance in Virtual Worlds, arranged by Lord Mandelson's BERR.
• Technology firms in the recession - The Economist
  15/01/2009 - ...More importantly, last time around the IT industry was not the victim of an economic crisis, but its cause, says Graham Vickery, author of the OECD report. (OECD report)
  

Insurance and Pensions

• OECD: Pension Funds Recoup Some Losses - Paul Hannon, Wall Street Journal
  27/10/2009 - Rising share prices have helped pension funds in developed economies reverse some of the massive losses they registered in 2008, although the value of their investments remained $3.9 trillion below the December 2007 level, the OECD said Monday.
• The OECD perspective - Global Pensions
  04/08/2009 - Emma Dunkley speaks to Edward Whitehouse, head of pension-policy analysis in the social policy division at the OECD about how pension funds around the world have coped with the economic crisis.
• We all know the pension system is broken. The question is how to fix it - Emma Simon, Daily Telegraph
  25/06/2009 - ...Then the OECD pointed out that Britain had the stingiest state pension in the Western world. It also noted that the value of pension pots in the UK fell by 17.5pc in the past year alone – thanks to falling share and property prices. (OECD report)
• Pensions crisis to hit millions of workers - Edmund Conway and Myra Butterworth, Daily Telegraph
  23/06/2009 - ...The OECD said Britain had the least generous state pension in the Western world, with the average worker receiving only 31 per cent of final salary in state support on retirement — the worst pension gap in the developed world. (OECD report)
• Pensioners short-changed by Government error - Rosa Prince, Daily Telegraph
  12/02/2009 - ...It comes as the OECD calls on governments to reform private pensions on the back of plummeting values on world stock markets. (OECD report)

International Migration

• Einwandererkinder mit schlechteren Job-Chancen - Die Zeit
  16/10/2009 - ...Dies ist das Ergebnis eines internationalen Vergleichs, den die OECD am Donnerstag in Berlin veröffentlichte.
• Einwandererkinder haben in Deutschland schlechte Jobchancen - Flora Wisdorff, Die Welt
  16/10/2009 - Nachkommen von Einwanderern haben in Deutschland deutlich schlechtere Chancen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt als junge Leute ohne ausländische Wurzeln. Das ergab eine Studie der OECD.
• Arbeitsmarkt: Migranten trotz Bildung benachteiligt - Die Presse
  16/10/2009 - ...Die OECD-Experten sehen einen Grund in der Erwartungshaltung des Arbeitsmarkts: Migranten in Österreich haben das Stigma der gering Qualifizierten, auch wenn das im Einzelfall dann gar nicht zutrifft.
• 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."
• Seven in 10 new jobs go to foreigners - Tom Whitehead, Daily Telegraph
  01/07/2009 - ...The major study, by the OECD, also warned that while migration may be falling during the recession, it is likely to pick up again once economies improve. (OECD report)
• Deutschland soll Zuwanderung fördern - Die Tageszeitung
  01/07/2009 - ...Die OECD warnt ihre Mitglieder vor einem deutlichen Rückgang von Arbeitsmigration in der Wirtschaftskrise.
• Der zerbrochene Traum vom besseren Leben in der Fremde - Florian Hassel, Die Welt
  01/07/2009 - ...Jetzt, in der Krise, werden sie mit zuerst entlassen, wie die OECD in ihrem neuen "Internationalen Migrationsszenario" feststellt.
• Migrant workers shun Britain and Ireland as jobs become scarcer - Heather Stewart, The Guardian
  30/06/2009 - Foreign migrants are shunning Britain and Ireland as recession makes jobs much harder to find, the OECD  finds in a new report, which urges rich countries to resist the temptation to pull up the drawbridge. In its annual International Migration Outlook, the Paris-based thinktank says the flow of workers to rich countries is likely to fall this year, for the first time since the 1980s.  (OECD report)

Investment

• Investment in western economies halves during global recession - Larry Elliott, The Guardian
  24/06/2009 - A collapse in cross-border mergers and acquisitions has prompted a 50% drop in foreign direct investment (FDI) into the leading western economies, the OECD said today. (OECD report)
  

Public Governance and Management

• Social spending faces cuts to clear debts, says OECD - Nicholas Timmins, Financial Times
  23/10/2009 - Spending on health, education and other social programmes will almost inevitably have to be cut as countries deal with the high levels of debt incurred in the financial crisis and recession, the OECD said -yesterday. (OECD report)
• OECD lobt deutsche Staatsquote - Tanja Kuchenbecker, Handelsblatt
  23/10/2009 - Die Krise zwingt die Regierungen der Industrieländer zu härteren Sparmaßnahmen. Das ist das Ergebnis von „Government at a Glance“, einer neuen Studienreihe der OECD. (OECD report)
• 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

• La OCDE sitúa a España en cabeza del esfuerzo por liberalizar mercados - Alejandro Bolanos, El Pais
  16/02/2009 - De un año a esta parte, la situación económica da muy pocas alegrías al vicepresidente segundo del Gobierno, Pedro Solbes. Ayer, sin embargo, las palabras del secretario general de la OCDE, Ángel Gurría, llevaron al vicepresidente económico a esbozar media sonrisa.
• La OCDE censura la independencia de los organismos reguladores en España - La Razon
  16/02/2009 - La OCDE instó hoy al Gobierno español a que mejore la independencia de los organismos reguladores sectoriales, al tiempo que alabó que España sea el séptimo país de la OCDE con mayor grado de competencia de sus mercados.
  

Science and Innovation

• MEPs back tougher rules for nanotechnology - Euractiv
  28/04/2009 - ...One of the key parts of our Long-range Research Initiative programme is to develop our contribution to the OECD's work and try to fill knowledge gaps in the testing and assessment of nanomaterials," Dr Klotz said.
• Rising in the East - The Economist
  30/12/2008 - ...The numbers highlight the rivalry between “new Asia” and “old Asia”, says Sacha Wunsch-Vincent of the OECD, one of the report’s authors.

Social Issues

• No cause for moral panic - The Independent
  05/09/2009 - ...The OECD report showed that the proportion of children living with both parents is lower in the UK than anywhere in the industrialised world apart from the United States, and that levels of under-age drunkenness and teenage pregnancy are at their highest here. These are all revealing indicators. (OECD report)
• High spending fails to improve child welfare, says OECD report - Owen Bowcott, The Guardian
  01/09/2009 - ...The report, by the Paris-based International OECD, points out that Britain, although moderately well placed in the rankings, has relatively high rates of teenage pregnancy, drunkenness and young people not in education, employment or training (neets). (OECD report)
• UK teenage girls 'worst drunks' - BBC News
  01/09/2009 - Young teenagers in the UK are more likely to get drunk than anywhere else in the industrial world, shows an international survey. (OECD report)
• Britain leads the world in under-age drinking, OECD study shows - Martin Beckford, Daily Telegraph
  01/09/2009 - ...The new report published by the OECD, a leading economic think tank, brings together data from 30 countries around the world about the welfare of the young. (OECD report)
• Schlechte Noten für deutsche Kinderförderung - Financial Times Deutschland
  01/09/2009 - Deutschland gibt viel Geld für seine Sprösslinge aus - dennoch kritisiert die Industrieländerorganisation OECD die Familienförderung. Kinderarmut und mangelnde Chancengleichheit seien weiter verbreitet als in anderen Staaten. (OECD report)
• Armut, Alk und Alphabet - Der Standard
  01/09/2009 - Die meisten armen Kinder leben in der Türkei - Österreichs Jugend zeigt hohe Selbstmord- und Raucherraten (OECD report)
• OECD Report: How We Live Now - M.J. Stephey, Time Magazine
  06/05/2009 - If you're looking for another reason to hate on France, you might check out the latest report from the OECD. According to the Paris-based group, the French spend twice as much time enjoying meals each day than most Americans, and get nearly an hour's more sleep each night than most Japanese (who averaged just 7.6 hours of shut-eye). (OECD report)
• Study: French tops in eating, drinking - CNN
  05/05/2009 - The French spend more time eating and drinking than anyone else among the world's wealthy nations, a new study reveals. The study, by the Paris-based OECD, found that the average French person spends nine hours sleeping every night, and spends two hours a day eating. (OECD report)

Taxation

• Poor Caymans. Poor little tax haven. Oh, boo-hoo - Kelly McParland, National Post
  09/09/2009 - ...A report earlier this year said the OECD had "removed the last holdouts Andorra, Lichtenstein and Monaco from its blacklist of 'uncooperative' tax havens.
• Paradis fiscaux : l'OCDE salue les progrès accomplis - Anne Cheyvialle, Le Figaro
  02/09/2009 - «Ce qui vient de se passer est rien de moins qu'une révolution». C'est sur cette note positive d'Angel Gurria, secrétaire général de l'OCDE, que s'est ouvert mardi à Mexico le Forum mondial sur l'échange de renseignements fiscaux.
• Liechtenstein signs taxation agreement with Luxembourg - Emma Hartley, Daily Telegraph
  31/08/2009 - ...Sarah Doig, the chargé d’affairs at the British embassy in Bern, which has responsibility for Liechtenstein as well as Switzerland, said that the movement for compliance with the OECD’s rules got more urgent in March at the G20 summit in London.
• 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.
• Now French quake as Switzerland yields on banking secrecy - Adam Sage, The Times
  28/08/2009 - ...The agreement comes as Berne tries to get itself removed from a grey list of financial centres failing to implement OECD standards on exchanging tax information.
• Pascal Saint-Amans : "Il devient risqué de se cacher dans un paradis fiscal" - Le Monde
  14/08/2009 - ...Depuis le sommet du G20 en avril, des progrès majeurs ont été accomplis. Près de 90 pays ont pris l'engagement de respecter les standards de l'OCDE et sont passés à l'acte en négociant des accords d'échanges d'informations, y compris bancaires.
• Tax Havens Leave 'Grey List' Behind - Parmy Olson, Forbes
  13/08/2009 - The Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands are about to leave the OECD's grey list after signing their 12th tax exchange agreements.
• The taxman cometh to Liechtenstein - BBC News
  11/08/2009 - ..."It goes beyond the OECD standards [on tax transparency] and we don't see the point of it. Why should Liechtenstein give more than other countries are prepared to give?"
• The Inquisitive Tax Haven - Parmy Olson, Forbes
  11/08/2009 - ...The OECD, which counts Liechtenstein among its internationally blacklisted tax havens, said Tuesday that the agreement "shows that the era of bank secrecy as a shield for tax evaders is coming to an end."
• Après UBS, vingt autres banques suisses seraient visées par le fisc américain - Agathe Duparc, Le Monde
  10/08/2009 - ...En mars, Berne, sous la pression de l'OCDE, avait dû renoncer à cette distinction entre évasion et fraude. Mais les "nouveaux" traités négociés, dont celui avec Washington, ne sont pas encore entrés en vigueur.
• 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.
  

Territorial Economy

• World's Culture Capitals - Lauren Sherman, Forbes
  15/01/2009 - ...In 2007, 898 million people were classified as cultural tourists, compared with 538 million in 1995, according to a Jan. 14 report released by the OECD, a Paris-based group of 30 democratic countries that provides economic and social statistics and data.
  

Trade

• OECD, WTO urge G20 to fight protectionism - Economic Times
  In a message to G20 leaders preparing for a summit beginning on September 24 in the US city of Pittsburgh, the OECD, WTO and UNCTAD warned that the economic crisis was not over yet.
• Fall in OECD trade values slows   - Straits Times
  15/07/2009 - A fall in goods and services trade by value in major industrialised countries slowed in the first quarter 2009 but the figures still showed a significant setback, the OECD reported on Wednesday. It said the value of goods and services exports in its 30 member economies fell 13.4 per cent compared with fourth quarter 2008 while the value of imports declined 15.2 per cent.
• Exports from G7 countries decreased by 13.6pc in first quarter, says OECD - Irish Independent
  15/07/2009 - The "unprecedented" drop in trade among major economies continued in the first quarter of 2009, with falls of over 10pc in almost all countries, the OECD reported yesterday.
• WTO backs trade in poorer nations - BBC News
  06/07/2009 - ..."Aid for trade is needed now more than ever," said the WTO and OECD.
• Trade assistance could reignite growth, help the poor - Forbes
  06/07/2009 - ...A report prepared by the WTO and the OECD for the conference said that efforts to jumpstart exports could have "an immediate stimulus effect" for the economy, which Lamy described as fragile.
• OECD Warns Protectionism Will Worsen Financial Crisis - Lisa Schlein, Voice of America
  20/03/2009 - A new report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the OECD, warns protectionism will worsen the global financial crisis. (OECD report)
• OECD ruft Länder zum Kampf gegen Protektionismus auf - Die Welt
  10/02/2009 - Die OECD warnt vor der Abschottung von Märkten. "Das ist ein natürlicher Reflex, der aber nicht zu positiven Ergebnissen führt. Wir müssen ihn mit aller Macht bekämpfen", forderte der Generalsekretär der OECD, Angel Gurria.
• 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'.
• Open trade urged amid stimulus packages - Chris Bryant, Financial Times
  06/02/2009 - ...Existing OECD instruments concerning corporate governance, fighting corruption and fiscal affairs, as well as the ILO guidelines on social protection and labour rights could serve as the basis for this charter, the leaders said.
  

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.