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About the OECD

• 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.
• Chile On Track To OECD Membership Pending Regulatory Hurdles - Julian Dowling, Wall Street Journal
  28/05/2009 - Progress in Chile's bid to join the OECD recognizes its solid economic performance and is a chance for member countries to learn from its success, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria said Thursday.
• OECD seeks to heal tax rift with Switzerland - Swissinfo
  08/05/2009 - The OECD has welcomed "constructive and transparent dialogue" between the Paris-based body and Switzerland.
• 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.
• OECD says govts must prepare better for disasters - Reuters
  25/02/2009  - Governments need to prepare better for large-scale disasters, co-ordinating with each other and private insurers to ensure crises are dealt with quickly and cost-effectively, the OECD said in a report on Wednesday.
• Kudrin says U.S. supports Russia WTO, OECD entry - Reuters
  16/02/2009 - ...The new U.S. administration supports Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization and the OECD, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday.
• 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."
• Merkel Joined by WTO, OECD in Call for New Financial Framework - Tony Czuczka and Rainer Buergin, Bloomberg
  05/02/2009 - ...A new framework is needed that “prevents excesses in the market and works to counter future crises,” they said. “Existing OECD instruments, including for corporate governance, for fighting corruption or for cooperating in fiscal affairs, could serve as the basis of a new charter for sustainable economic governance.”
  

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.
• 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.
  

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.
• 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

• 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.
• U.K. laws fail to halt bribery abroad, OECD finds - International Herald Tribune
  17/10/2008 - British laws are unable to prevent corporate bribery abroad and fall short of international standards, the OECD said Friday.
  

Development

• 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

• OECD May leading indicators point to better outlook - Reuters
  09/07/2009 - The economic outlook for the 30-nation OECD area improved in May and there are signs that the downturn in Canada, Britain, the United States, China and India had reached a bottom, an OECD survey said on Friday.
• Developing Nations Challenge G-8 on Dollar, Climate, Power - James G. Neuger, Bloomberg
  09/07/2009 - ...“What is happening here is simply the acknowledgment of a reality,” Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the OECD, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “Be it the fight against poverty, climate change, trade -- whatever you want that is global in nature -- you need those large emerging economies.”
• G8's next task is to ensure jobs arrive with recovery - David Crane, The Toronto Star
  08/07/2009 - ...John Martin, the OECD's expert on job markets, says that the unemployment rate in May was the highest in 25 years for OECD countries.
• 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.
• Developing World Seen as Engine for Recovery - Nelson D. Schwartz and Matthew Saltmarsh, The New York Times
  24/06/2009 - ...“It’s good to have a locomotive out there pulling the train,” Ángel Gurría, the O.E.C.D.’s secretary general said, referring to China, India and Brazil. “But we can’t put the onus on their shoulders — they help, but they can’t get us out of the hole.” (OECD report)
• OECD: World economy will grow next year - but not Britain - Larry Elliott, The Guardian
  24/06/2009 - The deepest slump for six decades is drawing to a close as emergency policy measures and recovering financial markets boost growth prospects, the OECD said today. (OECD report)
• OECD says recession 'near bottom' - Steve Schifferes, BBC News
  24/06/2009 - The OECD says the world economy is near the bottom of the worst recession in post-war history. (OECD report)
• OECD Raises Outlook for First Time in Two Years - Sandrine Rastello, Bloomberg
  24/06/2009 - The OECD raised its forecast for the economy of its 30 member nations for the first time in two years as the U.S. slump shows signs of easing. (OECD report)
• Economists see end to US downturn - BBC News
  16/06/2009 - ...Separately, the secretary-general of the OECD has said that economic recovery within the group's 30 countries will begin at the end of this year.
• U.S. Recovery Could Outstrip Europe’s Pace - Nelson D. Schwartz, The New York Times
  11/06/2009 - ...“That pace of increase has never been experienced in the postwar period,” said Jonathan Coppel, a senior economist at the OECD. “This is going to create a headwind.”
• OECD says global recession easing - BBC News
  08/06/2009 - The composite leading indicators index for the 30 countries in the OECD rose 0.5 point in April, but was still 8.3 points lower than April 2008.
• First Quarter Was New Low for World’s Developed Economies - David Jolly, The New York Times
  25/05/2009 - The economies of the developed world turned in their worst quarterly showing ever in the first three months of 2009, the OECD said Monday.
• Has the recession bottomed out? - Steve Schifferes, BBC News
  12/05/2009 - ...The CLI for March ticked up by 0.3 points in the UK, although it was still 5.4 points lower than one year ago, and moved up 1.2 points in France and 0.9 in China.
• OECD predictions offer recession hope for Britain - Angela Monaghan, Daily Telegraph
  12/05/2009 - The OECD's widely respected gauge of "leading indicators" showed that Britain progressed from being in a "strong slowdown" to a "possible trough" in March, as the pace of decline slows.
• Markets braced for historic £200bn deficit - Edmund Conway, Daily Telegraph
  21/04/2009 - ...The IMF warned them, the OECD warned them, the European Commission warned them and the Government dismissed the warnings.
• Eurozone braces itself for the perfect storm - Anatole Kaletsky, The Times
  09/04/2009 - ...The OECD projects a further decline in Germany of 9.6 per cent in the first quarter, compared with 5.4 per cent in Britain. In 2009 as a whole, the German economy is expected to contract by 5.3 per cent, compared with Britain's 3.7 per cent. (OECD report)

Education

• 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)
• L’indiscipline en classe, un phénomène mondial - La Croix
  16/06/2009 - Un rapport de l’OCDE, présenté mardi 16 juin, qui compare pour la première fois les conditions de travail d’enseignants du secondaire dans le monde, s’inquiète de la mauvaise conduite des 12-14 ans. (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)
• Teachers worried about shortage: survey - Julian Drape, The Sydney Morning Herald
  16/06/2009 - ...The results are part of the Teaching and Learning International Survey released by the OECD on Tuesday. (OECD report)
• VBE zur OECD-Lehrerstudie: Lehrerberuf als Schlüsselberuf anerkennen - Bildungsklick.de
  16/06/2009 - "Die OECD-Lehrerstudie zeigt dieselben Schwachstellen im Lehrerberuf auf wie schon die Potsdamer Lehrerstudie", betont VBE-Bundesvorsitzender Udo Beckmann aus Anlass der heutigen Präsentation der OECD-Lehrerstudie TALIS, an der sich die deutschen Bundesländer nicht beteiligten. (OECD report)
• Consider sharing teachers to save money, schools told - Polly Curtis, The Guardian
  11/06/2009 - ...His speech will also focus on the need for schools to improve all their lessons after OECD research found that, within schools, teaching standards are more variable in the UK than most other countries.
• Universities for Cities and Regions: Lessons From the OECD Reviews - Barbara Ischinger and Jaana Puukka, Change Magazine
  30/04/2009 - ...Close but often random and unconstructed links between higher education and local and regional competitiveness are not that unusual, as the OECD study of higher education’s role in local and regional economies shows.
• Spain - Tertiary Education: Could do better - Rebecca Warden,  University World News
  22/03/2009 - ...The report, OECD Review of Tertiary Education - Spain, was released on 10 March and comes as the final instalment of a broader initiative covering 24 countries. The series aims to help countries see how the organisation, management and delivery of higher education can contribute to their social and economic goals. (OECD report)
• Turned away at the school gates - Francis Gilbert, The Daily Telegraph
  09/03/2009 - ...Meanwhile, the world education rankings run by the respected OECD – the only really trustworthy league table there is – shows Britain slipping from fourth to 14th for reading and from eighth to 24th for Maths. Put simply, most children from Europe and the Far East outperform our pupils every time – even in English.
• Independent school call for poor - Seonag MacKinnon, BBC Scotland
  30/01/2009 - ...It highlights a second OECD report in 2007 which suggested schools which have to compete for students are linked to better results.
• 'Dismal picture' of adult literacy in UK - Peter Kingston, The Guardian
  29/01/2009 - ...At that time, the OECD ranked the UK 14th in international literacy and numeracy league tables.
  

Employment

• Le RSA lancé en temps de crise après des essais mitigés - Challenges
  01/06/2009 - ...Comme les bénéficiaires du RMI, ceux du RSA devront avoir 25 ans au moins, laissant certains chômeurs plus jeunes sans ressource. Dans un rapport publié la semaine dernière, l'OCDE préconise l'extension du RSA aux moins de 25 ans.
• Chômage des jeunes: 30 d'ans d'efforts et la France toujours à la traîne selon l'OCDE - France 24
  21/05/2009 - Trente ans de politique de l'emploi et rien n'y fait: le taux de chômage des 15-24 ans en France se maintient à plus de 18%, soit plus de 7 points au-dessus de la moyenne des autres pays riches, selon l'OCDE, qui formule des recommandations dans un rapport publié mercredi.
• Chômage des jeunes : l'OCDE met en cause les politiques de l'emploi français - Le Monde
  21/05/2009 - ...Selon l'OCDE, en France les jeunes "risquent d'être les plus touchés par la crise", car les difficultés conjoncturelles qu'ils rencontrent "reflètent dans une large mesure des problèmes de nature plus structurelle".
• "Le manque de qualification est à la source du problème" - Anne Rodier, Le Monde
  18/05/2009 - Entretien avec Patrick Werquin, économiste à la direction de l'éducation de l'OCDE.
• Labor must not ignore youth jobs - Gerard Henderson, The Sydney Morning Herald
  28/04/2009 - ...Last week, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development released "Jobs for Youth: Australia", which focused on the impact of the global financial crisis on youth employment. The report acknowledged that in Australia, like most other OECD countries, "any deterioration in labour market conditions is disproportionately felt by the youth". (OECD report)
• Informal economy a force in its own right - Parminder Bahra and Patrick Galey, The Times
  24/04/2009 - ...Figures published by the OECD show that the world has more people working informally than formally. (OECD report)
• Union wants PM to guarantee youth jobs - Stephen Johnson, The Age
  22/04/2009 - ...An OECD report, released on Monday, warned that rolling back Work Choices laws may result in higher youth unemployment. (OECD report)
• Job insecurity 'getting worse' - Steve Schifferes, BBC News
  08/04/2009 - The increased number of workers in the informal sector will have "severe consequences for poverty" in poor countries, the OECD has warned. (OECD report)
• Informal employment reaches record levels, report says - Deutsche Welle
  08/04/2009 - Many people have lost their jobs due to the worldwide financial crisis. In developing countries with no unemployment insurance, they are now forced to work in positions with low pay and no protection, an OECD study says. (OECD report)
• Study: Informal employment at record levels - The Washington Post
  08/04/2009 - More than half the world's workers _ especially women in the world's poorest countries _ are in informal jobs with low pay and no protections, and the global economic downturn threatens to push the number even higher, according to a report released Wednesday. (OECD report)
• Revela OCDE que más del 50% de empleos son informales - El Universal
  08/04/2009 - Más de la mitad de los empleos en los países en desarrollo están en el sector informal, con lo que eso significa de ausencia de protección social para los trabajadores y de rémora para la competitividad, y el porcentaje corre el riesgo de aumentar con la crisis económica actual, según la OCDE. (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

• 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)
• Korea Leads in Fiber Broadband Connection - Kim Hyun-cheol, The Korea Times
  28/10/2008 - ..."It's a big shift. There's a shift in the industry toward fiber and we're seeing it first in Korea and Japan," OECD economist Taylor Reynolds was quoted as saying.
• Downloading a healthier economy - Bernhard Warner, The Times
  22/10/2008 - ...Effective competition and continued liberalisation in broadband infrastructure, the OECD says, "connects consumers, businesses, and governments and facilitates social interaction".
  

Insurance and Pensions

• OECD calls for better pensions governance - IPE
  07/07/2009 - The OECD has just published guidelines and regulatory principles from which it believes all pensions regimes should base their pension fund governance, to deliver “stronger regulation and better governance”.
• 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)
• OECD warns on pensions crisis - Chris Giles, Financial Times
  23/06/2009 - ...Angel Gurría, the OECD secretary general said: “Reforming pension systems now to make them both affordable and strong enough to provide protection against market swings will save governments a lot of financial and political pain in the future”. (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

• 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.
• 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.
• La crise ne doit pas transformer les migrations de travail en menace - Eric Besson et Angel Gurría, Le Monde
  30/06/2009 - Il y a très peu de temps encore la migration de travail était considérée par beaucoup de gouvernements des pays de l'OCDE comme l'un des moyens de répondre aux pénuries de main-d'oeuvre et au vieillissement démographique. (Rapport OCDE)
• Malgré la crise, les pays doivent continuer à intégrer les immigrés.. - Le Monde
  25/02/2009 - Le télescopage entre la crise économique et les courants migratoires inquiète les trente pays membres de l'OCDE. Jean-Pierre Garson, chef de la division des migrations internationales de l'institution, s'est vu confier la rédaction d'un rapport sur le sujet, prévu pour le mois de juin.

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

• 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

• 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)
• Turks are friendly, social: OECD report - Hürriyet
  06/05/2009 - The annual report, "Society at a Glance," looks at social tendencies in 18 OECD member states that are considered the most developed economically. (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)
• How to sleep and eat like the French - Tony Barber, Financial Times
  05/05/2009 - Let me tell you, you can learn a lot from the OECD. In its latest social indicators survey, Society at a Glance 2009, the Paris-based OECD discloses that French people spend longer asleep than any other nation that belongs to this elite club of the world's advanced economies. (OECD report)
• World's Happiest Places - Lauren Sherman, Forbes
  05/05/2009 - Where in the world do people feel most content with their lives? According to a new report released by the OECD, a Paris-based group of 30 countries with democratic governments that provides economic and social statistics and data, happiness levels are highest in northern European countries.
• France Eats, Sleeps the Most, Says OECD Study - Simon Kennedy, Bloomberg
  05/05/2009 - The French eat and sleep more than those in the rest of the 30-nation OECD, a study by the Paris-based group showed. (OECD report)
• Sommer der Wut - Flora Wisdorff, Die Welt
  27/02/2009 - ... in fast allen europäischen Ländern gibt es Formen des deutschen Kurzarbeitergeldes, das heißt, Unternehmen bekommen Zuschüsse, wenn sie die Arbeitszeit reduzieren, anstatt zu entlassen. Die OECD heißt das grundsätzlich gut, sagt Experte Paul Swaim.

Taxation

• Steinbrueck Pushes Clampdown on Tax Evasion as Havens Topple - Patrick Donahue, Bloomberg
  23/06/2009 - ...German and French efforts to combat tax evasion were bolstered by an April summit in London of Group of 20 leaders who agreed to step up pressure on tax havens as part of the global response to the worst recession since World War II. Since then, jurisdictions have rushed to pledge transparency in accordance with OECD standards.
• Steuerlast in Deutschland besonders ungerecht verteilt - Maren Peters, Die Zeit
  12/05/2009 - In Deutschland ist nicht nur die Steuerbelastung so hoch wie in kaum einem anderen Industrieland, die Steuern und Abgaben sind auch noch besonders ungerecht verteilt. (OECD report)
• Deutsche Geringverdiener tragen höchste Last - Martin Greive, Die Welt
  12/05/2009 - In kaum einem anderen Land müssen Geringverdiener so viele Steuern und Abgaben zahlen wie in Deutschland. Das geht aus der Studie „Taxing Wages“ (Die Besteuerung der Einkommen) hervor, die die OECD erstellte. (OECD report)
• Deutsches Steuersystem begünstigt Ein-Verdiener-Ehe - Der Spiegel
  12/05/2009 - Deutsche müssen überdurchschnittlich viele Steuern zahlen: Laut einer aktuellen OECD-Studie ist die Abgabenlast im Vergleich zu den meisten anderen Ländern nicht nur frappant hoch - das System benachteiligt obendrein auch noch Paare, bei denen beide berufstätig sind. (OECD report)
• Cabinet sets priorities for bilateral tax talks - Swissinfo
  06/05/2009 - Switzerland will aim to conclude 12 double-taxation accords by the end of 2009 to comply with OECD conditions.
• 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.
• Tax haven crackdown to aid small nations - INQUIRER.net
  29/04/2009 - A crackdown on tax havens and cross-border tax evasion will help developing countries raise more revenues to pay for much-needed schools, roads and hospitals, according to a statement issued by the OECD.
• EU plans tax move as Swiss-US talks begin - Swissinfo
  28/04/2009 - The treaty is one of many bilateral agreements Switzerland will have to renegotiate as a result of its decision in March to meet standards set by the OECD for international cooperation in tax matters.
• Swiss invited to informal tax meeting in Berlin - Swissinfo
  26/04/2009 - A senior German finance ministry official confirmed that the Swiss government as well as Austria and Luxembourg were asked to attend an informal conference of the OECD in Berlin in June.
• OECD explains to Swiss its position on tax - Swissinfo
  10/04/2009 - ...Gurría wrote: "As you know very well, Switzerland does not yet have a single agreement on the exchange of information that conforms to the OECD standard."
• Tax havens must end culture of secrecy or face sanctions - Felicity Lawrence, The Guardian
  09/04/2009 - ...Seven British territories were named and shamed by the OECD when it published, to coincide with the G20 summit, a list of havens that had either not agreed to, or not yet implemented, its international tax standards.
• OECD removes tax havens from list - BBC News
  07/04/2009 - ...The OECD has removed all four countries from its blacklist of tax havens.
• Your guide to the G20 blitz on tax havens - Ali Hussain, The Times
  05/04/2009 - ...Stalwarts of tax secrecy such as Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Monaco have all said they will adopt tax-sharing principles set out by the OECD.
• Shine a light on these dark recesses - The Independent
  04/04/2009 - Angel Gurria, the Secretary General of the OECD, sounded like someone who could not believe his luck yesterday. Asked about the unprecedented attention given by G20 leaders in London to tax havens, Mr Gurria remarked: "We've had more progress in the past two weeks on this matter than we've had in the past 10 or 12 years."
• OECD names and shames tax havens - BBC News
  03/04/2009 - The OECD has published its blacklist of non-cooperative tax havens.
• G20: Cleaning up the world economy - Angel Gurría,The Guardian
  31/03/2009 - The G20 is achieving progress on international tax haven abuse – but there is still a long way to go. ... The foundations for these developments were laid by the OECD in 2000, through a global forum in which OECD and non-OECD countries worked together to draw up agreed principles of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes.
• G20 summit: Ten tax havens agree to share information - Andrew Porter, Daily Telegraph
  31/03/2009 - ...The OECD had put pressure on the Swiss and Austrians in particular to sign up to the deal. They appeared on a recent list which highlighted those countries whose bank secrecy rules questioned.
• Liechtenstein to Begin Talks With U.K., Offers Deal to Germany - Patrick Donahue, Bloomberg
  26/03/2009 - ...The principality, one of three countries on the OECD list of uncooperative tax havens along with Andorra and Monaco, announced earlier this month that it will comply with standards for transparency and data exchange set by the organization.
• Get rid of tax havens, by all means. But it is disingenuous of Brown to claim they're relevant to our current crisis - Marcel Berlins, The Guardian
  25/03/2009 - ...The OECD publishes a list of countries that it regards as "uncooperative" tax havens, "who do not furnish banking information to tax authorities within the framework of income tax evasion". Every now and again, the OECD adds a naughty country to its blacklist or, conversely, if an offender has turned cooperative, removes it from the list.
• Comment Bercy prépare le G20 - Thomas Bronnec, L'Express
  24/03/2009 - ...La méthode est simple : la dénonciation et la stigmatisation, à travers la publication de listes noires, comme celles de l’OCDE ou du Gafi. Elle a parfois pu prouver sa – relative – efficacité, même si les "trous noirs" de la finance mondiale ne disparaîtront sans doute jamais.
• Brown plans global scrutiny of tax havens - Larry Elliott, The Guardian
  23/03/2009 - ...G20 finance ministers discussed a crackdown on tax havens at their talks last weekend and Brown has told Britain's international partners that he wants to build on proposals from the OECD to "make sure tax secrecy is a thing of the past".
  

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

• 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.