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

About the OECD

• The Global Economy and OECD: Distilling Lessons from a Financial Crisis - Angel Gurría at the Council of Europe
  01/10/2008 - ...I would like now to share with you a few brush-strokes on the OECD’s perspective of the global economy in the context of the current financial crisis...
• L'unité transatlantique face à Moscou - Condoleezza Rice, Le Monde
  29/09/2008 - ...Les dirigeants russes sont responsables des conséquences douloureuses sur l'économie de leur pays. Leurs chances d'accéder à l'OMC sont désormais compromises. De même que leurs chances d'accéder à l'OCDE.
• Russia ratchets up US tensions... - Tony Halpin and Alexi Mostrous, The Times
  19/09/2008 - ...Dr Rice said: “The picture emerging is of a Russia increasingly authoritarian at home and aggressive abroad. “Russia’s bid to join the WTO is now in question. And so too is its attempt to join the OECD.”
• España en la nueva OCDE - Ángel Gurría, El Pais
  08/09/2008 - La economía internacional atraviesa una etapa particularmente difícil. La desaceleración de las principales economías es ahora una realidad y los instrumentos de política económica para afrontarla son limitados debido a un contexto de alta inflación y al escaso margen de maniobra fiscal.
• 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 - ... 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

• Corrupción y cohecho inhiben el desarrollo, dicen funcionarios en conferencia regional - Alfredo Méndez, La Jornada
  01/10/2008 - ...De su lado, Patrick Moullete, jefe de la División Anticorrupción de la OCDE, indicó que para combatir la corrupción y el cohecho es preciso que todos los países se unan para erradicar “el financiamiento del terrorismo, lavado de dinero y del crimen organizado”, pues forman parte de los delitos interrelacionados con las redes de bandas de delincuencia organizada que operan a escala mundial sin límites territoriales.
• Scandals worsen Britain's image in corruption league table - Rob Evans, The Guardian
  24/09/2008 - ...Britain's record on foreign bribery will come under renewed scrutiny in October when the OECD, which enforces the 1997 convention, reports the outcome of its investigation into the UK's compliance with the treaty.
• Deutscher Spitzenbeamter in Brüssel unter Korruptionsverdacht - Hans-Jürgen Schlamp, Der Spiegel
  11/09/2008 - ...Der Brüsseler Spitzenbeamte wird in Berlin hoch geschätzt. Als der heutige Außenminister Frank-Walter Steinmeier noch Gerhard Schröders Kanzleramtschef war, ließ er eine Runde aus Staatssekretären und Ministerialdirektoren von Zeit zu Zeit das deutsche Top-Personal bei den internationalen Organisationen taxieren - bei der Uno in New York zum Beispiel, bei der OECD in Paris, aber auch bei der EU in Brüssel.
• Inaugurará Gurría conferencia contra corrupción y cohecho - Cronica
  19/08/2008 - El secretario general de la OCDE, José Angel Gurría, y el titular de la Función Pública, Salvador Vega, inaugurarán la Conferencia Regional Latinoamericana: Compromiso y Cooperación en la Lucha Contra la Corrupción y el Cohecho Internacional.
• 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.
  

Development

• Development: Unravelling the knots of tied aid - Interview with Angel Gurria - IPS Terraviva
  15/09/2008 - The forum on aid effectiveness in Accra has delivered "profound" decisions to change the way aid is structured, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria told IPS in an interview.
• Governments greet new aid promises cautiously - IRIN
  08/09/2008 - ...The OECD’s Gurria said now the agreement has been signed, the hard work begins. “We all as partners have to implement the agenda for action and make it more than just a piece of paper…This means acting on our words, pushing out the frontiers of best practice, and bringing new partners into the consensus.”
• 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)
  

Economics

• In it together - John Thornhill, Financial Times
  04/10/2008 - ..."Saving for a rainy day has to be done in the  sunshine. Now it is raining and some countries have very small  umbrellas," says Mr Gurría from the OECD.
• Put fat market lions back in their cages - Alan Wood, The Age
  03/10/2008 - ...Adrian Blundell-Wignall, a former Reserve Bank and financial market economist now at the OECD, delivered a paper, appropriately at this year's Reserve Bank conference, which he updated in two recent articles in The Australian Financial Review.
• Greece joins bailout stampede as Germany vows no blank cheques - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Daily Telegraph
  03/10/2008 - ...Angel Gurria, the head of the OECD club of rich nations, said Europe may not have the luxury of trying "piecemeal" responses as the financial storm turns violent.
• European Leaders Look for a Crisis Plan - Der Spiegel
  02/10/2008 - ...The OECD is also in favor of a massive bailout plan. "Considering the exposure of European financial institutions, we might have to start thinking of a systemic plan for Europe if things don't improve on the other side of the Atlantic," Angel Gurria, OECD secretary-general, told EU lawmakers on Wednesday.
• 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.
• 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)
• 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.
  

Education

• OECD calls for greater internationalisation - Karen MacGregor, University World News
  21/09/2008 - Governments should position their higher education systems in the global arena, develop a strategy and framework for internationalisation and encourage institutions to be more proactive internationally, says an OECD report published last week.
• School Report - The Times
  10/09/2008 - ...Fresh concerns arrive in a report by the OECD. Its portrait of the state of education in Britain is particularly disheartening where it addresses the education of the very young. (OECD report)
• México es último lugar de la OCDE en inversión educativa por alumno - El Universal
  09/09/2008 - Revela la organización en su Panorama de la educación 2008 que apenas invierte 2 mil 405 dólares por estudiante, mientras naciones como Estados Unidos alcanzan 12 mil 788; el porcentaje de estudiantes que terminan secundaria es el menor de los 30 países miembros. (OECD report)
• OECD-rapport avslører skjev fordeling av utdanning - Aftenposten
  10/09/2008 - En ny OECD-rapport viser at 17 prosent av nordmenn mellom 25 og 34 år ikke har fullført videregående opplæring. Samtidig har 42 prosent i samme aldersgruppe fullført minst to år med høyere utdanning. (OECD report)
• Britain fares poorly in international schools league table - Nicola Woolcock, The Times
  09/09/2008 - ...Andreas Schleicher, head of analysis for the OECD education directorate, said the UK had improved but that “the world has moved much faster”. (OECD report)
• OECD education report: UK slipping in graduate league table - Graeme Paton, The Daily Telegraph
  09/09/2008 - ...The OECD said that university graduates in the UK aged 25 to 64 earned 59 per cent more than other people – well above the international average. They also have a much better chance of finding good jobs. (OECD report)
• Student growth risks widening gap - BBC News
  09/09/2008 - Each year the OECD publishes an Education at a Glance guide to international trends in school and university in more than 30 countries, showing how industrialised economies compare in terms of spending and results in education. (OECD report)
• British class sizes among highest in world - Jessica Shepherd, The Guardian
  09/09/2008 - ...Only Japan, Korea and Turkey have more crowded classrooms in their primary schools, the OECD found in its annual report comparing education across the world. (OECD report)
• Findings of OECD report into British education - Jessica Shepherd, The Guardian
  09/09/2008 - Education facts found in the annual report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (OECD report)
• OECD: Österreich spart bei Bildung - Wiener Zeitung
  09/09/2008 - Sonntagsreden zum Trotz und entgegen dem allgemeinen Trend in den OECD-Ländern bleibt der Anteil der Bildungsausgaben an den öffentlichen Gesamtausgaben in Österreich konstant niedrig. Dies ist aber nur ein Kritikpunkt der am Dienstag veröffentlichten OECD-Studie "Bildung auf einen Blick 2008". (OECD report)
• Deutschland fällt bei Akademikerausbildung zurück - Die Welt
  09/09/2008 - Das deutsche Bildungssystem bringt immer weniger Nachwuchs- und Spitzenkräfte hervor. Das belegt der Bildungsbericht 2008 der OECD. (OECD report)
• 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)
  

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)

Energy

• UN agency questions wider use of biofuels - Elisabeth Rosenthal, International Herald Tribune
  01/10/2008 - ...In a devastating assessment released this summer, the OECD concluded that government support of biofuel production in OECD countries was hugely expensive and "had a limited impact on reducing greenhouse gases and improving energy security." It did have "a significant impact on world crop prices," the report noted.
• UN urges global biofuel rethink - BBC News
  07/10/2008 - ...Such barriers "create an artificial market and currently benefit producers in OECD countries at the expense of producers in developing countries"
• '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)
  

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

• Copenhagen Needs More Dikes to Ward Off Higher Seas, OECD Says - Christian Wienberg, Bloomberg
  08/10/2008 - ...Under a worst-case scenario, with water levels rising 1 meter, the biggest storm likely in 120 years would bring waves that could cause 8 billion euros ($11 billion) of flood damage in the city, Paris-based OECD said in the study.
• Heroes of the Environment 2008: Marina Silva and Cristina Narbona Ruiz - Bryan Walsh, Time Magazine
  30/09/2008 - ...Greens mourned, but Silva isn't done fighting for the environment — she still serves in the Senate. Neither is Narbona Ruiz, who is now Spain's ambassador to the OECD. Both women were victims of the short-term vagaries of politics, but they remain lasting symbols of courage in the longer war for the environment. Though they couldn't have started life more differently, Silva and Narbona Ruiz have come to embrace the same role: embattled defenders of the earth.
• Congrès mondial de l'eau : point de vue de l’OCDE sur les ressources en eau - Actualités News Environnement
  05/09/2008 - ...Ángel Gurría, Secrétaire général de l’OCDE, est intervenu au cours du 13ème Congrès mondial de l'eau de l’Association internationale des ressources en eau qui se tenait à Montpellier.
• 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)
  

Finance

• Global meltdown continues - Jill Treanor and Larry Elliott David Teather, The Guardian
  16/09/2008 - ...Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the OECD, said the West's leading economic think tank said the turmoil in the markets had put back recovery by a year. "It has turned into a much bigger, more widespread and more threatening situation," Gurria said in an interview with the Guardian.
• Financial education - Euractiv
  15/09/2008 - ...André Laboul, head of the Financial Affairs Division of the OECD, said "financial institutions have an important responsibility to promote the awareness of their clients and must ensure that information given is read and understood".
• 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

• China droht IP-Adressen-Knappheit - Die Presse
  25/09/2008 - ...Um das globale Problem der IP-Adressenverknappung zu lösen, hatte sich im Mai dieses Jahres auch die OECD für IPv6 ausgesprochen.
• Japan tops world broadband study - BBC News
  12/09/2008 - ...The study focused on countries in Europe, North America, the OECD, Brazil, Russia, India and China (Brics).
• 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.
  

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

• Italian government may use soldiers to crack down on mafia - Nick Squires, Daily Telegraph
  19/09/2008 - ...There are 400,000 African immigrants in Italy, according to the OECD. (OECD report)
• De nombreux immigrés choisissent le retour au pays - Le Monde
  15/09/2008 - ..."Les retours se concentrent aux deux extrémités du cycle de vie des migrants, relève Jean-Christophe Dumont, auteur avec Gilles Spielvogel de l'étude. Les immigrés qui quittent leur pays de destination le font dans les premières années mais passé cinq ans, la propension à repartir devient très faible. Elle n'augmente à nouveau qu'au moment de la retraite." (Rapport OCDE)
• Britain is second most popular destination for migrants, OECD says - Christopher Hope, Daily Telegraph
  11/09/2008 - Figures published by the OECD show that Britain was second only to the United States when it came to attracting immigrants. (OECD report)
• OECD Blasts German Immigration Policy - Deutsche Welle
  11/09/2008 - ...Germany needs to fix its immigration policy to match its future work-force needs, the Paris-based OECD said in a report on Sept. 10, 2008. (OECD report)
• Migration fears unjustified, OECD - Steve Schifferes, BBC News
  10/09/2008 - ...OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria, says "constructing a country's migration policy on the assumption that labour immigrants will only stay for a short time is not the way to go. It is neither efficient nor workable".  (OECD report)
• OECD-Studie: Warum Deutschland Migranten braucht - FT Deutschland
  10/09/2008 - ... Die OECD empfiehlt den Industrieländern jetzt eine langfristige Einwanderungspolitik - und Anreize für Zuwanderer. (OECD report)
• OECD immigration rises to 4m a year - Andrew Taylor, Financial Times
  10/09/2008 - ...About 4m people emigrated to live permanently in OECD countries in 2006, a five per cent increase on the previous year, with the US and UK the most popular destinations, the Paris-based organisation reported on Wednesday. (OECD report)
• 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)

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

• Scientists form alliance to develop nanotoxicology protocols - FirstScience
  09/09/2008 - ...Multiple organizations including the OECD and the International Nanotechnology Conference for Communication and Cooperation have highlighted the importance of international collaboration to accelerate understanding of nanotechnology implications for society.
• 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

• World Bank, OECD Report Mixed Results Towards Gender Equality - Daily Trust
  05/10/2008 - ..."The message that emerges is both hopeful and sobering," said Eckhard Deutscher, chairperson of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee.
• 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.
  

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...