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

About the OECD

• OECD Secretary-General highlights the role of the ILO and the OECD in the current economic and social crisis - ILO News
  17/11/2008 - The Secretary-General of the OECD Angel Gurría today made an urgent call for increased collaboration between the OECD and the ILO in response to the global financial crisis.
• 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.
• 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)

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

• 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.
• Britain a dangerous place to do business, OECD to warn - Jon Swaine, Daily Telegraph
  17/10/2008 - The anti-bribery group of the OECD - which comprises 30 leading democracies - is preparing to mount a fierce criticism of Britain.
• Defence industry awaits "nasty" report - Russell Hotten, Daily Telegraph
  15/10/2008 - The report, by the OECD, is thought likely to attack Britain's record on prosecuting companies and individuals who have allegedly paid bribes to foreign officials in order to secure contracts.
• 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.
• 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.
  

Development

• OECD calls for aid pledge from developed countries - Xinhua
  30/10/2008 - The Paris-based OECD thursday called on the world's main donor countries to honor their pledges to aid the developing nations while wrestling with the global financial turmoil.
• 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.
  

Economics

• Threat of worst postwar slump grows as major economies enter recession - Gary Duncan, The Times
  14/11/2008 - The threat of the worst global economic slump in the postwar era loomed larger yesterday as the OECD forecast that the United States, Japan and the eurozone are all sliding into the grip of simultaneous recession.
• Germany officially in recession as OECD expects US to lead recovery - Kathryn Hopkins and Kate Connolly, The Guardian
  14/11/2008 - ...The Paris-based OECD said that gross domestic product for its 30 member countries would drop by 0.3% in 2009. It forecasted that the US economy would contract next year by 0.9%, Japan's by 0.1% and the eurozone by 0.5%.
• Rezession soll nur ein Jahr dauern - Der Spiegel
  13/11/2008 - ...Auch die OECD gibt eine düstere Prognose: 2009 werde die Wirtschaftsleistung im 30 Staaten umfassenden OECD-Raum um 0,3 Prozent sinken, erklärte die Organisation am Donnerstag in Paris.
• OECD projects protracted slowdown - BBC News
  13/11/2008 - The OECD has forecast a "protracted slowdown" for the world's leading economies.
• OECD forecasts major slowdown for industrialized countries - David Jolly, International Herald Tribune
  13/11/2008 - Industrialized countries are facing a major slowdown, the OECD predicted Thursday, as data showed the German economy has already entered a recession.
• Germany and China feel economic pain - Keith Weir, Swissinfo
  13/11/2008 - ...Adding to the bleak picture, the OECD slashed its economic output forecasts for the United States, Japan and euro zone, predicting a tumble into recession for all three.
• Crisis deals under pressure, economies slide - Forbes
  12/11/2008 - ...The head of the OECD, Angel Gurria, said there was room for further interest rate cuts in the stagnating euro zone.
• OECD leading indicators flag weakening G7 outlook - Forbes
  07/11/2008 - ...The outlook for the world's seven leading economies weakened further in September with cyclical slowdowns at levels not seen since the beginning of the decade, OECD data showed on Friday.
• A taxation solution to recession - Ruth Lister, The Guardian
  31/10/2008 - ...Despite the improvement since 2000 identified by the OECD, the gap is still wider than in 1997 and than in three-quarters of OECD countries. This means urgently stepping up action against poverty at the bottom while, at the top, a more fundamental assault is required on the huge disparities of rewards than is involved in merely depriving (some) bankers of their bonuses.
• “Gastar mejor”, recomienda la OCDE a Latinoamérica - Roselia Aguirre Parada, Deutsche Welle
  28/10/2008 - Latinoamérica ha mejorado su política fiscal. No obstante, aún se debe optimizar el gasto. Así lo indica el informe “Perspectivas Económicas de América Latina 2009”, presentado en El Salvador por la OCDE. (OECD report)
• Experto alerta de riesgo para Latinoamérica por sus vínculos con EEUU - EFE
  28/10/2008 - Latinoamérica carece de inmunidad ante la crisis financiera global, que representa una amenaza por ser un "choque financiero y macroeconómico de primera magnitud", y sobre todo por los vínculos de la región con Estados Unidos, según alertó a Efe un experto de la OCDE. (OECD report)
• Post-crisis world must avoid 'trap' of over-regulating market: OECD - The Economic Times
  26/10/2008 - The world has been saved from another Great Depression by massive state intervention, the OECD's chief economist said, but he warned of the "trap" of excessive regulation as the debate about global financial reform heats up.
• OECD leading indicators show G7 outlook weakening - Forbes
  10/10/2008 - The outlook for world's seven major economies continued to weaken in August, data from the OECD showed on Friday.
• 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.
  

Education

• Ost-Erfolg bei Pisa macht Westländer neidisch - Oliver Trenkamp, Der Spiegel
  18/11/2008 - Gymnasiasten schneiden hervorragend ab, aber auch die Mittelschüler schlagen sich gut: Sachsen und Thüringen brillieren im Bildungsvergleich der Pisa-E-Studie - denn die Schulreformen der Nach-Wende-Zeit zahlen sich aus.
• Fürs Arbeitsleben ungeeignet - Cerstin Gammelin, Süddeutsche Zeitung
  18/11/2008 - ...Die Studie vergleicht Hochschulsysteme aus siebzehn Ländern, die der OECD angehören.
• Saxony Moves to Front of German Education Class - Deutsche Welle
  18/11/2008 - ...PISA-E is the national equivalent to the PISA, the triennial worldwide test of 15-year-old schoolchildren's scholastic performance implemented by the OECD.
• We've got the teachers.. so let them teach - Tom Hamilton, The Scotsman
  18/11/2008 - What has Scotland got that's world class? Rugby? Banks? Well one thing which is world-class is our education of new teachers. Who says so? OECD does, and it's a voice to which we should listen as it doesn't use terms like "world-class" often, or lightly.
• 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

• Du cadre américain à l'ouvrier chinois, une même menace - Marie-Béatrice Baudet, Le Monde
  04/11/2008 - ...A l'OCDE, le club des pays les plus riches, Stefano Scarpetta, responsable de la division emploi, estime que la hausse du chômage - dont il attend une forte dégradation d'ici quelques mois - va surtout frapper les jeunes les moins qualifiés et les seniors. "Les pressions seront très fortes sur les plus de 55 ans pour qu'ils acceptent de partir en retraite anticipée. Quant aux moins de 25 ans, pas ou peu diplômés, les portes des entreprises leur resteront fermées."
• 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

• IEA report on oil gets angry Opec reaction - Robin Pagnamenta, The Times
  13/11/2008 - Opec has made a scathing attack on a report from the IEA which says that the world's existing oil producers face a “huge challenge” to keep up with a projected rise in global demand.
• UK energy bill rises 'double' EU - BBC News
  04/11/2008 - ...OECD statistics showed gas and electricity bills rose 29.7% in the past year compared with 15% in the EU.
• Nuclear Reactors May Supply a Fifth of Global Power by 2050 - Tara Patel, Bloomberg
  16/10/2008 - Nuclear reactors may produce more than a fifth of global electricity by 2050 as demand for power rises in countries such as China and India, according to a report by the OECD.
• Nuclear capacity could rise fourfold by 2050 - Forbes
  16/10/2008 - Reuters - Nuclear power generation capacity could grow almost fourfold by 2050, although securing political and public support will be crucial, the OECD said on Thursday.
• OECD-Bericht: Produktion von Kernenergie wird deutlich ansteigen - Die Zeit
  16/10/2008 - Blick in die Zukunft: Die OECD rechnet bis zum Jahr 2050 weltweit mit einem deutlichen Anstieg der Atomstromproduktion. Grund sei das große Potential der Kernenergie, umwelt- und gesundheitsschonend Energie zu liefern.
• 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"
• 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.
  

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.
• 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

• 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".
• 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)

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

• Gains in social mobility will not last, warn gloomy Tories - Michael White, The Guardian
  04/11/2008 - ...Last month's OECD report that inequality and poverty "fell faster in the UK" than in any comparable country in 2000-05 - albeit modestly - was welcomed after years of negative findings. (OECD report)
• Non, les salariés ne sont pas sacrifiés ! - Jean-Marc Vittori, Les Echos
  04/11/2008 - ...Mais cette exception se retrouve dans d'autres questions liées aux revenus, comme le montre le très instructif rapport « Croissance et inégalités » publié par l'OCDE récemment. (Rapport OCDE)
• The World's Hardest-Working Moms - William Pentland, Forbes
  30/10/2008 - ..."In many [industrialized economies, an] increasing female (especially maternal) labor supply is seen as being important to maintaining economic growth and ensuring sustainable pension and social protection systems more generally," according to a new study, called "Babies & Bosses" by the OECD.
• Wer hat, dem wird gegeben - Stefan Kaiser, Der Tagesspiegel
  23/10/2008 - ...Für diese Gruppe von Menschen ist auch das Armutsrisiko besonders hoch: 40 Prozent der Haushalte ohne Arbeitseinkommen gelten nach Definition der OECD als arm – ihr Einkommen lag also unter der Hälfte des mittleren Einkommens aller Haushalte. (OECD report)
• Gap between rich and poor narrows, but UK is still one of the world's most unequal countries - Robert Booth, The Guardian
  22/10/2008 - The gap between rich and poor in Britain narrowed "remarkably" between 2000 and 2005 but the country remained one of the most unequal in the developed world, the OECD said yesterday. (OECD report)
• Pauvreté et inégalités ont reculé en France, selon l'OCDE - Le Point
  21/10/2008 - Les deux dernières décennies ont été marquées par une augmentation des inégalités et du nombre de pauvres au sein des Etats membres de l'OCDE à l'exception de cinq pays dont la France, révèle une étude de l'organisation internationale. (Rapport OCDE)
• Wealth gap smaller than most in OECD - Swissinfo
  21/10/2008 - The OECD said on Tuesday that Switzerland has the tenth smallest gap between rich and poor on its household income inequality scale. (OECD report)
• Schere zwischen Arm und Reich öffnet sich weiter - Süddeutsche Zeitung
  21/10/2008 - In Deutschland haben Einkommensunterschiede und relative Armut einer aktuellen OECD-Studie zufolge zwischen den Jahren 2000 und 2005 stark zugenommen. Unterhalb der Armutsschwelle lebten 10,5 bis 11 Prozent der Gesamtbevölkerung. (OECD report)
• Inégalités salariales et pauvreté gagnent du terrain dans les pays occidentaux - Bertrand Bissuel, Le Monde
  21/10/2008 - ...Cinq jours après la diffusion des travaux de l'Organisation internationale du travail (OIT), qui concluaient aussi à un creusement des inégalités – mais sur un champ géographique beaucoup plus large –, l'OCDE constate que les écarts de revenus entre les ménages se sont accrus d'"environ 7 %" depuis le milieu des années 1980 dans les 24 pays pour lesquels des données sont disponibles. (Rapport OCDE)
• Deutschland verarmt - Stern
  21/10/2008 - Die Reichen werden immer reicher, die Armen immer ärmer: In Deutschland haben die Einkommensunterschiede stark zugenommen, berichtet die OECD in einer neuen Studie. (OECD report)
• Poverty gap increasing, says OECD - BBC News
  21/10/2008 - The gap between rich and poor in most wealthy nations has widened, the OECD has said. (OECD report)
• An older population demands new thinking - James Forsyth, Daily Telegraph
  24/08/2008 - ...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.
  

Taxation

• Finanzen: OECD und EU wollen Steuerparadiese austrocknen - Die Zeit
  23/10/2008 - ...Die OECD führt auf ihrer schwarzen Liste bisher nur Liechtenstein, Monaco und Andorra auf. Allen anderen Staaten und Gebieten wurde bislang "Zusammenarbeit" bei der Abwehr von Steuerflucht und Geldwäsche bescheinigt.
• La Suisse au banc des accusés de la fiscalité - Swissinfo
  22/10/2008 - La France et l'Allemagne ont organisé mardi à Paris une réunion de l'OCDE associant 17 pays pour discuter des paradis fiscaux.
• Luxemburg könnte Bankgeheimnis lockern - Die Zeit
  22/10/2008 - ...Zuvor war bei einem Ministertreffen der OECD in Paradies über ein Austrocknen der Steuerparadiese gesprochen worden.
• Britain backs European crackdown on tax havens - Henry Samuel, Daily Telegraph
  21/10/2008 - ...Switzerland came in for the harshest criticism at the OECD summit, with Germany insisting it should be placed the OECD's international blacklist of tax havens.
• Paradis fiscaux : les « trous noirs » de la finance dans le collimateur des pays occidentaux - Yves Bourdillon, Les Echos
  21/10/2008 - ...« on ne peut pas résoudre la crise financière en introduisant plus de régulation et laisser dans le même temps prospérer des poches de non-régulation, estime Pascal Saint-Amans, responsable de la lutte contre les paradis fiscaux à l'OCDE.
• OECD will Steuerparadiese austrocknen - FT Deutschland
  21/10/2008 - Die OECD will die weltweite Finanzkrise nutzen, um Steuerparadiese auszutrocknen: «Wir müssen nicht nur das Zuckerbrot benutzen, sondern auch die Peitsche».
• Advanced countries near record high tax - The Age
  16/10/2008 - Denmark and Sweden have the highest overall tax rates among advanced countries and Mexico and Turkey the lowest, but the average tax take is running at close to record high levels, the OECD said on Wednesday on data for 2006.
• 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.
  

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.

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...