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

Australia

Economy

• Australia should deregulate electricity industry - B. Butler/M.Dwyer, Courier Mail
  16/02/2010 - Power prices should be completely deregulated as part of a move towards a single national electricity market, the OECD has recommended. It is the global body's first report on Australian red tape since the Rudd Government took power. "Further privatisation and removing the ceiling on retail prices should be considered," OECD economists said in the report. (OECD report)
• Australia Must Boost Efforts to Cut Market Barriers - Michael Dwyer, BusinessWeek
  15/02/2010 - Australia’s national and state governments need to work together to ensure companies aren’t confronted with new barriers to business, according to the OECD. “Australia still has a challenge to lift productivity to return to a higher long-run growth path and continued future prosperity,” the Paris-based OECD said in a report. (OECD report)
• Govt faces hard regulatory reform - Colin Brinsden, The Sidney Morning Herald
  15/02/2010 - Australia has been a "role model" in its approach to regulatory reform, but success will only come through the more difficult task of implementing those reforms, the OECD says. In a report released on Monday, the OECD says that strong regulatory frameworks and sound policies helped Australia weather the global crisis better than other OECD countries. (OECD report)
• Save surpluses for a rainy day, OECD chief urges Canberra - Michael Stutchbury, The Australian
  05/02/2010 - The head of the OECD has praised Australia's resilience in the global crisis but called for a Chilean-style "rainy day" fund to quarantine budget surpluses when the emerging resources boom heats up.
• OECD calls for tighter monetary and fiscal policy - Michael Stutchbury, The Australian Business
  08/02/2010 - The OECD says Australia's quick policy response to the global financial crisis helped the economy to weather the storm. Now it says both budget and interest rate policy need to be tightened further to manage the economy's recovery.
• Welfare net best in Australia - David Uren, The Australian Business
  11/01/2010 - Australia spends less on welfare than almost any other advanced country but manages to provide better protection against poverty, particularly for families. The Paris-based OECD says the Australian system also provides good incentives to work, with lower tax barriers to moving off welfare and a higher minimum wage than most other countries.
• Older fund members face risk - John Collett, Sydney Morning Herald
  05/08/2009 - ..."More than one in four over-65s in Australia live in poverty by international measures and the privatisation of pensions has increased those risks for people close to retirement.
  The surprising results are contained in Pensions at a Glance 2009: Retirement Income Systems in OECD Countries, released in June. (OECD report)
• Exceptional times, exceptional measures - Science Guide
  16/02/2009 - ...De Geus said at a forum at Sydney University “the Federal Government's stimulus packages have strengthened the economy without threatening financial sustainability.” 
• OECD says Australia especially vulnerable to global economic storm - ABC
  04/02/2009 - ...Australians are constantly being reassured that this country is well-placed to weather the global economic storm. But one of the most senior officials at the OECD says Australia could instead be especially vulnerable.

Development assistance

• Foreign aid to survive cutbacks - Mark Dodd, The Australian
  05/02/2009 - ..."This aid should translate into real benefits both to the partner countries and to Australia in terms of a more prosperous and stable neighbourhood," said OECD report chief, Eckhard Deutscher, in Canberra.

Employment

• Bosses discourage taking holidays - Angela Saurine, Herald Sun
  17/03/2010 - Bosses subconsciously discourage workers from taking holidays even though they say they want them to use their annual leave, a study has found. Researcher Carolyn Childs said Australia was one of the few countries in the OECD that allowed workers to accrue annual leave, but by OECD standards our leave proportion was low and our provision of sick, parental or carers' leave was not generous.
• Australia 2009 Contains a Survey of the Main Barriers to Employment for Young People - Business Wire
  15/02/2010 - Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Jobs for Youth: Australia 2009" report to their offering... OECD has launched a series of reports in 16 countries, including Australia. Each report contains a survey of the main barriers to employment for young people and an assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness of existing measures to improve the transition from school to work.
• Govt stimulus kept unemployment down: OECD - ABC
  17/09/2009 - ...The Federal Government is talking up a report by the OECD as an endorsement of its multi-billion dollar stimulus spending. The report says fiscal stimulus measures stopped unemployment from going higher. But it does warn that discontent is rising in Australia because employers are cutting hours... Secretary General Angel Gurria says nearly 60 million could be out of work across OECD economies next year. (OECD report)
• Wayne Swan - OECD Employment Outlook - Australia.TO
  16/09/2009 - The OECD in its 2009 Employment Outlook has delivered powerful new evidence that the Rudd Government's stimulus measures have led the advanced world in supporting jobs during the global recession. (OECD report) 
  

Austria

• Secret bancaire: maintien de l'Autriche - Le Figaro
  07/02/2010 - L'Autriche ne compte pas lever son secret bancaire, a insisté aujourd'hui le ministre des Finances Josef Pröll suite à l'achat controversé par l'Allemagne d'une liste de détenteurs de comptes suisses, fraudeurs fiscaux présumés."Une suppression du secret bancaire n'est pas à l'ordre du jour", a insisté M. Pröll auprès de l'agence APA soulignant que la petite république alpine appliquait les standards de l'OCDE.
• OECD streicht Österreich von der "Grauer Liste" - Wirtschaftsblatt
  23/09/2009 - Die OECD hat Österreich nun offiziell von der "Grauen Liste" der Steuerparadiese gestrichen und auf die "Weiße Liste" gesetzt. Das geht am Dienstag aus den auf der Webseite der Organisation (www.oecd.org) veröffentlichten Listen hervor.

Economy

• Chambers in favour of employment - Charles Delaere, Commerce International
  26/02/2010 - Mentoring für Migrantinnen aims at integrating qualified immigrants into the Austrian employment market. According to an OECD study, Austria has amongst the weakest immigration qualification rates (11.3%) amongst the organisation’s member countries.
• Hundstorfer bei OECD-Konferenz - Österreich Journal
  29/09/2009 - Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit in Österreich deutlich unter dem Schnitt der OECD
   "Ich bin davon überzeugt, dass die zentrale Herausforderung am Beginn der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise darin bestanden hat, den Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit möglichst gering zu halten. Österreich ist in dieser Hinsicht auch sehr erfolgreich", unterstrich Sozialminister Rudolf Hundstorfer am 28.09. in seiner Rede bei einer OECD-Konferenz in Paris
• Austrian Banks May Require More State Capital, OECD Reports - Bloomberg
  02/07/2009 - Austrian banks may require more state aid to boost their capital if eastern Europe’s economies fail to stabilize, the OECD said. (OECD report)
• OECD-Warnung: Ost-Engagement macht Österreich verletzlich - Robert Lechner, Wirtschaftsblatt
  02/07/2009 - Österreich hat die Krise besser überstanden als andere Staaten, sagt die OECD. (OECD report)

Migrations

• Arbeitsmarkt: Migranten trotz Bildung benachteiligt - Die Presse
  16/10/2009 - ...Die OECD-Experten sehen einen Grund in der Erwartungshaltung des Arbeitsmarkts: Migranten in Österreich haben das Stigma der gering Qualifizierten, auch wenn das im Einzelfall dann gar nicht zutrifft.

Belgium

• Trop d’inégalités dans les écoles belges - 7sur7
  09/02/2010 - Une étude intitulée "L'école de la chance", publiée dans le numéro de février de la revue Regards économiques, confirme le caractère très inégalitaire de l'enseignement en Belgique, en particulier en Communauté française. Les auteurs de l'étude relèvent ainsi que 73% des élèves en retard scolaire se concentrent dans 25% des écoles qui ont de faibles résultats dans les enquêtes PISA de l'OCDE.
• Belgique exclue de la liste grise de l'OCDE - AFP
  27/07/2009 - La Belgique a été retirée de la liste "grise" des paradis fiscaux de l'OCDE après avoir signé les douze accords d'échange d'informations fiscales requis, selon une mise à jour de cette liste publiée par l'OCDE. Selon cette liste, en date du 24 juillet, la Belgique rejoint les rangs des pays ayant "substantiellement mis en oeuvre" les normes fiscales de l'OCDE.
• OECD streicht Belgien von der Liste - Focus
  27/07/2009 - Die Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (OECD) hat Belgien von der sogenannten Grauen Liste der Steueroasen gestrichen. Somit gehört Belgien zu den Ländern, die die international vereinbarten Steuerregeln umgesetzt haben. Die Liste war eingerichtet worden, um Druck auf Steueroasen auszuüben.
• L'OCDE retire la Belgique de sa «liste grise» - 20 Minutes
  16/07/2009 - La Belgique a été retirée jeudi de la «liste grise» de l'OCDE des pays considérés comme manquant de transparence financière.Elle a signé 12 accords avec d'autres pays pour échanger des informations liées à des questions fiscales.
  

Brazil

• Le Brésil et la coopération Sud-Sud - Daniel Solano, Géopolitique de l'Europe
  13/03/2010 - ...Le Brésil est non seulement devenu le leader de l’Amérique latine mais l’une des principales économies de la planète : les chiffres de l’OCDE relatifs à l’année 2007 placent le Brésil au 9ème rang mondial en termes de PIB (1 833 millions de dollars).
• Brazil ETF Strong as Economy Recovers - Seeking Alpha
  08/02/2010 - After noticing the potential for an asset bubble, investors have been pulling money out of Brazilian stocks and ETFs. Nevertheless, Brazil is proving to be a robust economy as both consumption and exports rise. Angel Gurria, OECD chief, said that there’s “a danger of asset bubbles in places like Brazil… and we should be careful about that,” as stated in MecroPress.
• La OCDE alerta de ‘burbujas’ en la deuda de Brasil - América Economica
  29/01/2010 - La economía brasileña, que ha sido una de las más aduladas en todo el mundo por su espectacular crecimiento, podría encontrarse con serios problemas. La OCDE ha advertido de una posible “burbuja en la deuda” de Brasil. Un problema que también podría afectar a la India.
• Le Brésil table sur une reprise en fin d'année - Anne Cheyvialle, Le Figaro
  15/07/2009 - L'économie brésilienne pourrait sortir de la récession plus rapidement que prévu. C'est ce qu'indique une étude de l'OCDE publiée mardi. Et c'est également ce que prévoit le gouvernement, qui attend une croissance de 2,5 % à 3,5 % en 2010. (Rapport OCDE)
• OCDE elogia economia brasileira, mas sugere corte nos juros - Eduardo Cucolo, Folha de S.Paulo
  14/07/2009 - A economia brasileira teve um desempenho melhor que a da maioria dos países durante a crise financeira, mas deve precisar de mais cortes de juros e menos estímulos fiscais até o fim do ano para se recuperar efetivamente dos efeitos da crise. A recomendação faz parte de um relatório da OCDE (Organização de Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Econômico) divulgado hoje. (Rapport OCDE)
• OCDE recomenda controle dos gastos públicos no Brasil - Martha Beck e Eliane Oliveira - O Globo
  14/07/2009 - Estudo da Organização para a Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Econômico (OCDE), divulgado nesta terça-feira, indicou que a política fiscal anticíclica adotada pelo governo brasileiro - que aumentou gastos e reduziu tributos - cumpriu um papel importante no combate aos efeitos da crise financeira mundial.(Rapport OCDE)
• OECD recomienda a Brasil reducir gasto público - Associated Press
  14/07/2009 - ... En un informe sobre la economía brasileña, el secretario general de la OCDE, el ex canciller mexicano Angel Gurría, comentó que "políticas prudentes han permitido a Brasil responder a la crisis global con medidas contracíclicas, esto es, que aquello que se ahorró en los buenos tiempos se utilizó para apoyar la economía en tiempos de declive". (Rapport OCDE)
  

Canada

• Le Canada est un bon élève - Métro Montréal
  14/01/2010 - La performance du Canada en matière d’éducation lui a permis de se hisser au deuxième rang du classement général 2009 de l’OCDE, juste derrière la Finlande, comme on l'apprenait la semaine dernière. Parmi les 17 pays évalués, seuls la Finlande et le Canada ont obtenu la cote A pour l’ensemble de leur performance.

Economy

• OECD: Take Canada Post private - Montreal Gazette
  11/03/2010 - The Canadian government should privatize Canada Post as part of a broader plan to improve the nation's economic productivity, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said in a report yesterday. The OECD's Going for Growth analysis of 30 western economies comes just days after Finance Minister Jim Flaherty floated the possibility of selling off crown corporations to trim Canada's ballooning national debt. (OECD Report)
• Canada Maximizing Global Trade for Canadian Producers - Market Wire
  25/02/2010 - Canadian pork products will be back on Chinese grocery store shelves after Canada secured the first certification agreement to allow pork imports to China, based on significant negotiations recognizing OIE standards. This important development builds on the success of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz's recent mission to China and was announced by Minister Ritz during his agricultural trade mission to the OIE and OECD in Paris.
• Time for productivity update - Christophe Bys, Usine Nouvelle
  22/02/2010 - Economists will be the first to tell you that measuring labour productivity is a messy, complicated business. So, it's not surprising change comes ever so slowly for this particular statistic... The OECD will release at the end of March a handbook that will give economists around the world new ways to measure health and education services.
• Dette du Québec: changements comptables et mythes tenaces - Louis Gil, Le Devoir
  16/02/2010 - … Aux fins de ses comparaisons internationales, l'OCDE utilise les montants des engagements bruts et nets de l'ensemble des administrations publiques des divers pays. Pour le Québec, il faut ajouter à la dette contractée sur les marchés, de 125 milliards au 31 mars 2009, la dette des municipalités et des établissements d'éducation, de santé et de services sociaux (20 milliards), ainsi que la part (20 %) de la dette non échue du gouvernement fédéral (514 milliards) qui correspond à la taille du Québec au sein du Canada, soit un montant de 103 milliards.
• Déficit public: les leçons de l’expérience canadienne - Valentin Petkantchin, Le Temps
  20/01/2010 - La dette fédérale par citoyen canadien et ajustée pour l’inflation a été réduite de 42% en 2008 par rapport à son sommet en 1996. Les frais pour servir la dette ont également fondu. Selon l’OCDE, la dette brute canadienne – dont la part fédérale constituait la majeure partie – se montait alors à plus de 100% du PIB. 
• Canada can do more to stimulate economy: OECD - Theophilos Argitis, Calgary Herald
  01/04/2009 - Canada’s government and central bank have scope to take additional stimulus measures to offset a deepening recession in the world’s eighth-largest economy, the OECD  said in a report. Canada’s economy will shrink by 3% this year, then expand 0.3% next year, the OECD said Tuesday in its latest projections. (OECD report)

Employment

• OECD predicts long jobless recovery for Canada - Peter O’Neil, Vancouver Sun
  16/09/2009 - Canada’s jobless rate could rise to almost 10% next year, to be followed by an agonizingly long period of recovery, the OECD said Wednesday. (OECD report)
  

Chile

• Analizan retos ambientales de ingreso de Chile a la OCDE - Diario Financiero
  25/01/2010 - El ingreso de Chile la OCDE supone una serie de desafíos y oportunidades en materia medioambiental, especialmente en lo referido al cambio climático. Precisamente éste será el objetivo del seminario que este lunes, en dependencias del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, encabezará la ministra del ramo, Ana Lya Uriarte.
• Chile marca el camino hacia la OCDE en el cono sur – Cristina Narbona, Cinco Dias
  11/01/2010 – Desde hoy Chile forma parte de la OCDE. Un solemne acto en el Palacio de la Moneda culmina un proceso de adhesión que ha comportado importantes cambios legislativos en Chile, así como un significativo avance en la creciente apertura de la OCDE hacia los países emergentes.
• Chile firma documento de ingreso oficial a la OCDE – Paula Gallardo, Diario Financiero
  11/01/2010 – Esta jornada en La Moneda, en una ceremonia encabezada por la presidenta Michelle Bachelet y el secretario general de la OCDE, Ángel Gurría, se firmará el documento de ingreso de Chile a dicha entidad. Tras este paso, deberá ser ratificado por el Congreso.
• Chile kommt zum Klub der Reichen – Von Konstanze Walther, Wiener Zeitung
  11/10/2010 – Am Montag, den 11. Jänner, ist es nach zweijähriger Verhandlung soweit: Chile unterzeichnet den Beitrittsvertrag zur OECD, und wird deren 31.Mitgliedsland… "Wenn man im engeren Kreis ist, kann man auf die Arbeit und Expertise der OECD zurückgreifen und mitgestalten", so OECD-Sprecher Matthias Rumpf. Derzeit umfasst die Organisation 30 Mitglieder, wovon die Weltbank 27 als Länder mit hohem Einkommen qualifiziert.
• Santiago em Paris – Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, i online
  11/01/2010 – No chove em Santiago. Hoje, em Santiago, é assinado o acordo de adesão do Chile à OCDE. É um passo muito relevante para o Chile, quando a OCDE se vê confrontada com um novo contexto, que implica novos desafios e também um novo posicionamento, designadamente no quadro da crise económica internacional e da crescente relevância das economias dos países emergentes.
• Desde la OCDE, Chile quiere ser nexo con países emergentes – Ojeda/Westermeyer, La Nación
  16/12/2009 – Cambios en regulación bancaria y mayor transparencia en empresas públicas fueron claves para la aceptación como miembro del organismo. El gobierno recibió con “serenidad y satisfacción” la confirmación, aunque se deben aplicar nuevos estándares y tareas para mantener la membresía.
• Chile celebra su ingreso a la OCDE – RFI
  16/12/2009 – El ingreso del segundo país latinoamericano a la OCDE, el grupo que representa el 70% del mercado mundial, fue festejado en Chile como una hazaña deportiva. El acontecimiento abrirá las puertas a nuevas inversiones, según el ministro de Hacienda chileno.
• Se Formalizó ingreso de Chile a la OCDE – Estrategia
  16/12/2009 - Ingreso a la OCDE mejorará el acceso al crédito a las Pymes, señaló la Presidenta Bachelet. Mientras, el ministro Velasco declaró que la inclusión a la instancia permitirá “avanzar más rápido en la lucha contra la pobreza y la desigualdad”.
• Chile invited to join OECD – Emma Saunders, Financial Times
  15/12/2009 – The OECD today invited Chile to become its second member in Latin America after Mexico. Chile will formally accept this invitation when an Accession Agreement is signed in the presence of Secretary-General Angel Gurría and President Michelle Bachelet on 11 January 2010 in Santiago.
• Los beneficios de pertenecer a la OCDE - diariopyme.com
  10/08/2009 - Pronto la economía chilena y su aparto democrático podrán contar con un sello de calidad que avale su labor en las últimas décadas, pues el país está cada vez más cerca de formar parte de la OCDE. 

Economy

• L'économie chilienne panse ses plaies après le séisme - La Tribune
  02/03/2010 - Au Chili, un nouveau bilan - provisoire - fait état de 723 morts, mais de nombreuses personnes sont portées disparues, tandis que les pillages continuent. L'économie chilienne devrait néanmoins supporter le choc. Aujourd'hui, le Chili semble bien parti pour devenir le premier pays latino-américain à intégrer l'OCDE.
• Portafolios inversionistas externos atentos a los nuevos aires en Chile - M.Lillo/A.Kattan, Diario Financiero
  20/02/2010 - De tanto que se ha dicho, a muchos les puede sonar a letanía: Chile es un mercado refugio, gracias a sus sólidas políticas y un nivel de desarrollo referente en la región. La pregunta entonces es si novedades como el cambio de gobierno y el ingreso a la OCDE pueden cambiar "para mejor" esa percepción. Aquí los expertos no se pierden: Chile está en la mira de los inversionistas y varios se declaran a la expectativa, a la espera de ver cómo progresa la promesa de multiplicar la tasa de crecimiento y potenciar la inversión. 
• La OCDE y nuestra economía - El Mercurio (Blog)
  19/02/2010 - La OCDE divulgó hace poco una revisión de la economía de Chile. Su informe valora la forma como el país enfrentó la reciente crisis económica. Asimismo, alaba la política fiscal y sugiere mejorarla poniendo límites a la expansión del gasto público, para destinar los ahorros así generados a aumentarlo durante períodos de fuerte contracción económica. Sería éste un perfeccionamiento claro de nuestra regla de balance estructural.
• OCDE destaca manejo de Chile frente a la crisis - Diario Financiero
  27/01/2010 - Pese a destacar la respuesta que tuvieron las autoridades en el país frente a la crisis financiera internacional que ha azotado al mundo, y señalar que la economía local ya transita hacia la recuperacion, la OCDE advirtió que aún existen ciertos riesgos relacionados al retiro de las medidas de estímulo económico.
• Chile Should Improve Competition, Distribution, Education - The Wall Street Journal
  27/01/2010 - As Chile begins to pull out of its first recession in ten years, it faces the challenges of improving market competition, income distribution and education, the OECD said in a report.  Chile's central bank says gross domestic product likely contracted about 2% on the year in 2009, and is expected to recover to a 4.5%-5.5% projected increase in 2010.
• Ingreso de Chile "no necesariamente implica" más inversión - La Tercera
  04/08/2009 - Según expertos de la entidad, el eventual arribo de Chile como miembro permanente permitirá una relación más "fina" con este club de 30 países. Chile está cada vez más cerca de sentarse a la mesa con los países desarrollados que integran la OCDE. Mientras avanza en esa dirección surgen dudas sobre las ventajas y desventajas que tiene dar el paso.
• Chile debe reforzar los poderes regionales para reforzar su competitividad - EFE
  28/07/2009 - Chile... debe reforzar los poderes de las autoridades regionales para favorecer una diversificación económica planificada sobre el terreno que contribuirá a una mayor competitividad general. Estas son las principales conclusiones de un informe de la OCDE, en el que considera que el progreso de las políticas de descentralización de Chile "sigue siendo irregular".(OECD report)
• OECD: Chile Should Decentralize To Boost Economic Development - Dow Jones
  27/07/2009 - Chile should strengthen the capacity of the country's regions to reach their growth potential... Chile is divided into 15 regions, including the Santiago Metropolitan Region, but most have not been able to "fully utilise their assets and reach their growth potential, which is limiting national capacity for growth," concluded the OECD's Territorial Review of Chile (OECD report)

Education

• Estudiantes chilenos participarán en la prueba PISA - CNN Chile
  17/08/2009 - Es una evaluación realizada a estudiantes de 15 años y que mide conocimientos y habilidades de estos jóvenes para desempeñarse en el mundo actual. La versión del año 2006, Chile obtuvo el mejor puntaje de Latinoamérica.

Fighting corruption

• Chile Lower House OKs Bill To Curb Bank-Client Secrecy - Julian Dowling, Wall Street Journal
  06/08/2009 - ... The bill would give the tax service, the Servicio de Impuestos Internos, or SII, access to bank accounts in non-criminal tax matters as requested by the OECD, but clients would have the right to object, at a judicial hearing, to the disclosure of their information to the SII or any foreign tax authority.
• OCDE despeja dudas: para ingresar, Chile debe aprobar ley de información bancaria - Gustavo Orellana, El Mercurio
  23/07/2009 - Secretario ejecutivo del organismo, el mexicano Ángel Gurría, sostuvo que los 30 países miembros ya cuentan con esta legislación. La OCDE decidió salir a zanjar la polémica sobre si es requisito, o no, aprobar la ley de intercambio de información tributaria para ser miembro pleno del organismo, tal es el anhelo del Gobierno chileno.

China

• Government to increase spending on education - China Daily
  01/03/2010 - The government has vowed again to increase its spending on education to four percent of the country's GDP in 2012, a target previously set in 1993… "The increase in education spending since 2006, when spending was only 2 percent of GDP, is a welcome development. It should enable the government to achieve its target of spending 4 percent of GDP on education one year earlier," Richard Herd told, author of the recent OECD Economic Survey on China.
• Blame game over giddy China savings takes a twist - Alan Wheatley, Times of Malta
  22/02/2010 - The IMF and World Bank have long called for China to ramp up social spending so its citizens have less need to save for a rainy day and can consume more. Still, recent advice to Beijing from the OECD was remarkably blunt.
• Stingy China May Hurt Only Itself - Alan Wheatley, The New York Times
  15/02/2010 - ...China has a different problem: Its government is under attack for conservative spending policies that critics say are damaging long-term productivity prospects and contributing to the economic imbalances underlying the global financial crisis. “Looking ahead at the exit from the ongoing fiscal stimulus programs, it will be important not to revert to budget surpluses,” the OECD said in a report this month.
• OCDE : La Chine doit accroître ses dépenses sociales - CFO News
  10/02/2010 - Profitant du programme de relance massif lancé par les pouvoirs publics, la Chine est aujourd’hui le principal artisan de la sortie de l’économie mondiale de la récession, selon un nouveau rapport de l’OCDE. 
• Réduction des inégalités et contestation de savants chinois - Le Quotidien du peuple en ligne
  09/02/2010 - L'OCDE vient de publier un rapport dans lequel il est indiqué que l'écart entre riches et pauvres en Chine. C’est le premier de son genre qui insiste sur « la diminution des disparités entre les riches et les pauvres en Chine ».
• Pier Carlo Padoan: Barriers to Mobility in China Need to Go - Wang Wei, China Radio International
  05/02/2010 - February 2 saw the OECD release its second ever general economic survey of China. CRI's Dominic Swire spoke to the organisation's Deputy Secretary General and Chief Economist Pietro Carlo Padoan about Beijing's association with the OECD, and some of their recommendations for the Chinese leadership. 
• OECD Has Good News For China - Ronald Joshua, Global Perspectives
  03/02/2010 - China is leading the world economy out of recession and the country is poised to overtake the United States to become the leading producer of manufactured goods in the next five to seven years. This is not an excerpt from a report by a government ministry in Beijing but the upshot of the Economic Survey of China, the second since 2005, by the OECD.
• L'OCDE invite la Chine à accroître ses dépenses sociales - Alain Faujas, Le Monde
  03/02/2010 - Dans l'étude sur la Chine, publiée mardi 2 février, l'OCDE délivre un satisfecit à ce pays dont "l'activité résiste remarquablement bien à la crise mondiale grâce à une action prompte et vigoureuse". Elle lui conseille de consolider la progression de son niveau de vie par une augmentation des dépenses publiques dans l'éducation, l'aide sociale, les retraites et la santé.
• Die Defizite eines Boom-Landes - Focus
  02/02/2010 - … Die drittgrößte Volkswirtschaft der Erde habe die Weltwirtschaftskrise durch sein Konjunkturprogramm zwar gut bewältigt, müsse aber die Ausgaben in Bildung, Sozialwesen, Gesundheit und Altersversorgung ausweiten, empfiehlt ein Bericht der OECD, der am Dienstag in Peking vorgestellt wurde.
• OECD urges China to let yuan rise - BBC
  02/02/2010 - The yuan needs to appreciate to reduce China's dependence on exports for growth, says the OECD. The OECD argues that more exchange rate flexibility and targeting inflation would help economic stability in China.
• China Inc taps into seam of bribery - Olivia Chung, Asia Times
  18/08/2009 - ...The rod to the backs of most overseas businessmen is a convention adopted by the 30-member OECD that prohibits the bribing of foreign public officials.
• L'activité industrielle chinoise à la hausse en juillet - Le Point
  02/08/2009 - Plusieurs organisations internationales, comme la Banque mondiale ou l'OCDE, ont récemment relevé leurs prévisions économiques pour la Chine cette année.
  La croissance du produit intérieur brut (PIB) chinois est ressortie à 7,9% au deuxième trimestre.
• Can we make China quit the opium of the gases? - Carl Mortished, The Times
  07/07/2009 - ...As the world tumbled into recession last year, as the lights dimmed in factories and airlines skulked in hangars, the fuel consumed by the developing world for the first time exceeded that of richer countries in the OECD.
  

Czech Republic

• Fresh graduates hit by crisis less than other young Czechs - Prague Daily Monitor
  28/01/2010 - Fresh graduates have been hit by the economic crisis less than other young Czechs lacking work experience, according to a report conducted by the Education Policy Centre of Charles University.According to OECD data, while only 13.7 percent of Czechs aged from 25 to 64 were university graduates in 2007, the EU average was 24.5 percent then.
• OECD's Gurria sees Czech inflation well-contained, 2008 GDP growth at 4.5 pct - Forbes
  24/04/2008 - ...Presenting the OECD Economic Survey of the Czech Republic in Prague today, Gurria also said inflation is well-contained thanks to persistent inflation targeting. (OECD report)
  

Denmark

• More fall below poverty line - The Copenhagen Post
  03/03/2010 - The financial crisis has taken its toll on Danes’ personal economies, as around 200,000 residents’ earnings lie below the OECD-defined relative poverty line. Because the most recent figures to calculate poverty from Statistics Denmark are always a couple years behind, the data that the Economic Council of the Labour Movement used was from 2007.
• Tuition fees and private universities loom - University World News
  24/01/2010 - Students and a united political opposition are baffled by new proposals from Science Minister Helge Sander to depart from the Danish tradition of free higher education for all.
• Public sector employment surge - The Copenhagen Post
  26/08/2009 - ...Taking the new figures into account, nearly 28 percent of all workers in Denmark are currently employed in the public sector, according to OECD data.
• OECD: Danmark svigter København - Søren Astrup, Politiken
  27/01/2009 - ...Det fastslår de vestlige landes økonomiske samarbejdsorganisation OECD.
  

European Union

Economy

• López Garrido presents the Spanish Presidency's proposals for the economy to the OECD - Isria
  19/02/2010 - The Spanish Secretary of State for the EU, Diego López Garrido, visited the headquarters of the OECD in Paris to explain the Spanish Presidency's proposals to combat the economic crisis, unemployment and to kick start the recovery.
• EU development aid will fall short of goal - Gretchen Mahan, BusinessWeek
  18/02/2010 - The European Commission called for stricter monitoring of aid spending by EU governments after a new report showed Europe's commitment to help eradicate extreme hunger and poverty worldwide by 2015 is falling short.The recommendation by EU Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs followed a report this week by the OECD, that said the EU's 15 richest nations will likely provide $62 billion for development aid this year.
• OECD calls for Europe-wide financial supervision - David Charter, The Times
  21/09/2009 - Real powers of financial supervision should be transferred to the European level to detect risks better and to help create a single market for financial services, the OECD said today in a report on the structural reforms it believes are vital to aid recovery... “While most financial market segments have become well integrated, financial supervision has remained predominantly national in scope,” the OECD said in its latest Economic Survey of the European Union. (OECD report)
• EU can try harder on energy, ports, free trade-OECD - Reuters
  21/09/2009 - The European Union should further liberalise energy markets and add shipping port services to the list of areas where creation of a large single market can boost long-term economic growth, the OECD said on Monday in a report focused on structural reform. (OECD report)
• La OCDE dice que la UE debe vigilar la retirada de las ayudas públicas tras la recuperación - Expansión
  21/09/2009 - La OCDE ha afirmado que debe ser la Comisión Europea (CE) quien vele para que los países miembros retiren los programas de ayuda contra la crisis en cuanto se produzca la recuperación económica. Asimismo, ha considerado "crucial" la preparación de "planes claros y creíbles" para sanear las finanzas públicas. (OECD report)
• Europe’s Recession Deepens as Investment, Consumption Declines - Jana Randow, Bloomberg
  07/04/2009 - ...The OECD expects the ranks of jobseekers in the Group of Seven nations to soar to 36 million by the end of next year, almost double the level of mid-2007. (OECD report)
  

Finland

• OECD: Finnish pension reforms look 'promising' - IPE
  08/03/2010 - Research published by the OECD suggests proposals to increase the lower boundary of the Finnish earnings-related pension age range from 63 to 65 years of age would increase pension wealth for low to average earners until the age of 66.
• OECD urges Finland to raise retirement age to 65 - Helsingin Sanomat
  03/03/2010 - The OECD has criticised the outcome of recent discussions held in Finland over pensions and retirement age as meagre. The organisation has sent an unofficial draft of its evaluation to Finland. Helsingin Sanomat has learned that the OECD feels that it is not possible to make a quantitative evaluation of the proposal. 
• OECD comparison report: Finns educate themselves longer and longer - Helsingin Sanomat
  09/09/2009 - According to a report published by the OECD, Finns over 20 years of age attend education clearly more than young people in OECD countries on average. (OECD report)

France

• La justice est asphyxiée - La Dépêche
  10/03/2010 - À l'appel unitaire de leurs syndicats, magistrats, avocats, avoués et agents des services judiciaires s'étaient hier donné rendez-vous devant le palais de justice de Toulouse pour protester contre « la casse de la justice. »… Flore Tercero, représentante du syndicat des avocats de France à Toulouse, rappelle que la France est classée 35e par l'OCDE en matière de budget dédié à la justice.
• Comment Bercy prépare le G20 - Thomas Bronnec, L'Express
  24/03/2009 - ...La méthode est simple : la dénonciation et la stigmatisation, à travers la publication de listes noires, comme celles de l’OCDE ou du Gafi. Elle a parfois pu prouver sa – relative – efficacité, même si les "trous noirs" de la finance mondiale ne disparaîtront sans doute jamais.

Economy

• Les Français restent pessimistes - Le Journal des Finances
  10/02/2010 - Pour 43% des Français, la situation ne va pas s’améliorer dans les prochains mois. Ils ne sentent pas les premiers effets de la reprise. Un pessimisme qui tranche avec des prévisions de croissance positive, le gouvernement tablant par exemple sur une progression de 1,4% du PIB en 2010. Il faut croire que la crainte du chômage l’emporte dans cette catégorie de la population. Ils ont raison : le taux de chômage, actuellement à 9,1%, devrait dépasser les 10% selon l’OCDE.
• Touche pas à mes fonctionnaires ! - La Tribune
  09/02/2010 - …Il n'est pas anodin que les Français, qui supportent les dépenses publiques parmi les plus élevées au monde, tiennent tant à leurs fonctionnaires. Les travaux de l'OCDE sont à cet égard riches d'enseignements. Une fois retirés des dépenses publiques, les transferts sociaux et les aides à l'économie, le coût de production des services publics en France (26% du PIB) est à peine plus élevé qu'au Royaume-Uni, en Belgique ou au Portugal.
• Paris réduit ses pertes après l'emploi américain - Les Echos
  05/02/2010 - La Bourse de Paris réduit ses pertes, la forte augmentation des suppressions d'emplois outre-Atlantique étant contrebalancée par une baisse surprise du taux de chômage. La tendance n'en demeure pas mois affectée par les craintes concernant la dette publique des pays de la zone euro. La poursuite de la reprise signalée par les indicateurs avancés de l'OCDE n'a en revanche eu aucun effet sur la tendance.
• La France détaille à Bruxelles son programme pour maîtriser les déficits - Le Monde
  02/02/2010 - Aller le plus loin possible dans le redressement des comptes publics sans compromettre la reprise : tel est l'exercice compliqué auquel la France, comme la plupart des pays de la zone euro, doit se livrer. La ministre de l'économie, Christine Lagarde, a précisé à la Commission européenne le chemin que va emprunter la France pour réduire de plus de 5 points son déficit public et le ramener dès 2013 sous la barre des 3 % du PIB. L’OCDE recommande de "mener une politique active en matière d’emploi pour éviter que le chômage élevé ne prenne un caractère structurel".
• 14,3 tonnes de matériaux consommés par Français et par an - Les Échos
  02/02/2010 - Le Commissariat général au développement durable vient de chiffrer le tonnage de matériaux que consomme l'économie française. Ce travail du service de l'observation et des statistiques estime à plus de 1 milliard de tonnes le besoin français, soit une moyenne de 14,3 tonnes par habitant. Cette étude intervient alors que la Commission européenne et l'OCDE se donnent pour objectif de découpler le développement économique et la consommation de ressources naturelles.
• Quel modèle de croissance ? La volonté des gouvernements - Adrien de Tricornot, Le Monde
  07/12/2009 - Face aux défis de la croissance durable, les pays membres de l’OCDE appliquent plusieurs types de taxes et d'impôts liés à l'environnement. Ce sont 375 taxes qui sont ainsi dénombrées dans ces pays développés, plus environ 250 autres droits ou prix spécifiques, note l'avis du Conseil économique, social et environnemental.
• Croissance : la France prône une autre approche axée sur le bien-être - Le Parisien
  15/09/2009 - Le président Sarkozy s'est engagé lundi à défendre une nouvelle mesure du progrès économique qui intégrerait davantage la notion de "bien-être", conformément aux recommandations du rapport du Prix Nobel Joseph Stiglitz... L'OCDE a salué dans un communiqué les conclusions de la Commission, relevant qu'un prochain forum mondial sur les statistiques organisé sous son égide se tiendrait fin octobre à Busan.
• G.D.P. Seen as Inadequate Measure of Economic Health - David Jolly, The New York Times
  14/09/2009 - President Nicolas Sarkozy told the French national statistics agency Monday to take greater account of factors like quality of life and the environment when measuring the country’s economic health Mr. Sarkozy created the commission in February 2008, only the latest initiative to take on the issue. The OECD and the European Commission are also considering new economic measures
• Credibility in spotlight as France charts deficit goals  - Tamora Vidaillet, Reuters
  22/07/2009 - France has outlined ambitious reduction goals for its public deficit once recovery emerges... The government will need to prove that when revenues perk up, it will refrain from boosting spending again, analysts say... "I don't see clear, sustained signs of this changing," said Alain De Serres, from the OECD, of France's inability so far to cut its public sector deficit.
• L'OCDE recommande à la France d'aller encore plus loin dans les réformes - Étienne Lefebvre, Les Echos
  29/04/2009 - Une fois n'est pas coutume, l'OCDE consacre dans son rapport sur l'économie française, publié hier, un volumineux chapitre sur les réformes menées depuis 2007 et l'arrivée de Nicolas Sarkozy à l'Elysée. (Rapport OCDE)
• L'OCDE s'inquiète face au déficit français - E24
  29/04/2009 - La croissance française devrait continuer à se contracter jusqu’à la fin de 2009 (-3,3%), mais à un rythme qui se ralentira régulièrement, estime l'OCDE dans son étude économique consacrée à la France et publiée mardi 28 avril. (Rapport OCDE)

Employment

• France : 11% de chômeurs en 2010 selon l'OCDE - Le Figaro
  16/09/2009 - L'OCDE ne se veut pas optimiste pour la situation de l'emploi en France pour l'année à venir. Ainsi, selon l'organisation, qui publiait ce mercredi son rapport «Perspectives de l'emploi 2009», le taux de chômage augmentera probablement à nouveau en France en 2010, «et pourrait s'approcher de 11% si la reprise tardait à venir.» (Rapport OCDE)

Social

• Mal reconnus ou harcelés par la Sécu les médecins généralistes font grève - Ouest France
  11/03/2010 - Les médecins généralistes s'estiment tout d'abord mal reconnus par rapport à leurs collègues spécialistes et demandent donc une revalorisation du tarif de consultation de 22 à 23 euros… Comparés à leurs homologues étrangers, les généralistes français, qui gagnent en moyenne 2,6 fois le salaire moyen, sont moins bien lotis que les allemands (3,3 fois) ou britanniques (4,2 fois), selon l'OCDE.
• L’OCDE épingle la France et d’autres sur l’aide au développement - L’Express
  17/02/2010 - Un rapport de l'OCDE épingle plusieurs pays, dont la France, qui ne respectent pas leurs engagements en matière d'aide publique au développement. La publication de cette étude intervient à la veille d'une réunion, à Madrid, des ministres de l'Union européenne chargés du dossier.
• L'immigration légale a baissé en France en 2009 - Laetitia Van Eeckhout, Le Monde
  19/01/2010 - L'immigration légale est en recul en France en 2009... "La crise a surtout un effet sur les flux migratoires économiques au sein des espaces de libre circulation, analyse Jean-Christophe Dumont, de l'OCDE. En effet, plus la circulation est libre, plus l'ajustement à la conjoncture se fait de façon importante."
• Emploi des jeunes : l'OCDE propose de subventionner le travail étudiant - Les Echos
  22/05/2009 - Dans un rapport remis mercredi au secrétaire d'Etat à l'Emploi, Laurent Wauquiez, et au haut-commissaire à la Jeunesse, Martin Hirsch, l'OCDE critique la situation de l'emploi des jeunes en France. Avec 18 % de chômage en moyenne parmi les 15-24 ans en 2008, l'Hexagone est 23e sur 30 dans son classement. Un taux qui est encore monté, à 21,2 %, avec la crise.
• OECD Report: How We Live Now - M.J. Stephey, Time Magazine
  06/05/2009 - If you're looking for another reason to hate on France, you might check out the latest report from the OECD. According to the Paris-based group, the French spend twice as much time enjoying meals each day than most Americans, and get nearly an hour's more sleep each night than most Japanese (who averaged just 7.6 hours of shut-eye). (OECD report)
• Study: French tops in eating, drinking - CNN
  05/05/2009 - The French spend more time eating and drinking than anyone else among the world's wealthy nations, a new study reveals. The study, by the Paris-based OECD, found that the average French person spends nine hours sleeping every night, and spends two hours a day eating. (OECD report)
• How to sleep and eat like the French - Tony Barber, Financial Times
  05/05/2009 - Let me tell you, you can learn a lot from the OECD. In its latest social indicators survey, Society at a Glance 2009, the Paris-based OECD discloses that French people spend longer asleep than any other nation that belongs to this elite club of the world's advanced economies. (OECD report)
• France Eats, Sleeps the Most, Says OECD Study - Simon Kennedy, Bloomberg
  05/05/2009 - The French eat and sleep more than those in the rest of the 30-nation OECD, a study by the Paris-based group showed. (OECD report)

Germany

Economy

• Vor-Gesorgt - Michael Bergius, Frankfurter Rundschau
  06/08/2009 - ... Deutschlands erster "Vorsorge-Atlas" ist erstellt worden... Erst kürzlich lobte die Organisation für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung zwar die jüngsten Reformen am deutschen Rentensystem; aber, so mahnte die OECD, auf mittlere Sicht bestehe ein erhebliches Risiko der Altersarmut, die staatliche Grundsicherung sei zu niedrig, die Bundesregierung müsse gegensteuern.
• Massenarbeitslosigkeit und Verelendung in Deutschland prognostiziert - Shortnews
  3/08/2009... Die Gesellschaft wird noch mehr in Arm und Reich zerfallen und die Massenarbeitslosigkeit wird weiter zunehmen... Nach einer Studie der OECD wird bis Ende 2010 mit einer Zunahme der Arbeitslosigkeit von mindestens 5,1 Millionen Menschen ausgegangen. Der weitere Abbau der Mittelschicht und weitere Belastungen der Unterschicht schwört ein raues soziales Klima herauf.
• Germany boosts recovery hopes despite OECD warning - Louise Ireland, Reuters
  07/07/2009 - Germany provided a glimmer of hope for global recovery on Tuesday, reporting an upturn in manufacturing orders, although the OECD said it was too early for governments to withdraw life support for the economy... OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria told Reuters that governments risked killing the recovery if they withdrew stimulus spending too fast.

Employment

• OECD fordert von Deutschland Ende der Kurzarbeit - Dow Jones Deutschland
  21/01/10 - Von Monat zu Monat wachse die Gefahr, dass die Nachteile die Vorteile übersteigen, sagte OECD-Chefökonom Pier Carlo Padoan dem Magazin "Capital" laut Vorabbericht. Dazu gehörten die hohen Kosten, Verzerrungen am Arbeitsmarkt und der künstliche Erhalt von Jobs.
• OECD: Düstere Aussichten für Arbeitsmarkt - Die Zeit
  16/09/2009 - ...Im zweiten Halbjahr 2010 sei in den 30 OECD-Mitgliedsländern trotz positiver Konjunktursignale mit 57 Millionen Arbeitslosen zu rechnen, heißt es in dem am Mittwoch in Paris vorgestellten Beschäftigungsausblick der OECD. (OECD report)

Social issues

• Kündigungsschutz in OECD-Ländern - FR Online
  15/01/2010 - Zeitarbeiter sind in Deutschland besonders schlecht geschützt. Darauf weist die OECD hin. Die Grafik erklärt die Stärke des Kündigungsschutzes.
• OECD prangert Misere deutscher Zeitarbeiter an - Spiegel Online
  13/01/2010 - Am deutschen Arbeitsmarkt herrscht ein Zweiklassen-System: Vor allem Zeitarbeiter sind schlecht gegen den Jobverlust geschützt, sie müssen die Hauptlast der Wirtschaftskrise tragen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt die OECD in einem Ländervergleich.
• Einwandererkinder haben in Deutschland schlechte Jobchancen - Flora Wisdorff, Die Welt
  16/10/2009 - Nachkommen von Einwanderern haben in Deutschland deutlich schlechtere Chancen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt als junge Leute ohne ausländische Wurzeln. Das ergab eine Studie der OECD.
• Schlechte Noten für deutsche Kinderförderung - Financial Times Deutschland
  01/09/2009 - Deutschland gibt viel Geld für seine Sprösslinge aus - dennoch kritisiert die Industrieländerorganisation OECD die Familienförderung. Kinderarmut und mangelnde Chancengleichheit seien weiter verbreitet als in anderen Staaten. (OECD report)

Taxation

• Deutschland behält «Steueroasen» im Visier - Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  06/08/2009 - ... Das Gesetz stuft Länder als «Steueroasen» ein, die die OECD-Standards zum Informationsaustausch in Steuersachen nicht umsetzen... Deutschland hat bereits OECD-konforme DBA mit den Kanalinseln Isle of Man und Guernsey sowie den Bermudas unterzeichnet.
• Germany, Wielding Bigger Weapon, Starts Tax Talks With Swiss - Rainer Buergin, Patrick Donahue, Bloomberg
  5/08/2009 -  ... Steinbrueck declined to say which jurisdictions will be put on the government’s list of countries that don’t comply with OECD standards and defended the “clear words” he used to get countries such as Switzerland to cooperate.
• Steuerlast in Deutschland besonders ungerecht verteilt - Maren Peters, Die Zeit
  12/05/2009 - In Deutschland ist nicht nur die Steuerbelastung so hoch wie in kaum einem anderen Industrieland, die Steuern und Abgaben sind auch noch besonders ungerecht verteilt. (OECD report)
• Deutsche Geringverdiener tragen höchste Last - Martin Greive, Die Welt
  12/05/2009 - In kaum einem anderen Land müssen Geringverdiener so viele Steuern und Abgaben zahlen wie in Deutschland. Das geht aus der Studie „Taxing Wages“ (Die Besteuerung der Einkommen) hervor, die die OECD erstellte. (OECD report)

Greece

Economy

• OECD calls for green tax - Kathimerini
  16/03/2010 - The OECD has called on Greece to impose further taxes on fuel and abolish subsidies for polluting manufacturers so it can raise funds for investment in the environment. An OECD report concedes that the debt-ridden government has other priorities but claims green investment would not be expensive. “The government’s fiscal situation restricts its ability to fulfill environmental commitments, but the environment is not a great weight on the budget,” said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria.
• Athens awaits EU verdict on aid - Kathimerini
  16/03/2010 - …The secretary-general of the OECD, Angel Gurria, told that Brussels should give the Greek government “a clear and strong message of support.” Following talks with Prime Minister George Papandreou, Gurria described the government’s package of austerity measures as “robust and ambitious.” The OECD chief also noted that Greece should not rule out a possible appeal to the IMF.
• OECD: Orderly state default mechanism may be needed - Forexyard / Reuters
  10/03/2010 - An orderly default mechanism may be needed to minimize disruption if any government cannot repay its debt, similar to U.S. "Chapter 11" bankruptcy rules for companies, OECD Chief Economist Pier Carlo Padoan said. In an interview with Reuters on Wednesday, Padoan said he did not think Greece would default on its debt, and its problems had to be handled under existing arrangements as any European monetary fund could take a long time to set up.
• Grèce : quel prêteur en dernier ressort ? - Philippe Brossard, La Tribune
  16/02/2010 - Le problème de la Grèce est double : budgétaire et financier. Le problème budgétaire peut être mesuré par le déficit public de la Grèce, avant paiement des intérêts de sa dette publique, que l'on appelle le déficit primaire. En moyenne sur la décennie 1998-2008, la Grèce a connu non un déficit, mais un léger excédent primaire de 0,5% du PIB, selon l'OCDE.
• Why Greece's debt troubles mark a new phase in global financial crisis - Brian Love, The Globe and Mail
  11/02/2010 - Greece's debt troubles mark a new phase in the global financial crisis but the government's plans for public deficit cuts are achievable, even if European support is needed to weather financial market turmoil, OECD officials said Thursday.
• A Review of Retirement Ages in OECD Countries - Seeking Alpha
  10/02/2010 - ...According to OECD data, the average legal retirement age in OECD countries is 64. However in Greece it is as low as just 58. This is another reason why Greece is in turmoil now and the government is raising the retirement age. Millions of Greek workers retire early and receive fat pensions.
• Is the EU planning an 'Athens bail-out'? - Sam Fleming, Daily Mail
  29/01/2010 - The EU may be planning an emergency rescue plan for Greece after a leading German politician warned the 'dangerous weakness' of some EU states could threaten the entire euro zone. Angel Gurria, the secretary general of the OECD, said that vast government debt is making the entire financial system 'extremely vulnerable'.
• OECD chief sees Greek debt market pressure easing - Brian Love, Reuters
  26/01/2010 - OECD chief Angel Gurria said he believed financial market pressure on Greece would ease off, even if markets would no longer be as indiscriminate about risk as they were before the global financial crisis.
• The Eternal Conjuring Trick of Greece’s Public Finances - Tony Barber, Financial Times/Brusselsblog
  18/02/2009 - ... According to a study last year by the OECD, eurozone government wage expenditure as a percentage of GDP drifted from 11 per cent in 1995 to just above 10 per cent in 2008.  But in Greece it rose from 10 per cent to over 11 per cent. 
• "El contagio a España es poco verosímil" – Andrés Pérez, El Publico
  20/12/2009 – Claude Giorno es economista jefe de la OCDE para Grecia. En una entrevista concedida a Público, asevera que Grecia puede llegar a cumplir las exigencias de la Unión Monetaria, pero no sin acometer un proceso extremadamente doloroso.
• Pension costs in Greece to increase by more than 20% of GDP - Emma Dunkley, Global Pensions
  04/08/2009 - The cost of public pensions in Greece is estimated to rise by more than 20% of gross domestic product by 2050, according to the latest report by the OECD. In the Economic Survey of Greece 2009: Enhancing fiscal viability, the OECD said there are a number of options for reform, including the use of notional accounts, similar to what is used in Italy and Sweden. (OECD report)
• OECD calls for further measures - Leonidas Stergiou, Kathimerini
  01/08/2009 - Budget deficit to exceed 6 percent and GDP to shrink by 1.3 percent this year, reports says. Delays in reforms and the lack of needed resistance to pressures from abroad mean that the Greek economy will not be able to avoid plunging into recession, according to a report by the OECD.(OECD report)
• OECD report on Greek economy, opposition reaction - Athens News Agency (ANA)
  31/07/2009 - Main opposition PASOK spokesperson on the economy Louka Katseli underlined Friday that the "forecasts by international organizations for negative growth rate until 2010 combined with the note that the crisis in competitiveness will continue beyond 2014 leave no room for further beautification of the situation and misinterpretations." Katseli called for the adoption of immediate measures and the implementation of fiscal reform in comments she made in response to the OECD annual report and the IMF forecasts on the Greek economy. (OECD report)
• Greece in recession in 2009, reform imperative-OECD - Forbes
  31/07/2009  - Greece is not expected to avoid recession this year as the global downturn hits tourism and shipping and the government must stay the course of fiscal consolidation and pursue reforms, the OECD said on Friday in its new Economic Survey on Greece. (OECD report)
• OECD to issue recession warning - P. HATZINIKOLAOU, Kathimerini
  31/08/2009 - International organizations are expecting a considerable recession in Greece, while retail sales are plummeting. After the estimate by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that the country’s gross domestic product will shrink by 1.7 percent this year, the OECD is reportedly set to predict, in its report on Greece to be released today, a GDP contraction of 1.3 percent this year and zero growth for 2010. (OECD report)

Hungary

• Hungary’s Budget Deficit May Overshoot 2010 Target - BusinessWeek
  11/02/2010 - Hungary’s budget deficit may exceed the government’s target in 2010 and 2011 as some spending cuts may “prove difficult to sustain,” the OECD said. The shortfall may reach 4.1 percent of gross domestic product this year, compared with the 3.8 percent goal that is part of its 20 billion-euro bailout loan agreement.
• Hungary's Jobless Rate Falls In April-June - RTTNews
  29/07/2009 - Hungary's jobless rate stood at 9.6% in April-June, down from 9.8% in March to May, but it was an increase from 7.6% recorded in the same period a year earlier.
  The OECD forecast Hungary's jobless rate to hit 10.7% in 2009 and then to rise to 11.7% in 2010 as the lingering global economic crisis is expected to leave more people out of their jobs.
• OECD calls on Hungary to stick to economic reform path -  The Earth Times
  09/04/2008 - The OECD called Thursday for Hungary to stick to economic reforms in the wake of a coalition crisis that threatens the former East Bloc nation's attempts to cut its budget deficit. (OECD report)
• Hungary falls behind Slovakia in growth as taxes rise - International Herald Tribune
  11/02/2008 - ...The OECD says Hungary should cut its high social security contributions, mainly those paid by employers, who pay over 30 percent on top of taxes and contributions paid by employees.
  

Iceland

Economy

• Iceland's banks 'need to recover' - BBC News
  01/09/2009 - The OECD says that for recovery to begin, the banking system needs to function smoothly again.

India

• India can play key role in global tax reform body, says OECD - Business Standard
  08/02/2010 - New Delhi could play a leading role in the proposed global task force on tax and development, being set up by OECD, a top official of the grouping has said. The OECD would be establishing a task force to mainly help the developing world benefit from the international tax environment.
• India poised for strong recovery: ADB - The Hindu
  17/01/2010 - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said that even as India is poised for a strong recovery this year... The study noted that India’s gross domestic product (GDP) in the third quarter of 2009 grew a robust 7.9 per cent from the year earlier, and consumer confidence also rose strongly, while indicators such as the OECD Lead Indicator on growth and the Dun and Bradstreet Business Optimism Index for India have been trending up.
• India's growth could be even better, says OECD - Andrew Buncombe, The Independent
  10/10/2007 - India's already impressive economic growth could improve even more if it further opened its markets and relaxed government controls, according to the OECD. (OECD report)
• OECD urges more reforms to lift India’s annual growth to 10% - Ashling O’Connor, The Times
  10/10/2007 - India could sustain annual economic growth of 10 per cent by 2011 if the Government persists with market reforms, including a removal of the foreign investment cap in the insurance sector, the OECD said yesterday. (OECD report)
• OECD says India's current economic growth sustainable - International Herald Tribune
  10/10/2007 - India's current economic growth — averaging 8.5 percent annually over the past four years — appears sustainable, but the country can do even better by further opening its markets and easing government control, the OECD said Tuesday. (OECD report)
  

Indonesia

• Indonesia calls on developed states to invest in agriculture - The Jakarta Post
  01/03/2010 - Indonesia is urging developed countries to put more investment into technological development, infrastructure and human resource development in the food sector in the next five years.Deputy Agriculture Minister Bayu Krisnamurthi, who represented Indonesia at an OECD agriculture conference on Thursday and Friday in Paris, said investment in the next five years should hopefully come up to the same as total investment in agriculture in the past 20 years.
• Transfer pricing practice in Indonesia - Robertus Winarto, The Jakarta Post
  20/01/2010 - Indonesia marks a significant development in the transfer pricing area this year. For the first time, companies engaged in related party (controlled) transactions are required to maintain transfer pricing (TP) documentation. The OECD 1995 Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administration provide detailed steps on this process.

Ireland

• OECD: Immigrant pupils need new state schools - John Walshe, The Independent
  12/01/2010 - A leading international think-tank has proposed that the Government set up new state-run primary schools to better cater for the new multi-ethnic pupil population. The new state schools could even take over some existing primary schools, the majority of which are run by the Catholic Church. The radical proposals are contained in a report by OECD, which suggests that the present system of individual patron bodies running 3,300 primary schools is out of date.

Economy

• Recession damage to Ireland is permanent, says OECD - Brendan Keenan, Independent
  11/03/2010 - The global economic crisis has left deep scars that will take years to heal, but the Government must start now to plan for economic growth, said a new report from the OECD. Highlighting the scale and depth of the recession, the report estimates a permanent loss of 3pc in output (GDP) on average across the 30 countries of the OECD. (OECD Report)
• Labour costs still on rise in Ireland - Suzane Lynch, Irish Times
  13/02/2010 - The OECD’s Quarterly Unit Labour Costs report shows the unit cost of labour in Ireland rose by 0.4 per cent from June to September 2009 compared with the OECD average of 0.3 per cent and a euro-zone average of 0.1 per cent. The quarterly increase follows two quarters of zero growth in Irish labour costs.
• OECD warns of risk of high long-term unemployment - Charlie Taylor, The Irish Times
  04/11/2009 - ...The Paris based OECD's Economic Survey of Ireland 2009 says that more effective polices towards the unemployed must be introduced which includes cutting dole payments and the establishment of a single organisation to deal with unemployment benefits and managing back-to-work programmes and training. (OECD report)
• Nationalisation 'should not be ruled out' - Simon Carswell, The Irish Times
  04/11/2009 - ...The Paris-based body said the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) should be established quickly and banks should only be nationalised with the “utmost reluctance”. (OECD report)
• Lenihan told to tax lower-paid workers - Brendan Keenan and Fionnan Sheahan, Irish Independent
  04/11/2009 - ...The shock recommendation is contained in the latest report on the country's economy from the Paris-based OECD. (OECD report)
• Repubic of Ireland jobless total second highest in Europe - Brendan Keenan, Belfast Telegraph
  15/07/2009 - The Republic has moved from having the second lowest unemployment rate among the EU-15 countries two years ago to the second highest, calculations from the OECD show.

Tax

• State's tax deal with Bermuda - Irish independent
  29/07/2009 - The government signed a bilateral agreement with Bermuda yesterday that will enable the two countries to exchange information on criminal and civil tax matters.
  

Israel

• «L’économie israélienne inspire confiance aux investisseurs» - Delphine Matthieussent, Libération
  27/02/2010 - Stanley Fischer, 66 ans, qui a la double nationalité américaine et israélienne, a été nommé à la tête de la Banque d’Israël en 2005 par le ministre des Finances de l’époque et Premier ministre actuel, Benyamin Nétanyahou. Il plaide activement la cause d’Israël auprès de l’OCDE qui devrait accepter en mai la candidature de l’Etat hébreu.
• Israel's home-grown danger - Douglas Hamilton, Reuters
  15/02/2010 - Threats to Israel typically come in the form of rockets. But economists also see a profound risk to the state that is entirely within its control: its education system... It's a far-from-typical profile for a developed member of the OECD, which Israel hopes to join formally in May.
• Where are Netanyahu's priorities? - The Jerusalem Post
  08/02/2010 - … As the recent OECD report noted, our economy has shown resilience during the global recession, but more active education and employment policies – particularly targeted at Arabs and haredim – are needed to bolster the country’s economic performance and bridge the deep divisions facing society.
• Ministry to offer guidance to help companies be greener - Haaretz
  01/02/2010 - The Environmental Protection Ministry is planning to offer consulting and financing for small and medium-sized companies and factories that take the initiative to become more environmentally friendly… Two weeks ago Erdan met with OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria, and the two agreed that this coming September, a group of OECD experts will come here to review the country's environmental progress.
• Stanley Fischer contredit par les chiffres de la croissance - Christopher Dembik, Le blog finance
  24/01/2010 - La résistance de l'économie israélienne, dont les principales banques (Discount, Mizrahi, Leumi et Hapoalim) ont été peu victimes des subprimes, a impressionné les membres de l’OCDE Ainsi, il y a quelques jours, lors d'une visite à Jerusalem, le secrétaire général de l'organisation, Angel Gurria, a affirmé qu'Israël a de bonnes chances de rejoindre ce cercle des pays développés cette année.
• Israël a échappé à la récession et s'apprête à rejoindre l'OCDE - L. Zecchini/N. Brafman, Le Monde
  21/01/2010 - Israël a de bonnes chances d'adhérer en 2010 à l'OCDE. C'est ce qu'a dit Angel Gurria, son secrétaire général, à la suite de sa visite effectuée à Jérusalem. S'il y a une chose dont peut se féliciter le gouvernement de Benyamin Netanyahu, c'est la manière dont l'Etat juif a traversé la crise économique mondiale.
• Israel should stop forex buying, refrain from tax cuts - Sharon Wrobel, Jerusalem Post
  21/01/2010 - The Bank of Israel should cease foreign currency intervention, while the government ought to be more cautious in slashing taxes and imposing high car purchase taxes, the OECD said in a report ahead of Israel's accession to the organization.
• Israel should stop forex buying, refrain from tax cuts - Sharon Wrobel, Jerusalem Post
  21/01/2010 - The Bank of Israel should cease foreign currency intervention, while the government ought to be more cautious in slashing taxes and imposing high car purchase taxes, the OECD said in a report ahead of Israel's accession to the organization.
• Willkommen im Klub! - Von Peter Münch, Sueddeutsche.de
  21/01/2010 - Israel wird im Sommer vorraussichtlich in die OECD aufgenommen - ein Erfolg für die Regierung, die "Weltmacht" werden will. Der Weg dorthin birgt allerdings innenpolitischen Sprengstoff.
• Cut child allowances, nix tax break on pension savings - Meirav Arlosoroff, Haaretz
  21/01/2010 - Israel will be the poorest of the 30 nations comprising the OECD, assuming it joins this year, says the OECD's report on Israel - and it has several suggestions, some revolutionary, for how to amend that situation. The report states that 19.9% of Israel's population is categorized as "poor". The average poverty level for the OECD is just 10.9%, the paper states.
• Israel set to become OECD's poorest member - Liel Kyzer, Haaretz
  20/01/2010 - If the OECD accepts Israel in its vote this May, it will be its poorest member with the widest social gaps, a report by the organization shows. The OECD's chairman, Jose Angel Gurria, submitted the report to the Israeli government. The vote will follow two years of official talks on Israel's joining the group, and even more years of promises.
• For Israel, Bumps on Path to Economic Club - Ethan Bronner, The New York Times
  19/01/2010 - The secretary-general of the 30-member Paris-based OECD, Angel Gurria, currently in Israel to discuss the issues with senior officials, said he was confident they could be resolved and that Israel would become a member this year.
• Israel confident of joining OECD - Gavin Rabinowitz, AFP
  19/01/2010 - Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz on Tuesday expressed confidence the Jewish state would join the OECD this year even though certain corruption issues have yet to be resolved. "Things are going well," Steinitz said in remarks to public radio that coincided with a visit by Gurria.
• Israël devrait devenir le 32e pays membre au printemps 2010 - Jacques Bendelac, Israel Valley
  13/01/2010 - A l’exception du Chili qui vient d’être admis à l’OCDE, Israël fait partie du groupe de quatre autres pays qui sont actuellement en cours de négociations pour devenir membres de l’OCDE: l’Estonie, la Fédération de Russie et la Slovénie. Israël devrait donc rejoindre le Chili dans les prochains mois; sauf imprévu de dernière minute, l’adhésion d’Israël à l’OCDE est programmée pour le printemps 2010.
• Israel lags on OECD environmental report – Merav Ankori , Globes
  11/01/2010 - "Israel  is the only new country joining the OECD that has not yet prepared an environmental report," says OECD Head of the Environment and Globalization Division Brendan Gillespie. He is due to meet today officials from Israeli ministries, local authorities, and NPOs in order to explain to them how to prepare the report, called the Environmental Performance Review.
• Israël – OCDE : Ultimes négociations ? – Jacques Bendelac, Israel Valley
  20/12/2009 – Prélude à l’adhésion d’Israël à l’OCDE? Le Secrétaire général de l’OCDE, Angel Gurría, effectuera une visite officielle en Israël du 18 au 19 janvier 2010. Cette visite exceptionnelle s’inscrira dans le cadre des derniers préparatifs pour l’adhésion d’Israël à l’Organisation.
• Israel signs tax treaties with Estonia, Georgia - The Jerusalem Post
  10/08/2009 - ...The agreements are based on the OECD model, which focuses taxation in the country of residence and reduces taxation in the country in which the economic activity is carried out, or from which passive income such as dividends, interest or royalties is paid.
• Israel's next dollar bonds to draw demands - Alisa Odenheimer and David Wainer, Bloomberg
  26/07/2009 - Israel’s next bond issue in U.S. dollars is likely to be seen as a “good risk” and will draw “a lot” of demand, according to Standard & Poor’s...“Compared to other economies, Israel has resisted the economic crisis rather well,”... Israel... is no longer an emerging market, S&P associate director said. “I see Israel as a developed market,”  Ms Paillat-Chayrigues said. “The fact that Israel is a candidate to join the OECD confirms that.”

Italy

Economy

• The country hopes thrift can fend off euro zone contagion - Forexyard/Reuters
  05/01/2010 - Italy pins its hopes of not being next in line for market turmoil like Greece, Spain and Portugal on steady management of its high debt and deficit in the global crisis and the private thrift underpinning its current account… OECD chief economist Pier Carlo Padoan told Reuters in mid-January that "Italy's prudent fiscal policy is proving a precious commodity saving it from risk premiums which have shot up for countries like Greece".
• OECD Can't Predict the End to Deep Italian Recession - Luca di Leo, Wall Street Journal
  18/06/2009 - ... The OECD now expects Italian gross domestic product to contract 5.3% in 2009 after shrinking 1% last year, marking the deepest recession since World War II. On March 31, the OECD had forecast Italian GDP would fall 4.3% this year. (OECD report)
• Ocse: più finanziamenti privati per rafforzare le banche italiane - Vittorio da Rold, Il Sole 24 Ore
  17/06/2009 - ... L'Ocse peraltro indica che alcune condizioni previste dai cosidetti Tremonti Bond «sono lodevoli, ma potrebbero essere meglio perseguite con altri mezzi». (OECD report)

Education

• Nasci al sud? Meno preparato - Flavia Amabile, La Stampa
  24/02/2010 - ...La Fondazione Agnelli ha analizzato anche quest’anno lo stato della scuola in Italia nel suo Rapporto che verrà presentato ufficialmente oggi e il quadro che emerge non è affatto lusinghiero. L’indagine si basa sui dati Ocse-Pisa, l’esame condotto tra gli studenti delle secondarie dei Paesi Ocse per confrontarne le conoscenze.

Employment

• OCSE lancia allarme disoccupazione - La Repubblica
  16/09/2009 - Un allarme sulla disoccupazione arriva oggi dall'OCSE, che ha pubblicato l'Employment Outlook 2009, un rapporto sullo stato del mercato del lavoro dell'area. A tal proposito, il Segretario Generale, Angel Gurria, ha lanciato un appello ai Governi, affinché predispongano le misure necessarie ad evitare che la recessione si trasformi in una crisi di lungo periodo del mercato del lavoro. (OECD report)

Japan

• Japanese Child Poverty on the Rise - Akiko Fujita, Voa News
  25/02/2010 - Child poverty in Japan is increasing at a surprising rate. That is the assessment from a senior government researcher studying the country's economic decline. Aya Abe says 15 percent of Japanese children live in poverty and the government is not doing enough to help them... Abe says studies conducted by the OECD point to rising poverty in Japan before the global economic crises.
• Fiscal position: Country still labours under huge debt burden - Financial Times
  08/02/2010 - Should Japan’s debt burden be measured on a net or gross basis? That is a Y500,000bn question facing anyone worried about the fiscal future of the world’s second-largest economy. On a gross basis, general government debt reached a level equivalent to 189 per cent of gross domestic product last year, according to the OECD. That constitutes a liability mountain far higher and heavier than that of any other leading economy.
• Q+A-Will Japan face a sovereign debt crisis? - Yoko Nishikawa, Reuters
  27/01/2010 - Japan's ballooning public debt is raising concerns in debt markets as the largely untested government of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama tries to balance the need for economic stimulus with a need for fiscal prudence. If short-term debt is added to the long-term debt, Japan's liabilities will hit 197 percent of GDP this year, the highest among advanced economies, the OECD says.
• Japan needs major reforms for growth, OECD says - Tomoko A. Hosaka, Business Week
  30/09/2009 - Japan needs major reforms in taxation, healthcare and employment to sustain recovery from recession and foster long-term growth, a new international report said Wednesday. (OECD report)
• Japan tips ever deeper into deflation - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Daily Telegraph
  29/09/2009 - Japan is sliding into the deepest deflation since the Second World War, forcing the new-broom Democrats to abandon their strong yen policy within weeks of taking office. (OECD report)
• Stuck in neutral - The Economist
  13/08/2009 - ...OECD figures show that the contribution of foreign trade to GDP growth during those years was as high in Japan as in Germany.
• Japan’s Debt Ratings Unified at Aa2 by Moody’s - Steven McPherson and Keiko Ujikane, Bloomberg
  18/05/2009 - ...Prime Minister Taro Aso has pledged to spend 25 trillion yen ($263 billion) to counter Japan’s worst postwar recession, adding to debt that the OECD says will swell to almost twice the size of the economy next year.
• Japan to Sell Extra 10.8 Trillion Yen in New Bonds - Keiko Ujikane, Bloomberg
  21/04/2009 - ...The OECD estimate was published before the government released the stimulus package.
• Japan may struggle to afford stimulus - Jeremy Warner, The Independent
  10/04/2009 - ...According to OECD forecasts, on present demographic trends the pensioner dependency ratio will rise to close to 70 per cent by 2030.
  

Korea

• Korea names OECD ambassador to lead central bank - Kelly Olsen, BusinessWeek
  16/03/2010 - Economist Kim Choong-soo was named as the next governor of the Bank of Korea as the central bank debates when to raise interest rates from a record low. Kim, South Korea's ambassador to the OECD in Paris, was nominated by President Lee Myung-bak.
• More than policy is needed to raise birthrates - Andrew Gruen, Ohmy News
  11/03/2010 - Wilem Adema's office is classically academic. Papers are strewn about the desk. The space has floor-to-ceiling bookshelves along each wall, where books are stacked horizontally on top of vertical volumes. He uses a multi-screen laptop/monitor to display datasets. It feels like a university. Except it's actually a multi-governmental organization: the OECD in Paris.
• OECD to Korea: ease entry barriers - JoongAng Daily
  11/03/2010 - Korea should lower entry barriers to its domestic market through regulatory reforms and by expanding incentives intended to induce more foreign investment here, an international report showed. In its annual report that assesses structural reforms of member countries, the OECD cited Korea’s network industry as an area where the country should lower entry barriers by easing the foreign ownership ceiling.
• Korea's GDP Growth Ranks Third in OECD - Kim Jae-kyoung, The Korea Times
  08/03/2010 - Korea ranked third in economic performance among OECD member countries last year, with its gross domestic product growing 0.2 percent, behind Poland and Australia, according to the OECD. It said that Korea's robust economic performance was mainly thanks to the government-led stimulus measures to minimize the economic downturn.
• The Country Works Overtime To Tackle Vacation Shortage - E. Ramstad/J. Jaeyeon, The Wall Street Journal
  01/03/2010 - The government here is cracking down on vacations: Workers, it seems, aren't taking enough of them. South Koreans were told for decades to sacrifice everything to build the country's economy. Now South Koreans are world-champion workaholics, according to the OECD, logging more hours a year on the job than people in any other developed country.
• L'université coréenne vue par la presse - Benjamin Gauducheau, Aujourd'hui la Corée
  22/02/2010 - Selon un rapport publié en septembre par l'OCDE, la Corée du Sud a les seconds frais universitaires les plus chers du monde, juste après les Etats Unis.
• Work-Life Balance - Korea Times
  17/02/2010 - According to an OECD report, Koreans work for an average of 2,316 hours a year, 30 percent more than the average 1,768 hours put in by the 30-member club of the world's richest countries, and far longer than runner-up Hungary's 1,986 hours. Unfortunately, Koreans' level of satisfaction with their jobs hits the bottom level among OECD members, and their labor productivity stands at a mere 65 percent of the industrial countries' average.
• Seoul Urged to Liberalize Services Sector - Yoon Ja-young, Korea Times
  04/02/2010 - Korea should further open up its service market to enhance the nation's economic competitiveness as heavy-handed rules in the sector are hindering productivity of the entire economy, the OECD said.
• Fiscal stimulus, eased monetary policy help S. Korea's economy - Yonhap News Agency
  18/01/2010 - Expanded fiscal spending and an eased monetary policy resulted in generating jobs, fostering corporate investment and boosting domestic demand in South Korea, helping the country out of a steep downturn caused by the global recession, said Randall Jones, head of the Korea and Japan desk at the Economics Department of the OECD.
• S. Korea's fiscal stimulus generates 200,000 new jobs: OECD official - People's Daily Online
  18/01/2010 - ..."Fiscal stimulus used in public investments and subsidies to companies, households and local governments is estimated to have boosted employment by nearly 200,000 in 2009," Randall Jones, Head of the Japan/Korea Desk in the OECD Economics Department, told a conference in Seoul.
• OECD chief upbeat about Korea's economy - Korea Herald
  27/10/2009 - Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, said yesterday he was optimistic about the future direction of the Korean economy.
• Korean women near bottom in job market - JoongAng Daily
  21/09/2009 .... The employment outlook by the OECD which included several surveys, showed that 54.7 percent of Korean women aged 15-64 were working or seeking work as of the end of last year, a figure only ahead of Mexico (43.4 percent) and Turkey (26.7 percent) among the 30 OECD countries. The OECD average was 61.3 percent. (OECD report)

Luxembourg

Taxation

• Luxembourg makes slight concessions - Tanguy Verhoosel, Europolitics
  19/01/2010 - The day after the re-election of Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the Eurogroup, Luxembourg began making slight concessions on taxation, at the Ecofin Council, waiving its veto on the adoption of a general approach to revision of the Directive on debt recovery. For the European Commission, the idea is to write in stone the concessions these countries agreed to make under pressure from the G20 – they are resigned to applying OECD standards on information exchange.
• Liechtenstein signs taxation agreement with Luxembourg - Emma Hartley, Daily Telegraph
  31/08/2009 - ...Sarah Doig, the chargé d’affairs at the British embassy in Bern, which has responsibility for Liechtenstein as well as Switzerland, said that the movement for compliance with the OECD’s rules got more urgent in March at the G20 summit in London.
• Luxembourg and Belgium removed from ‘grey list' - Jim Brunsden, European Voice
  30/07/2009 - Luxembourg and Belgium have both been removed from an international ‘grey list' of countries that refuse to share banking information for the purposes of taxation.
  Their removal from the list means that they will escape further censure when governments evaluate in September whether countries are living up to their commitments to fight tax evasion.
  

Mexico

• Los niños mexicanos son los que menos medios de estudio tienen de la OCDE, Informador
  25/01/2010 - La OCDE criticó la baja calidad del sistema educativo mexicano, que cuenta con la mayor proporción de niños de la OCDE sin acceso a herramientas de estudio.
• OCDE pide crear una secretaria de ciencia – Nurit Martinez, El Universal  
  11/01/2010 – La OCDE recomendó a México crear una nueva secretaría que impulse el desarrollo científico y de innovación en el país, con lo cual sugiere dividir la Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP) y transformar al Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Conacyt) en la Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia y Tecnología.
• Gurría y Gil Díaz, ¿los nuevos gurús de Calderón para salir de la crisis? - Darío Celis, Excélsior
  24/08/2009 - ...Más allá de que Gurría sea visto por no pocos como candidato viable para llegar a la Secretaría de Hacienda o incluso al Banco de México, en sustitución de Guillermo Ortiz Martínez, parecería que el secretario general de la OCDE ha sido constantemente consultado por los asesores de Calderón para apoyar el rediseño de la actual Secretaría de Economía.

Economy

• La OCDE cree que México debe promover una reforma fiscal - EFE
  23/02/2010 - El secretario general de la OCDE, Ángel Gurría, dijo hoy que "lo peor" de la crisis económica en México ya ha pasado y consideró llegado el momento de promover una reforma fiscal. Gurría, de visita oficial en España, participó hoy en los desayunos del Foro Cinco Días en Madrid.
• Proponen via para optimizar el gasto - Informador
  08/01/2010 - El secretario general de la OCDE, Ángel Gurría, ha entregado al Gobierno mexicano una propuesta general de planeación, gestión y evaluación del gasto público con visión de Estado y de largo plazo. El documento, de 170 páginas, ofrece una valoración general de cómo se planean y gestionan los recursos públicos en el país.
• Mexico recession shows downside of close U.S. links - Pedro Nicolaci da Costa, Reuters
  4/08/2009 - Mexico's economic slump, one of the worst in its history, has exposed the perils of a one-sided development strategy that ties the country's fate to the whims of U.S. consumers
  ...In addition, the OECD recommends that the government move away from what OECD calls "regressive" stimulus policies and use its fiscal powers to directly create jobs.(OECD report)
• Le Mexique s'enfonce dans une récession de plus en plus profonde - Les Echos
  31/07/2009 - Dans une étude publiée hier, l'OCDE constate qu'« il n'y a aucune marge de nouvelle relance budgétaire ». (étude OCDE)
• Mexican economy to shrink 8% this year amid crisis, OECD says - Bloomberg 
  30/07/2009 - The OECD said Mexico’s economy may shrink 8 percent this year amid the global economic slump. Falling industrial production and consumer confidence will raise the unemployment rate to 5.7 percent in 2009, the OECD said in a report on Mexico released today.(OECD report)
• Gradual, la disminución de subsidios en México: OCDE - El Financiero
  30/07/2009 - La OCDE recomendó a México disminuir gradualmente los subsidios al precio de las gasolinas, pero hasta que la economía se recupere de la crisis. La jefa de la División de Estudios Económicos del organismo, Piritta Sorsa se pronunció asimismo por "gravar un poco" medicinas y alimentos, pero también hasta que pase la crisis; además, dijo, habría que proteger a las clases bajas con la finalidad de no perjudicarlas.(OECD report)

Employment

• Desempleo en México alcanzó 1.9%: OCDE - Ixel Yutzil González, El Universal
  15/09/2009 - ...De acuerdo con el reporte mensual del empleo en la OCDE, entre julio de 2008 y el mismo mes de 2009, el desempleo en México avanzó 1.9%, muy similar al avance del desempleo en la Unión Europea, cuya tasa de desocupación creció dos puntos en el último año. (OECD report)

Netherlands

Economy

• Dutch 60 pct tax unlikely to tackle deficit - B. Berkowitz/G. Kreijger, The Guardian
  26/01/2010 - A proposal by the Netherlands to raise its top income tax rate to 60 percent to rein in a spiralling budget deficit could backfire, risking a potential "brain drain" and having little impact on the government's finances, analysts say… Other governments may have less leeway: adding in social security contributions and local taxes, top earners in Denmark and Belgium already pay 60 percent or more of their salary to the government, according to OECD data.
• OESO pleit voor versoepeling ontslagrecht - Het Financieele Dagblad
  31/01/2008 - De OESO, een organisatie van westerse landen, pleit in het jaarlijkse rapport over de Nederlandse economie voor versoepeling van ontslagrecht en verhoging van de AOW-leeftijd. (OECD report)

Environment

• Dutch Face Growing Pressures On Rural Land - OECD - Planet Ark
  04/06/2008 - The Netherlands will face conflicting pressures on rural land in coming years as population growth and climate change create new demands for use, according to an OECD report released on Tuesday. (OECD report)

New Zealand

• Severe Shortage of medical specialists - Stuff
  22/02/2010 - Labour Party health spokeswoman Ruth Dyson has taken issue with suggestions her party is responsible for New Zealand's shortage of medical specialists getting to such a concerning level. OECD publication, Health at a Glance 2009, placed New Zealand bottom of 28 countries surveyed, with figures showing it had only 0.8 specialists per 1000 people.
• NZ tax system needs major shakeup - Adrian Bathgate, Interactive investor
  20/01/2010 - New Zealand should lower its top personal and corporate tax rates, raise indirect taxes and look at a capital gains tax, an official review group said on Wednesday, drawing a neutral response from the government. The recommendations included cutting the top personal tax rate, currently 38 percent, to 30 percent and lower the company tax rate closer to the OECD average of 26 percent.
• Flight from top hits bottom line - Bernard Hickey, Nzherald.co.nz
  18/01/2010 - …One in four New Zealand graduates works overseas, the highest rate in the OECD. There is the pull factor of higher wages and opportunities for promotion, but there is also the push factor of lower wages and unaffordable housing. It becomes a vicious circle where low wages beget low wages.
• NZ's low productivity singled out in OECD report - New Zealand Herald
  16/04/2009 - Raising productivity has been identified in an OECD report on New Zealand as the country's greatest medium term challenge.The report, released today, provides analysis of New Zealand's economic situation, identifies perceived failings and offers a raft of measures on to how to improve them. (OECD report)
• New Zealand Should Cut Interest Rate to 2%, OECD Says - Bloomberg
  16/04/2009 - ... “The Reserve Bank still has room to go further in responding to deteriorating economic conditions,” the OECD said in its Economic Survey of New Zealand, released in Paris today. “The much-improved inflation outlook allows scope for further easing.” (OECD report)
  

Norway

• 2011 Budget Will Help Keep Low Rates - Josiane Kremer, Business Week
  14/03/2010 - Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg pledged to curb the use of oil revenue in the 2011 budget to ensure interest rates in the world’s sixth-largest oil exporter stay low as the economy emerges from recession… The OECD said that Norway, which suffered a “shallower” recession than most industrialized nations, must remove its fiscal stimulus “soon” to prevent its economy from overheating as it recovers.
• OECD: Better Communication Would Help Norges Bank Credibility - iMarket News
  08/03/2010 - The Norges Bank could improve its communication strategy in order to boost the credibility of its monetary policy, the OECD said on Monday. The recommendation from the Paris-based think-tank came in a report that said policymakers at the central bank had given some "obscure" signals to the markets as they grappled to deal with the impact of the financial crisis. 
  

Poland

• Dans une Europe en crise, la Pologne fait figure d'exception - Florence Beaugé, Le Monde
  10/03/2010 - Chaque trimestre, le premier ministre libéral, Donald Tusk, éprouve un malin plaisir à tenir une conférence de presse sur l'économie polonaise à la Bourse de Varsovie. Sous l'œil des caméras, il se tient ostensiblement devant la carte de l'UE, toute de couleur rouge, à l'exception d'un îlot vert : la Pologne... Même au sein de l'OCDE, aucun pays ne peut se vanter d'avoir fait mieux.
• Sikorski: Poland supports a free Belarus - Polskie Radio
  12/02/2010 - Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has announced the importance of Belarus respecting minority rights for the eastern country’s relations with the European Union.The Foreign Minister stated, at a joint press conference with his Belarusian counterpart, that Poland will support Belarus in its drive for political independence and diversification. Sikorski added, however, that this support will only come in Belarus respects the rights and values of the OECD.

Portugal

• Portugal sells $1.34 billion worth of bonds - Barry Hatton, AP
  10/03/2010 - …The government's austerity plan won some praise from the Paris-based OECD. The OECD said it "welcomes the authorities' consolidation strategy, which goes in the direction of maintaining market confidence, supporting growth and ensuring fiscal sustainability."
• Le plan d'austerité du Portugal devrait permettre de soutenir la croissance - Le Point
  10/03/2010 - Le plan d'austérité présenté par le Portugal devrait permettre à la fois de réduire le déficit public creusé par la crise mais aussi de soutenir la croissance, a estimé l'OCDE. La stratégie d'assainissement devrait permettre de conserver la confiance des marchés, de soutenir la croissance et de garantir la viabilité budgétaire" du pays, déclare Angel Gurria.
• OECD: Portugal's Consolidation Plan Will Support Growth - iMarket News
  10/03/2010 - The OECD on Wednesday welcomed Portugal's plan for bringing the country's budget deficit below 3% of GDP by 2013, from 9.3% last year. The Portuguese consolidation strategy "goes in the direction of maintaining market confidence, supporting growth and ensuring fiscal sustainability," the OECD said.
• Escolas vão ter gestor de edifício - Alexandra Inacio, Jornal de Noticias
  27/02/2010 - As secundárias abrangidas pelo programa de modernização vão ter um "gestor de edifício" - a razão é simples, explicou o presidente da Parque Escolar: a "complexidade" das infra-estruturas obriga a uma adaptação dos modelos de gestão escolar ao do edifício. No final da apresentação de um relatório da OCDE sobre o programa de modernização das secundárias - na secundária Pedro Alexandrino, em Odivelas - Sintra Nunes explicou, à Imprensa, que a empresa e o Ministério da Educação estão a "iniciar um grupo de trabalho para apreciar o modelo de gestão das escolas".
• OCDE elogia obras escolares - Bernardo Esteves, Correio da manha
  27/02/2010 - Um estudo da OCDE, ontem apresentado, tece rasgados elogios ao programa de modernização das escolas secundárias. "Portugal deveria orgulhar-se deste programa", afirmou Alastair Blyth, membro da equipa da OCDE responsável pelo estudo.

Russia

• A Year after the Five-Day War - Russia Profile
  14/08/2009 - ...Declarations of principle in the absence of action do not alter behavior. Russia is currently an observer to the OECD.
• Idea of the Day: Facilitate Russia’s Accession to the OECD - Center for American Progress
  31/07/2009 - ...Membership in the OECD could serve as a strong stimulus for economic reform and the development of the rule of law in Russia.
• Russia Must Ensure Bank Stability, OECD Report Says - Alex Nicholson, Paul Abelsky, Bloomberg
  15/07/2009 - The Russian banking system’s stability is of “prime importance” as the government seeks to spur lending in the face of rising delinquent debts, the OECD said.(OECD report)
•  OECD sees hard times for Russia - BBC news
  15/07/2009 - The worldwide recession has brought Russia's strong economic recovery to a "sudden end", says the OECD  in its latest economic survey, it expects the Russian economy to shrink by 6.8% this year, before recovering to grow 3.7% in 2010. (OECD report)
• Russia should cut rates, move to inflation targeting-OECD - Toni Vorobyova, Reuters
  15/07/2009 - Moscow - Russia should cut rates and let the rouble weaken to climb out of recession, but then focus must shift on developing non-oil sectors of the economy and reducing barriers to foreign investment, the OECD said on Wednesday. (OECD report)

Slovenia

• Slovenia Could Join OECD in May - STA
  21/01/2010 - Slovenia could become a member of the OECD in May, Angel Gurria said in Paris on Thursday after meeting Slovenian Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar. The negotiations are running very smoothly and all formalities could be settled in April, he explained.
• Slowenien könnte im Mai OECD beitreten - tt.com
  21/01/2010 - Die Verhandlungen würden sehr glatt laufen, meinte Generalsekretär Gurria am Donnerstag nach einem Treffen mit dem slowenischen Außenminister Samuel Zbogar in Paris, wie die slowenische Nachrichtenagentur STA berichtete.
• OECD Presses Slovenia On Structural Reforms - Onet
  01/07/2009 - Slovenia must press ahead with structural reforms, despite or because of the global economic crisis, the OECD  said Wednesday. Presenting a report here on the Slovenian economy, OECD chief Angel Gurria said Slovenia must "enchance structural reforms even before the crisis ends."
• Slovenian President: OECD Urges Steps To Improve Corp Governance - AFP
  30/06/2009 - ..."The OECD urged Slovenia to pay attention particularly to systematic measures aimed at improving corporate governance and bribery prevention," Slovenian President Danilo Turk said Tuesday in a statement after meeting with OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria.
  The two discussed Slovenia's accession to the OECD, which currently faces no obstacles, the statement said.
  

Slovak Republic

• Sramko Meets OECD Chief Gurria to Discuss This Year’s Agenda - Radio Slovakia International
  02/02/2010 - Slovakia’s Ambassador to the OECD Ivan Sramko handed a letter from Slovak Foreign Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajcak to OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria. During the first meetings between the two officials, Sramko emphasized that he wanted to use his post at the OECD not only to protect Slovakia’s national interests, but also to employ his skills and experience in contributing to OECDs main strategies.
• Third crisis package launched - Beata Balogová, The Slovak Spectator
  13/02/2009 - ...Gurria also suggested that even if the OECD’s long-term policy is that its members keep their public spending under control, times of crisis allow for an increase in deficits, on condition that it is only temporary and deficits are normalised later.
• OECD Sees Slovak Growth at 4% in ‘09 After Euro Entry - Radoslav Tomek and Andrea Dudikova, Bloomberg
  09/02/2009 - Slovakia’s economy will probably expand 4 percent this year, after the eastern European country adopted the euro on Jan. 1, the OECD said. (OECD report)
• Slovakia needs to liberalize rules to boost the economy; OECD - RTTNews
  09/02/2009 - The Slovakian economy will need to liberalize its wage rules, while improving the efficiency of its housing market to reap the full benefit of changing over to the Euro, the OECD said Monday. (OECD report)

South Africa

• L'Afrique du Sud renoue avec la croissance, accroît ses dépenses sociales - Le Temps
  17/02/2010 - L'Afrique du Sud va renouer avec la croissance en 2010, grâce notamment à la Coupe du monde de football, et accroître de près de 10% ses dépenses sociales face à une pauvreté endémique… Malgré ces investissements massifs, qui se sont accentués ces dernières années, la récession a eu un effet désastreux sur l'emploi, alors que le chômage frappe déjà plus de 40% de la population active, selon les chiffres de l'OCDE.
• La dynamique sud-africaine handicapée par les inégalités héritées de l'apartheid - Sébastien Hervieu, Le Monde
  25/01/2010 - Fin 2009, l'Afrique du Sud est sortie de la récession. Mais son fort potentiel économique risque de rester inexploité. "Malgré une amélioration au début des années 2000, la croissance n'a guère dépassé les 3 % par an depuis 1994, observe Geoff Barnard, économiste à l'OCDE. La question est de savoir si les autorités, qui connaissent ces freins à la croissance, seront capables de prendre des décisions pour les retirer."
• Future of Cape Town in jeopardy - Anel Lewis, Independent Online
  29/07/2009 - The regional review of Cape Town by the OECD paints a bleak picture of the city's sustainability, highlighting rising unemployment, income inequalities, growing poverty and a high crime rate... The OECD said co-ordiantion efforts between the province and the munipalities in the region "could be improved". 
• (OECD report)Trevor Manuel on tax reforms - Cape Times
  28/08/2008 - ...Deputy secretary general of the OECD, Pier Carlo Padoan, agreed that dialogue by tax administrations in Africa was essential.
• Growing nowhere slowly - Robert Laing, The Times
  16/07/2008 - Government policies, ranging from its reliance on state-owned monopolies to its accelerated and shared growth initiative and black economic empowerment, were roasted in the OECD’s first analysis of this country. (OECD report)
• South African Regulations, State Curbs Competition - Nasreen Seria, Bloomberg
  15/07/2008 - South African regulations on investment are restrictive and state involvement in the economy is high, undermining competition and economic growth, the OECD said. (OECD report)

Spain

• España, sexto país del mundo en ayuda a la cooperación - Antonio Yagüe, El Periodico
  18/02/2010 - La cota del 0,7% del PIB de ayuda a los países pobres, prometida por el Gobierno para el 2012, está mas cerca. España destinará este año unos 4.122 millones de euros, con lo que se coloca en el sexta posición mundial, solo por detrás de EEUU, Reino Unido, Alemania, Francia y Japón... El informe de la OCDE, que agrupa a 22 países, reveló ayer que, paradójicamente, el alza de los porcentajes del PIB tiene más que ver con las caídas de la renta bruta de los países por la crisis que con la subida real de las ayudas.
• España 2050: un asilo - Rafael Pampillon, Expansion
  28/01/2010 - El Gobierno anunció ayer su intención de retrasar la edad de jubilación a los 67 años. Se trata de una propuesta que va en la misma dirección que el informe de la Comisión Rato, donde se afirma que el sistema de pensiones entrará en déficit en el 2022 si no se toman medidas como podría ser el aumento de la edad de jubilación. También la OCDE suele insistir sobre la necesidad de modificar el sistema de cálculo de las pensiones.
• La OCDE considera que las cajas españolas son un sector de riesgo - Antonio Jimenéz, El Pais
  01/04/2009 - El economista jefe de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OCDE), Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, calificó ayer de "eficaz y rápida" la decisión del Banco de España de intervenir el domingo en Caja Castilla La Mancha (CCM). A juicio de Schimdt-Hebbel, los bancos españoles gozan de una buena salud financiera y eso les permite sortear la crisis. (OECD report)

Agriculture

• La OCDE destaca el potencial del medio rural para afrontar la crisis - Europa Press
  16/02/2009 - El secretario general de la OCDE, Ángel Gurría, advirtió hoy de que las zonas rurales "no se escapan" del impacto de la crisis, pero destacó que su "enorme" potencial económico abre una oportunidad "excepcional" para la recuperación de la economía.

Economy

• Economy of Spain on the Edge - John Vinocur, The New York Times
  01/03/2010 - The idea that Spain could become a target of the world’s markets, an economic basket case weighing down the euro, is a preposterous notion, but not an unthinkable one… Last week, José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, and Angel Gurría, secretary general of OECD, were in town on separate missions to insist, as decorously and elliptically as possible, that Greece, and Spain were chalk and cheese.
• Economy of Spain on the Edge - John Vinocur, New York Times
  01/03/2010 - The idea that Spain could become a target of the world’s markets, an economic basket case weighing down the euro, is a preposterous notion, but not an unthinkable one. Last week, José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, and Angel Gurría, secretary general of OECD, were in town on separate missions to insist, as decorously and elliptically as possible, that Greece and Spain were chalk and cheese.
• Europa, la OCDE y el Banco de España reclaman más ambición al Gobierno - C. Rivera, Expansion
  24/02/2010 - El secretario general de la OCDE, Ángel Gurría, alertó ayer de la posibilidad de que surja en España "una generación perdida" como consecuencia de la crisis económica. El dirigente de esta organización cree que es inadmisible que "el 30% de los estudiantes deje sus estudios sin obtener el certificado de primer ciclo de Educación Secundaria".
• La OCDE cree que no hay motivos para dudar de la solvencia de España - Miriam Calavia, Cinco Dias
  23/02/2010 - Ángel Gurría señaló durante su participación en el Foro Cinco Días, patrocinado por Banco Sabadell y Accenture, que, aunque España no puede alargar más en el tiempo el excesivo déficit actual, que se sitúa en el 11,4% PIB, "no hay motivos para cuestionar la solvencia financiera del Gobierno". 
• Gurría ve necesario hacer "más flexibles" las restricciones a las cajas - Europa Press
  23/02/2010 - El secretario general de la OCDE consideró hoy necesario que se vayan haciendo más flexibles las restricciones a las cajas de ahorros, como la imposibilidad de ampliar capital o de ser comprada por un banco, e instó a acelerar este proceso porque "la mitad del sistema de crédito español está sujeto a unas restricciones que le hacen más rígido".
• Spanish unions to march against pension plan - Reuters
  23/02/2010 - Unionised workers will protest in Spain's major cities on Tuesday against plans to raise the retirement age, ending six years of social peace with a Socialist government now intent on market-pleasing austerity… The head of the OECD, Angel Gurria, said on Tuesday that Spain's public debt was still manageable and not comparable with Greece.

Education

• Los másteres optarán a prácticas en la OCDE - Cinco Dias
  23/02/2010 - El secretario general de la OCDE, Ángel Gurría, se reunirá con el secretario general de Universidades, Màrius Rubiralta, para firmar un programa de prácticas universitarias con distintas organizaciones y entidades universitarias. El acuerdo, que contará con la presencia también de la representante permanente de España ante la OCDE, Cristina Narbona, está dirigido principalmente a los universitarios con título de máster y a aquellos que están cursando el doctorado.
• ¿Es el momento de que España ‘hinque los codos’ en educación? - C. Camino, El Confidencial
  23/01/2010 - El Partido Popular expuso en Toledo su respuesta al pacto educativo propuesto por el PSOE con el que se pretende mejorar la mala situación en la que el informe PISA sitúa a España. La última referencia de dicho informe, realizado por la OCDE en 2006, no dejaba en buen lugar a los alumnos españoles. El nivel de comprensión lectora descendía preocupantemente y los conocimientos en Ciencias y Matemáticas dejaban al país en una posición alarmante.
• Spain - Tertiary Education: Could do better - Rebecca Warden,  University World News
  22/03/2009 - ...The report, OECD Review of Tertiary Education - Spain, was released on 10 March and comes as the final instalment of a broader initiative covering 24 countries. The series aims to help countries see how the organisation, management and delivery of higher education can contribute to their social and economic goals. (OECD report)

Employment

• Spanish Unions to March Against Pension Plan - The New York Times
  23/02/2010 - Unionised workers will protest in Spain's major cities on Tuesday against plans to raise the retirement age, ending six years of social peace with a Socialist government now intent on market-pleasing austerity.The head of the OECD, Angel Guerria, said that Spain's public debt was still manageable and not comparable with Greece.
• Retraites : manifestation test en Espagne - Mathieu de Taillac, Le Figaro
  23/02/2010 - Des dizaines de milliers d'Espagnols ont manifesté mardi soir. Programmée à 19 heures pour permettre aux salariés de s'y rendre après leur journée de travail, la manifestation «préventive» contre la réforme des retraites s'annonçait comme un test important pour le gouvernement espagnol comme pour les syndicats.
• La OCDE avala la solvencia de España pero pide menos protección al empleo fijo - La Vanguardia
  23/02/2010 - …El dirigente de la OCDE abogó por un mercado más "dinámico" y por relajar las prestaciones "excesivamente proteccionistas" que disfrutan los empleados fijos con el fin de impulsar nuevas contrataciones cuando se consolide la recuperación económica.
• España, único país de la OCDE en el que han descendido los salarios - Extra Confidencial
  25/01/2010 - Según el informe de la OCDE sobre la situación de la población empleada, España es el único país entre los países desarrollados que ha tenido un descenso del salario medio durante el período 1995-2005. 
• España registró en noviembre más del doble de la tasa de paro de la OCDE – Europa Press
  11/01/2010 – La tasa de paro de la OCDE se situó en noviembre en el 8,8%, el mismo nivel que el mes anterior, aunque un 2,1% más que hace un año, según informó la organización internacional, en la que España repite como el miembro con mayor tasa de desempleo, al alcanzar un 19,4%.
• Dos años de crisis y paro - Manuel V. Gómez, El País
  20/09/2009 - ..  la OCDE, la organización que agrupa a los países más desarrollados del mundo.. ha dejado claro que la pesadilla todavía no ha acabado, que el paro llegará al 20% el año que viene... su secretario general, Ángel Gurría, definió a España como "un caso especial". La crisis ha generado más parados en Estados Unidos. En concreto, 7,1 millones (por 2,2 millones de España). (OECD report)
• La crisis elevará el paro al 20% en España, la mayor tasa de la OCDE - Antonio Jimenez Barca, El Pais
  16/09/2009 - España rozará el 20% de paro en diciembre del año que viene. El informe anual de la OCDE sobre el empleo, presentado ayer en París, es pesimista con la evolución del mercado laboral en los países desarrollados. (OECD report)

Regulatory reform

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

Sweden  

Economy

• El dilema de Suecia - Fernando Cano, El Pais
  07/03/2010 - Los pronósticos de la OCDE indican que Suecia debería crecer un 2% este año, apoyándose en una importante recuperación del consumo privado -un 1,7%, frente a la caída del 1,2% de 2009- y una inflación relativamente controlada del 1,9%.
• Sweden fares badly in global economic report - Roger Choate, The Local
  07/02/2010 - Swedish citizens have fared badly compared to other developed nations during the deepest depression since the 1930s. The prognosis comes from the OECD. It is regarded as one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive sources of economic data.
• "Norrbotten har stor tillväxtpotential" - Av Kerstin Anttila, NSD
  06/02/3010 - José Enrique Garcilazo, utredare vid OECD, lyfter fram biltestverksamheten i Arjeplog som ett gott exempel på regional tillväxt. Det är ett innovativt företagande med utnyttjande av speciella förhållanden. Det är en historia som vi berättar för andra OECD-länder.
• "Stärk den regionala nivån" - Anna Isaksson, Norrbottens Kuriren
  06/02/2010 - OECD rekommenderar att fler regioner får överta ansvaret för den regionala tillväxten, på samma sätt som redan skett i Västra Götaland och Skåne. Sverige uppvisar en mycket heterogen karta när det gäller vilket organ som har ansvaret för den regionala utvecklingen.
• Debatt: Regionalisera ännu mera - M. Olofsson / Å.Torstensson, Norrbottens Kuriren
  04/02/2010 - OECD konstaterar i studien att Sverige har en framgångsrik och ambitiös välfärdsmodell som balanserar tillväxt och utjämning mellan olika delar av landet. OECD liknar dock maktfördelningen i Sverige med ett timglas, där nederdelen symboliserar starka kommuner och överdelen en stark stat, medan timglasmidjan åskådliggör den svagare regionala nivån. 
  

Switzerland

Economy

• Doris Leuthard: "De momento, Suiza no debe integrarse en la UE" - Rodrigo Carrizo, El Pais
  22/02/2010 - "El secreto bancario sigue existiendo para los residentes en Suiza", precisa, "pero el importante cambio es que ya no hacemos diferencia entre evasión y fraude fiscal para los no residentes". Un cambio que ha sacado a Suiza de la "lista gris" de países "no cooperativos" con la OCDE.
• OECD says recovery still fragile - Reuters
  15/01/2010 - The Swiss National Bank must exit its ultra-loose monetary policy carefully in order to avoid damaging the economic recovery, the OECD said today. Since the recovery is still fragile, the current expansionary monetary stance will need to be maintained until the recovery strengthens and deflationary pressures recede," the OECD said in its Economic Survey of Switzerland. (OECD report)
• OECD gives mostly good marks for Swiss economy - Swiss info
  15/01/2010 - Switzerland has suffered less from the economic crisis than the majority of industrialised countries, according to a study published by the Paris-based OECD. But the OECD recommends the Swiss authorities pursue reforms on surveillance of the financial markets, and on economic and monetary policy. (OECD Report)
• La Suisse a mieux résisté à la crise - Romandie/AWP
  15/01/2010 - La Suisse a bien traversé la crise mondiale en comparaison internationale, selon une étude de l'OCDE. De nouvelles réformes s'avèrent toutefois indispensables pour renforcer l'économie helvétique. L'intervention rapide des autorités pour aider l'UBS a contribué à éviter une aggravation de la crise, note l'OCDE. (OECD Report)
• OECD lobt Schweizer Vorgehen in der Krise - Schweizer Fernsehen
  15/01/2010 - Die Schweiz hat die Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise im Urteil der OECD besser überstanden als die meisten anderen Industrieländer. In dem in Bern vorgestellten Länderbericht empfehlen die Pariser Experten der Schweiz aber weitergehenden Reformen in Finanzmarktaufsicht und Wirtschaftspolitik. (OECD Report)
• OECD: Schweiz meisterte Krise besser als andere - DRS
  15/01/2010 - Die Schweiz hat die Wirtschaftskrise besser überstanden als die meisten andern Industriestaaten, sagt die OECD. Dennoch wird die Krise auch in diesem Jahr ihre Spuren hinterlassen. Die globale Wirtschaftskrise wird Schweiz noch lange beschäftigen. Das obwohl das Land die Wirtschaftskrise besser überstanden hat als viele anderen Länder. (OECD Report)
• Wirtschaftskrise beschäftigt Schweiz gemäss OECD noch lange - Suedostschweiz
  15/01/2010 - Die Schweiz hat gemäss der OECD die globale Wirtschaftskrise besser überstanden als manch anderer OECD-Staat. Dennoch werde sie noch lange darunter leiden. Zur Linderung empfiehlt die Organisation unter anderem Reformen im Wohnungsmarkt. (OECD Report)

Fighting corruption

• Pressure mounts on Swiss private banks - Forexyard/Reuters
  02/02/2010 - Swiss private bankers say attacks on the country's treasured bank secrecy law turned 2009 into an "annus horribilis." A fresh German offensive against tax cheats does not make 2010 look any better for the key guardians of Switzerland's multi-trillion-dollar wealth management industry… "The whole story is one more sign that Swiss banking secrecy remains under pressure even though the Swiss have accepted OECD standards".
• Le secret bancaire suisse de plus en plus poreux - AFP
  01/02/2010 - La nouvelle affaire d'évasion fiscale qui s'annonce entre la Suisse et l'Allemagne vient s'ajouter à plusieurs scandales qui ont ébranlé la Confédération helvétique ces dernières mois, faisant apparaître un secret bancaire de plus en plus poreux… Attaquée de toutes parts à la faveur de la crise économique, la Suisse a ainsi fini par accepter en mars d'y ouvrir une brèche en se conformant au standards de l'OCDE mettant fin à la distinction entre évasion fiscale.
• Switzerland promoted to tax haven 'white list' - Forbes/Associated Press
  25/09/2009 - Switzerland was promoted Friday to a 'white list' of countries that have signed up to international tax information exchange rules, taking a further step toward shedding its stigma as an uncooperative tax haven. The OECD welcomed Switzerland's signing of a tax information sharing treaty with Qatar, the Alpine nation's 12th since agreeing earlier this year to soften its stance on banking secrecy for foreigners.
• Die Schweiz bald mit «weisser»   - Weste Manfred Rist, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  25/09/2009 - Im Schatten des Gipfeltreffens der G-20 in Pittsburgh wird sich die Schweiz Ende dieser Woche der grauen OECD-Weste entledigen können... Am Donnerstagabend hat Bern das zwölfte Steuerabkommen unterzeichnet... Damit ist nicht nur das Dutzend, sondern die OECD auch des Lobes voll für die Eidgenossenschaft. Diese habe sich, daran lässt Generalsekretär Angel Gurría keinen Zweifel, in den vergangenen Monaten als ausserordentlich kooperativ gez
• OECD wäscht die Schweiz rein - Swissinfo
  25/09/2009 - Mit der Unterzeichnung von 12 Doppelbesteuerungs-Abkommen erfüllt die Schweiz die Bedingungen, um von der grauen Liste der OECD gestrichen zu werden. Über diese Entwicklung zeigte sich Finanzminister Hans-Rudolf Merz in New York stolz und glücklich.
• Wie die Schweiz dauerhaft von der grauen Liste der OECD runterkommt - Hubert Mooser, Basler Zeitung
  29/07/2009 - ... Finanzminister Hans-Rudolf Merz sprach dabei von Japan. Mit diesem Land hat die Schweiz als erste ein Abkommen nach OECD-Standard beschlossen. SP und SVP kritisierten jedoch diese Pläne - weil der Inhalt der Abkommen je nach Land variiert.
• Streichung von der «grauen Liste» der OECD in Reichweite - Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  23/07/2009 - Die Schweiz hat einen entscheidenden Schritt weg von der «grauen Liste» der sogenannten Steueroasen gemacht. Sie hat nunmehr mit zwölf Ländern ein neues Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen paraphiert, das eine Erweiterung der Amtshilfe in Steuerfragen vorsieht.
• Swiss move closer to leaving tax-haven list - SwissInfo
  23/07/2009 - Switzerland has initialed a double-taxation treaty with Finland, the final agreement needed for the Swiss to be removed from a "grey list" of uncooperative tax havens.The finance ministry said the accord, which will likely be signed in three to five months, meets standards set by the OECD.
• Suiza logra 12 acuerdos para salir de 'lista gris' de la OCDE - Expansión
  23/07/2009 - Suiza y Finlandia han concluido hoy un acuerdo de doble imposición, por lo que la Confederación Helvética ya ha conseguido las 12 convenciones que le permitirán salir de la "lista gris" de la OCDE.
• Swiss invited to informal tax meeting in Berlin - Swissinfo
  26/04/2009 - A senior German finance ministry official confirmed that the Swiss government as well as Austria and Luxembourg were asked to attend an informal conference of the OECD in Berlin in June.
• Switzerland’s appeal as a tax haven - Kasia Maciejowska and Francesca Steele, The Times
  24/04/2009 - ...Switzerland was on an OECD blacklist; it is now on the grey list of countries committed to better disclosure standards but not yet complying with them.
• Switzerland looks for tax understanding - Swissinfo
  18/03/2009 - ...Speaking in a lively debate in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, Gabi Huber of the Radical Party said the same OECD standards had to be applied in all the other financial centres, "notably the various US states and the British territories".

Turkey

Economy

• Economic Recovery Continues - Asim Erdilek, Turkish Press
  04/01/2010 - The OECD's latest monthly composite leading indicators (CLI), for October 2009, reported last month, show signs of continued improvement in the economic outlook for both the OECD area and Turkey.
• Recession in Turkey possible, but avoidable - Ergin Hava, Zaman
  07/02/2009 - ...Encouraging news came from OECD Secretary-General Jose Angel Gurria during his visit to Ankara last month when he said the growth rates of OECD countries would generally decrease in 2009. Turkey, however, will display a "successful performance" among these countries, he noted.

Environment

• OECD calls for Marmara Sea cleanup, end to pollution - Zaman
  06/03/2009 - Urban and industrial waste from İstanbul and its environs is continuing to pollute the Marmara Sea, an OECD report has said.

Social issues

• Turks are friendly, social: OECD report - Hürriyet
  06/05/2009 - The annual report, "Society at a Glance," looks at social tendencies in 18 OECD member states that are considered the most developed economically. (OECD report)

United Kingdom

Fighting corruption

• OECD gives companies anti-bribery advice - Out Law
  08/03/2010 - International economic advice body the OECD has published guidance for companies on how to combat bribery within their organisations just as the UK Government prepares to publish similar advice. The Government has pledged to amend the under-debate Bribery Bill to force ministers to publish and maintain guidance on what 'adequate measures' are that companies can take to combat bribery.
• Fraud Office takes on BAE: Cleaning up in a murky business - Chandrashekhar Krishnan, Daily Telegraph
  02/10/2009 - ...Since ratifying the 1997 OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, the United Kingdom has fallen behind other G7 countries in investigating and prosecuting companies for foreign bribery.
• The firm with a 'back door key to Number 10' - Andy McSmith, The Independent
  02/10/2009 - ...In 2001, a year after that Hawk spare parts deal, a convention against bribery drawn up by the OECD, was incorporated in UK law. The convention bans bribery even where the national interest or good relations between friendly governments are at stake.
• British legislators want bribery law toughened - Adrian Croft, Reuters
  27/07/2009  - British lawmakers called on Tuesday for a proposed new law against bribery to be toughened by making it easier to prosecute a company for failing to prevent a bribe being paid.
  The proposed new law follows criticism by the OECD that existing British law could not prevent corporate bribery abroad and fell short of international standards.

Economy

• Britain's record deficit: a real diagnosis and solution - Daily Telegraph
  03/03/2010 - ... According to the politically-neutral OECD, the UK, on current projections, will still be running the largest structural deficit of all the major economies by 2011. The first chart at the top of the article shows the scale of the UK’s problem. 
• Britain's deficit third worst in the world - Daily Telegraph
  19/02/2010 - Britain has one of the worst deficits as a percentage of GDP in the world, according to OECD figures. Only Iceland and Greece have higher deficits and experts fear it could overtake Greece. Here is a table of how the UK compares with other nations.
• Britain in line for blistering economic recovery, OECD indicator suggests - Edmund Conway, Daily Telegraph
  05/02/2010 - The OECD's leading indicator for the UK – a frequently reliable indicator of turning points in economies throughout the world – has risen to the highest level since 1973. The indicator, which is designed to signal whether an economy is heading into recession or bouncing back towards recovery, rose for the 11th straight month in December, increasing to 105.8 points.
• UK Government should lead the way in strengthening OECD Guidelines - TUC
  04/02/2010 - The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises are an important tool in holding companies to account, yet need to be vastly improved, says the TUC in its submission to a UK Government inquiry. Recent procedural improvements to the UK's own National Contact Point has helped workers and their unions to resolve disputes with multinationals such as Unilever and G4S.
• Stocks May Fall as OECD Gauge Peaks, Morgan Stanley Says - Andrew Rummer, Bloomberg
  22/01/2010 - A jump in the OECD’s leading economic indicator for the U.K. signals the nation’s stocks may decline over the next 12 months even as growth recovers, according to strategists at Morgan Stanley. The OECD’s U.K. composite leading indicator jumped to 7.3 percent in November, the highest level in 22 years.
• George Osborne: electioneering is putting confidence in Britain's economy at risk - George Osborne, Daily Telegraph
  05/09/2009 - As G20 finance ministers meet in London today, the OECD is forecasting that the host country will be the only major economy to see no growth at all this year.
• UK economic outlook deteriorates: OECD forecasts - Daily Telegraph
  03/09/2009 - The OECD said the UK economy would shrink by 4.7 per cent this year – worse than its 4.3 per cent forecast in June and will not return to growth until 2010.
• Thousands of families hit by £1billion credit card crisis - Sam Fleming, Daily Mail
  28/07/2009 - ... A decade of profligate lending has driven British families' debt to the highest level of any leading economy, according to the OECD.
• Warning: Britain faces new recession - Sean O'Grady, The Independent
  30/06/2009 - ...The OECD, which comprises the 30 most advanced economies in the world, added to the gloom, saying that Britain remained "deep" in recession and faced a "bleak short-term outlook". (OECD report)
• UK economy shrinks at fastest rate for 50 years - Miles Costello, Grainne Gilmore, The Times
  30/06/2009 - ...The OECD is also predicting that UK unemployment will top 3 million over the next 12 months, in a further blow to Mr Darling's optimism about a recovery. (OECD report)
• OECD says Britain must act urgently to boost lending or recovery will falter - Gary Duncan, The Times
  29/06/2009 - Restoring the flow of bank lending to businesses and consumers must be a more urgent priority for the Chancellor in the fight to combat the recession, the OECD told Britain yesterday. (OECD report)
• UK recovery 'likely to be slow' - Steve Schifferes, BBC News
  29/06/2009 - The OECD has warned that the UK's recovery will be slow with unemployment rising to 10%. (OECD report)
• Scottish Agenda: Green shoots of recovery or yellow weeds? - Ian Fraser, The Times
  18/05/2009 - ...On Monday the OECD said the UK economy had bottomed out in March and that our recession could be over as early as August.
• Britain may be on road to recovery, says OECD - Susan Thompson, The Times
  11/05/2009 - The worst of Britain's recession may now be over, according to the OECD.

Education

• UK urged to increase investment in higher education - Phil Baty, Times Higher Education
  08/09/2009 - ...Angel Gurria, OECD secretary general, said: “As we emerge from the global economic crisis, demand for higher education will be higher than ever. To the extent that institutions are able to respond, investments in human capital will contribute to recovery.”
• Spending cuts would jeopardise UK's education reputation, study warns - Polly Curtis, The Guardian
  08/09/2009 - UK schools and universities risk being left behind if recession leads to reduced investment, says global OECD report. (OECD report)
• UK slides in university league, says OECD - Graeme Paton, Daily Telegraph
  08/09/2009 - Teenagers in Britain are less likely to go to university than their counterparts in Slovakia as the UK slides down a major international league table complied by the OECD. (OECD report)
• Turned away at the school gates - Francis Gilbert, The Daily Telegraph
  07/03/2009 - ...Meanwhile, the world education rankings run by the respected OECD – the only really trustworthy league table there is – shows Britain slipping from fourth to 14th for reading and from eighth to 24th for Maths. Put simply, most children from Europe and the Far East outperform our pupils every time – even in English.
• Independent school call for poor - Seonag MacKinnon, BBC Scotland
  30/01/2009 - ...It highlights a second OECD report in 2007 which suggested schools which have to compete for students are linked to better results.
• 'Dismal picture' of adult literacy in UK - Peter Kingston, The Guardian
  29/01/2009 - ...At that time, the OECD ranked the UK 14th in international literacy and numeracy league tables.

Employment

• Why the jobs crisis isn't a disaster - yet - John Philpott, Daily Telegraph
  19/09/2009 - Official figures released last week show UK unemployment at a 14-year high of almost 2.5m, with most forecasters expecting the jobless total to reach at least 3m next year. Yet.. the situation could be a lot worse. Just as we were digesting the latest UK jobs figures, the OECD published its annual Employment Outlook, noting that unemployment in this country has so far risen by no more than the OECD average. (OECD report)
• UK unemployment climbs to 2.47m - BBC News
  16/09/2009 - ...Employment minister Jim Knight said that an OECD Employment Outlook - which recognised UK government efforts to help the unemployed - suggested the UK had lower than average rates of unemployment than the G7 and the EU. (OECD report)

Energy

• Energy price cuts fail to help hundreds of thousands in fuel poverty - Myra Butterworth, Daily Telegraph
  19/02/2009 - ...Figures from the OECD reveal that energy prices in Britain have increased by 16.7 per cent over the past year.
• Britain faces Europe's biggest energy price hikes - Sean Poulter, Daily Mail
  03/02/2009 - ...The damning figures come from the latest inflation study produced by the respected OECD.
• Gas bills in UK rising faster than elsewhere in western world - Harry Wallop, Daily Telegraph
  03/02/2009 - ...A report from the OECD, a club of the world's 30 richest countries, shows that gas and electricity bills in the UK are 12.1 per cent higher than a year ago.

Finance

• One 'bad bank' may allow the rest to be good - David Wighton, The Times
  09/01/2009 - ...As the OECD says today, omitting to remove the bad debts on bank balance sheets before recapitalising them could prove to have been a mistake for the UK.
• Interest rate cut to lowest for 300 years - Robert Winnett, Daily Telegraph
  09/01/2009 - ...The OECD indicated that the Government may have to consider buying up bad debts from the banks. The OECD believe that the economic crisis may be "dragged out for a longer period of time" without such action.

Social issues

• UK has worse social mobility record than other developed countries - Larry Elliott, The Guardian
  10/03/2010 - Children from poor families in Britain have a greater chance of struggling on low incomes than their counterparts in the west's other rich countries, the OECD said. Highlighting the UK's lack of social mobility, the Paris-based think-tank said the chances of a young person from a less well-off family enjoying higher wages or getting a higher level of education than their parents was "relatively low".
• High spending fails to improve child welfare, says OECD report - Owen Bowcott, The Guardian
  01/09/2009 - ...The report, by the Paris-based International OECD, points out that Britain, although moderately well placed in the rankings, has relatively high rates of teenage pregnancy, drunkenness and young people not in education, employment or training (neets). (OECD report)
• UK teenage girls 'worst drunks' - BBC News
  01/09/2009 - Young teenagers in the UK are more likely to get drunk than anywhere else in the industrial world, shows an international survey. (OECD report)
• Britain leads the world in under-age drinking, OECD study shows - Martin Beckford, Daily Telegraph
  01/09/2009 - ...The new report published by the OECD, a leading economic think tank, brings together data from 30 countries around the world about the welfare of the young. (OECD report)
• Pensioners short-changed by Government error - Rosa Prince, Daily Telegraph
  12/02/2009 - ...It comes as the OECD calls on governments to reform private pensions on the back of plummeting values on world stock markets. (OECD report)

Taxation

• UK to Promise Tax Info Deal With Poor Countries - David Milliken, The New York Times
  27/01/2010 - Britain will promise on Wednesday to set up an agreement with developing countries to combat tax evasion by the end of the year. The financial secretary to the Treasury, Stephen Timms, will promote the idea at a meeting of the OECD in Paris on Wednesday, and will urge the OECD to consult on new rules on how multinational companies report earnings from developing countries.
• New laws to tackle tax evasion by EU savers - Mike Goodman, Daily Telegraph
  01/07/2009 - ...Allan Bell, the Manx Treasury Minister, unveiled the tax plan at an OECD Forum last week.

Territorial economy

• Cash up front or right to buy is meaningless - Calum Macleod and Nicole Busby, The Scotsman
  26/08/2009 - ...The OECD's approach is one that the Scottish Government, with some justification, can claim to be already informing aspects of what still remains a frustratingly disconnected rural development strategy for Scotland.
• Welsh regions are poorer than rural Poland, statistics reveal - Andrew Dagnell, Western Mail
  11/06/2009 - The study by the OECD also confirms a startling poverty gap between Wales’ most impoverished areas and the wealthiest parts of the UK.

United States

• Annual per employee health care costs will triple to nearly $29,000 by 2019 - Michael Henniganm FinFacts Ireland
  12/03/2010 - The United States spends an estimated $2 trillion annually on health care expenses, more than any other industrialized country. According to data from the OECD, the United States spends two-and-a-half times more than the OECD average: Americans consumed $7,290 of health services per person in 2007, almost two-and-a-half times more than the OECD average of just under $3,000.
• Pushed by Unions, Single-Payer Passes Calif. Senate - In these times
  02/02/2010 - … OECD figures show that the per capita cost of U.S. healthcare is the highest of any nation in the industrialized world. In the U.S., that cost was $7,200 in 2007, versus $3,763 in Austria, the Republican governor’s native land. Ninety-nine percent of Austrians enjoyed public health care coverage between 1980 and 2001, the OECD reports.
• OECD applauds Obama bank reforms - Mercury News
  26/01/2010 - President Barack Obama's plan to limit banks' size and risky trading habits could help to avoid a new financial crisis, the head of the OECD said Tuesday. The plan "could help to avoid a new financial crisis by resolving some major risk inherent to the current financial system," OECD secretary general Angel Gurria said.
• La dette peut-elle dégrader la notation des États-Unis? - Arnaud Lefebvre, Money Week
  12/01/2010 - …Si l'OCDE considère qu'il n'y aura pas de rechute de l'activité aux États-Unis cette année, la perspective d'un chômage toujours élevé, impliquant des recettes fiscales en berne, ainsi que la poursuite de programmes coûteux comme la réforme du système de santé.
• Numbers Tell a Surprising Story for U.S. – Albert R. Hunt, The New York Times
  20/12/2009 – Taking several days off last week to bring a child home from college, I had as my reading materials reports from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, courtesy of a breakfast with Angel Gurría, the energetic Mexican secretary general of the outfit.
• Obama heralds glimmers of hope - The Daily Telegraph
  10/04/2009 - US President Barack Obama.. gave warning that the financial crisis is still far from over. "The economy is still under severe stress," he told reporters... His more cautious tone was reflected in the latest leading indicators from the OECD, released yesterday, which gave warning that the world's seven largest economies will deteriorate further over the coming months.(OECD report)

Uruguay

• Fraude fiscale : accord France-Uruguay - Le Figaro
  29/01/2010 - Les ministres de l'Économie français et uruguayen, Christine Lagarde et Alvaro Garcia, ont signé aujourd'hui un accord d'échange de renseignements en matière fiscale. L'Uruguay s'était engagé en avril à coopérer avec l’OCDE, afin de sortir de sa liste noire des paradis fiscaux. Il figure aujourd'hui sur la liste dite "grise" des pays engagés dans un processus de normalisation fiscale.