Civil society contributions to the OECD Observer

2008

• Medicine and the Internet
  Francis Slattery, General Practitioner, Paris
  ©OECD Observer No. 268 June 2008
• Femmes d’affaires
  Frédérique Clavel, FounderPresident, Paris Pionnières
  ©OECD Observer No. 267 May-June 2008
• Europe's image (Letter to the editor)
  Esther Bloch
• Healthy immigration? (Letter to the editor)
  Patrick Larmor
  ©OECD Observer No. 264/265, December 2007-January 2008
  ©OECD Observer No. 266 March 2008

2007

• New pensions (Letter to the editor)
  D. Kimble
  ©OECD Observer No. 263, October 2007
• Attracting and retaining teachers
  Robert B. Schwartz, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Judy Wurtzel, Aspen Institute Education and Society Program and Lynn Olson, Education Week
  ©OECD Observer No. 261 May 2007

2006

• Innovative growth (Letter to the editor)
  Balkrishna Rao
  ©OECD Observer No. 257, October 2006
• Universities: a social duty
  Richard Descoings, President, Sciences Po, Paris
  ©OECD Observer No. 255, May 2006
• The asset test
  Dara Duguay, Director, Citigroup Office of Financial Education
  ©OECD Observer No. 255, May 2006

2005

• Marital problems (Letter to the editor)
  Lori DuBois
  ©OECD Observer No. 252/253, November 2005
• Pension crux (Letter to the editor)
  Brian McGarry
  ©OECD Observer No. 249 May 2005
• Was it worth it? - Reflections on a teaching career
  Kieran Clarke, retired teacher, former department head, Blackheath and Yesodey Hatorah Boys
• Reform artists (Letter to the editor)
  R.J. Doyle
  ©OECD Observer, No 246-247, December 2004 - January 2005
• Work on (Letter to the editor)
  Dr Robert McCaffrey
  ©OECD Observer No. 246/247, December 2004 - January 2005

2004

• Argentina’s school angst (Letter to the editor)
  Jorge San Pedro
  ©OECD Observer, No.244, September 2004
• False economies: A global health crisis
  Brett Parrfis, World Vision Australia
  © OECD Observer, No.243, May 2004
• Towards a healthy multilateral system
  Guy Ryder, General Secretary, International Confederation of Free
  Trade Unions (ICTFU)
  © OECD Observer, No.243, May 2004
• Walkers unite (Letter to the editor)
  Terence Denixson, Federation of European Pedestrians Associations
  ©OECD Observer, No.242, March 2004
• A test too far
  Roland Schneider, Senior advisor, Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD
  © OECD Observer, No.242, March 2004
• The global school
  Anna Söderberg, Head, Husbygards school, Kista (Stockholm), Sweden
  © OECD Observer, No.242, March 2004
• Bowling together
  Robert Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy
  at the JFK School of Government at Harvard
  © OECD Observer, No.242, March 2004

2003

• The economic path ahead: A worker’s view
  By Kenneth V. Georgetti, President of the Canadian Labour Congress*
  © OECD Observer No. 237, May 2003

2002

• Internationalism for working people
  By Barbara Shailor, International Affairs Director, AFL-CIO, United States
  © OECD Observer No. 235, December 2002

2001

• Quality healthcare: what consumers want
  By Janne D. Graham*
  Published on:  December 07, 2001
• Which patients get the worst deal?
  By Angela Coulter, Chief Executive, Picker Institute Europe
  Published on:  December 06, 2001
• Fostering quality healthcare
  By Tim Kelsey, Chief Executive, Dr Foster, UK
  Published on:  December 05, 2001
• In the eye of the storm
  By Brett Parris, Economic Policy Officer, World Vision International
  Published on:  December 03, 2001

• Immigration in the European Union: problem or solution?
  By Ben Hall, Centre for European Reform, London
  ©Prospect Magazine, June 2000

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ENVIRONMENT

2008

• Towards a greener flight path
  Andrew Watt, Environment Manager, EUROCONTROL
  ©OECD Observer No. 267 May-June 2008
• Aviation: Responsible growth for a global industry
  Billy Glover, Managing Director, Environmental Strategy for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, The Boeing Company
  ©OECD Observer No. 267 May-June 2008
• Forests and carbon trading
  Jan Fehse, Head of Forestry Services, EcoSecurities Global Consulting Services
  ©OECD Observer No. 267 May-June 2008
• Water and the OECD-Towards a symbiotic relationship
  Asit K. Biswas, President of the Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico, and Cecilia Tortajada, Scientific Director of the International Centre for Water, Zaragoza, Spain
  ©OECD Observer No. 267 May-June 2008
• Transport and energy
  Jack Short, Secretary General of the International Transport Forum
  ©OECD Observer No. 266, March 2008

2007

• Beyond sun roofs (Letter to the editor)
  Louis Dervier
  ©OECD Observer No. 263, October 2007
• Small is renewable (Letter to the editor)
  RJ Cleirigh
  ©OECD Observer No. 262, July 2007
• Biofeuds (Letter to the editor)
  Ronald Steenblik, Director of Research, Global Subsidies Initiative of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Geneva and Winnipeg
  ©OECD Observer No. 260, March 2007

2006

• 21st century energy-Some sobering thoughts
  Vaclav Smil, Faculty of Environment, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
  ©OECD Observer No. 258/259, December 2006
• Water capital (Letter to the editor)
  Dr. James Aronson, Centre L. Emberger, Restoration Ecology Group, CNRS, Montpellier, France
  ©OECD Observer No. 257, October 2006
• Natural dilemmas (Letter to the editor)
  Japhet Mbali Saga
  ©OECD Observer No. 255, May 2006
• Water solution (Letter to the editor)
  Katherine Cinq-Mars
  ©OECD Observer No. 255, May 2006
• Rethinking our economic future
  Lester R. Brown, Founder and President of the Earth Policy Institute
  ©OECD Observer No. 255, May 2006
• Water business
  Gérard Payen, President of AquaFed
  ©OECD Observer No. 254, March 2006

2005

• In a nut-Shell (Letter to the editor)
  Wynne Smythe
  ©OECD Observer No. 249 May 2005

2003

• The water balance
  By Yolanda Kakabadse, President of IUCN – The World Conservation Union
  © OECD Observer No. 236, March 2003

2001

• Crafting the agenda for the 21st century
  By Paul Hohnen, Special Advisor and Former Political Director of Greenpeace International
  Published on:  September 25, 2001

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ECONOMY AND BUSINESS

2008

• Sea folk
  Joe Doyle
  ©OECD Observer No. 267 May-June 2008
• European questions
  Mark Simons
  ©OECD Observer No. 266 March 2008

2007

• Globalisation’s first King (Letter to the editor)
  Ron Gass
  ©OECD Observer No. 261 May 2007
• Doha truths (Letter to the editor)
  Miklos Gaspar
  ©OECD Observer No. 261 May 2007
• Lending conditions (Letter to the editor)
  Anne Jellema, Policy Director, ActionAid International, South Africa and Sarah Gillam, International Media Coordinator, ActionAid International, London
  ©OECD Observer No. 260, March 2007

2005

• Oil shields (Letter to the editor)
  Aman Agarwal, Professor of Finance & Director, Indian Institute of Finance, Delhi, India
  ©OECD Observer, No. 250, July 2005
• Hollyvostok? (Letter to the editor)
  Tim Horan
  ©OECD Observer, No. 250, July 2005
• Fuel that pride
  Thierry Desmarest, CEO, Total group
  ©OECD Observer, No. 249, May 2005
• Good neighbours are good for business
  Barnaby Briggs, Social Performance Management Unit, Shell International
  © OECD Observer No. 248, March 2005
• The trouble with targets
  Simon Briscoe, Statistics Editor, Financial Times
  ©OECD Observer, No 246-247, December 2004 - January 2005

2004

• New EU time (Letter to the editor)
  Ted Fisher
  © OECD Observer No 245, November 2004
• Alive, alive Doha (Letter to the editor)
  Tim Harcourt
  ©OECD Observer, No.244, September 2004
• Tax business (Letter to the editor)
  Marc Lopatin
  ©OECD Observer, No.243, May 2004

2002

• Knowledge in a world of risk : Forging a global corporate citizen
  By Young Chul Kang, Managing Director, World Knowledge Forum Secretariat
  © OECD Observer No. 234, October 2002

2001

• Confidence and e-commerce
  By Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy
  Information Center (epic), Washington, D.C.
  Published on:  January 14, 2001
• What companies need
  By Maria Livanos Cattaui, Secretary General, International Chamber Of Commerce
  Published on:  February 01, 2001
• Putting the Guidelines to work
  By John Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO and Trade Union
  Advisory Committee to the OECD
  Published on:  May 03, 2001
• The trust business
  By Patricia Feeney, Human Rights Adviser, Oxfam, United Kingdom
  Published on:  May 04, 2001

• Sustainable development and business
  By Björn Stigson, President of the World Business Council for Sustainable
  Development (WBCSD)
  Published on:  September 22, 2000

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GOVERNMENT - CITIZENS

2002

• Globalise this: Human rights
  By Amnesty International
  Published on:  August 05, 2002

2001

• Better ways to run the world
  By Ann Florini, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington D.C.
  Published on:  October 12, 2001
• Reporting on sustainability: a global initiative
  By Dr Robert Kinloch Massie, Chair of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
  Published on:  June 15, 2001

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

2008

• Net disillusion
  Jacques Rosselin
  ©OECD Observer No. 268 June 2008
• Removing road blocks on the information highway
  David J. Hanger, President of the European Federation of Magazine Publishers
  ©OECD Observer No. 268 June 2008
• Big screen, little screen
  Tim Horan, Executive Vice President, ITI Group, Poland
  ©OECD Observer No. 268 June 2008
• Print screen
  Larry Kilman, Director of Communications, World Association of Newspapers
  ©OECD Observer No. 268 June 2008

2004

• True statistics (Letters to the editor)
  René Verdier
  ©OECD Observer No. 245, November 2004

2003

• From risk to reality: Asteroids and other near-Earth objects
  By Clark R. Chapman, Southwest Research Institute, Colorado, United States
  ©OECD Observer No. 237, May 2003

1999

• A public perspective on biotechnology
  By Julie Hill, Task Group on Public Perceptions of Biotechnology
  Published March 1999

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TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT

2008

• Busting cartels for development
  Pradeep S Mehta, Secretary General of CUTS International
  ©OECD Observer No. 267 May-June 2008
• China in Africa (Letter to the editor)
  Maria Klakig
  ©OECD Observer No. 264/265, December 2007-January 2008
• Development gaps (Letter to the editor)
  Karim Hussein
  ©OECD Observer No. 262, July 2007No. 264/265, December 2007-January 2008

2007

• Food for innovative thought
  Jessica DeWalt, International Food Policy Research Institute
  ©OECD Observer No. 261 May 2007

2006

• China question (Letter to the editor)
  Joseph Deng
  ©OECD Observer No. 254, March 2006

2005

• Africa’s moment? (Letter to the editor)
  Andrew Manley
  ©OECD Observer, No. 251, September 2005
• Development aid
  Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
  ©OECD Observer, No 249, May 2005
• Africa: Farming sense
  Christie Peacock, Chief Executive of FARM-Africa
  ©OECD Observer No. 249, May 2005
• Change in the Middle East
  Crispin Hawes, Middle Eastern Political Risk Consultant
  ©OECD Observer, No. 249, May 2005
• Tsunami reflections: Turning pledges into action
  Khalid I. Rahman, Deputy Director General, Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
  ©OECD Observer, No. 249, May 2005

2003

• Home truths, globalisation and competition 
  Making trade work
  By Phil Evans, Consumers Association (UK)
  ©OECD Observer No. 240/241, December 2003
• Civil society at a time of global uncertainty
  By Kumi Naidoo, Secretary-General and CEO, CIVICUS, World Alliance for
  Citizen Participation
  © OECD Observer No. 237, May 2003

• Consumers first
  By Louise Sylvan, President, Consumers International
  © OECD Observer No. 235, December 2002

2000

• We the People! An NGO view
  By Martin Khor, Director on the Third World Network; contact: twnet@po.jaring.my
  Published on:  September 21, 2000
• A better world for some?
  By Brett Parris, Global Economic Issues Group, World Vision*
  Published on:  December 14, 2000