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<title><![CDATA[Investing in a sustainable future]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Investment strategies almost never consider external costs to the environment when calculating potential returns. But incorporating environmental risk and sustainability into investor mindsets is possible– and urgent. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 13:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Women in work: The Norwegian experience ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[High female participation in the workforce has a decisive effect on a country’s performance, as Norway shows. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Meeting our challenges]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[How can we increase employment and strengthen social cohesion? The prime minister of Norway argues that we need urgent action to ensure that an entire generation of young people remains connected to the labour market. We must also address the issue of income distribution to protect the vulnerable and guarantee greater equality of opportunity across our societies. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 10:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Boardrooms in transition]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Recent years have brought a flood of stories about dubious standards in business. In the past, many of these might not have impinged on the public’s consciousness. But in today’s interconnected world, consumers and stakeholders are raising the bar for what’s acceptable in corporate behaviour. It’s up to boards and board members to ensure that businesses meet those expectations. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Russia’s human capital challenge

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<description><![CDATA[To pursue economic growth, Russia must develop its human capital, which requires structural reforms in education, healthcare and pensions. These, in turn, must respond to major trends in service provision, including the increasing role of individual choice, the need to deliver lifelong learning and healthcare, and the risk that Russians will increasingly buy services abroad, rather than work to develop their own national systems.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[It’s all about people: Jobs, equality and trust]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[More than five years into an economic crisis which has taken on several names–from subprime crisis and financial crisis to great recession–no term accurately depicts the fundamental result of this economic turbulence: people facing hardship. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 10:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Give youth a chance]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Young people are being excluded from economic life by a combination of joblessness and barriers to the creation of start-ups. Unleashing the energy, entrepreneurial spirit and technological genius of the young is not just a moral imperative, but an economic necessity. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 12:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Education for all]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Young people from poorer families are badly underrepresented in higher education. That risks exposing them to a lifetime of reduced earnings and undermines the foundations of wider economic growth. What can be done? Economically disadvantaged students benefit from a mix of grants and loans in third-level education, but they also need better support from the earliest years of their school careers.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 11:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Making labour markets inclusive  ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In this time of chronic unemployment, it is all too easy to lose sight of the single greatest trend underlying the long-term labour market: the demographic time bomb in the developed world. Indeed, the defining employment challenge of the future will be not the surplus, but the shortage, of appropriate labour.  

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<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 10:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Time for an energy [r]evolution ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[We can’t use terms like “inclusive” and “green” as window dressing for the pursuit of economic growth as an end in itself. A real and profound change in how we think about growth is needed–one that doesn’t let special interests get in the way of creating a just, fair and sustainable economy with clean energy for all. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 11:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fixing finance ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[There are good reasons why the public has lost confidence in banking and finance. Two issues in particular must be addressed before it can be restored– moral hazard and conflict of interest. Reforms should ensure that banks and bankers–not taxpayers–pay the price of failure and are held fully accountable for their actions.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 10:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The plot thickens ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Small farms in Turkey are threatening productivity in the agricultural sector and provide a meagre living for workers in this sector. Government policies have begun to change this for the better, but more needs to be done. 

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<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 09:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Homo Economicus: an uncertain guide]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As humans, we face a constant internal conflict between immediate gratification and more prudent living. This conflict is also apparent in society. How can we ensure that the homo economicus within us takes the decisions that best affect our lives, and economies? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Growth is not enough]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Brazil’s labour leaders have long argued against pursuing economic growth for its own sake. What matters most, they believe, is not the size of the economic pie but how it’s carved up. In recent years, calls for social justice have increasingly informed policy in Brazil, bringing about a veritable “revolution” in the economy.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Return from the dead? ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Old ways of thinking won’t bring developed countries back to economic life. Weighed down by the legacy of the crisis, they also face deep challenges like a faltering labour supply and slowing innovation. And growth itself won’t be enough–it must also be stable, inclusive and green. The need for structural reforms has never been greater, but they will require difficult trade-offs.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A recipe for trust]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Have the policy errors that contributed to the global economic crisis been rectified? Sharan Burrow shares her vision for building trust and restoring confidence in the countries still suffering from the crisis. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Interns are workers, too]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Everyone loses from unpaid internships – young people, society, even businesses. Companies that expect young people to work without pay are excluding graduates and school-leavers whose parents can’t afford to support them. They’re also shrinking the size of their potential talent pool and failing to develop a potentially valuable recruitment tool.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Asia’s Challenges]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The forces driving Asia’s rapid growth–new technology, globalisation, and market-oriented reform–are also fuelling rising inequality. Some income divergence is inevitable in times of fast economic development, but that shouldn’t make for complacency, especially in the face of rising inequality in people’s opportunities to develop their human capital and income-earning capacity. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How to get it right: government balances, growth and income inequality
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<description><![CDATA[Austerity programmes to restore order to public finances can add to the woes of already struggling economies, leading to more job losses and social hardship. But there are ways for governments to put their fiscal houses in order, while supporting growth and reducing income inequality at the same time. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Trust comes from within]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Russians are becoming increasingly active in the country’s social arena. While activists remain a small but growing and visible minority of citizens looking for changes in governance, many more are becoming involved in the day-to-day affairs of their communities. It remains to be seen whether this emerging culture of civic participation will sit comfortably with existing governance structures. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Solving the food crisis]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Eliminating hunger and malnutrition, and achieving wider global food security are among the most intractable problems humanity faces. While many once poor countries are now developing rapidly, the world as a whole is unlikely to meet the first Millennium Development Goal target of halving, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of the world’s population who suffer from hunger. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Made in the world]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The new OECD/WTO database on trade in value-added is not just about changing the numbers, but policymakers’ approaches too. It gives trade fresh importance, and a place high on the agenda of the UK’s G8 presidency. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The cost of mistrust]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Trust is at the heart of today’s complex global economy. But, paradoxically, trust is also in increasingly short supply in many of our societies, especially in our attitudes towards big business, parliaments and governments. This decline threatens our capacity to tackle some of today’s key challenges.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The new performance frontier]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[By helping emphasise the importance of a “better life” as a key component of societal progress, the OECD has made considerable efforts in recent years to help promote a school of thought that places people’s well-being at the heart of economic growth. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What the BEPS are we talking about? ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[“Recently more and more enterprises organised abroad by American firms have arranged their corporate structures aided by artificial arrangements between parent and subsidiary regarding intercompany pricing, the transfer of patent licensing rights, the shifting of management fees, and similar practices[...] in order to reduce sharply or eliminate completely their tax liabilities both at home and abroad.” ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Trusting in crowds 
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<description><![CDATA[“Crowdsourcing” pools the strength of the many to perform complex tasks–everything from funding a film to sequencing DNA. At its heart is trust–not a blanket belief in great institutions, but rather the confidence between individuals that each will do the right thing. Its power is being increasingly felt today, even in the world of international development. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate change won't wait]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The European Union may be facing some difficult economic challenges, but that's no excuse for not acting now to create an economy based on resource efficiency and low-carbon development. The benefits are potentially enormous, including lower greenhouse gas emissions, more efficient use of energy and resources and rising growth and innovation.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Knowledge is growth]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The growing awareness that knowledge-based capital (KBC) is driving economic growth is prevalent in today’s global marketplace. The creation and application of knowledge is especially critical to the ability of firms and organisations to develop in a competitive global economy and to create high-wage employment.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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