Business Models of Banks, Leverage and the Distance-to-Default

This study models the distance-to-default (DTD) of a large sample of banks from 2004 to 2011 and examines the results from the perspective of policy approaches that aim to reduce the riskiness of banks.

Latin American Economic Outlook 2013

The Latin American Economic Outlook 2013: SME Policies for Productive Development will be launched at the Ibero-American Summit in Cadiz, Spain, on Friday 16 November. This long-standing flagship of the OECD Development Centre is co-published with the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

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• Latin American Economic Outlook 2013
• Latin American Economic Outlook 2013

Fiscalité : Les recettes fiscales progressent lentement dans les pays de l’OCDE

Dans la plupart des pays de l’OCDE, l’augmentation des recettes fiscales, en proportion du PIB, se poursuit, contrastant ainsi avec la baisse enregistrée en 2008 et 2009, au début de la crise, selon les Statistiques des recettes publiques, la publication annuelle de l’OCDE. Les recettes fiscales encaissées par les pays de l’OCDE représentent 34,0 % du PIB en 2011 contre 33,8 % en 2010.

2012 OECD/IOPS Global Forum on Private Pensions

The 2012 global forum focused on the pension industry in Latin America, the cost and coverage of pension systems, long-term investing and infrastructure, designing default options and financial education and pensions communication.

Evaluating Financial Education Programmes

These principles relate to the monitoring and evaluation of a wide variety of financial education provisions, from individual courses and seminars to large scale programmes and media campaigns.

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• Financial Education in Schools
• National Strategies for Financial Education
• National Strategies for Financial Education

Portugal : rééquilibrer l’économie et renouer avec la croissance par la création d’emplois et une meilleure affectation des capitaux

L’économie portugaise s’est caractérisée ces dix dernières années par une croissance faible et des déficits volumineux des paiements courants.

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Action required: OECD's message to the International Institute of Finance

Secretary-General Angel Gurría outlines the crucial actions that we must take to resolve the euro crisis, strengthen the global financial system and anchor growth in the long-term through structural reform at the 30th anniversary of the International Institute of Finance in Tokyo.

High-level seminar on capital flow management and liberalisation: the role of international co-operation

This seminar aimed to advance shared understandings on policies to make the most of cross-border capital flows in support of growth and development and on the value of international co-operation, including the OECD Codes of Liberalisation, in the current context of serious global financial turbulence.

Capital flow management and liberalisation: the role of international co-operation

Secretary-General Angel Gurría discussed how co-operation is key in order to best use international capital flows as a tool to finance growth and development that make our economies more prosperous and resilient while dealing with their challenges.

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• Capital flows and the OECD Code of Liberalisation of Capital Movements

Pension Markets in Focus

Pension Markets in Focus provides a unique source of comparable statistics and indicators of funded pension plan systems from an international perspective and also facilitates cross-country comparisons of the most up-to-date statistics and indicators on key aspects of retirement systems across OECD and non-OECD countries. It provides information about the main trends and features of funded pension plan systems in a clear and concise