Pre-G20 Event: Growing Economies through Women’s Entrepreneurship

At this pre-G20 Event 'Growing Economies through Women’s Entrepreneurship', A. Gurría declared that 'Girls and women represent 3.3 billion ways to change this world. This is the lemma from this year’s G20 Girls Summit. It is also a powerful truth. We need to unleash this potential.'

Is the European Welfare State Really More Expensive? Indicators on Social Spending, 1980-2012; and a Manual to the OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) (Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper No 124)

This paper first presents information on trends and composition of social expenditure as in the OECD Social Expenditure database for the years 1980 – 2007 as well as estimates from 2008 – 2012.

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• Social Expenditure Database (SOCX)
• Base de données sur les dépenses sociales (SOCX)

L'économie informelle au Mexique

Le secteur informel est relativement ample au Mexique par rapport à la situation observée généralement dans les pays de l’OCDE.

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• Etude économique du Mexique 2011

L’OCDE lance un nouveau rapport sur la mesure du bien-être

Un nouveau rapport de l'OCDE, "Comment va la vie?", offre un panorama des composantes de la vie des gens dans 40 pays à travers le monde. Cette publication s'inscrit dans le cadre des efforts de l’OCDE pour concevoir de nouvelles mesures afin d’évaluer le bien-être au-delà du PIB.

Better measures, better policies, better lives

The recent surge in social movements is a clear call for an economy with a more human face. Reconciling long-term economic growth and people’s well-being can be achieved if structural policies focus on what matters most to people in advanced and less-advanced economies alike, said Angel Gurría.

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• OECD launches new report on measuring well-being

Addressing the social impact of the crisis

Urgent action must be taken by the governments to tackle high unemployment and growing inequality. Good-quality social policies, particularly those addressed to the most vulnerable, should be seen as sound investments to promote economic growth and well-being, according to Angel Gurría.

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• OECD High-level Parliamentary Seminar - "Addressing the Social Impact of the Crisis"

Joint OECD consultation on Child Well-being 2011

The purpose of this consultation is to develop a shared understanding of a set of data that countries should monitor in order to inform policies for children’s well-being.

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• Doing Better for Children
• OECD Family database
• OECD research on Child Well-being

Integrated Services and Housing Consultation, November 2012

The purpose of this consultation is to develop a shared understanding of a set of data that countries should monitor in order to inform policies for children’s well-being.

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• Doing Better for Families
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OECD Debate at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Tackling the employment challenge and the rise in inequality, the most urgent issues for policy-makers, could be achieved within the current public budgets by using more in-work benefits, or improving equal access and quality of education and training said Angel Gurría.

Déclaration commune de M. Angel Gurría, Secrétaire général de l’OCDE, et de M. Juan Somavia, Directeur général de l’OIT, à l’occasion de la Ministérielle du G20 sur l’emploi

"Dans le monde entier, 200 millions de personnes sont actuellement sans emploi, ce qui est proche du niveau record enregistré au plus fort de la Grande récession." ont rappelé l'OCDE et l'OIT lors de de la Ministérielle du G20 sur l’emploi.