OECD appoints Mari Kiviniemi and Stefan Kapferer as Deputy Secretaries-General

Mari Kiviniemi, Finland’s former Prime Minister, and Stefan Kapferer, currently State Secretary at Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, have been appointed Deputy Secretaries-General of the OECD.

OECD Health Statistics 2014 - Country Notes

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Roundtable: Climate is Everyone’s Business

Twenty years ago climate change was viewed as just an environmental issue. Today it is squarely an economic issue. Climate change poses significant risks to our economic systems that could result in very large damages. To mitigate these risks we need to radically transform our economies and societies to stop global warming.

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Mr. Angel Gurría, the Secretary-General of the OECD, in Berlin on 13-14 May 2014

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PISA problem-solving test: key findings for Germany

Note summarising Germany's results in the PISA 2012 problem solving assessment.