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News & Events
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30-Jul-2007
The world’s major civil aircraft exporting countries, including OECD countries and Brazil, announced a landmark agreement limiting government support for export deals in an effort to end acrimonious trade disputes and encourage manufacturers and airlines to focus on price and quality rather than on financial packages of government support.
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27-Jul-2007
The OECD and the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS) are inviting public comment on draft guidelines to help pensions regulators and supervisory authorities improve the way occupational, private pension entities, such as pension fund management companies or pension trustees, are managed in order to boost their financial security and performance.
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24-Jul-2007
OECD is pleased to announce the removal of Liberia from its List of Unco-operative Tax Havens, following Liberia’s commitment to implement a programme to improve transparency and establish effective exchange of information in tax matters.
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18-Jul-2007
The medical profession is a growth industry: OECD Health Data 2007 shows that the number of doctors in OECD countries has increased by 35% over the past fifteen years to 2.8 million. In most countries, this growth was driven largely by rising numbers of specialists – up nearly 50% between 1990 and 2005 - compared with the 20% increase in general practitioners (GPs).
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16-Jul-2007
OECD countries have agreed a new approach to better protect the rights of consumers and make online shopping safer. They call on national authorities and business to make it easier, cheaper and quicker for people to resolve complaints and get compensation when they are unhappy with goods or services they have bought.
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13-Jul-2007
Despite Austria’s strong economic performance, some structural weaknesses highlight the need for increasing competition in services, removing obstacles to labour market participation, promoting further regional integration, and strengthening the fiscal policy framework.
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12-Jul-2007
Telecommunications investment continues to rise and consumers are generally paying less for more and better services across the OECD area but technology developments are presenting new challenges to telecoms operators, according to a new OECD report.
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11-Jul-2007
Egypt has made impressive progress in reforming its investment policies in recent years but significant barriers to both foreign and domestic businesses remain. Easing these restrictions would attract more investment, increase competition and benefit the economy as a whole, according to a new OECD report.
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04-Jul-2007
Increased demand for bio-fuels is causing fundamental changes to agricultural markets that could drive up world prices for many farm products, according to a new report published by the OECD and the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation.
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04-Jul-2007
The European Commission, on behalf of the European Community, disbursed some USD 10 billion in official development assistance (ODA) in 2006, making it the sixth largest donor amongst the members of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC).
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