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US growth in lower gear, Europe’s robustness confirmed
13-Mar-2007
US growth has shifted into a lower gear, according to an interim OECD assessment of G7 economies. Euro area activity is likely to become more moderate but should remain above trend. The Japanese expansion continues, although household consumption remains lacklustre.
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02-Mar-2007
The Netherlands Antilles yesterday signed bilateral agreements with Australia and New Zealand for the exchange of information for tax purposes, marking further progress in international efforts to implement the principles of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes developed by the OECD’s Global Forum on Taxation.
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28-Feb-2007
The OECD’s annual compendium of tax data shows little change in levels of taxation on wage earners in different OECD countries, with Turkey, Poland and France levying the most on a single-earner married couple with two children on average earnings and Ireland, New Zealand and Iceland taking the least.
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22-Feb-2007
Aid donors will have to increase funding for aid programmes faster that any other public expenditure in order to fulfil their commitments to increase aid to $130 billion and double aid to Africa by 2010, says the OECD’s Development Co-operation Report. Aid funding, recently rising by 5% per year, would have to rise by 11% every year from 2008 to 2010.
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21-Feb-2007
The Secretary-General of the OECD presented his proposals to fill the four vacancies for Deputy Secretaries-General, which were approved by the Council. They will replace the four officials that served during the mandate of former Secretary-General Donald J. Johnston, and whose terms have expired.
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16-Feb-2007
According to a new report by the OECD, Belgium should do more to help young people get their working life off to a good start. The unemployment rate for 15 to 24 year olds was about 20 per cent in 2005, i.e. almost identical to 10 years ago and around seven percentage points higher than the OECD average.
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14-Feb-2007
Since the 1990s’ crisis, Sweden has greatly improved its macroeconomic policies. All parts of society benefit from strong productivity growth, stable inflation expectations and public budget surpluses. Meanwhile, combating exclusion in the labour market is a key challenge, along with distortions in the housing market.
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13-Feb-2007
With a number of the world’s most advanced countries finally shaking off the sluggish economic growth of recent years, now is the time to step up, not slacken, the pace of reform, according to the latest edition of the OECD's annual Going for Growth report.
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12-Feb-2007
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría congratulated Kiyotaka Akasaka, Deputy Secretary-General at the OECD, on his new appointment as United Nations Undersecretary-General for Communications and Public Information.
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07-Feb-2007
OECD countries have agreed to broaden the mechanisms available to companies and individuals involved in cross-border disputes over taxation by introducing the possibility of arbitration if other attempts to resolve disagreements fail.
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