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06-Feb-2007
The OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals, key tools for governments and industry worldwide to assess the safety of chemical products, are now available free of charge.
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02-Feb-2007
Antigua and Barbuda and Australia have signed a bilateral agreement on the exchange of information for tax purposes, marking another step forward in international efforts to implement the principles of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes on a global basis.
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01-Feb-2007
Poland should strengthen its corporate liability laws and close a significant loophole that makes it difficult to prosecute companies that bribe foreign public officials, according to a new report by the OECD Working Group on Bribery.
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30-Jan-2007
Norway is entering the fourth year of a long cyclical upturn that has brought down unemployment, without so far rekindling inflation. However, fiscal and monetary policies need to tighten faster to minimise risks of overheating. Other challenges include reforming pensions to improve fiscal sustainability, boosting labour supply by reforming long term sickness and disability schemes and improving policies to encourage innovation to sustain the rise in the country’s prosperity.
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30-Jan-2007
Switzerland needs to improve the organisation and the quality of its educational research and development (R&D) in order to make these activities more relevant to policy-making and educational practices, according to a new OECD report.
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23-Jan-2007
How can policy help the Spanish economy maintain its good performance? Boosting productivity through more innovation, reducing the inflation differential and reinforcing the resilience of the economy through more competitive product markets and a reform of the wage formation process are part of the answer. The survey also stresses the need to stabilise the housing market and confront the budgetary implications of ageing.
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18-Jan-2007
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría stressed the important role of governments in preserving the credibility and integrity of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, at the session of the OECD Working Group on Bribery held in Paris on 16-18 January 2007.
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17-Jan-2007
Opening Remarks by the Secretary-General at the meeting of the Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions.
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04-Jan-2007
Monetary policy is responding to inflation pressures. The ECB should continue to refine its communication strategy in order to enhance clarity. The recovery creates a golden opportunity to get fiscal policy back on track. Member states need to make greater efforts to achieve budget balance and pay down debt.
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15-Dec-2006
Ukraine needs to urgently tackle corruption in political and judicial circles as part of a broad campaign to strengthen its fight against corruption, according to a new report by the OECD Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
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