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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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15-Dec-2006
The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee review of U.S. aid, including humanitarian assistance, noted many changes following the events of 11 September 2001. Development is now part of the foundation of the U.S. National Security Strategy. The DAC urged that there should be more explicit focus within the Strategy on poverty reduction.
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13-Dec-2006
Many regions in the Alps had the warmest November on record, delaying the arrival of snow by several weeks and worrying ski operators. As the first flurries are coating Alpine slopes, questions arise: was this balmy autumn an exception or a harbinger of the effects of climate change? How sensitive are the Alps to climate change?
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13-Dec-2006
Portugal will need to invest more over the long term in its universities and other post-secondary schooling institutions if it wants to raise attainment levels to standards similar to those of other European countries, according to an OECD review of Portugal’s tertiary education system to be published next year.
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