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News & Events
Navigation tip: this heading compiles OECD-wide news and events. Select a country, topic or department under "Browse" on the left of your screen to refine your search. Don't miss our key upcoming meetings and events. If you are looking for press releases or media contacts, visit the NEWSROOM .
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06-Jul-2009
OECD governments provided 265 billion US dollars in support to farmers last year, says a new OECD report. This represented 21 % of total farm receipts, down from 22% in 2007 and 26% in 2006. The falls were due mainly to the rise in agricultural commodity prices, rather than to policy decisions. With higher world prices, lower levels of support were needed to prop up domestic prices.
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02-Jul-2009
How has the crisis affected Austria’s economy and banks? What short and longer term fiscal policies are advised? How strong is productivity and labour market performance? How can employment rates be improved? Does the education system equip students to meet today’s challenges?
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01-Jul-2009
Slovenia’s rapid convergence to the OECD average has been interrupted by the global crisis that made discretionary fiscal expansion necessary. Beyond the crisis, ensuring fiscal sustainability, especially through pension reform, increasing labour participation, especially among the old and the young and improving the governance of financial institutions and state-owned enterprises remain key challenges.
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30-Jun-2009
The economic crisis is likely to cause the first major fall in the number of migrants coming to work in OECD countries since the 1980s, according to a new OECD report. This is already happening, for example, in Ireland, Spain and the UK, which were among the countries first hit by the downturn.
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25-Jun-2009
The world’s main economies are looking to “green growth” as the way forward out of the current crisis, opening up new prospects for climate-change negotiations ahead of the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen in December. Ministers from 40 countries, representing 80% of the world economy, discussed the crisis and where next at the OECD's annual ministerial meeting in Paris.
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24-Jun-2009
The slowdown in OECD economies is reaching bottom following the deepest decline for more than 60 years, says the OECD’s latest Economic Outlook. But recovery is likely to be weak and fragile, and the economic and social damage caused by the crisis will be long-lasting.
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23-Jun-2009
Unemployment in OECD countries will continue to rise well into 2010, with the average unemployment rate approaching 10%, up from 7.8% in April, according to new OECD projections.
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23-Jun-2009
Addressing a conference organised by the French and German governments in Berlin on the fight against tax fraud and evasion, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría welcomed progress in implementing international standards of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes.
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20-May-2009
France should do more to ease the transition of unskilled young people into employment. The government should give priority to helping young people the furthest removed from the job market and to strengthening the social protection of the most disadvantaged, according to a new report by the OECD.
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03-Apr-2009
The OECD welcomed today the formal endorsement by Uruguay of its tax information exchange standards. In a letter to Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD, Uruguay’s Finance Minister, Alvaro García, informed the OECD that Uruguay formally endorses the OECD’s standards on transparency and exchange of information, as set out in the 2005 version of Article 26 of the OECD Model Tax Convention.
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Events
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from 22-Apr-2008 to 23-Apr-2008
During his official visit, Angel Gurría met with Swedish government officials and gave a lecture at Stockholm School of Economics on "Tax and Growth: What direction should Sweden take?".
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from 03-Apr-2008 to 04-Apr-2008
In today’s knowledge-driven global economy, tertiary education is more important than ever to help countries achieve their economic and social goals. Education authorities from around the world will meet at an OECD conference Lisbon on 3-4 April 2008 to discuss how to ensure that tertiary education systems best serve these wider public purposes.
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from 21-Mar-2008 to 26-Mar-2008
During this first official visit, Angel Gurría met with Chinese government officials and attended the 9th annual meeting of the China Development Forum, "Towards 2020: Development Goals and Policy Options".
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from 19-Mar-2008 to 27-Mar-2008
What needs to be done and who should pay to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and tackle climate change? Read the questions and answers from the online debate on this issue that took place on Thursday 27 March 2008.
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from 27-Mar-2008 to 28-Mar-2008
What can developing countries do to attract more and better investment? And how can the momentum of investment globalisation be maintained amid rising protectionism?
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on 17-Mar-2008
A joint OECD/International Monetary Fund conference on the reforms needed to boost jobs and productivity in Europe will be held on Monday 17 March 2008.
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on 05-Mar-2008
During his first official visit to Norway , Angel Gurría will hold a joint press conference with the Prime Minister of Norway on 5 March 2008 to launch the OECD Environmental Outlook.
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on 05-Mar-2008
The OECD's Environmental Outlook to 2030 says that global efforts to tackle the main environmental challenges - climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and risks to human health - are achievable and affordable.
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from 17-Mar-2008 to 20-Mar-2008
Two media events on growth, reform and the economic prospects of OECD countries will take place at OECD in March 2008: OECD-IMF Conference on structural reform in Europe, Interim economic outlook for US, Europe and Japan.
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