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News & Events
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18-Nov-2009
This paper presents information on trends and composition of social expenditure. Gross public social expenditure on average across OECD increased from 16% of GDP in 1980 to 21% in 2005, of which public pensions (7% of GDP) and public health expenditure (6% of GDP) are the largest items. After accounting for the impact of taxation and private benefits, social expenditure (1) amounts to over 30% of GDP at factor cost in Belgium, Germany, and France and (2) ranges within a few percentage points of each other in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and the USA.
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12-Nov-2009
Rising public health care spending remains a problem in virtually all OECD and EU member countries. As a consequence, there is growing interest in policies that will ease this pressure through improved health system performance. This report report examines selected policies that may help countries better achieve the goal of improved health system efficiency and thus better value for money.
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05-Nov-2009
The Internet update for OECD Health Data 2009 has just been released. Go to the OECD Health Data Update page to download the file and access data updates, along with a fully revised hypertext for Definitions, Sources and Methods.OECD Health Data Updates: Data, Sources and Methods, and Software Updates.
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27-Oct-2009
International trade in health services has been attracting increasing attention from health analysts, public health policy makers, and trade and tourism promotion agencies but with relatively little data to inform them. This statement was made by David Morgan of the Health Division at a roundtable meeting of ministers of health and tourism at the Medical Tourism and Global Health Congress, Los Angeles, October 26th-28th, 2009.
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25-Sep-2009
Welcoming the adoption of the Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth by G20 leaders gathered in Pittsburgh for the G20 summit, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría said new sources of jobs and growth needed for the global economy to effect a sustained recovery, will only emerge if the right structural policies are adopted by the world’s leading global economies.
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17-Sep-2009
The current downturn is severely testing the adequacy of unemployment benefit systems as the primary safety net for job-losers and their families. This section of chapter 1 of OECD Employment Outlook 2009 considers the scope and generosity of existing income-support policies and asks whether, and how, support measures should be adapted to deal with the challenges occasioned by a severe recession.
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Events
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from 06-Mar-2003 to 07-Mar-2003
The OECD and the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research organised on 6 and 7 March 2003 a conference to discuss disability policies for the working-age population. The conference addressed key problems in disability policy, and discussed OECD recommendations on how to tackle them as outlined in the forthcoming publication "Transforming Disability into Ability". The main policy recommendations from the publication formed the basis for the thematic sessions.
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from 17-Oct-2005 to 18-Oct-2005
The purpose of this Forum was to present and discuss the main lessons and issues that have emerged from the thematic review on policies to improve labour market prospects for older workers. For more information on the Forum, please refer to www.oecd.org/olderworkersforum
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OECD Employment Outlook 2009
OECD Labour and Employment Ministerial: Tackling the Jobs Crisis
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