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Euro Area: competition; economic issues

27-Mar-2012

Ambitious structural reforms are needed to boost growth, create jobs, improve debt sustainability and rebalance the economy. Many structural reforms could boost growth in the short term as well as in the longer term.

Economy: Economic growth perspectives strengthening as recovery becomes self-sustained

05-Apr-2011

Growth in the G7 economies outside Japan appears to be stronger than previously projected, with accelerating private sector investment and trade boosting recovery, according to new analysis from the OECD.

Economy : Recovery slowing amid increased uncertainty, says Interim Economic Outlook

09-Sep-2010

The world economic recovery may be slowing faster than previously anticipated, according to the OECD’s latest Interim Economic Assessment. Growth in the Group of Seven countries is expected to be around 1½ per cent on an annualized basis in the second half of 2010 compared with the previous estimate of around 2½ per cent  in the OECD’s May Economic Outlook.

Economics: Growth rising faster than expected but risks increasing too, says OECD Economic Outlook

25-May-2010

Economic activity in OECD countries is picking up faster than expected but volatile sovereign debt markets and overheating in emerging-market economies are presenting increasing risks to the recovery, according to  the OECD’s latest Economic Outlook.

Recovery still too timid to halt rising unemployment, says OECD Economic Outlook

19-Nov-2009

The economic recovery now spreading across OECD countries is still too timid to halt the continuing rise in unemployment, according to the OECD’s latest Economic Outlook. The jobless rate is expected to peak in the first half of 2010 in the US, but it may not be until 2011 that unemployment begins to fall in the Euro area.

Recovery arriving quicker than expected but activity will remain weak, says OECD

03-Sep-2009

Recovery from the global recession is likely to arrive earlier than had been expected a few months ago but the pace of activity will remain weak well into next year, according the OECD’s latest Interim Economic Assessment. Watch the webcast of the press conference.

Weak recovery in sight but damage from crisis likely to be long-lasting, says OECD

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.

GDP to plummet 4.3 percent across OECD countries in 2009 as unemployment climbs sharply

31-Mar-2009

Economic activity is expected to plummet by an average 4.3 percent in the OECD area in 2009 while by the end of 2010 unemployment rates in many countries will reach double figures for the first time since the early 1990s, according to the OECD’s Economic Outlook Interim Report.

OECD at World Economic Forum, Davos 2008

14-Jan-2008

OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría spoke at several key debates at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, from 23-27 January 2008. The subjects ranged from fighting corruption and managing financial risk to sustaining economic growth and ensuring safe water for the future.




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