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16-Jul-2007
OECD countries have agreed a new approach to better protect the rights of consumers and make online shopping safer. They call on national authorities and business to make it easier, cheaper and quicker for people to resolve complaints and get compensation when they are unhappy with goods or services they have bought.
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13-Jul-2007
Despite Austria’s strong economic performance, some structural weaknesses highlight the need for increasing competition in services, removing obstacles to labour market participation, promoting further regional integration, and strengthening the fiscal policy framework.
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12-Jul-2007
Telecommunications investment continues to rise and consumers are generally paying less for more and better services across the OECD area but technology developments are presenting new challenges to telecoms operators, according to a new OECD report.
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11-Jul-2007
Egypt has made impressive progress in reforming its investment policies in recent years but significant barriers to both foreign and domestic businesses remain. Easing these restrictions would attract more investment, increase competition and benefit the economy as a whole, according to a new OECD report.
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04-Jul-2007
Increased demand for bio-fuels is causing fundamental changes to agricultural markets that could drive up world prices for many farm products, according to a new report published by the OECD and the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation.
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04-Jul-2007
The European Commission, on behalf of the European Community, disbursed some USD 10 billion in official development assistance (ODA) in 2006, making it the sixth largest donor amongst the members of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC).
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03-Jul-2007
Slovenia should strengthen its efforts to raise public and private sector awareness about the fight against foreign bribery, according to a new report by the OECD Working Group on Bribery. The low level of awareness about this issue could be a signal that the priority and commitment given to fighting corruption are declining in Slovenia.
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02-Jul-2007
The brain never loses its capacity to learn, according to a new publication from the OECD. Contrary to the myth that “everything important about the brain is decided by the age of three,” Understanding the Brain: The Birth of a Learning Science suggests not only that learning never stops - especially if actively pursued - but that it physically transforms the brain.
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02-Jul-2007
The OECD is to work with other international organisations and partners to develop a new approach to measuring how societies are changing by using high quality, reliable statistics to assess progress in a range of areas affecting citizens’ quality of life.
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27-Jun-2007
With short-term prospects somewhat brighter, and budgetary prospects improved, this year’s Survey looks at some long term challenges. The performance of policies for education and those for poverty and social exclusion is satisfactory or better in many areas, but cost-effectiveness can be improved and more focus on employment is needed. Policy has begun to prepare for the economic impact of population ageing, but there is no room to relax in seeking to contain fiscal costs and to increase employment among older workers.
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