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15-Mar-2007
Government support to agriculture is far lower in the major emerging economies than on average in the developed countries of the OECD. But it is nevertheless rising as pressure mounts to protect farmers in an increasingly competitive global marketplace, says a new OECD report.
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14-Mar-2007
At its March 2007 meeting, the OECD Working Group on Bribery reaffirmed its serious concerns about the United Kingdom’s discontinuance of the BAE Al Yamamah investigation and outlined continued shortcomings in UK Anti-Bribery legislation.
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13-Mar-2007
The economic recovery in Belgium is becoming more durable. Nevertheless, unemployment remains high and there are already signs that some productions factors are coming under strain. Thus, further labour market reform is required to bolster employment gains. Other challenges include securing additional fiscal consolidation across all levels of government to address the sizeable consequences of ageing, enhancing the efficiency of tertiary education and further improving the functioning of the financial markets.
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02-Mar-2007
The Netherlands Antilles yesterday signed bilateral agreements with Australia and New Zealand for the exchange of information for tax purposes, marking further progress in international efforts to implement the principles of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes developed by the OECD’s Global Forum on Taxation.
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28-Feb-2007
The OECD’s annual compendium of tax data shows little change in levels of taxation on wage earners in different OECD countries, with Turkey, Poland and France levying the most on a single-earner married couple with two children on average earnings and Ireland, New Zealand and Iceland taking the least.
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23-Feb-2007
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22-Feb-2007
Aid donors will have to increase funding for aid programmes faster that any other public expenditure in order to fulfil their commitments to increase aid to $130 billion and double aid to Africa by 2010, says the OECD’s Development Co-operation Report. Aid funding, recently rising by 5% per year, would have to rise by 11% every year from 2008 to 2010.
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21-Feb-2007
The Secretary-General of the OECD presented his proposals to fill the four vacancies for Deputy Secretaries-General, which were approved by the Council. They will replace the four officials that served during the mandate of former Secretary-General Donald J. Johnston, and whose terms have expired.
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16-Feb-2007
According to a new report by the OECD, Belgium should do more to help young people get their working life off to a good start. The unemployment rate for 15 to 24 year olds was about 20 per cent in 2005, i.e. almost identical to 10 years ago and around seven percentage points higher than the OECD average.
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14-Feb-2007
Since the 1990s’ crisis, Sweden has greatly improved its macroeconomic policies. All parts of society benefit from strong productivity growth, stable inflation expectations and public budget surpluses. Meanwhile, combating exclusion in the labour market is a key challenge, along with distortions in the housing market.
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