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04-Dec-2006
China will this year for the first time spend more on research and development (R&D) than Japan and so become the world’s second highest investor in R&D after the United States, according to OECD projections based on recent trends.
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04-Dec-2006
The OECD has taken an important step to reinforce the role of its Principles of Corporate Governance as a global standard by issuing guidance for users in assessing their implementation. The Principles, agreed by governments in 1999 and revised in 2004, are designed to maintain public trust in companies and stock markets.
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30-Nov-2006
The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee commends both the Greek government’s move to strengthen its aid policies and development co-operation system and its humanitarian assistance to victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
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30-Nov-2006
Cities are home to more than half the people living in OECD countries and almost 50 percent of the output and jobs of many nations is found in their largest city. Though most cities have higher economic growth, foreign investment and labour productivity than the rest of the country, they are also more polluted, crime-ridden and socially disparate.
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28-Nov-2006
The world economy is facing a rebalancing of growth rather than a slowdown, according to the latest Economic Outlook. In the US and Japan the slowing pace of activity should remain well contained while a solid upswing may now be underway in the euro area.
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27-Nov-2006
Russia has been enjoying a period of robust growth, thanks largely to steadily rising terms of trade. The challenge for policy-makers is to facilitate Russia’s transition into a period of self-sustaining, investment- and innovation-led growth.
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24-Nov-2006
Despite progress in macroeconomic stability, Brazil's GDP growth needs to rise to close the income gap relative to the OECD. This will require consolidating macroeconomic adjustment, boosting business innovation and improve formal labour utilisation.
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23-Nov-2006
The Czech Republic needs to establish liability against legal persons for foreign bribery without delay and put in place sanctions that are effective, proportionate and dissuasive, according to a report by the OECD’s Working Group on Bribery.
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22-Nov-2006
Mexico’s recent agricultural reforms have made policies fairer and reduced market distortions, according to a new OECD report. But it warns that some initiatives are heading in the wrong direction. The Target Income programme to provide support to farmers is ineffective at relieving rural poverty while energy subsidies lead to over-exploitation of natural resources.
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10-Nov-2006
Participants at a two-day OECD-APEC conference in Athens agreed that governments should play a more active role in helping small and medium-sized firms trying to expand abroad and provide training in key areas such as marketing and intellectual property.
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