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16-Jun-2009
Three out of four teachers feel they lack incentives to improve the quality of their teaching, while bad behaviour by students in the classroom disrupts lessons in three schools out of five, according to a new OECD report “Creating effective teaching and learning environments”.
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09-Jun-2009
The gobal economic crisis has led to a sharp contraction in steel production, consumption, prices and jobs. According to industry and government officials at the OECD’s Steel Committee meeting in Paris on 8-9 June 2009, conditions for a recovery in demand could begin to be seen towards the end of the year.
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08-Jun-2009
Bermuda and the Netherlands today signed a bilateral agreement for the exchange of information for tax purposes, bringing to 12 the number of such agreements that it Bermuda has entered into and thereby crossing the threshold for being considered to have substantially implemented the internationally agreed standard in this area.
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08-Jun-2009
Biotechnology has the power to improve human health, address environmental challenges, and change the way the world does business. A new OECD report, The Bioeconomy to 2030: Designing a Policy Agenda, examines the role of biotechnology in the global economy over the next two decades and outlines policies that could maximize its benefits.
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05-Jun-2009
Finland has reduced pollution and improved its environmental quality through pioneering approaches like green taxes. However, it must do more to green its economy by reducing the amount of energy and materials used per unit of GDP, tackling climate change, and addressing health impacts of pollution and management of waste.
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04-Jun-2009
Luxembourg has today signed a protocol to its double taxation convention with Denmark. The protocol, which allows exchange of bank information for tax purposes, brings the convention up to the OECD standard.
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04-Jun-2009
Speaking at a joint briefing on structural reform with Christine Lagarde, France’s Minister of Economy, Industry and Employment, Mr Gurría said unemployment and the public deficit – in France and elsewhere - will continue to rise. He added that the French stimulus plan should support growth and jobs in the short run.
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28-May-2009
Austria’s official development assistance (ODA) was 0.42% of its gross national income (GNI) in 2008, putting it in 11th place among OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors.
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26-May-2009
In most countries, girls and boys now show similar results in the OECD’s PISA tests of 15-year-olds. But systematic assessment of gender differences shows that students are still being held back by their own gender-related perceptions.
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20-May-2009
France should do more to ease the transition of unskilled young people into employment. The government should give priority to helping young people the furthest removed from the job market and to strengthening the social protection of the most disadvantaged, according to a new report by the OECD.
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Events
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on 21-Nov-2007
The OECD will release its Financial Market Trends No. 93 on the OECD's password-protected website at 11.00 a.m. Paris time (10.00 a.m. GMT) on Wednesday 21 November for immediate release.
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from 15-Nov-2007 to 16-Nov-2007
During his official visit, Angel Gurría will meet with government officials to discuss the reform agenda and the medium-term economic perspective in Hungary.
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on 21-Nov-2007
Governments and business have made some progress in their fight against corruption since the 1997 signing of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. But is it enough? Is the political commitment expressed by governments being followed up by action?
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from 27-Nov-2007 to 29-Nov-2007
Ministers from Middle East and North African countries and from OECD countries will meet in Cairo on 28-29 November to discuss progress in reforms to encourage investment and improve public governance in the MENA region.
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from 12-Nov-2007 to 13-Nov-2007
How can African agriculture contribute more effectively to economic development and poverty reduction? Experts and government officials will be addressing such challenges at a meeting in Rome organised by the OECD, the World Bank, and the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on 12-13 November 2007.
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from 31-Oct-2007 to 04-Nov-2007
During this official visit, Angel Gurría met with government officials to discuss Israel's candidacy for OECD accession as well as the Israeli economic situation. He also participated in the 2007 Prime Minister's Conference for Export and International Co-operation.
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on 23-Oct-2007
News conference at 11.30 a.m., Tuesday 23 October 2007, UN Palais des Nations, Press Room 1, Geneva, Switzerland ; presented by Stefan Tangermann, Director of trade and agriculture, OECD, and Vaclav Vojtech, Agricultural policy analyst, OECD.
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on 03-Oct-2007
Read the questions and answers from an online question and answer session on the future of education that took place on Wednesday 3 October with Andreas Schleicher, head of the OECD's Education Indicators and Analysis division.
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Read the questions and answers from this online debate on the role and future of statistics with Enrico Giovannini, the OECD’s Chief Statistician.
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