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Why gender matters in infrastructure
30-Jun-2006
This report provides some suggestions on how gender equality issues can be incorporated into infrastructure projects in the energy, transport, water and irrigation sectors.
See also Why gender matters in infrastructure - presentation
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29-Jun-2006
This report examines data on DAC members’ aid targeting the objective of gender equality in recent years. It is based on donors’ reporting on bilateral official development assistance (ODA) commitments to the Creditor Reporting System (CRS) Aid Activity Database and, in particular, the use of the gender equality policy marker to identify the relevant activities.
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26-Jun-2006
Health spending continues to rise in OECD countries and, if current trends continue, governments will need to raise taxes, cut spending in other areas or make people pay more out of their own pockets in order to maintain their existing healthcare systems, new OECD data indicate.
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20-Jun-2006
Recent pension reforms in OECD countries have a number of common themes. First, pension eligibility conditions have been tightened. Second, the indexation of pensions in payment has become less generous. Third, some pension schemes link benefit levels to changes in life expectancy. Finally, a number of countries have introduced defined-contribution pensions: privately managed schemes where the pension benefit depends on contributions and investment returns.
This paper by P.Whiteford and E.Whitehouse was published in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy.
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13-Jun-2006
OECD countries urgently need to get more people into paid employment if they want to boost living standards and keep welfare systems afloat. They can do this by moving away from policies that discourage people from working and companies from hiring and by doing more to raise workers’ skills.
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12-Jun-2006
This project aims to follow up on the OECD study Transforming Disability into Ability (published in early 2003) and will examine in more depth national policies to manage and reduce the inflow into sickness and disability benefit programmes and to assist those beneficiaries who want to reintegrate into the labour market. The objective is to reach a better understanding of the mechanisms and policies that lead a person with a health problem or a disability to withdraw from the labour market,
temporarily or permanently.
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04-Apr-2006
The Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW) and the OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate organised a seminar on "Activation Strategies and Performance of Employment Services", with particular consideration of policies in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. The purpose of the seminar was to give both Dutch and international experts, practitioners and policymakers the opportunity to learn about the different aspects of employment and reintegration services in these three countries.
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31-Mar-2006
Presentation made by Johannes Jütting at Casa Asia, Barcelona, 30 March 2006.
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15-Mar-2006
The OECD has just released two OECD Health Working Papers from the Health Care Quality Indicators Project. Health Care Quality Indicators Project Initial Indicators Report (OECD Health Working Papers No. 22) reports on the methods and findings from the analysis of an initial set of quality indicators across 23 participating OECD countries. Health Care Quality Indicators Project Conceptual Framework Paper (OECD Health Working Papers No. 23) presents the project conceptual framework.
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