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08-Mar-2011
In 2007-09, DAC members committed USD23 billion yearly to gender equality, primarily in the social sectors. Discover more about aid supporting gender equality and women’s empowerment through these dynamic graphics and analytical reports.
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04-Mar-2011
This paper sheds light on the importance of unpaid work across the OECD. The calculations suggest that between one-third and half of all valuable economic activity is not accounted for in the traditional measures of well-being, such as GDP per capita. In all countries, women do more unpaid work than men, although to some degree balanced by the fact that they do less market work.
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08-Feb-2011
The OECD Development Centre and ISSER co-organised a workshop in Accra,on 8 December 2010 to discuss immigrant integration in West Africa, with a specific focus on Ghana. This workshop brought together researchers and policy makers to share experiences and perspectives, in order to develop effective policies aimed at a better integration of immigrants.
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11-Jan-2011
Aid committed by DAC members to gender equality and women’s empowerment in the economic and productive sectors amounted to USD 4.6 billion on average per year in 2007‐08. This brief analyses how this aid was allocated.
For more statistics and analysis of aid to gender equality, see www.oecd.org/dac/stats/gender
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21-Dec-2010
Japan has high employment rates for men and older workers and relatively low unemployment. Benefit entitlements for the unemployed are limited, but other labour market policies, including efficient placement services, help to prevent unemployment and tackle labour market and social problems arising from it. Japan should push the implementation of several current reforms, which include expanding social insurance coverage among non-regular workers, easing access to social welfare and encouraging firms to bridge the gap between their age of retirement and the earliest access to a public pension.
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20-Dec-2010
This first edition of Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific presents a set of key indicators of health status, the determinants of health, health care resources and utilisation, and health care expenditure and financing across 27 Asia/Pacific countries.
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15-Dec-2010
The global economy is recovering but youth unemployment is getting worse, according to a new OECD report. Off to a Good Start? Jobs for Youth says that young people are more than twice as likely to be unemployed as the average worker. Yet few governments are taking proactive steps to boost youth employment.
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15-Dec-2010
In this issue: details on the Health Ministerial meeting, Balancing quality and privacy in health care, Fit not Fat in the media, Health challenges after the crisis, Making Reform Happen, and our new publications.
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Events
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from 19-Nov-2008 to 20-Nov-2008
As part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), gender equality is a key policy objective in developing countries. This seminar focused on the role of statistics and indicators in measuring, managing and evaluating progress in gender equality.
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on 21-Oct-2008
This OECD report, analyzing long-term trends in income distribution and poverty in OECD countries, will be presented at the OECD Conference Centre on 21 October 2008, by Angel Gurría (OECD Secretary‐General), Martin Hirsch (Haut Commissaire aux Solidarités Actives contre la Pauvreté, France), and Professor Sir Anthony Atkinson (Research Professor, Nuffield College, Oxford University).
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from 17-Sep-2008 to 19-Sep-2008
On 17-19 September, we participated in an international conference organised by the Böll Foundation (Germany). Our paper on "Migration Management: The Development Countries' Perspective" stimulated a lively debate on how to improve the development impact in migrant sending regions.
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on 27-Jun-2008
"Migration and Development: Policy Coherence and Effective Partnerships", organised at the 12th General Conference of EADI, took stock of what we know about the effects of migration on development. Participants shared their specific country or regional experiences to illustrate the mechanisms that link migration and development, in particular related to labour-market effects, the brain drain, remittances, diaspora networks and return migration.
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from 10-Jul-2008 to 11-Jul-2008
This meeting generated critical feedback on ongoing work for the Development Centre’s agenda on migration, gathered new insights from both academia and field practitioners and provided a platform for dialogue on key issues surrounding migration and development.
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on 07-May-2008
OECD-World Bank Policy Forum on "Creating more and better Jobs: What do we know? What can be done?" in Rabat, Morocco.
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on 07-Mar-2008
On the occasion of International Women's Day, the OECD Development Centre launched a new interactive website,Wikigender (www.wikigender.org), to share and exchange information on gender equality issues.
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on 14-Feb-2008
The French edition of this publications was officially launched at the Agence française de développement (AFD) on 14 February 2008.
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on 19-Sep-2007
In the framework of the OECD Breakfast Series, Johannes Jütting will present main findings on gender equality and development. The event, which will be hosted by the OECD Washington Centre, will discuss the link between gender equality and economic growth, the impact of social norms and culture on gender equality, and innovative ways to promote knowledge.
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from 31-May-2007 to 01-Jun-2007
Identify how social and economic goals can best be achieved, for example by policy interventions at certain critical "transition points" or by redistribution of income from one point in the life course to another. How assess the best way of financing social policies across the life course. These issues were discussed by a range of experts and policy makers at a seminar held on Thursday 31 May - Friday 1st June 2007 in Paris.
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