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27-Jan-2009
By Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General.
The topic of the integration of immigrants is a particularly important one in these challenging times as OECD countries grapple with the economic and financial crisis and the rapid rise of unemployment. Integration is difficult even in good times, so we need to double our efforts to manage it well in bad times.
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16-Jan-2009
Effective medicines save lives and improve quality of life for people with chronic illnesses. But health gains come at a cost: affordability is a growing challenge as drug spending outstrips growth in national income in most OECD countries.
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14-Jan-2009
Detailed health expenditure and financing data from the 2008 Joint OECD-WHO-Eurostat Health Accounts Data Collection are freely available on OECD.Stat Extracts under the theme Health. Fully consistent with OECD Health Data, the System of Health Accounts database allows for more in-depth analysis of health spending and the detailed cross-classification between health care functions, providers and financing. Summary comparative tables and charts from the database can also be found via the main SHA page.
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07-Jan-2009
Many Asian countries will need to reform their pension systems in order to deliver sustainable and adequate retirement incomes for today’s workers, according to a new OECD report.
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05-Jan-2009
As the new year unfolds, the Poverty Reduction and Social Development team is preparing several exciting events for 2009, including the release of the updated GID Database and the launch of the flagship report on "Informal is Normal - Towards More and Better Jobs in Developing Countries".
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22-Dec-2008
This paper (Health Working Paper No. 41) provides a descriptive analysis of the remuneration of doctors in 14 OECD countries for which reasonably comparable data were available in OECD Health Data 2007 (Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States).
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18-Dec-2008
Young people in Japan are finding it increasingly hard to get permanent jobs and the Japanese authorities should expand vocational training schemes and increase social security coverage for young non-regular workers in order to help them.
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18-Dec-2008
To celebrate the adoption of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families in 1990, the UN General Assembly proclaimed the 18th of December as International Migrants Day. As shown by the work of the Development Centre, migrants continue to be an important factor to promote development in their countries' of origin.
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18-Dec-2008
The Internet update for OECD Health Data 2008 has just been released. Go to the OECD Health Data Update page to download the file and access data updates, along with a fully revised hypertext for Definitions, Sources and Methods.
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16-Dec-2008
This issue highlights the new report Pharmaceutical Pricing Policies in a Global Market, as well as the WHO-OECD Dialogue on Migration and the Health Workforce, addressing pressures on long-term care systems, health and the environment, mental health and the workplace, and other key health-related projects throughout the OECD.
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