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The OECD Observer magazine presents concise, up-to-date and authoritative analysis of crucial world economic, social and environmental issues. It keeps policymakers, business people, NGOs, researchers and journalists ahead of the policy debate. It is a catalyst for new discussion and ideas, and a source of key data.
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Partnerships count
The OECD's core mission is to help make the world economy work better, Secretary-General Angel Gurría said in a keynote address to the meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Strasbourg, 4 October 2006. While the organisation's work is well known, stronger partnerships with parliamentarians are needed to strengthen its impact and influence, Mr Gurría said.
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Globalisation and jobs: What policies?
One recurring theme in the longstanding debate about globalisation concerns how best to compensate the losers. The issue has come to the fore again recently, particularly in connection with the perceived threat to jobs in OECD countries from “offshoring” of business services and the growing integration of China, and more recently India, into the world trading system.
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Home dear home
Are house prices peaking? They have certainly risen strongly, even in real terms–that is, when adjusted for inflation–since the mid-1990s in most OECD countries and, as the latest OECD Economic Outlook reports, their current upswing is the longest of its kind since the 1970s.
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FDI soars
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into OECD countries jumped by 27% to reach US$622 billion in 2005, up from $491 billion in 2004 and $465 billion in 2003, according to the latest estimates from the OECD. These are the highest inflows since 2001. The near-term outlook for FDI remains strong. The UK was the world’s largest recipient of inward FDI in 2005, attracting $165 billion of FDI from OECD countries, according to Trends and Recent Developments in Foreign Direct Investment, a new OECD report.
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Instructive design
Innovative design, use and management of physical infrastructure can contribute to the quality of education. This lesson is not all that new. For a decade now, the OECD Programme on Educational Building (PEB), has led an international jury in selecting a number of institutions that exemplify considerations of flexibility, community needs, sustainability, safety and security, and financing. In addition to schools and universities in 20 different countries, the latest third edition also covers pre-schools, for a total of 65 examples of studiously photographed innovative schools.
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