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Who’s busiest: working hours and household chores across OECD12-Apr-2011 Mexicans work longer days than anyone else in OECD countries while Belgians work the least. These are among the insights in latest Society at a Glance, which gives an overview of social trends and policy developments in OECD countries. Also available: |
Society at a Glance 2011 - OECD Social Indicators: Key findings for Canada12-Apr-2011 This one-pager note presents key findings for Canada from Society at a Glance 2011 - OECD Social indicators. This 2011 publication also provides a special chapter on unpaid work across the OECD. Related documents: |
Greening Household Behaviour: The Role of Public Policy08-Apr-2011 This publication presents the main results and policy implications of an OECD survey of more than 10 000 households in 10 countries. It offers new insight into what policy measures really work, looking at what factors affect people’s behaviour towards the environment. Also available:Related documents: |
Senior budget official country reviews of budgeting systems31-Mar-2011 The objective of senior budget official country reviews is to provide a comprehensive overview of the budget process in the country under examination, to evaluate national experiences in the light of international best practice and to provide specific policy recommendations. Also available: |
Canada’s enforcement of the foreign bribery offence still lagging; must urgently boost efforts to prosecute28-Mar-2011 Although Canada has recently made progress in investigating the bribery of foreign public officials by Canadian businesses, Canada has only completed one prosecution since it enacted its foreign bribery law in 1999. Also available: |
Canada - OECD Anti-Bribery Convention28-Mar-2011 This page contains all information relating to implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in Canada. Also available: |
Better Policies to Support Eco-innovation15-Mar-2011 This report reviews policies in OECD countries. It studies selected eco-innovations (e.g. carbon capture and storage, electric vehicles and fuel cells) and explains why policies differ in Canada, France, or Germany. Related documents: |
Environmental Impacts of International Shipping: The Role of Ports17-Feb-2011 This book examines the environmental impacts of international maritime transport, and looks more in detail at the impacts stemming from near-port shipping activities, the handling of the goods in the ports and from the distribution of the goods to the surrounding regions. Also available: |
Canada: Thematic Review on Risk Management in Agriculture17-Feb-2011 Jesús Antón, Shingo Kimura and Roger Martini Farm risk management in Canada is overcrowded with policies and unable to signal layers of risk that farmers should manage themselves. Canada should better define its risk programmes: income stabilization payments should focus on a middle range of risk, while farmers manage normal business risk. Related documents: |