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Trends in Severe Disability Among Elderly People (Health Working Paper No. 26)

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30-Mar-2007

Gaétan Lafortune, Gaëlle Balestat

As the number and share of the population aged 65 and over will continue to grow steadily in OECD countries over the next decades, improvements in the functional status of elderly people could help mitigate the rise in the demand for, and hence expenditure on, long-term care.

The Development of Policies for the Protection of Critical Information Infrastructures (CII)

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29-Mar-2007

The 2006 OECD study offers an analysis of the CII security policies in four countries: Canada, Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States - with a focus on the drivers for and challenges to their development.

Improving Co-ordination between Environmental and Health Policies: Final Report

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05-Mar-2007

The report provides evidence-based recommendations to improve policy co-ordination between environment and health. It incluses case studies on Canada, France and the United Kingdom to better understand the existing level of co-ordination between environmental and health policies.

Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth 2007 - Canada Country Note

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13-Feb-2007

This note, taken from Chapter 2 of Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth 2007, contains information about the progress in implementing reforms in line with the 2006 priorities for Canada. 

PISA national website: Canada

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16-Jan-2007

This website in French and English, managed by the Canadian authorities, provides information sepcific to Canada on the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Find reports produced by Canada on its performance in PISA here as well as useful contact points.

Supporting the contribution of higher education institutions to regional development - reports on Canada

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05-Jan-2007

View reports relating to a review of higher education institution support of regional development.  These reports focus on Atlantic Canada.

Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies in Canada (Health Working Paper No. 24)

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22-Dec-2006

Valérie Paris and Elizabeth Docteur

The OECD has released an OECD Health Working Paper (No. 24) from the Pharmaceutical Pricing Policies and Innovation project. The paper describes and assesses pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies in Canada.

Competitive Regional Clusters: National Policy Approaches

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07-Dec-2006

"Competitive Regional Clusters: National Policy Approaches" analyses the objectives, targeting, instruments and inter-governmental role sharing used by 26 programmes in 14 OECD countries.

Developed countries must do more to integrate immigrant workers, says OECD

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05-Dec-2006

Well-managed immigration flows offer benefits both for host countries and for migrants and their families. But the effective integration of immigrants into the societies of the countries where they settle is crucial, and this requires commitment and action at national and local level.