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Education at a Glance 2011: Country note – Japan

13-Sep-2011

The 2011 edition of Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries’ performance.

Japan's New Growth Strategy to create demand and jobs

13-Sep-2011

Randall S. Jones and Byungseo Yoo

The New Growth Strategy aims to create demand and jobs through regulatory reform and fiscal measures.

Japan: Labour market reforms to improve growth and equity

13-Sep-2011

Randall S. Jones and Satoshi Urasawa

Traditional Japanese labour market practices, which benefited both workers and firms during the high-growth era, are no longer appropriate in the context of slow economic growth and rapid population ageing.

Japan: Education reform

13-Sep-2011

Randall S. Jones

While Japan has achieved outstanding scores on the PISA exams, further improving educational outcomes is important to sustain growth in the face of rapid population ageing.

Fostering Innovation for Green Growth

12-Sep-2011

This book draws on work on green innovation across several parts of the OECD to show how it can drive sustainable growth and job creation. It explores policy actions for the deployment of new technologies and innovations as they emerge.

Dispute Resolution: Country Mutual Agreement Procedure Statistics for 2010

24-Aug-2011

As part of its ongoing work on the mutual agreement procedure (MAP) under tax treaties, the OECD makes available to the public annual statistics on the MAP caseloads of member countries and of certain non-OECD economies. MAP statistics have now been released for 2010.

Opening Japan: Comparisons with Other G20 Countries and Lessons Learned from International Experience (OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Paper 2011/2)

22-Aug-2011

by Andrea Beltramello, Koen De Backer, Victor Mercader and Laurent Moussiegt

This paper aims to assess the openness of the Japanese economy and to show how policies promoting openness are conducive to long-term growth.

Briefing note for OECD Health Data 2011: How Does Japan Compare

30-Jun-2011

Total health spending accounted for 8.5% of GDP in Japan in 2008, one percentage point lower than the OECD average of 9.5% for 2009.

Education: Korea tops new OECD PISA survey of digital literacy

28-Jun-2011

Korea tops a new OECD PISA survey that tests how 15-year olds use computers and the Internet to learn. The next best performers were New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Hong-Kong China and Iceland.

Government at a Glance 2011: Information by country

24-Jun-2011

These country notes contain over 50 indicators which compare the political and institutional frameworks of national governments as well as revenues and expenditures, employment, and compensation. They include a description of government policies on integrity, e-government and open government.