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The Tohoku Pacific earthquake: Economic consequences15-Mar-2011 Randall Jones, Economics Department "On behalf of all of us working at the OECD, I would like to transmit our deep sympathy and support in these difficult circumstances. Our thoughts are with the Japanese people, especially those who lost their loved ones." OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría Also available: |
New Chair of the OECD's Committee on Fiscal Affairs elected26-Jan-2011 The OECD is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Chair of its Committee on Fiscal Affairs (CFA), Mr Masatsugu Asakawa of Japan. Also available: |
Options to Improve the Governance and Investment of Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund, OECD Working Paper on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions No.621-Dec-2010 Fiona Stewart and Juan Yermo This paper suggests avenues for strengthening the governance and management of the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the largest single pool of pension assets in the world. |
Japan should enrol non-regulars in social insurances, ease access to welfare, extend activation measures, says OECD20-Dec-2010 Japan has high employment rates for men and older workers and relatively low unemployment. Benefit entitlements for the unemployed are limited, but other labour market policies - including an emphasis ... Also available:Related documents: |
Greening Growth in Japan - Environment Working Paper No. 2815-Dec-2010 Ivana Capozza This paper assesses Japan’s progress in moving towards such an environmentally friendly growth pattern. It summarises Japan’s achievements and challenges in decoupling environmental pressures from economic performance. Also available:Related documents: |
Regulatory Reform in OECD Countries: Reports by Country08-Dec-2010 The unique OECD peer review process has helped improve public policy. It assesses how countries manage the design, adoption and enforcement of regulations according to a conceptual framework. It ensures comparability while taking account of institutional and cultural differences across countries. Also available: |
Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education (Japan)07-Dec-2010 This volume combines an analysis of PISA with a description of the policies and practices of those education systems that are close to the top or advancing rapidly, in order to offer insights for policy from their reform trajectories. Related documents: |
Dispute Resolution: Country Mutual Agreement Procedure Statistics for 2008 and 200925-Nov-2010 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 2008 and 2009. Also available:Related documents: |
OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Japan 201016-Nov-2010 This report assesses Japan’s progress since the previous OECD Environmental Performance Review in 2000. It analyses the extent to which the country has met its national objectives and international commitments regarding the management of its environment and natural resources. Also available: |
Taxation, Innovation and the Environment13-Oct-2010 By putting a price on pollution, do environmentally related taxes spur innovation? What types of innovation result? Does the design of the tax play a critical role? What is the effect of this innovation? This publication also explores the use of environmentally related taxes in OECD countries.&l Also available: |