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Pensions at a Glance 2011: Highlights for Spain

17-Mar-2011

This 3 pages paper gives highligths from Pensions at a Glance 2011 for Spain. The 2011 pension reform in Spain will significantly improve the long-term financial sustainability of Spain’s retirement-income system.

Reforming the labour market in Spain

23-Feb-2011

Anita Wölfl and Juan S. Mora-Sanguinetti

After steady employment growth since the 1990s, Spain has experienced the sharpest increase in unemployment among OECD countries during the crisis, amplified by structural problems of the labour market.

Spain: Thematic Review on Risk Management in Agriculture

17-Feb-2011

Jesús Antón

Spain's agricultural insurance system must evolve to allow more competition, differentiate marketable and catastrophic risks and reduce subsidies for marketable lines. Spain should also develop a framework for catastrophic risk and facilitate a wider choice of risk management tools for farmers.

Economic Survey of Spain 2010

10-Feb-2011

The Spanish economy is slowly emerging from a deep recession. This Survey discusses policies to strengthen economic growth durably, put government finances on a sustainable basis, lower high structural unemployment and improve the management of water.

A market perspective on the European sovereign debt and banking crisis

03-Feb-2011

Adrian Blundell-Wignall and Patrick Slovik

Europe has been beset by an interrelated banking crisis and sovereign debt crisis. Bond spreads faced by Greece and Ireland, and to a lesser extent Portugal followed by Spain, have increased. This paper ...

Policies towards a sustainable use of water in Spain

02-Feb-2011

Andrés Fuentes

The limits for extraction of natural resources have largely been reached and climate change is expected to continue lowering natural water endowments markedly in future especially in dry areas of the country

Spain: OECD’s Gurría welcomes pension reform plan

28-Jan-2011

OECD Secretary- General Angel Gurría has welcomed the pension reform plan announced by the Spanish government.


 

Regulatory Reform in OECD Countries: Reports by Country

08-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.

OECD review of higher education in regional and city Development of Andalusia: now available

26-Nov-2010

Reviews of Higher Education in Regional and City Development are the OECD’s vehicle to mobilise higher education for economic, social and cultural development of cities and regions.

Dispute Resolution: Country Mutual Agreement Procedure Statistics for 2008 and 2009

25-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.