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Standardised Confidence Indicators for OECD Countries and Major Non-Member Economies

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05-Feb-2010

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (updated monthly according to MEI timetable ). The OECD Standardised Confidence Indicators (for manufacturing industry and consumers) are confidence indicators...

Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs) for OECD Countries and Major Non-Member Economies

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05-Feb-2010

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators  (updated continuously) - Composite leading indicators (CLIs) are presented in two different forms. They are the trend restored CLIs and the annualised 6-month rate of changes of CLIs.

Monetary Aggregates for OECD Countries and Major Non-Member Economies

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05-Feb-2010

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (updated continuously) - Monetary aggregate indices presented are Narrow money (M1) and Broad money (M3). They are calculated as averages of the monthly figures. For all countries...

Interest Rates for OECD Countries and Major Non-Member Economies

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05-Feb-2010

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (updated continuously) - Access time series of immediate (overnight), short-term (3 month interbank rate), and long-term (10 yr bonds) interest rates for OECD countries and major non-member economies.

Industrial Production for OECD Countries and Major Non-Member Economies

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05-Feb-2010

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (updated continuously) - Industrial production series are shown as seasonally adjusted indices. Industrial production refers to the goods produced by establishments...

Main Economic Indicators: Enhanced Engagement Countries and the Russian Federation

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05-Feb-2010

OECD Main Economic Indicators for Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa, as well as the Russian Federation. Also available: Databases by subject. Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators

Improving China’s health care system

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03-Feb-2010

Richard Herd, Yu-Wei Hu and Vincent Koen

Overall, health outcomes in China have improved tremendously over the past three decades, especially thanks to the reduction in some traditional infectious diseases.

Providing greater old-age security in China

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03-Feb-2010

Richard Herd, Yu-Wei Hu and Vincent Koen

With ongoing migration of the younger cohorts to urban areas, the increase in the old-age dependency ratio will be even more pronounced in rural than in urban areas.

China’s labour market in transition: job creation, migration and regulation

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03-Feb-2010

Richard Herd, Vincent Koen and Anders Reutersward

Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation.

A pause in the growth of inequality in China?

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03-Feb-2010

Richard Herd

In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been fairly steep since the 1980s.