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Who’s busiest: working hours and household chores across OECD

12-Apr-2011

Mexicans work longer days than anyone else in OECD countries while Belgians work the least. These are among the insights in latest Society at a Glance, which gives an overview of social trends and policy developments in OECD countries.

Local Development Benefits from Staging Global Events

27-Mar-2008

This book identifies how international events work as a trigger for local development and what hosting cities and nations can do to ensure that positive local development is realised.

The Legal Framework for Budget Systems: An International Comparison (OECD Journal on Budgeting, Volume 4, Number 3)

01-Jul-2005

Ian Lienert and Moo-Kyung Jung

The legal basis for budget processes and budget actors varies enormously across OECD countries. For example, the United States has a dozen major laws to support federal government budget processes, ...

Local Initiatives on School Bullying and Violence - New Zealand

29-Oct-2004

Presented at  "Taking Fear out of Schools", an International Policy conference co-organised by the OECD, the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, the Directorate for Primary and Secondary Education and Stavanger University College, (5-8 September 2004, Stavanger, Norway)

Social Capital: The Challenge of International Measurement - The Measurement of Social Capital in New Zealand

25-Sep-2002

The concept of Social Capital has until now no place in official statistics or in the general terminology of social research. It is applied by a few authors in the border area between economics, political ...

Educational Research and Development Policy in New Zealand - Examiners' Report

04-Oct-2001

Over the last decade and more New Zealand has engaged in political changes, which have had a major impact on the values and procedures characterising policy-making and practice. Central here has been the ...

Goverment Reform: Of Roles and Functions of Government and Public Administration. New Zealand country paper...

01-Jan-2001

Country study prepared for the OECD Symposium "Government of the Future: Getting from Here to There", Paris, 14-15 September 1999

In Search of Results: Performance Management Practices

25-Feb-1997

This report describes and analyses in a comparative setting performance management developments in ten OECD countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Monetary policy credibility and price uncertainty: the New Zealand experience of inflation targeting

18-Jun-1994

Andreas M. Fischer and Adrian B. Orr

This articles assesses the contributions to price-related uncertainty in New Zealand arising from the legislation of anti-inflation policies and the introduction of inflation targets. OECD Economic Studies No. 22.