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OECD review of pension systems in Mexico

This review assesses the Mexican pension system on the basis of OECD best practices in pension design and presents various proposals to improve the Mexican pension system and guarantee its sustainability in the long term.

OECD reports wide gaps in well-being across Mexico’s states

Improvements in health, access to basic services and housing have contributed most to raising standards of living of Mexicans over the past 15 years but further advances are needed to bring well-being indicators closer to the average of OECD countries, according to a new report.

How’s Life? Measuring What Matters for Better Policies and Better Lives

We have long known that there is more to life than GDP, and whilst GDP growth is important for a successful economy, it should not be the sole compass to guide us towards success more widely. What we need is a more sophisticated instrument, some sort of GPS to measure progress understood as the improvement of people's quality of life.

Health Data Governance - Privacy, Monitoring and Research

OECD to launch How’s Life? at World Statistics and Policy Forum

Improving people’s well-being – not just boosting economic growth - should be a central objective for policy-makers, says the OECD.

Comprehensive and co-ordinated international response needed to tackle refugee crisis

OECD countries are facing an unprecedented refugee crisis and the situation requires a comprehensive and co-ordinated international response to address the immediate needs of asylum seekers and the longer-term challenge of helping them integrate. This is the main message of two new OECD documents, the 2015 International Migration Outlook and a Policy Brief on the Refugee Crisis.

Promoting gender equality in the G7 and beyond: education, employment and entrepreneurship

2015 is the year in which we aim to develop a new architecture for financing development for the Sustainable Development Goals and to build, during COP 21 in Paris, a new framework to tackle climate change. In all these arenas, decisive action for women’s rights and enhanced gender equality can play a crucial role.

Household disposable income has outpaced GDP growth for the OECD area since 2007

Growth in household disposable income has, on average, outpaced the rise in GDP for the OECD area since the onset of the financial crisis in 2007, according to the OECD.

Bringing gender equality to the core of the G20 agenda

It is an honour to address you at the launch of the W20. Today is yet another step in our journey to bring gender equality to the core of the G20 agenda. And I would like to congratulate the Turkish Presidency for keeping the momentum and carrying this issue forward by creating the W20.

G20 Ankara: Joint Meeting of Labour and Finance Ministers – Remarks at session on inequalities

I am very glad the G20 Turkish Presidency put inclusiveness as one of the three “I's" of the required collective action to foster the G20 inclusive and robust growth. Ringing the alarm bell on rising inequality is becoming, unfortunately, routine for us at the OECD.