Recognising the importance of gender equality, the OECD has embarked on a Horizontal Project in Gender Equality in three areas key to economic performance: Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship.
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With the recent crisis that started in 2007/08, social spending increased to 22% of GDP on average across the OECD in 2009 and it has not gone down since.
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Income inequality increased by more in the first three years of the crisis to the end of 2010 than it had in the previous twelve years, before factoring in the effect of taxes and transfers on income.
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