Turkey

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Launch of the OECD Report “Managing Water for All: an OECD Perspective on Pricing and Financing”

17-Mar-2009

Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General

One billion people cannot get clean drinking water and 2.5 billion lack access to basic sanitation which cause 1.5 million preventable child deaths per year. While addressing the emergency of the current ...

The Financial and Economic Crisis and Water

17-Mar-2009

Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General

The current crisis provides an impetus to push forward difficult reform, an opportunity that should not be wasted for the water sector, according to Angel Gurría. He affirmed that there were huge opportunities ...

Launch of the Environment Performance Review of Turkey

16-Dec-2008

Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General

In his remarks for the launch of this report, Mr Gurría praised the remarkable environmental progress made by Turkey since 1999 but he also pointed out that Turkey still needs to address a number of environmental challenges due to unsustainable production and consumption patterns.

OECD and international organisations to develop new approach to measuring progress of societies

02-Jul-2007

The OECD is to work with other international organisations and partners to develop a new approach to measuring how societies are changing by using high quality, reliable statistics to assess progress in a range of areas affecting citizens’ quality of life.

OECD World Forum on Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies - Istanbul 27-30 June 2007

14-May-2007

How can societies better measure their progress or setbacks? The question lies at the heart of a long-term OECD project to explore how the effective use of information can benefit democracy, empower individual citizens and stimulate a global debate on what progress means.