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19-July-2013
English
The joint challenges of tax evasion and tax base erosion lie at the heart of the social contract. Our citizens are demanding that we tackle offshore tax evasion by wealthy individuals and re-vamp the international tax system to prevent multinational enterprises from artificially shifting profits, resulting in very low taxes or even double non-taxation and thereby eroding our tax base.
19-July-2013
English
These Principles present a comprehensive picture of the many different policy areas that need to be addressed in order to promote long-term investment financing by institutional investors.
19-July-2013
English
Six years after the crisis, growth is not yet back (...) the job crisis, far from being over or even receding, is turning into a social crisis. Job opportunities are falling in Europe, improving very gradually in the US and, too often, of poor quality in many emerging economies.
18-July-2013
English
While unemployment is gradually declining in the United States, Mexico and Japan, it is increasing in the Euro area. In emerging economies, tackling low paid employment in insecure jobs with little social protection remains a key challenge.
16-July-2013
English
This report comes at a crucial time, as the economic recovery remains hesitant and uneven, and when over 48 million people are still out work in the OECD area. Unemployment is a social tragedy that we urgently need to address.
15-July-2013
Spanish
Pese lo incierto del contexto global, hay signos alentadores de que la economía española ha venido corrigiendo sus desequilibrios estructurales.
15-July-2013
Spanish
La reforma administrativa es un proceso multidimensional y complejo que requiere buenas estrategias, continuidad y liderazgo. Debido a su alcance y amplitud, afecta aspectos concretos y palpables de todos los ámbitos de la realidad administrativa.
8-July-2013
English
We have come a long way since 2005, when we launched the Aid for Trade initiative in Hong Kong at the 6th WTO Ministerial Conference. Each successive global review has deepened our analysis and broadened our understanding of the dynamics of aid, trade, development and their interaction. In parallel, more and more partner countries and donors have come on board as the tangible results of our efforts become apparent.
2-July-2013
English
Austria’s prospects are among the strongest in Europe. Activity is picking up, and GDP is poised to increase by at least one and a half per cent next year (...) Austria’s rates of unemployment and youth unemployment remain among the lowest in the European Union, said Angel Gurría.
26-June-2013
English
To better integrate their economies into Global Value Chains, governments need a fine-tuned understanding of their dynamics and policies, and we have made considerable progress on this front. For example, we have learned that success in international markets depends as much on the capacity to import high-quality inputs as on the capacity to export: intermediate inputs account for over 2/3 of the goods and 70% of the services we trade.
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