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Darling dismissed the OECD forecast, sticking to his prediction that we will begin to come out of recession around the turn of the year.

Anyone reading a year ago what the OECD had to say would have been horrified.

By the age of 15, 38% of pupils have done so at least once, compared with an average in OECD countries of 13%.

Mr Key said he thought the OECD's conclusions were overly pessimistic and pointed out that government debt levels were very low.

The OECD said the effectiveness of the UK's asset purchase programme - the so-called quantitative easing programme - was uncertain.

Some 68% of a typical second earner's net income is spent on freeing her to work, compared with an OECD average of 52%.

Figures released from the OECD have shown how much the financial crisis has changed the jobs market.

The OECD harmful tax practices guidance thus seems to fall short of international law in the formal sense of treaty or custom.

The OECD says that there is hardly any other country in which immigrants have such a low level of education as in Germany.

Migrants working in the 30-OECD nations come from all over the world - in the case of the United States, many hail from Latin America.

On average, one child out of every eight living in an OECD country in 2005 was living in poverty.

Ex-Im Bank notified the OECD, and officials said other OECD members encouraged the bank to move forward as a challenge to China's practices.

The OECD warns this may come "at the expense of a sustainable capital structure and risks to the ultimate solvency of the company. "

IN 2000 the OECD, a group of mostly rich countries, decided to find out how much children were learning at school.

That puts it out of step with OECD standards, which were overhauled in 2004 to allow greater sharing of information between nations.

Indeed, the OECD found a "consistent tendency" for greater volumes of index-fund trading to sit alongside declining volatility.

Due to the country's harsh immigration policies, its percentage of foreign workers is the lowest of any OECD country, at less than 2%.

One half of that thesis is proved at least by a new report released on May 11th by the OECD.

In many OECD countries, there has been a real increase in household water charges in recent years.

The OECD is sufficiently impressed that it has selected Brazil as a case study of "Encouraging lessons from a large federal system" .

In the OECD's worldwide tests of pupils' abilities in reading, maths and science, Brazil is near the bottom of the class (see chart).

It organized a global forum every year to which it invited non-OECD members to debate issues of interest to all regions.

OECD bureaucrats and fellow members scrutinise each signatory to see how rigorously they investigate and punish foreign corrupt practices.

In terms of broadband speed, the United States ranks 19th among the 30 industrial countries that are members of the OECD.

An excellent new report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development makes this point very powerfully.

In its policy advice, even the OECD seems to believe this is largely a financial crisis and one that may be overcome in quite short order.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Food &Agriculture Organization spelled that out in a June report.

Thirty-eight countries have now signed up to the OECD's 1997 anti-corruption convention, leading to a spate of cross-border prosecutions.

But so far less than half of the OECD's member countries have detailed medium-term plans to reduce their deficits.

almost 80% of young people in the OECD who become unemployed are back in work within a year.

Bribery has begun to dwindle since the OECD convention, says Transparency International, a pressure group.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development composite leading indicator shows at least a slight uptick.

Randall Jones of the OECD argues that all this help has made SMEs less, not more, efficient, and damaged competitiveness.

In the two decades leading up to the global financial crisis real disposable household incomes increased in all OECD countries.

Both the IMF and the OECD have been urging further liberalisation as the only sure route to better economic performance.

The OECD wants to convert itself from a rich countries' club into a "globalisation hub" , gradually absorbing more countries.

In Shanghai, now a pioneer of educational reform, "there has been a sea change in pedagogy, " the OECD said.

Britain still has a better record on job creation and encouraging companies to set up in business than most OECD member states.

The OECD has no regulatory or policing powers but carries political weight in Western capitals.

But the US was the only country to receive more highly skilled immigrants from OECD countries than it lost.

In almost any other OECD country this would be a scandal.

Hoping, no doubt, that where their predictions agree, the Commission and the OECD will both be proved wrong.

In 2008 in the OECD as a whole the average income of the richest 10% was nearly nine times that of the poorest 10%.

Greece has one of the most generous, and therefore expensive, state pension systems among the 30 mostly rich OECD countries.

World trade will gradually stabilize and then slowly pick up from around the end of this year, the OECD said.

Even countries with "moderately strong" exchequers were not always trusted to audit their aid money, the OECD notes.

This included collaboration with the European Economic Community on medical informatics and with the OECD in reviewing its health database.

China provides the biggest share of legal immigrants to OECD countries (though Britain and Ireland do not monitor nationality).

To be sure, its government is a large debtor; its net debt as a share of GDP is one of the highest in the OECD.

But none of the economies outside the OECD is big enough to absorb the excess private saving of the rich world.

"Better educational outcomes are a strong predictor for future economic growth, " said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria.

But with most OECD countries facing gaping budget holes, finding the money to retrain the unemployed can be a challenge.

Looking at the OECD figures, there doesn't appear to be a clear connection between working hours and economic performance.

Though Brazil is not a member of the OECD he entered it in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Brazil came last.

The OECD said the projections were preliminary numbers.

China is not a member of the OECD but it participates in OECD work as an Observer on some OECD Committees.

As the OECD report says, " higher employment and productivity growth will not be possible without profound regulatory reform. "

The OECD also said in its report that past growth in Britain had been unsustainable and driven by a credit boom.

Among the O. E. C. D. countries, only Mexico, Spain, Turkey and New Zealand have higher dropout rates than the United States.

"Protectionism is absolutely the wrong thing to do. So, our advice to OECD countries is do not go there, " Ash said.

Brazil has set itself the goal of reaching the average standard of the OECD over the next decade.

Seven European countries performed better than the OECD average: Belgium, Estonia, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Switzerland.

The rate of return is highest when investment starts in early childhood and continues steadily into the teenage years, the OECD found.

The agreement to publish an OECD blacklist of tax havens within hours of the end of the summit was a last-minute bonus, officials said.

In Britain a father's income determines that of his son more than in any other rich country, according to an OECD report last year.

In 1995, at the first meeting of OECD ministers I attended, every country boasted of its own success and its own brilliant reforms.

In its interim assessment of the economic outlook for this year, the OECD warned that considerable headwinds would buffet the recovery.

The OECD also said that as America's economy is in recovery it should not delay raising interest rates beyond the last quarter of 2010.

Yet Mexico, almost alone among other OECD members, has the kind of bulletproof economy even Germany would applaud.

The research showed a higher correlation between economic status and achievement than in any other OECD country.

Qingdao could have the highest proportional increase in population exposure to extreme climate events among the cities the OECD studied.

As a result the total number of hours worked in Germany is among the lowest in the OECD.

While the economic crisis did not have its origin in trade, the OECD notes trade can be part of the solution.

Their pupils come from the best-off homes, but they turn out 15-year-olds who do no better than the average child across the OECD.

The US continued to languish slightly below the OECD average.

But so far only one big, awkward country, Russia, has formally applied to join the OECD.

It took an 8 per cent hit to output, the largest of any OECD country, of which it has subsequently recovered about half.

This article gives a systematical analysis on economic instruments applied in OECD countries as well as the basic economic theories.

So what did the O. E. C. D. have to say about high unemployment in its member countries?

"Norway is the OECD country with the least difference between high and low wages between very skilled and less skilled workers. "

A new report by the OECD has reams of data on this phenomenon and is well worth looking at.

The HKMA is an observer in the Financial Markets Committee of the OECD to monitor developments in international financial markets.

What will be harder to put right is another deficiency regularly flagged up by the OECD: education and skills.

The OECD encourages governments to rethink their policies in the light of globalisation and the information economy.

Seven out of ten Mexican adults are overweight, and three out of ten are obese, according to a recent study by the OECD.

But demand for them is not growing as quickly: Britain's recent record on skilled-job creation is one of the OECD's worst.

In addition, the OECD estimates that Britons abroad are twice as likely to be tertiary educated as the domestic population.

In a report published yesterday, the OECD revised up its growth forecasts for the first time in two years.

Overall, America spends less on training than almost any other country in the OECD.

The OECD has long urged Liechtenstein to turn on the lights in its vaults, which hold $147 billion in client assets.

Despite these setbacks, women have been riding to the rescue of their families during the recession, says the OECD.

In turn, OECD economies and corporate profits have been boosted by the boom in their capital goods exports to emerging countries.

The eurozone private surplus will be 6. 7 per cent of GDP and that of the OECD as a whole 7. 4 per cent.

At the OECD, he said France has followed through.

The only two countries in the group of 30 OECD nations to have higher food inflation was Korea and Turkey.

Jean- Philippe Cotis, the OECD's chief economist, said much of the turmoil was a welcome reappearance of more normal pricing for risks.

On international bribery, according to a promise on the OECD's website, it is " no longer business as usual " .

Across the OECD, spending on long-term care is already equivalent to around 15% of total health spending and is rising fast.

In May it was cordially welcomed as a full participant in the OECD's highest-profile activity: a convention to outlaw bribery.

The benefits they get also vary a lot from state to state, but overall are among the lowest in the OECD when compared with the average wage.

Finally, it studies the specific system and its advantages of the arbitration clause in the latest reform of the OECD model.

The numbers highlight the rivalry between "new Asia" and "old Asia" , says Sacha Wunsch-Vincent of the OECD, one of the report's authors.

It marks "a real milestone in public accountability, " says Andreas Schleicher, an OECD education guru.

He declined to say whether share prices were overvalued, declaring the OECD "agnostic" on the issue.

The United States, Spain and Ireland are among those countries with the fastest rising unemployment.

In most OECD economies, the programmes are temporary and set to expire by the end of this year or next year.

The OECD recommends nations ensure legitimate transparency of their banking systems and legal assistance for tax-evasion investigations.

The U. S. deal is in compliance with OECD guidelines, the ministry said.

In general, the Ames test should be performed and interpreted in conformity with existing OECD and EU guidelines (see section 'References').

'OECD composite leading indicators . . . point to a slowdown in the pace of economic activity, ' the think-tank said.

After the US and the UK , the cyclically adjusted government primary balance is the worst among the OECD countries.

Concern the definition of intellectual economy, organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will know. . .

Latin American recessions can cost the exchequer 20% of its revenues, compared with 6% for the OECD as a whole.

At a Paris press conference, OECD chief Angel Gurria said world growth has hit what he described as a "soft patch. "

In a report published on April 30th, the OECD, a rich-country club, analyses the impact of the financial crisis on insurance.

On the same day, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development issued its own sharply reduced forecasts.

British pupils fare relatively well in science, performing better than the OECD average, but in reading and mathematics they are mediocre.

S. came in 15th in reading, close to the OECD average, which is where most of the U. S. 's results fell.

But basic broadband access costs nearly ten times more (per megabit per second of advertised speed) than in the rest of the OECD.

Conclusion: The distributional regressivity of premium burdens and out of-pockets is similar to many OECD countries.

The OECD's comparisons of national figures on health, education and economic activity are used to encourage laggards .

And yet, in 2006, Finnish teenagers ranked first in math and science among 30 OECD countries.

Indeed, the OECD estimates that in each of the G7 countries, inflation will be less than 2% through to the end of next year.

Much of the pressure for change has come from non-government organisations and Britain's fellow rich-country members of the OECD.

Mexico is the only country in the OECD where such "local loop unbundling" has yet to occur.

On average in OECD countries, boys did better than girls in math; the gender gap in science was small.

This paper first suggests the theory of strategic pay and review pay polices developed and changed in many other OECD countries.

Technological change, population expectations and ageing populations, say the OECD, will continue to drive costs and spending even higher.

Dirk Pilat, head of the OECD's science and technology division, said the surge in Chinese research was "stunning" .

But other countries, and their multinational companies, have been reluctant to enforce the OECD rules.

The authors are a former head of forecasting and policy analysis at the OECD, and chief economist europe at Nomura.

The video below features the unemployment crisis in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries.

But describing OECD guidance as soft law does not simplify the analysis of how international tax law develops.

And with 47m workers unemployed in the OECD alone, labour is not holding back the global economy.

Forget GDP, the OECD has a whole new way to rank quality of life in countries around the world.

The US came in at 14th among the OECD countries, but its localised school system was extremely variable.

The demand reduction in OECD countries between the 2005 peak and 2030 is expected to be "fairly modest, " it states.

To keep under review the use of such an OECD model agreement and to report back to the Council as appropriate.

Conclusions A lack of data impedes a complete analysis of the financial situation of SMEs in OECD and non-OECD economies.

This article gives a brief summary of the OECD countries oil resources, production and consumption, trade and stocks.

This month the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) staged its inaugural Global Forum on the Knowledge Economy.

Broken down by month, the steep rebound in OECD demand appears heavily loaded towards the end of the quarter.

But in a world where established democracies are losing clout, can the OECD remain both virtuous and relevant?

The share is also falling quite slowly: Richard Herd and his colleagues at the OECD think it will take another decade for it to drop to 25%.

Taxation as a share of GDP remains among the lowest in the OECD.

OECD Ministerial Conference "A Borderless World: Realising the Potential of Global Electronic Commerce"

The December OECD Economic Outlook contains an evaluation of the organisation's recent projections.

The OECD favors policies that would serve to harmonize taxes at high levels, akin to an oil cartel fixing high prices.

Andreas Schleicher is director of the Education Indicators and Analysis Division at the OECD.

A recent report from the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shows that we have lost our lead in education.

OECD. General Marshall was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 for his role as architect and advocate of the Marshall Plan.

Yet listed immediately below that bold claim, a series of OECD reports show just how far some countries have to go.

One viable option is to adapt the OECD international benchmarks for 15-year-olds to US needs and retrofit them for younger children.

Social safety nets should be reinforced to avoid jobless people falling into poverty, the OECD said.

Moreover, the OECD forecasts a significant output gap - and so persistent deflationary pressure - at least until 2005.

This time, OECD countries are responsible for a sharp upward revision.

Incidence of bank failures differs across OECD countries and this observation may reflect differences in the tolerated risk level.

In 1970 Sweden was the fourth-richest member of the OECD club of industrial countries.

We would like to see an OECD wide emissions trading system by 2015.

But many technologies used in the most advanced plants are still licensed from firms in OECD countries.

Now the OECD is coming as close as such organizations ever do to admitting that it was wrong.

"The outcomes aren't bad, " says an OECD official, "but they are not at a level we might expect, given the expenditure. "

It has dropped the previous government's objection to Russia's bid to join the OECD, a rich-country club.

The aim is to pressure countries which offer foreigners favorable tax treatment into abiding by OECD rules.

The EU itself has asked the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development to draw up rules governing trade in raw materials.

Spending per university student in Spain is only 45 per cent of the OECD average.

The OECD also points to cultural factors - widespread expectations of high performance, and pressure from parents.

The authors begin by picking out the ten harshest episodes of fiscal consolidation in OECD countries in that period.

The OECD advised the country to seize the "golden opportunity" for labour-market reform and fiscal discipline to sustain economic momentum.

They then spend nearly 900 hours a year in primary school, 100 more than the OECD average.

The lists are compiled by bodies including the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the Financial Action Task Force.

The study says that in 2003, OECD governments spent an average of $126, 000 per child (excluding health) up to the age of 18.

The OECD's initiative should be given serious consideration as a first step.

Switzerland has been removed from the OECD's "grey list" of tax havens to become a country that fully implements global tax standards.

The OECD, the Paris-based organisation that tracks advanced economies, does not expect this "output gap" to close until 2015.

I for one would much rather invest in a company that had 70% of its spending in the OECD. '

The OECD, a rich-country think-tank, which measures these "structural rigidities" , could co-ordinate an effort to reduce them.

As the Business Roundtable points out, America has the second-highest rate of corporate tax in the OECD.

The 30-nation OECD brings together nations committed to democracy and a free-market economy.

The OECD reports corroborate other research that finds the solution to problems in schooling are rarely solely about money.

Central government in Britain now raises and spends more money in relation to economic output than any OECD country bar New Zealand.

Only one of Sweden's 50 biggest companies was founded after 1970; and Sweden has the lowest rate of self-employment in the OECD.

In a recent report, the OECD listed estimates for the assets held by the offshore banking industry as high as $11. 5 trillion.

Preliminary estimates of robust OECD oil deliveries have raised the assessment of global first quarter demand.

The OECD used the figures to urge more people to attend university across the rich world and to encourage governments to fund it.

In countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), around 20% of doctors come from abroad.

Men enjoy more leisure time than women in every one of 18 countries examined by the OECD.

In July 1976 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD)in Paris adopted voluntary guidelines for the behavior of MNCs.

All are now under pressure from the OECD, America and the European Union to raise standards of transparency and financial vigilance.

Spain reserves a right to restrict investments by governments outside the European Union, the OECD said.

After adjusting for those factors, the OECD says, average urban incomes are actually closer to two times rural ones, not three.

The decline in cotton prices is seen in part as resulting from subsidies given to OECD cotton growers by their governments.

The number of students enrolled outside their home country has roughly trebled since 1980, on OECD figures (see article).

That's less than the security for London, Tokyo, Amsterdam and Shanghai, the OECD said.

A 10% depreciation in the euro could provide a sizable boon to the euro zone, without hitting the U. S. too hard, according to OECD.

"Greater public spending on education in particular can help both to boost productivity and to reduce inequality, " the OECD said.

The OECD report says "private equity plays a valuable role in helping to transform under-performing companies" .

the Director for Trade at the OECD the latest economic data shows that world trade volumes are weakening. . .

OECD promotes policies to achieve economic growth, ~, a high standard of living in member countries, and improvements in world trade.

The OECD's "harmful-tax" project, launched in 1996, covered some of the same ground as its sister initiatives.

By extension, it is unlikely that vast amounts of commercial inventory have been added in non-OECD countries.

The OECD now reckons that the fallout from the financial crisis will, on average, knock some 3% off rich countries' potential output.

The OECD's compendium also shows that graduate jobs fared better during the global recession.

According to the OECD, being a regular and enthusiastic reader is of great advantage.

Only 15% of spending on higher education comes from public sources, compared to an OECD average of 69%. The rest comes from households.

Today inflation is far lower, the banks are solid and Turkey boasts the fastest-growing economy in the OECD club of rich countries.

Though it has the world's most expensive health system and spends more per child than most oecd countries, outcomes are poor.

They serve as useful warnings to governments and firms in the OECD that the technological gap is closing fast.

Days before that the OECD, which represents the world's major economies, issued three water reports calling for prices to rise.

The OECD lowered its predictions for the autumn, presumably thinking the economic fuel had run out.

STIMULATING report released last week by the OECD, a think tank, attempts to measure people's well-being across 40 developed countries.

The OECD issued a grim forecast for the economies of advanced industrialised countries.

This allowed the Chinese to save face, since they do not belong to the 30-member Paris-based OECD.

The mooted shutdown has attracted outside protests, including one from the OECD, a Paris-based club of rich countries.

According to OECD estimates, export industries generated about a third of annual output during the pre-crisis years.

Later this year, the OECD will begin to test the abilities of final-year university students in different countries.

'If the G-20 is going to continue as the world's greatest deliberative body on economic issues, they can't leave out the developing world. '

We also lag well behind most other OECD countries in the proportion of students remaining at school past the mandatory age.

Between 1998 and 2006 the number of doctorates handed out in all OECD countries grew by 40%, compared with 22% for America.

More of its public spending now comes from central government than in any OECD country bar New Zealand.

Rich economies are far less energy-hungry: the oil intensity of OECD countries has steadily fallen in recent years.

But the OECD figure is quite different to the official Chinese figures.

OPEC, meanwhile, amassed enormous wealth from oil exports and the growth of OECD nations was slowed with the oil shock.

To get off the OECD list, a jurisdiction needs 12 active tax-information-exchange treaties.

By contrast, the OECD raised its forecast of economic growth for the first time in two years.

According to an OECD report, Australia spends less on education (primary, secondary and tertiary) than most other Western countries.

The OECD explores a downside scenario that starts from a disorderly sovereign default in the eurozone.

Randall Jones, an economist at the OECD, notes that South Korea uses 1. 5 times as much energy for every unit of GDP as does Japan.

American productivity growth has been well above the OECD average for more than a decade and should remain strong.

By then, the OECD estimates, the unemployment rate in many nations will be in double digits.

OECD plays a prominent role in fostering good governance in the public service and in corporate activity.

In its recent Economic Outlook the OECD revised down expectations for 2008 growth in virtually every country.

In reading, mathematics and science, American 15-year-olds languish in the lower half of the OECD rankings for the 30 wealthiest countries.

OECD countries were continually urging China to invest abroad but then grew suspicious when it did so.

North America will account, once again, for the bulk of the OECD increment.

When the OECD proposed an agreement to restrict bank secrecy, the Bush administration vetoed that initiative, too.

In our case, however, most of the countries we use are East Asian or OECD countries that were open to imports throughout our sample period.

Tax burdens on the rich have fallen (see chart 1). Across the OECD the average top marginal rate fell by nearly 11 percentage points.

Non-OPEC output growth for 2004 has been revised down despite gains in Russia, due notably to a lower forecast for OECD supply.

In this conference, we are going to find a similar degree of complexity among the "agencies" of some OECD countries.

In its latest survey of the Japanese economy this week, the OECD forecast growth of more than2%.

European prices will only break even with the U. S. if the euro falls to about $1. 10, says the OECD.

However, the OECD warned that there are considerable headwinds that will weigh on recovery.

The other two stand-out nations are Brazil and Russia, which will return to robust growth next year, the OECD says.

In nanotechnology China had almost as many published works as the US, the OECD said.

A report this week from the OECD, a rich-country think-tank, scrutinises these efforts and asks if this aim is being achieved.

As the OECD notes, the economic impact of convergence is broader than just this.

This rise in unemployment matches that in the deepest of the OECD's post-war recessions.

Now she's the US's ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

According to statistics from the OECD, people from emerging markets or nouveau riche nations generally tend to work longer hours.