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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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).

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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%.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

"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. . .

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

In professional services, the OECD's score for Europe is fully twice as high as for America (meaning it is twice as restrictive).

infant mortality, life expectancy and survival-rates for heart attacks are all worse than the OECD average.

Ranked by this "effective marginal tax rate" , America lags behind by less, though its rate of24% is well above the OECD average of 20%.

Across the OECD the average top marginal rate fell by nearly 11 percentage points.

The second is its tax system, one of the most progressive in the OECD.

The OECD also said stimulus measures are still 'critical to cushion the fall in aggregate demand.

Other reasons can be found in the OECD's annual "Employment Outlook" , published on July 7th.

However, the OECD suggested European economies will likely fare better this year.

Furthermore, the country's recent economic progress has been, according to Donald Johnston, the secretary-general of the OECD, "stunning" .

According to the OECD, being a regular and enthusiastic reader is more of an advantage than having well-educated parents in good jobs.

The OECD argued that the ECB still had room to cut official eurozone borrowing costs.

The OECD is the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Prior to joining the OECD, Mr. Amano was Acting Executive Director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization from 2004-2007.

The OECD forecast the main euro zone rate would fall 125 basis points from the current 3. 25 percent in the next few months.

For each Pisa survey, the OECD concentrates on a different area of knowledge.

True, when the statisticians at the IMF or the OECD produce comparative data, they do so on the basis of standardised definitions.

As sales plunged last autumn, the OECD recorded sharp rises in unsold stocks in the US, Europe and Japan.

The OECD says that in 2004 China overtook America as the world's leading exporter of informationtechnology goods.

The OECD folks offer some explanations, terming Shanghai a 'leader in reform. '

The OECD also warned of growing risks of overheating and inflation in emerging markets.

Thanks to tariffs and other distortions, Japanese pay twice as much for their food as they should, according to the OECD.

China and other emerging markets are not even part of the OECD anti-bribery convention.

The OECD is drawing up a fresh list of non-co-operative tax havens.

In 1998 Britain ratified the OECD's convention against bribing foreign officials, but its commitment to the treaty has been half-hearted.

SINCE 2000 the OECD has tested school pupils in mainly rich countries every three years on reading, mathematics and science.

"But they are still high, " says Andreas Schleicher, the OECD's head of education statistics and indicators.

Western competitors, particularly the OECD (OECD) 32 member states, which cause great distress.

However, the OECD warned that global imbalances remained severe, and in some cases were widening again, posing risks to the recovery.

The OECD expects a decline in growth outside the OECD, but to levels still above (a hard to measure) potential (see chart).

In its report, the think-tank said wages in the OECD nations had on the whole been increasing in real terms, in spite of offshoring.

A recent study by the Bank of France and the OECD looked at 20 sectors in 15 OECD countries between 1984 and 2007.

A draft of the report was discussed with China, India, Russia and 10 other non-OECD countries, the OECD said.

Within the OECD, its education system ranks dead last.

But the OECD researchers retort that state spending must pass the test of cost versus benefit.

According to the OECD, only one-third of corporates pay taxes at all.

In fact, employment is unlikely to spring back sharply anywhere in the OECD but for very different reasons.

But the average for the rest of Asia, at 58% of GDP, is not much lower than the OECD average of 61%.

According to the OECD, wages' share of American business-sector income has fallen from 73% to 63% in the past quarter of a century.

The OECD warns that recovery will be slow and forecasts that youth unemployment will still be around 20% by the end of 2011.

But the OECD warns developed nations not to expect a smooth ride.

The OECD reckons public debt in Britain and America will be higher than in the euro zone by 2011, as a proportion of GDP.

The OECD adopted the convention in 1997 to level the playing field for all companies engaged in international business.

Hence, the OECD's focus on cajoling individuals to reduce their own energy use voluntarily.

The reading abilities of German 15-year-olds, according to the PISA studies published by the OECD, are below the average for rich countries.

The OECD estimates that the international trade in counterfeit and pirated goods was worth around $250 billion in 2007.

In the end they agreed a compromise in which the G20 would only "take note" of the OECD's list, rather than endorse it.

It also provides an overview of the OECD Chemicals Program.

The employment rate, only 44% of the workforce, is the lowest in the OECD rich-country club.

The OECD sees these agreements as the answer to the problem of tax-dodging.

No matter if your country is in the European Union, NATO and the OECD.

The OECD is also analyzing the economic impacts of e-commerce, notably in the Electronic Commerce Business Impacts Project (EBIP).

The OECD reckons that consumers are indeed charged much higher mobile-telephony prices in France than the average among its 30 members.

Every three years the OECD tests the academic abilities of 15-year-old children in its member states and some other countries.

Britain is churning out more qualified people, at a rate that will make it around tenth best in the OECD, a 30-member think-tank, by 2020.

The OECD plan awaits approval from an education ministers' meeting in January.

Books, conferences and research papers have multiplied. International organisations such as the OECD and the EU issue regular reports.

The OECD said that extremely aggressive policy centred on cheap money should stay in force.

"It is important not to get carried away, " said Jorgen Elmeskov, acting head of the OECD's economics department.

Women in Denmark have more time for leisure, spending only 57 more minutes each day on unpaid work than men, the lowest in the OECD.

The OECD groups 30 member countries sharing commitment to democratic government and the market economy.

Korea has a fertility rate of 1. 2, one of the lowest in the OECD.

The OECD report states, '[T]he dictates of the examinations have left students with little time and room for learning on their own.

Turkey is the worst in the OECD for excessive product-market regulation.

The OECD will say the total aid flow of $119. 6bn is the highest ever.

But, notes the OECD, "serious downside risks remain" .

and the tax-benefit system is the worst in the OECD at reducing inequality and poverty.

The OECD's answer is simple: the more education, the better.

By contrast, before the current crisis struck, the U. S. spent about 0. 4% of GDP on retraining and benefits, according to the OECD.

Hence the importance of the OECD, which is looking at how host countries treat sovereign investors.

The OECD is due to release a full report that is expected to contain a list of tax havens and possible retaliation measures.

The OECD downgraded its estimates for U. S. growth to just 0. 1 percent for the first quarter of this year.

Twenty-six percent of Shanghai 15 year-olds could demonstrate advanced problem-solving skills, whereas the OECD average is 3 percent.

In each of reading, mathematics and science only about one child in 100 ranks as a high-performer; in the OECD 9% do.

In 1999 the EU launched a code of conduct aimed at "harmful" tax measures, using the same definition as the OECD's.

Unusually, however, the grandees taking part in a conference in Paris this week organised by the OECD received some pointed advice.

The Bush Administration has tried to tame the OECD's harmful tax competition project to some extent.

With equal rigour, the OECD avoids a single index of child welfare in its 30 member states.

The OECD plan awaits approval from an education ministers' meeting in January. The first rankings are planned by 2010.

According to the OECD, Japan's household saving rate has fallen by over eight percentage points since 1998, a deeper plunge than America's.

The OECD also wants changes to disability benefits.

The OECD says the economic crisis has had a big impact on entrepreneurship.

On a net basis (offsetting the government's financial assets), it is smaller but still among the highest in the OECD.

All mainstream offshore banking centres have committed themselves to the OECD rules, as have exotic upstarts such as Liberia and Brunei.

The OECD predicts that public-sector debt will approach 200% of GDP in 2010, so the scope for further fiscal stimulus will be limited.

Finally, the OECD's China Leading Index peaked in late 2009 and has fallen for six straight months.

But the OECD's analysis points to several problems with this.

The first PISA study, in 2000, placed German pupils well below the OECD average for reading and literacy.

Some of Siemens' problems stem from the 1990s, before Germany and other nations signed the OECD's anti-bribery convention in 1999.

Both the OECD code and, they hope, the UBS settlement will endorse the principle of "no fishing expeditions" .

The OECD, an international think-tank, says that migration into its member countries dropped by 7% in 2009.

In the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, 61% of women are active in the labour force.

However, the OECD did look at some rural areas, and found they matched Shanghai's quality.

Last year, despite its dependence on exports and the collapse of world trade, South Korea's economy grew faster than any other in the OECD.

Population losses due to net emigration since 1990 already amounted to about 10 percent, according to a 2008 report from the OECD.