OECD in the news (articles by topic) - L'OCDE dans les médias (articles par sujet)

About the OECD

• The global tax dodgers - Angel Gurría, The Guardian
  27/11/2008 - The global economic slowdown will hit the poorest nations hardest. Demand for their exports is falling. Prices of raw materials are plunging. Flows of money from migrant workers to families back home will shrink as unemployment rises elsewhere. In these circumstances it is more important than ever that rich countries deliver on aid promises. That is why the OECD has called on the world's main donors to join an Aid Pledge to stick by their commitments.
• OECD Secretary-General highlights the role of the ILO and the OECD in the current economic and social crisis - ILO News
  17/11/2008 - The Secretary-General of the OECD Angel Gurría today made an urgent call for increased collaboration between the OECD and the ILO in response to the global financial crisis.
• The Global Economy and OECD: Distilling Lessons from a Financial Crisis - Angel Gurría at the Council of Europe
  01/10/2008 - ...I would like now to share with you a few brush-strokes on the OECD’s perspective of the global economy in the context of the current financial crisis...
• L'unité transatlantique face à Moscou - Condoleezza Rice, Le Monde
  29/09/2008 - ...Les dirigeants russes sont responsables des conséquences douloureuses sur l'économie de leur pays. Leurs chances d'accéder à l'OMC sont désormais compromises. De même que leurs chances d'accéder à l'OCDE.
• Russia ratchets up US tensions... - Tony Halpin and Alexi Mostrous, The Times
  19/09/2008 - ...Dr Rice said: “The picture emerging is of a Russia increasingly authoritarian at home and aggressive abroad. “Russia’s bid to join the WTO is now in question. And so too is its attempt to join the OECD.”
• España en la nueva OCDE - Ángel Gurría, El Pais
  08/09/2008 - La economía internacional atraviesa una etapa particularmente difícil. La desaceleración de las principales economías es ahora una realidad y los instrumentos de política económica para afrontarla son limitados debido a un contexto de alta inflación y al escaso margen de maniobra fiscal.
• Is Israel ready for the OECD? - Sharon Wrobel, The Jerusalem Post
  02/09/2008 - The OECD is coming this week to Israel to compile a macroeconomic review of the local economy and evaluate its compatibility with the norms and standards set by the organization.
• Chief Statistician of the OECD to visit Statistics Estonia - Baltic Course
  27/08/2009 - From 28 to 29 August Enrico Giovannini, the Chief Statistician and Director of Statistics Directorate of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will be visiting Statistics Estonia in order to discuss statistical requirements for candidate countries in joining the OECD.
• OECD seeks more active dialogue with Indonesia - Angel Gurria, The Jakarta Post
  25/07/2008 - The OECD is publishing its first comprehensive Economic Assessment of Indonesia. This initiative is important because it is linked to our efforts to strengthen cooperation with a number of important non-member countries.

Ageing society

• Pensions slashed in OECD states - BBC
  08/07/2007 -The generosity of state pension systems has been slashed in many advanced countries, says the OECD.  An OECD report says the value of compulsory pension systems will drop by an average of 22% in 16 member states. (OECD report)
• Pensionen: OECD-Kritik an Österreich - Die Presse
  07/06/2007 - Wer länger arbeitet, wird bestraft – System zu teuer, Reformen „dringend geboten“.
  Die „Entschärfung“ der schwarz-blauen Pensionsreform wurde erst am Mittwoch vom Nationalrat in Wien beschlossen. Nur einen Tag später kommt von der OECD deutliche Kritik an Österreich. (OECD report)
  

Agriculture

• Gordon Brown: Stop wasting food - Robert Winnett, The Daily Telegraph
  07/07/2008 - ...Meanwhile, overall food and drink costs are up by 6 per cent - the highest rate in the Western world, according to the OECD.
• OECD will niedrigere Agrar-Subventionen - Die Zeit
  26/06/2008 - Landwirte brauchen die "größtmögliche Freiheit", um auf den Markt reagieren zu können, fordert die OECD. So wollen ihre Ökonomen die Nahrungskrise bekämpfen. Ihre Vorschläge bedeuten auch: Weniger Geld vom Staat (Rapport OCDE)
• Faut-il encore aider les agriculteurs ? - Laetitia Clavreul, Le Monde
  26/06/2008 - ...Selon un rapport de l'OCDE publié jeudi 26 juin, la part des soutiens dans les recettes des agriculteurs de ses membres (Etats-Unis, Union européenne, Japon, Australie...) a baissé en 2007, pour la troisième année consécutive. (Rapport OCDE)
• OECD official urges that biofuel subsidies be scrapped - Forbes
  09/06/2008 - ...Stefan Tangermann, agriculture director for the OECD said: 'I call urgently for reduced support for biofuels.'It is the only lever on which we can act rapidly,' he added during an address to a farm forum in Berlin.
• Food prices to stay high for a decade - Gary Duncan, The Times
  30/05/2008 - ...Much bigger family food bills will remain an everyday fact of life for consumers across the West, while for poor nations permanently dearer food will spell widespread hunger, famine and civil conflict, the study from the OECD and the UN FAO said.
• Food crisis talks set to begin - BBC News
  30/05/2008 - Prices would fall, but only gradually, the report by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation and the OECD said. (OECD report)
• Report forecasts higher food prices for next decade - Andrew Martin, International Herald Tribune
  30/05/2008 - Record prices for farm crops should gradually recede, but they will remain substantially higher than average over the next decade because of fundamental changes in demand, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations and the OECD. (OECD report)

Corporate Governance

• G8 summit: Encouraging words for CSR - Ethical Corporation
  22/07/2008 - ...Another sign of government interest in CSR was the release in June by the OECD Secretariat of an overview paper on global CSR initiatives and instruments.
• Governance flaws seen as 'red flag' for short selling - Kate Burgess, Financial Times
  23/06/2008 - ...Angel Gurria, secretary general of the OECD, said at the ICGN conference that the arrival and increasing activity of new types of investors in global markets, such as hedge funds, "is obviously welcome. It provides countries and companies with deeper capital markets and a wider range of capital providers.
• Jesover Says OECD Focused on Global Standards for Governance - Bernard Lo and Sumit Sharma, Bloomberg
  18/06/2008 - Fianna Jesover, senior policy manager at the OECD, comments on the outlook for corporate governance in Asia.
  

Fighting Corruption

• Welcome to 2009: the year of the regulator - Michael Herman, The Times
  02/01/2009 - ...Last year saw a number of successful SFO bribery cases. Crucially, the British Government has responded to criticism from the OECD and other commentators and proposed a new Bribery Bill.
• At Siemens, Bribery Was Just a Line Item - Siri Schubert and T. Christian Miller, The New York Times
  20/12/2008 - ...“I am not saying the fight against bribing foreign public officials is a fight full of roses and victories,” said Nicola Bonucci, the director of legal affairs for the OECD, which is based in Paris and monitors the global economy.
• U.K. laws fail to halt bribery abroad, OECD finds - International Herald Tribune
  17/10/2008 - British laws are unable to prevent corporate bribery abroad and fall short of international standards, the OECD said Friday.
• Britain a dangerous place to do business, OECD to warn - Jon Swaine, Daily Telegraph
  17/10/2008 - The anti-bribery group of the OECD - which comprises 30 leading democracies - is preparing to mount a fierce criticism of Britain.
• Defence industry awaits "nasty" report - Russell Hotten, Daily Telegraph
  15/10/2008 - The report, by the OECD, is thought likely to attack Britain's record on prosecuting companies and individuals who have allegedly paid bribes to foreign officials in order to secure contracts.
• Corrupción y cohecho inhiben el desarrollo, dicen funcionarios en conferencia regional - Alfredo Méndez, La Jornada
  01/10/2008 - ...De su lado, Patrick Moullete, jefe de la División Anticorrupción de la OCDE, indicó que para combatir la corrupción y el cohecho es preciso que todos los países se unan para erradicar “el financiamiento del terrorismo, lavado de dinero y del crimen organizado”, pues forman parte de los delitos interrelacionados con las redes de bandas de delincuencia organizada que operan a escala mundial sin límites territoriales.
• Scandals worsen Britain's image in corruption league table - Rob Evans, The Guardian
  24/09/2008 - ...Britain's record on foreign bribery will come under renewed scrutiny in October when the OECD, which enforces the 1997 convention, reports the outcome of its investigation into the UK's compliance with the treaty.
  

Development

• Ángel Gurría: "Die Doha-Konferenz ist eine riesige Chance" - Deutsche Welle
  30/11/2008 - Ángel Gurría kennt sich mit Krisen aus. In den 1990er-Jahren, zur Zeit der mexikanischen Wirtschaftskrise, war er erst Außenminister, dann Finanzminister Mexikos.
• OECD calls for aid pledge from developed countries - Xinhua
  30/10/2008 - The Paris-based OECD thursday called on the world's main donor countries to honor their pledges to aid the developing nations while wrestling with the global financial turmoil.
• Development: Unravelling the knots of tied aid - Interview with Angel Gurria - IPS Terraviva
  15/09/2008 - The forum on aid effectiveness in Accra has delivered "profound" decisions to change the way aid is structured, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria told IPS in an interview.
• Governments greet new aid promises cautiously - IRIN
  08/09/2008 - ...The OECD’s Gurria said now the agreement has been signed, the hard work begins. “We all as partners have to implement the agenda for action and make it more than just a piece of paper…This means acting on our words, pushing out the frontiers of best practice, and bringing new partners into the consensus.”
• A scramble in Africa - The Economist
  04/09/2008 - ...So it is good news that Britain, Sweden, Ireland and the Netherlands are untying their aid and that, in Accra, the OECD revealed evidence that things are moving further in the right direction.
• Donor resistance threatens aid talks: Breakthrough on real reforms urgently needed, says Oxfam - The Statesman
  04/09/2008 - ...The 2008 OECD monitoring report on aid effectiveness shows that there has been little progress by donors on meeting many of the Paris targets.
• In Accra „das Gute noch besser machen“ - Africa Online
  01/09/2008 - ...Der anlässlich der Accra-Konferenz veröffentlichte Fortschrittsbericht der OECD zeigt, dass die in der Paris Erklärung gesetzten Ziele trotz gewisser Fortschritte voraussichtlich nicht bis 2010 zu erreichen sind.
• World poverty 'more widespread' - Steve Schifferes, BBC News 
  28/08/2008 - ...These findings come as the OECD has reported that many rich countries have cut back on their foreign aid budgets, with little sign that the pledge made at the G8 summit at Gleneagles in 2005 to double aid to Africa by 2010 is being met.
  

Economics

• Recession will be longer and deeper than previously thought, says OECD - David Gow, The Guardian
  10/12/2008 - The recession in the industrialised world will be longer and deeper than forecast so far and could spread to emerging economies such as China and India, both the OECD and the European commission warned yesterday.
• The teetotallers' hangover - The Economist
  04/12/2008 - ...The OECD forecasts that Japan’s economy will grow by just 0.5% this year, and will shrink by 0.1% in 2009. It thinks GDP in Germany will fall by 0.8% next year. (OECD report)
• OECD says a big bank failure wouldn't be a surprise - Forbes
  04/12/2008 - ...'The OECD, the IMF, all of us, we expect, we wouldn't be surprised if there was another failure of a big bank,' OECD Vice Director General Pier Carlo Padoan said at a news conference in Rome.
• OECD predicts sharp rise in unemployment - CNN
  25/11/2008 - ...About 34 million people are currently unemployed in the OECD's 30 member nations, which include most countries in Europe and North America, along with Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. (OECD report)
• Major Economies On The Rocks - Javier Espinoza, Forbes
  25/11/2008 - It used to be a story of constant growth, but major economies are in for a prolonged period of low economic activity and high unemployment. The warning came on Tuesday from the OECD as it called for aggressive stimulus measures from governments to boost finances. (OECD report)
• OECD predicts protracted recession in developed world - David Jolly, International Herald Tribune
  26/11/2008 - Many advanced economies are in or nearing recessions of a magnitude not experienced since the early 1980s, the OECD warned Tuesday as it called for aggressive economic stimulus measures. (OECD report)
• OECD says British economic outlook dire and calls for rapid rate cuts - Larry Elliott and Simon Bowers, The Guardian
  26/11/2008 - The Bank of England needs to press ahead with rapid interest rate cuts as the Treasury is running out of room to produce further meaningful tax or spending boosts to help the ailing British economy, according to a damning assessment from the OECD. (OECD report)
• OECD says Alistair Darling's forecasts for recovery are too optimistic - Angela Monaghan, Daily Telegraph
  26/11/2008 - The OECD slashed its global forecasts in a new report and said the downturn in the UK would be "severe", with gross domestic product falling 1.1pc next year - in line with Mr Darling's estimate - before growing by 0.9pc in 2010. (OECD report)
• Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel: "Staatliche Hilfe nur für Finanzsektor" - Dorit Heß, Handelsblatt
  26/11/2008 - Der neue Chefvolkswirt der OECD, Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, spricht im Handelsblatt erstmals exklusiv über die Ursachen und die Tiefe der Rezession, seine Forderungen an die Bundesregierung sowie andere Staaten und die neue Rolle internationaler Organisationen seit dem Ausbruch der Krise. (OECD report)
• OECD forecasts four quarters of contraction - Norma Cohen, Financial Times
  25/11/2008 - The US and the eurozone are set to suffer four consecutive quarters of contracting output that will not come to an end until the middle of 2009, according to the OECD. (OECD report)
• Economies need tax cuts to limit financial crisis impact: OECD - Gulf News
  25/11/2008 - Bloomberg - The world's largest economies need further interest-rate reductions and tax cuts to limit the impact of the global financial crisis, the OECD said. (OECD report)
• Threat of worst postwar slump grows as major economies enter recession - Gary Duncan, The Times
  14/11/2008 - The threat of the worst global economic slump in the postwar era loomed larger yesterday as the OECD forecast that the United States, Japan and the eurozone are all sliding into the grip of simultaneous recession.
• Germany officially in recession as OECD expects US to lead recovery - Kathryn Hopkins and Kate Connolly, The Guardian
  14/11/2008 - ...The Paris-based OECD said that gross domestic product for its 30 member countries would drop by 0.3% in 2009. It forecasted that the US economy would contract next year by 0.9%, Japan's by 0.1% and the eurozone by 0.5%.
• Rezession soll nur ein Jahr dauern - Der Spiegel
  13/11/2008 - ...Auch die OECD gibt eine düstere Prognose: 2009 werde die Wirtschaftsleistung im 30 Staaten umfassenden OECD-Raum um 0,3 Prozent sinken, erklärte die Organisation am Donnerstag in Paris.
• OECD projects protracted slowdown - BBC News
  13/11/2008 - The OECD has forecast a "protracted slowdown" for the world's leading economies.
• OECD forecasts major slowdown for industrialized countries - David Jolly, International Herald Tribune
  13/11/2008 - Industrialized countries are facing a major slowdown, the OECD predicted Thursday, as data showed the German economy has already entered a recession.
• Germany and China feel economic pain - Keith Weir, Swissinfo
  13/11/2008 - ...Adding to the bleak picture, the OECD slashed its economic output forecasts for the United States, Japan and euro zone, predicting a tumble into recession for all three.
• Crisis deals under pressure, economies slide - Forbes
  12/11/2008 - ...The head of the OECD, Angel Gurria, said there was room for further interest rate cuts in the stagnating euro zone.
  

Education

• Ost-Erfolg bei Pisa macht Westländer neidisch - Oliver Trenkamp, Der Spiegel
  18/11/2008 - Gymnasiasten schneiden hervorragend ab, aber auch die Mittelschüler schlagen sich gut: Sachsen und Thüringen brillieren im Bildungsvergleich der Pisa-E-Studie - denn die Schulreformen der Nach-Wende-Zeit zahlen sich aus.
• Fürs Arbeitsleben ungeeignet - Cerstin Gammelin, Süddeutsche Zeitung
  18/11/2008 - ...Die Studie vergleicht Hochschulsysteme aus siebzehn Ländern, die der OECD angehören.
• Saxony Moves to Front of German Education Class - Deutsche Welle
  18/11/2008 - ...PISA-E is the national equivalent to the PISA, the triennial worldwide test of 15-year-old schoolchildren's scholastic performance implemented by the OECD.
• We've got the teachers.. so let them teach - Tom Hamilton, The Scotsman
  18/11/2008 - What has Scotland got that's world class? Rugby? Banks? Well one thing which is world-class is our education of new teachers. Who says so? OECD does, and it's a voice to which we should listen as it doesn't use terms like "world-class" often, or lightly.
• School Report - The Times
  10/09/2008 - ...Fresh concerns arrive in a report by the OECD. Its portrait of the state of education in Britain is particularly disheartening where it addresses the education of the very young. (OECD report)
• OECD-rapport avslører skjev fordeling av utdanning - Aftenposten
  10/09/2008 - En ny OECD-rapport viser at 17 prosent av nordmenn mellom 25 og 34 år ikke har fullført videregående opplæring. Samtidig har 42 prosent i samme aldersgruppe fullført minst to år med høyere utdanning. (OECD report)
• Britain fares poorly in international schools league table - Nicola Woolcock, The Times
  09/09/2008 - ...Andreas Schleicher, head of analysis for the OECD education directorate, said the UK had improved but that “the world has moved much faster”. (OECD report)
• OECD education report: UK slipping in graduate league table - Graeme Paton, The Daily Telegraph
  09/09/2008 - ...The OECD said that university graduates in the UK aged 25 to 64 earned 59 per cent more than other people – well above the international average. They also have a much better chance of finding good jobs. (OECD report)
• Student growth risks widening gap - BBC News
  09/09/2008 - Each year the OECD publishes an Education at a Glance guide to international trends in school and university in more than 30 countries, showing how industrialised economies compare in terms of spending and results in education. (OECD report)
• British class sizes among highest in world - Jessica Shepherd, The Guardian
  09/09/2008 - ...Only Japan, Korea and Turkey have more crowded classrooms in their primary schools, the OECD found in its annual report comparing education across the world. (OECD report)
  

Employment

• OECD warns global jobless to rise by 25 million - Edmund Conway, Daily Telegraph
  23/12/2008 - Angel Gurria, who heads up the Paris-based institution, also blamed "a truly scandalous failure" of regulatory supervision for the crisis and urged European countries to spend more Keynesian-style plans to boost their economies.
• The prospect of another lost generation is a chilling one - Polly Toynbee, The Guardian
  20/12/2008 - ...The OECD's John Martin commends a 1970s US scheme, where employers are paid a subsidy for every worker they keep on above a baseline of 97% of pre-recession levels.
• Du cadre américain à l'ouvrier chinois, une même menace - Marie-Béatrice Baudet, Le Monde
  04/11/2008 - ...A l'OCDE, le club des pays les plus riches, Stefano Scarpetta, responsable de la division emploi, estime que la hausse du chômage - dont il attend une forte dégradation d'ici quelques mois - va surtout frapper les jeunes les moins qualifiés et les seniors. "Les pressions seront très fortes sur les plus de 55 ans pour qu'ils acceptent de partir en retraite anticipée. Quant aux moins de 25 ans, pas ou peu diplômés, les portes des entreprises leur resteront fermées."
• Skilled workers fear for future as jobless figures point to recession - Kathryn Hopkins, The Guardian
  13/08/2008 - Unemployment figures out today will add to fears that the UK is about to enter recession for the first time since the early 1990s... The OECD predicted last month that UK unemployment was likely to rise by more than 100,000, sending the jobless rate up to about 5.8% by the end of next year.  (OECD report)
• Job shortage for unskilled youths - BBC News
  09/07/2008 - ...A report from the OECD shows worsening conditions for poorly-qualified 16 to 24 year olds. (OECD report)

Energy

• EU talks tough as Russian gas supplies dry up - Philippe Naughton and David Charter, The Times
  07/01/2009 - ...“Supplies have now come to a complete halt,” the IEA said in a statement. “This is completely unacceptable, given that European customers are not a party in this dispute."
• When will the oil run out? - George Monbiot, The Guardian
  15/12/2008 - ...If you ask, the government always produces the same response: "Global oil resources are adequate for the foreseeable future." It knows this, it says, because of the assessments made by the IEA in its World Energy Outlook reports.
• IEA report on oil gets angry Opec reaction - Robin Pagnamenta, The Times
  13/11/2008 - Opec has made a scathing attack on a report from the IEA which says that the world's existing oil producers face a “huge challenge” to keep up with a projected rise in global demand.
• UK energy bill rises 'double' EU - BBC News
  04/11/2008 - ...OECD statistics showed gas and electricity bills rose 29.7% in the past year compared with 15% in the EU.
• Nuclear Reactors May Supply a Fifth of Global Power by 2050 - Tara Patel, Bloomberg
  16/10/2008 - Nuclear reactors may produce more than a fifth of global electricity by 2050 as demand for power rises in countries such as China and India, according to a report by the OECD.
• Nuclear capacity could rise fourfold by 2050 - Forbes
  16/10/2008 - Reuters - Nuclear power generation capacity could grow almost fourfold by 2050, although securing political and public support will be crucial, the OECD said on Thursday.
• UN agency questions wider use of biofuels - Elisabeth Rosenthal, International Herald Tribune
  01/10/2008 - ...In a devastating assessment released this summer, the OECD concluded that government support of biofuel production in OECD countries was hugely expensive and "had a limited impact on reducing greenhouse gases and improving energy security." It did have "a significant impact on world crop prices," the report noted.
• UN urges global biofuel rethink - BBC News
  07/10/2008 - ...Such barriers "create an artificial market and currently benefit producers in OECD countries at the expense of producers in developing countries"
  

Enterprise, Industry and Services

• Slowakei strebt Unabhängigkeit von Autoindustrie an - Tomas Czwitkovics, Financial Times Deutschland
  18/04/2007 - ...Ángel Gurría, Generalsekretär der OECD, hatte bei einem Besuch Anfang April in der Hauptstadt Bratislava gewarnt, der Anstieg der Autoproduktion berge auch Risiken.
• OECD seeks to close SME financing gaps in MENA - Lucia Dore, Khaleej Times
  25/03/2007 - ..."SME financing is very difficult, which is paradox because there is so much money in the region," said Rainer Geiger, deputy director, directorate for financial and enterprise affairs at the OECD, who was in Dubai last week to take part in the MENA-OECD Enterprise Financing Network.
  

Environment

• Reading Green On Demand - James Kanter, The New York Times
  02/12/2008 - ...Fittingly, starting on Tuesday, the Paris-based OECD will be printing and selling its latest primer on sustainable development, “OECD Insights: Sustainable Development,” at a bookstore in Australia on a device called the Espresso Book Machine.
• Copenhagen Needs More Dikes to Ward Off Higher Seas, OECD Says - Christian Wienberg, Bloomberg
  08/10/2008 - ...Under a worst-case scenario, with water levels rising 1 meter, the biggest storm likely in 120 years would bring waves that could cause 8 billion euros ($11 billion) of flood damage in the city, Paris-based OECD said in the study.
• Conquering the World's Waste Mountains - Planet Ark
  27/08/2008 - ...Countries such as Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark are among the best performers with least sent to landfills, according to the OECD.
• Wie wir unsere Nachfahren vor Atommüll warnen - Die Welt
  16/07/2008 -  ..."Wir dürfen keine Endlager einrichten, die völlig abgeschnitten sind von bewohnten Gebieten", sagt Claude Pescatore, Atomexperte bei der OECD.
  

Finance

• Deposits guarantee is 'a moral hazard' - David Uren, The Australian
  06/01/2009 - ...The OECD's financial affairs division says the offer of unlimited guarantees has eroded the market discipline on banks and will force the Government to impose more interventionist regulation.
• Global meltdown continues - Jill Treanor and Larry Elliott David Teather, The Guardian
  16/09/2008 - ...Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the OECD, said the West's leading economic think tank said the turmoil in the markets had put back recovery by a year. "It has turned into a much bigger, more widespread and more threatening situation," Gurria said in an interview with the Guardian.
• Financial education - Euractiv
  15/09/2008 - ...André Laboul, head of the Financial Affairs Division of the OECD, said "financial institutions have an important responsibility to promote the awareness of their clients and must ensure that information given is read and understood".
• IMF deal on foreign wealth funds - BBC News
  03/09/2008 - ...The OECD has said that any moves against sovereign wealth funds would be hypocritical, since Western governments have long urged other countries to open their markets to foreign investment.
• Regulator role in crisis up for debate -  David Uren, The Australian
  21/07/2008 - ...What role did banking regulators play in the financial crisis still sweeping the globe?
  A primary cause _ according to the OECD's deputy director of financial markets, Adrian Blundell-Wignall.
  

Health

• Do the French do it better? - BBC News
  03/07/2008 - ...Valerie Paris, a health economist at the OECD, says: "In France the access to physicians and hospitals is easier than in the UK. We don't have waiting lists."
• A common market for health - Jeremy Laurance, The Independent
  20/12/2007 - ...The health statistics published on our front page, taken from the OECD report Health at a Glance 2007, provide a snapshot of the overall performance on health of a selection of EU countries. (OECD report)
  

Information Technology

• Korea Leads in Fiber Broadband Connection - Kim Hyun-cheol, The Korea Times
  28/10/2008 - ..."It's a big shift. There's a shift in the industry toward fiber and we're seeing it first in Korea and Japan," OECD economist Taylor Reynolds was quoted as saying.
• Downloading a healthier economy - Bernhard Warner, The Times
  22/10/2008 - ...Effective competition and continued liberalisation in broadband infrastructure, the OECD says, "connects consumers, businesses, and governments and facilitates social interaction".
• China droht IP-Adressen-Knappheit - Die Presse
  25/09/2008 - ...Um das globale Problem der IP-Adressenverknappung zu lösen, hatte sich im Mai dieses Jahres auch die OECD für IPv6 ausgesprochen.
• Japan tops world broadband study - BBC News
  12/09/2008 - ...The study focused on countries in Europe, North America, the OECD, Brazil, Russia, India and China (Brics).
• Addressing the growth of the net - Bill Thompson, BBC News
  20/08/2008 - Regular commentator Bill Thompson sees no reason to worry about the future of the internet... When the OECD announced that we will run out of network addresses in 2010 or early 2011, describing the situation as "critical for the future of the Internet economy" and likely to affect "all businesses that require IP addresses for their growth" it generated a lot of attention on and off-line.
• Waiting for the internet meltdown - Mark Harris, The Times
  06/07/2008 - ...The end of the internet is nigh - and in less than three years, according to the OECD.
• The world's most wired countries - International Herald Tribune
  01/07/2008 - Forbes - ...The OECD publishes an annual report on broadband growth and policies among its member countries.
  

Insurance and Pensions

• Asian pension systems at risk, says OECD - Chris Giles, Financial Times
  07/01/2009 - It will soon be too late to save Asian state pension systems from running short of cash, the OECD warned in a report on Wednesday. (OECD report)
• Pension fund assets in OECD suffer 20% fall - Pauline Skypala, Financial Times
  14/12/2008 - Pension fund assets in countries belonging to the OECD fell by 20 per cent over the year to October, representing about $3,300bn (£2,213bn, €2,464bn) of losses. (OECD report)
  

International Migration

• Immigrant labours lost - Khaled Diab, The Guardian
  10/12/2008 - ...A new OECD report of four European countries – Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Portugal – has found that first- and second-generation immigrants there are more likely to be doing jobs for which they are overqualified than the population at large.
• Italian government may use soldiers to crack down on mafia - Nick Squires, Daily Telegraph
  19/09/2008 - ...There are 400,000 African immigrants in Italy, according to the OECD. (OECD report)
• De nombreux immigrés choisissent le retour au pays - Le Monde
  15/09/2008 - ..."Les retours se concentrent aux deux extrémités du cycle de vie des migrants, relève Jean-Christophe Dumont, auteur avec Gilles Spielvogel de l'étude. Les immigrés qui quittent leur pays de destination le font dans les premières années mais passé cinq ans, la propension à repartir devient très faible. Elle n'augmente à nouveau qu'au moment de la retraite." (Rapport OCDE)
• Britain is second most popular destination for migrants, OECD says - Christopher Hope, Daily Telegraph
  11/09/2008 - Figures published by the OECD show that Britain was second only to the United States when it came to attracting immigrants. (OECD report)
• OECD Blasts German Immigration Policy - Deutsche Welle
  11/09/2008 - ...Germany needs to fix its immigration policy to match its future work-force needs, the Paris-based OECD said in a report on Sept. 10, 2008. (OECD report)
• Migration fears unjustified, OECD - Steve Schifferes, BBC News
  10/09/2008 - ...OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria, says "constructing a country's migration policy on the assumption that labour immigrants will only stay for a short time is not the way to go. It is neither efficient nor workable".  (OECD report)
• OECD-Studie: Warum Deutschland Migranten braucht - FT Deutschland
  10/09/2008 - ... Die OECD empfiehlt den Industrieländern jetzt eine langfristige Einwanderungspolitik - und Anreize für Zuwanderer. (OECD report)

Investment

• OECD says FDI outflows expected to fall sharply in 2008 - Forbes
  24/06/2008 - The OECD said foreign direct investment outflows from member countries are projected to fall sharply in 2008.
• OECD nations pledge against discrimination of sovereign wealth funds - Forbes
  12/04/2008 - ...As members of the Paris-based OECD, the 30 countries are 'saying we are open for business,' OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria told reporters in a briefing on the sidelines of the IMF meeting.
• Sovereign wealth funds an opportunity, not a threat - Angel Gurría, The Guardian
  09/04/2008 - Sovereign wealth funds, welcome! OECD markets are open for your investments. That's the message from OECD countries. The emergence of SWFs should be seen as an opportunity, not a threat.

Public Governance and Management

• Why governments miss their targets - Hamish McRae, The Independent
  06/02/2008 - ...According to the OECD, which monitors government performance across the developed world, we are about the middle of the pack.

Regulatory reform

• OECD hilser kinesisk skattereform velkommen - Mette Mandrup, Dagbladet Børsen
  27/03/2007 - Da den kinesiske folkekongres var forsamlet for 10 dage siden, vedtog den at lave ens beskatning for alle virksomheder. Det er meget positivt, melder OECD nu ud i en analyse. (OECD report)
• Korea, Land of Regulations - The Chosun Ilbo
  23/03/2007 - ...On Monday, the OECD released its policy review of Korea’s regulatory reform efforts over the past five years. (OECD report)
  

Science and Innovation

• Rising in the East - The Economist
  30/12/2008 - ...The numbers highlight the rivalry between “new Asia” and “old Asia”, says Sacha Wunsch-Vincent of the OECD, one of the report’s authors.
• Scientists form alliance to develop nanotoxicology protocols - FirstScience
  09/09/2008 - ...Multiple organizations including the OECD and the International Nanotechnology Conference for Communication and Cooperation have highlighted the importance of international collaboration to accelerate understanding of nanotechnology implications for society.
• OECD issues final report for nanotechnology standards workshop - Nanowerk News
  28/07/2008 - ...In the area of nanomaterials characterization, there is a need for clarity in the identification of measurands related to several materials properties, including those corresponding to endpoints addressed by the OECD Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials’ Sponsorship Programme for the Testing of Manufactured Nanomaterials.
• Could nuclear warheads go off 'like popcorn'? - Rob Edwards, New Scientist
  26/06/2008 - ...Stefan Michalowski, a senior scientist at the OECD in Paris, France, who researched warhead safety at Stanford University in California in the 1990s, is concerned about the risks of an extreme event such as a firefight with direct gunshots. "The explosion of a boatload of missiles in a port would be an unimaginable catastrophe," he says. "It's a very, very scary thought."
• Nanotechnology at the OECD - Nanowerk News
  28/02/2008 - The OECD has prepared an overview of its work on nanotechnologies for Forum VI of the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety. This event will be held in Dakar, Senegal, September 15-19, 2008. 
  

Social Issues

• Gains in social mobility will not last, warn gloomy Tories - Michael White, The Guardian
  04/11/2008 - ...Last month's OECD report that inequality and poverty "fell faster in the UK" than in any comparable country in 2000-05 - albeit modestly - was welcomed after years of negative findings. (OECD report)
• Non, les salariés ne sont pas sacrifiés ! - Jean-Marc Vittori, Les Echos
  04/11/2008 - ...Mais cette exception se retrouve dans d'autres questions liées aux revenus, comme le montre le très instructif rapport « Croissance et inégalités » publié par l'OCDE récemment. (Rapport OCDE)
• The World's Hardest-Working Moms - William Pentland, Forbes
  30/10/2008 - ..."In many [industrialized economies, an] increasing female (especially maternal) labor supply is seen as being important to maintaining economic growth and ensuring sustainable pension and social protection systems more generally," according to a new study, called "Babies & Bosses" by the OECD.
• Wer hat, dem wird gegeben - Stefan Kaiser, Der Tagesspiegel
  23/10/2008 - ...Für diese Gruppe von Menschen ist auch das Armutsrisiko besonders hoch: 40 Prozent der Haushalte ohne Arbeitseinkommen gelten nach Definition der OECD als arm – ihr Einkommen lag also unter der Hälfte des mittleren Einkommens aller Haushalte. (OECD report)
• Gap between rich and poor narrows, but UK is still one of the world's most unequal countries - Robert Booth, The Guardian
  22/10/2008 - The gap between rich and poor in Britain narrowed "remarkably" between 2000 and 2005 but the country remained one of the most unequal in the developed world, the OECD said yesterday. (OECD report)
• Pauvreté et inégalités ont reculé en France, selon l'OCDE - Le Point
  21/10/2008 - Les deux dernières décennies ont été marquées par une augmentation des inégalités et du nombre de pauvres au sein des Etats membres de l'OCDE à l'exception de cinq pays dont la France, révèle une étude de l'organisation internationale. (Rapport OCDE)
• Wealth gap smaller than most in OECD - Swissinfo
  21/10/2008 - The OECD said on Tuesday that Switzerland has the tenth smallest gap between rich and poor on its household income inequality scale. (OECD report)
• Schere zwischen Arm und Reich öffnet sich weiter - Süddeutsche Zeitung
  21/10/2008 - In Deutschland haben Einkommensunterschiede und relative Armut einer aktuellen OECD-Studie zufolge zwischen den Jahren 2000 und 2005 stark zugenommen. Unterhalb der Armutsschwelle lebten 10,5 bis 11 Prozent der Gesamtbevölkerung. (OECD report)
• Inégalités salariales et pauvreté gagnent du terrain dans les pays occidentaux - Bertrand Bissuel, Le Monde
  21/10/2008 - ...Cinq jours après la diffusion des travaux de l'Organisation internationale du travail (OIT), qui concluaient aussi à un creusement des inégalités – mais sur un champ géographique beaucoup plus large –, l'OCDE constate que les écarts de revenus entre les ménages se sont accrus d'"environ 7 %" depuis le milieu des années 1980 dans les 24 pays pour lesquels des données sont disponibles. (Rapport OCDE)
• Deutschland verarmt - Stern
  21/10/2008 - Die Reichen werden immer reicher, die Armen immer ärmer: In Deutschland haben die Einkommensunterschiede stark zugenommen, berichtet die OECD in einer neuen Studie. (OECD report)
• Poverty gap increasing, says OECD - BBC News
  21/10/2008 - The gap between rich and poor in most wealthy nations has widened, the OECD has said. (OECD report)
• An older population demands new thinking - James Forsyth, Daily Telegraph
  24/08/2008 - ...The OECD projects that the ratio of the inactive population over 65 to the total workforce will go from 31 per cent to 51 per cent between now and 2030.
  

Taxation

• Liechtenstein and US in tax deal - BBC News
  08/12/2008 - ...The OECD has listed Liechtenstein as one of only three states remaining on its blacklist of "unco-operative tax havens".
• Tax evasion robs developing countries of $900bn a year - Nick Mathiason, The Observer
  30/11/2008 - ...Earlier this week the OECD secretary-general, Angel Gurria, indicated that Britain could do more to crack down on tax havens, many of which are under its jurisdiction.
• Finanzen: OECD und EU wollen Steuerparadiese austrocknen - Die Zeit
  23/10/2008 - ...Die OECD führt auf ihrer schwarzen Liste bisher nur Liechtenstein, Monaco und Andorra auf. Allen anderen Staaten und Gebieten wurde bislang "Zusammenarbeit" bei der Abwehr von Steuerflucht und Geldwäsche bescheinigt.
• La Suisse au banc des accusés de la fiscalité - Swissinfo
  22/10/2008 - La France et l'Allemagne ont organisé mardi à Paris une réunion de l'OCDE associant 17 pays pour discuter des paradis fiscaux.
• Luxemburg könnte Bankgeheimnis lockern - Die Zeit
  22/10/2008 - ...Zuvor war bei einem Ministertreffen der OECD in Paradies über ein Austrocknen der Steuerparadiese gesprochen worden.
• Britain backs European crackdown on tax havens - Henry Samuel, Daily Telegraph
  21/10/2008 - ...Switzerland came in for the harshest criticism at the OECD summit, with Germany insisting it should be placed the OECD's international blacklist of tax havens.
• Paradis fiscaux : les « trous noirs » de la finance dans le collimateur des pays occidentaux - Yves Bourdillon, Les Echos
  21/10/2008 - ...« on ne peut pas résoudre la crise financière en introduisant plus de régulation et laisser dans le même temps prospérer des poches de non-régulation, estime Pascal Saint-Amans, responsable de la lutte contre les paradis fiscaux à l'OCDE.
  

Territorial Economy

• Country may do more good than you thought - Alan Cochrane, The Daily Telegraph
  23/02/2008 - A remarkable report from the OECD on life in rural Scotland was published this week; remarkable for the fact that few of the people who actually live in those parts of the country covered by the report would have recognised its generally positive conclusions.
  

Trade

• OECD: Doha collapse clouds world's future - By Carrie Berdon, The Australian
  08/08/2008 - The collapse of the Doha trade talks is "a major blow" and casts doubt over global efforts to tackle major issues, OECD secretary-general Angel Gurria says. Speaking at a globalisation conference in Sydney today, he urged better coordination between governments, a strong sense of political will and a clear accountability to deal with future challenges.
• OECD chief sings the blues - Brian Fallow, The New Zealand Herald
  31/07/2008 - The collapse of world trade talks in Geneva is disappointing, and does not augur well for the world's ability to meet the challenge of a climate change treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, OECD secretary-general Angel Gurria says.
• Letzte Runde für die Doha-Runde - Peter Deselaers, Deutsche Welle
  20/07/2008 - ...Nach Berechnungen der OECD bezogen die Landwirte der 30 OECD-Länder 2007 direkte und indirekte öffentliche Hilfen in Höhe von 258 Milliarden US-Dollar.
• Globalisation is good - Peter Mandelson, The Guardian
  09/06/2008 - ...Look at OECD data for the last 20 years and it is clear that where they have encouraged labour market flexibility, high levels of education and retraining, and helped women and older people stay in the workforce, strong welfare states have equipped countries for globalisation much better than weak ones.
• Trade debate rages at OECD meeting - Steve Schifferes, BBC News
  04/06/2008 - While the OECD discussed high-minded but long-term measures to tackle global warming and economic development, a fierce debate has been going on at the sidelines of the meeting over the growing protectionist pressures around the world.

Transport

• World economy is consuming around 30 billion barrels of oil every year - Matthew Knight, CNN
  14/05/2008 - ...According to an OECD International Transport Forum discussion paper published in 2007 there are around 47,000 oil fields in the world. But only a fraction of these -- around 500 - are considered 'giant' -- harboring upwards of 500 million barrels.
• Shipping's impact on the air - CNN
  20/01/2008 - ...The opening statement of a 2005 report issued by the OECD's Maritime Transport Committee is quite revealing in this regard...