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17-Nov-2008
OECD’s latest economic survey of Spain will be published on Wednesday, 19 November 2008. It will include new forecasts and assess the policy challenges facing the country as the global downturn weighs on activity. Special chapters focus on jobs, education and competition.
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12-Nov-2008
OECD is preparing a two-pillar action plan for governments, as part of a global response to the world financial crisis, calling for tighter regulation and oversight of financial markets and improved national policies to promote economic growth.
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07-Nov-2008
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría has written to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama congratulating him on his election victory and stating the Organisation’s commitment to working closely and productively with his Administration.
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Events
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on 17-Nov-2008
Joëlle Milquet, Belgium’s Minister for Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue, and Martine Durand and Thomas Liebig from OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, will present "Jobs for Immigrants: Belgium, France, The Netherlands and Portugal" at a news conference in Brussels at 13.00 PM on Monday 17 November.
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on 12-Nov-2008
During his trip to Brussels, the Secretary-General of the OECD, Angel Gurría gave a keynote speech at the European Policy Centre and met with several European representatives to discuss a range of key policy issues.
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on 17-Oct-2008
The OECD’s Working Group on Bribery will hold a press conference at 11.00 a.m. today at OECD headquarters to report on the recent Phase 2bis examination of the United Kingdom under the terms of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions. It will be webcast LIVE.
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on 21-Oct-2008
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría, together with Martin Hirsch, Haut Commissaire aux Solidarités Actives contre la Pauvreté, and Professor Sir Anthony Atkinson, Research Professor, Oxford University, will present “Growing Unequal?” at a news conference at 09.00 a.m. on Tuesday 21 October at OECD headquarters in Paris.
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on 10-Oct-2008
The OECD’s latest economic survey of Australia, to be published on Friday 10 October 2008, identifies a number of challenges such as tackling inflation, increasing the number of people in work and raising public investment in infrastructure and education.
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on 02-Oct-2008
While in Budapest, Angel Gurría launched the OECD environmental performance review of Hungary and attended the Conference on Financial Awareness where he spoke about the importance of financial education. He also held bilateral meetings with several Hungarian government officials.
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on 02-Oct-2008
In the lead-up to joining the European Union, Hungary made significant progress in reducing air and water pollution and protecting its nature and biodiversity. OECD’s latest Review of the Environmental Performance of Hungary recommends that it redouble its efforts, in order to further reduce pollution and use energy and raw materials more efficiently.
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from 25-Sep-2008 to 26-Sep-2008
This event gathered senior officials from Centres of Government to discuss the following issue: "Political Economy of Reform: Ensuring Stakeholder Support". On this occasion, Angel Gurría met with several Mexican government officials and delivered a keynote speech for the opening of the meeting.
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Financial crisis: Save our savings
Amid the worst current financial crisis since the 1930s, EU leaders have pledged to protect savers’ deposits. Already most OECD countries have explicit deposit insurance schemes for savings up to certain limits. In a number of countries these have now been raised temporarily.
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