The average US workweek may be 38.6 hours long, but quite a few countries have employees who spend even more time at the office.Turkey, Colombia, and Mexico all have workweeks that are over 40 hours long, according to the OECD Better Life Index.The...
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The OECD's annual "Going for Growth" report was released Friday and the U.S. gets a mixed review.
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It is commonly accepted now that China is using its trade with the United States and other OECD countries to increase the size of its economy, which in turn will allow it to build its military to...
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Forget the trade war, debt, deflation, automation, and artificial intelligence: one of the most significant threats to the global economy and the future of the world as we know it is demographics.
A new OECD report, published by International...
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Green growth has emerged as the dominant narrative for tackling contemporary environmental problems.
Its supporters, including the likes of the UN, OECD, national governments, businesses and even NGOs, say that sustainability can be achieved...
The OECD became the latest organization to warn that a U.S. trade war with China could put an anchor on the global economy. The notion that one nation will win with no effect on GDP and that the...
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On Wednesday, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a group of 36 member nations collaborating to stimulate economic progress and world trade, released the first intergovernmental standard for artificial intelligence...
Evidence of the Jones Act’s failures continues to mount. Just weeks after the release of an OECD study predicting substantial gains from the law’s repeal, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) has a new report out which places the law’s...
“Rather bleak.”
That’s the global economy’s outlook, according to Laurence Boone, the chief economist of the Organization for European Cooperation and Development. In a report published today, the Paris-based institution said...
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The OECD's new economic survey of Mexico suggests the country's overall macroeconomic future is sound, but there are problems that need to be addressed.
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The rate at which UK institutions, households and businesses are borrowing money is greater than that of all other OECD countries.
This fact is alarming some economists not only because the rate of UK borrowing is high against the country’s...
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The OECD is urging Japan to hike its sales tax to 26 percent in place of a planned increase to 10 percent this year, despite concerns that such a dramatic move could stifle consumer activity and hurt Japan's already-fragile economic growth.
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The middle class is getting squeezed and it is the millennial generation above all that is bearing the brunt, the OECD said, urging action to help households struggling with the rising cost of education and housing as incomes stagnate.
James Gustave SpethIn a comparison with nineteen other OECD countries, thought to be our peers, it is clear that it is the United States that has some serious catching up to do. Now, writes Speth, it is time for the nation to decide what it...
Ryan CooperThe U.S. has the sixth-highest inequality in the OECD, while Iceland, Finland, Norway, and Denmark have the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh-lowest respectively. (Photo: Illustrated | Wikimedia Commons, Apple)
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Jake Johnson, staff writerMore than 50 percent of Americans said they support hiking taxes on the wealthy to support those in poverty, the OECD study found
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The OECD has released results from a survey of 22,000 people in 21 countries regarding their views of government social programs.
Governments in the high-income OECD countries hand out more subsidies than ever, yet many people feel that they are not...
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I was a little surprised to see a news report about Andreas Schleicher, the director of education and skills at OECD — the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Speaking at the World Innovation Summit for Education in Paris,...
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The OECD predicts lower growth than last year, from China to North America.
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BRUSSELS (Sputnik) - The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has announced an agreement that could pave the way for a new system of taxation in the world where more and more companies are able to reach customers across the...
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