Developed countries need to "urgently" boost adult training and education programmes to deal with future mass job upheaval brought on by automation, the OECD said Wednesday.
Toronto-based startup Carrot Rewards’s eponymous fitness rewards app has been named the global winner of the OECD’s 2019 Edge of Government Award.Carrot was selected from over 500 submissions from around the world at the World Government...
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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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An analysis looked at real estate data from 36 developed countries of the OECD and calculated where you'll get the most home for the least money.
Australia looks to be on the verge of a nasty unwind of its housing bubble. A plunge would damage not only its banks but also retirement funds, since banks play an outsized role in the Australian stock market.
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Congratulations are in order. France just topped Denmark as the most taxed nation.
The OECD reports Tax Revenues Rise.
The 2018 edition of the OECD’s annual Revenue Statisticspublication shows that...
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BRUSSELS (Sputnik) - The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) revised its 2019 forecast for the GDP growth in the eurozone down from 1.9 percent to 1.8 percent, according to the organisation's report issued Wednesday.
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South Korea continues to have one of the highest rate of suicide among developed nations, sparking actions plans from the government in Seoul to tackle the issue.
Recent findings from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...
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The economic well-being of British households has fared far worse than other major economies over the past two years, the period since the UK voted to quit the European Union, according to the OECD.
To get a better picture of personal finances, the...
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is warning that the world's consumption of raw materials will rise sharply, putting greater pressure on the environment.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The lack of concrete steps would show that the blacklist of "golden passport" schemes by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is "only a tool to name and shame" the states included, member of the...
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Not *our* David Henderson, but the British economist David Henderson passed away at age 91. Len Shackleton has an obituary on the Institute of Economic Affairs’s website. Henderson long worked for the OECD and, after that, became an active...
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A decade after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, global debt levels are higher than in 2008, lending has moved into the opaque realm of asset management and private equity, and the dollar is surging....
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BRUSSELS (Sputnik) - The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has revised downwards it forecast for Turkey's real GDP growth in 2019 from 5 percent to 0.5 percent amid the recent pressures on the Turkish lira, the...
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We've written before about both Travel Medical plans (not to be confused with medical tourism), and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). But we've never put them together like the folks at GetGoing, who've come up with...
MOSCOW (Sputnik), Anastasia Dmitrieva - Sweden’s recent problems with operating nuclear power plants due to hot weather are temporary and may be resolved by investing in additional equipment to deal with high temperatures of cooling water,...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik), Anastasia Dmitrieva - The start of a peaceful nuclear power program in North Korea is unrelated to its progress in denuclearization and may be organized in the nearest future given a secure fuel supply, OECD-NEA Director-General...
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Created in 1961, the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development is a 36-country group designed to promote global economic progress — as conceived by a number of Paris-based bureaucrats.
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A recent NYT story by Liz Alderman says yes, but I find the argument hard to swallow. Here’s from the OECD:
The cyclically adjusted deficit has decreased considerably, moving from 8.7% of potential GDP to 1.9% in 2013 and to 0.9% in 2014....
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