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OECD Development Assistance Peer Reviews OECD Development ...

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The OECD Development Assistance Committee's 2010 peer review of the UK's development assitance programmes and policies.

OECD Environmental Outlook

OECD

Just over three years ago, in 1997, OECD published a study entitled “The World in 2020 – Towards a New Global Age”. It gave a vision of the world economy in the year 2020, where governments and societies seize the challenge of realising ...

OECD Economic Surveys: Denmark 2016

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(2013), “Productivity and Cost-Efficiency in the Danish Financial sector”, Monetary Review, 4th Quarter 2013, Danmarks Nationalbank, Copenhagen. Almy, R. (2014), “Valuation and Assessment of Immovable Property”, OECD Working Papers ...

Debate the Issues: New Approaches to Economic Challenges

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... http://wp.me/p2v6oD-2pB. OECD (2015), OECD Skills Outlook 2015: Youth, Skills and Employability, OECD Publishing, Paris, http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/ 9789264234178-en. The future of development is ageing by Ken Bluestone Political.

OECD Tax Policy Studies Tax Policy Reform and Economic Growth

OECD

In the wake of the recent financial and economic crisis, many OECD countries face the challenge of restoring public finances while still supporting growth.

The OECD Health Project Long-term Care for Older People

OECD

When the baby-boom generation reaches the oldest age groups over the next three decades, demand for long-term care will rise steeply. How do governments in OECD countries respond to this growing demand?

Education at a Glance 2012 OECD Indicators: OECD Indicators

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In the 2012 edition, new indicators focus on: • the effect of the global economic crisis on education expenditures; • the state of early childhood education systems around the world; • intergenerational mobility in higher education ...

OECD Tax Policy Studies Taxing Working Families A ...

OECD

Taxing Working Families provides insights into how income taxes and social security contributions affect the distribution of income between different types of families in OECD countries.

Trends in Urbanisation and Urban Policies in OECD Countries ...

OECD

This report presents an overview of trends in urban policies in OECD countries with the objective to identify successes and failure that could inform national Chinese policy-makers in their preparation of an Urbanisation Strategy.

Cryptography Policy: The Guidelines and the Issues The OECD ...

OECD

Cryptography is one of the technological means to provide security for data on information and communications systems.

China in the Global Economy Income Disparities in China An ...

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This book is part of the OECD's ongoing co-operation with non-member economies around the world.

The OECD: A Study of Organisational Adaptation

Peter Carroll

The book reveals, for the first time, the origins, growth and complex role of the OECD as it celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, showing how it has adapted for the most part successfully to the changing needs of its members, both large and ...

Adjustment in OECD Agriculture Reforming Farmland Policies: ...

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This book examines the way in which agricultural and other policies affect how farmland changes hands, its value and use patterns.

OECD Health Systems: The socio-economic environment, ...

Jean-Pierre Poullier

Presents a systematic collation of data on key aspects of the health systems in the 24 OECD countries.

OECD Guidelines for Micro Statistics on Household Wealth

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Assets Availability Itemnon-response Collectionunit Transaction accounts Available only on 2008, total value not available, only number of households having this item can be estimated < 10% Households Saving accounts Not available n.a. ...

Encyclopedia of Transportation: Social Science and Policy

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Nielsen,KimE.A Disability History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press, 2012. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). “New Transport Technology forOlder People.”OECD/MIT International Symposium, 2003.

Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine ...

Janine R. Wedel

The anthropologist of finance here quoted is Bill Maurer. With regard to offshore finance, the OECD developed a program to try to regulate it. In the spirit (and practice) of democratic participation of all stakeholders, the OECD allowed the trust ...

Complementary and Private Pensions throughout the World 2008

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Correspondents that are not members of the ISSA, IOPS and OECD include: ited States: John Turner, formerly Senior Policy Advisor, AARP, and Dana Muir, Pension Law Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Data for ...

Integrating Distressed Urban Areas

OECD

This study describes the phenomenon of distresses urban areas and analyses policies implemented in OECD countries, so as to come up with multisectoral policies that are better suited to the problems.

OECD Economic Surveys: Russian Federation 2004

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The status of Sberbank One of the explicit aims of the DI legislation is to level the competitive playing field between the state-owned savings monopolist Sberbank and its privately owned rivals. The treatment of Sberbank in the transitional ...

Directory of OECD Intergovernmental Bodies 2006 Mandates, ...

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Chair: Vice-Chairs: Members: Observers: Date of creation: Duration: WORKING PARTY ON PRIVATE PENSIONS Mr. Ambrogio Rinaldi (Italy) Mr. Greg Brunner ( Australia) Ms. Mary Hutch (Ireland) Open to all Member countries Brazil Israel ...

OECD Economic Surveys: Denmark 2009

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Danmarks Nationalbank's measures Danmarks Nationalbank has taken a number of measures to ease liquidity restrictions, mainly focused on the types of securities that can be used as collateral in daily and weekly monetary policy operations ...

Policy Issues in Insurance Terrorism Risk Insurance in OECD ...

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... Events, Parameter Uncertainty and the Breakdown of Implicit Long-Term Contracting: The Case of Terrorism Insurance,” The Journal ofRisk and Uncertainty, 26:2/3: 153-179, 2003. Cummins, David, Christopher Lewis, and Richard ...

Public Administration in the Context of Global Governance:

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Carroll, Peter and Aynsley Kellow (2011). 'The health-related work of the OECD', in Peter Carroll and Aynsley Kellow (eds), The OECD: A Study of Organisational Adaptation. Northampton, MA, USA and Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, ...

OECD Forum 2002 Forum Highlights: Forum Highlights

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Il Sakong took another tack. In response to the International Monetary Fund''s ( IMF) insistence over the years on free-floating exchange rates, Il Sakong said: “ We believe that there is no single exchange-rate regime that is good for all countries at all times.” He used Argentina as an example, calling the country''s now-abandoned currency board a “good idea” when it was instituted, but one that was held on to long after it had become a liability. Il Sakong Il Sakong also took issue with ...