April 2011
19 posts
OECD: 9. #50 yrs ago today the US became a member... →
FRANCE: Clean break needed to stop worsening... →
Cutting the public deficit through a stricter budgeting framework and improving the housing market with taxation and funding reforms are among the recommendations in the OECD’s latest Economic Survey…
OECD: 8. #Russia 50 y ago 1st man in #space 12 Apr... →
OECD: 7. Canada was 1st OECD member #50 yrs ago... →
OECD: 6. Only a few more days to vote on which of... →
OECD: #GDP grew by 0.5% in OECD area in the last... →
OECD: 5. Thanks to OECD, 82% of #aid is now... →
OECD: 4. Did you know: our Model #Tax Convention,... →
OECD: India joins OECD’s #chemical #safety data... →
OECD: 2. We started out with 20 countries in 1961,... →
OECD: National Journal says organisations like... →
OECD: OECD turns 50 this year, officially born 30... →
OECD: OECD reports on China’s 5-year plan for... →
OECD: Limiting global temp increase below 2ºC is... →
March 2011
10 posts
OECD: Competition's tight – vote on which of our... →
OECD: How are G7 economies doing & what is... →
OECD: Out of the mouths of… What do children think... →
OECD: Yes, Turkey’s HS dropout rate is 73%... →
OECD: When I'm 64.6... that's possibly the... →
OECD: At 10h OECD Gurria talks about OECD in a G20... →
OECD: Good design starts w/people! OECD on... →
February 2010
66 posts
Saving up for a wife? ProgBlog links son preference to current global economic imbalances http://bit.ly/973RV1
The hand that rocks… Disaster & conflict share both violence & a human element. OECD Insights looks at Haiti. http://bit.ly/7dMwCD
Again the phantom city burns →
This post contributed by John Mutter, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences/Professor of International and Public Affairs and Director of PhD in Sustainable Development,…
Cheating Peter to pay Paul. RT @TransferPricing OECD Observer explains cross-border taxation & transfer pricing http://tinyurl.com/yzejljp
Sure, cheap access to online resources = better education. But how to implement? NM Learners mtg discusses http://bit.ly/9tz40I
More powerful than a speeding cable! Broadband not just for quick chats but cleaner energy & transport: OECD Factblog http://bit.ly/cla5Pz
Cow-tow to carnivores or bankrupt bovine breeding? OECD Insights looks at the cow trade & the agriculture ministerial http://bit.ly/7dMwCD
Cashing in on cows →
Not just a pretty face
“Nowhere is the cow so feeble, and her yield so little as in India. Nowhere is she so badly treated as she is today in India by the Hindus.” So said Mahatma…
VIPs gather to address Obama growth initiatives RT TheBrianDuggan w/K. Kornbluh, US ambassador to OECD Here’s the site: http://bit.ly/dAOuiJ
Found it! @GreenbizStartup OECD peer review report on higher education in/around Amsterdam, more info here: http://bit.ly/9bwthY
Gift of gab? RT @meripu Dóchas, Irish development assoc’n, urges govt to honour aid promises, per OECD report http://bit.ly/9Qp7dT
Good gender question @holliebakerlutz Daughters are taken into account, check the OECD report: http://bit.ly/bE4JcW or http://bit.ly/bkm0WO
Interested in education? RT @PaulHofheinz A. Schleicher, the genius behind OECD’s flagship PISA project, now tweets. Follow @SchleicherEDU
Flocking to France: OECD reports 79mn tourists out of world avg of 922mn head to land of the Tour Eiffel. Fun stats http://bit.ly/cqZILD pdf
If dinner’s not ready, it must be Mom’s fault. OECD Insights looks at how girls see their career path. http://bit.ly/7dMwCD
Graded for giving: OECD reports on development aid stats RT@Global_Updaid Donors’ mixed performance sparks concern http://bit.ly/bltCkN
I’d like to be a dancer or a doctor, but I won’t →
It’s OK to punch a woman in the face if she’s having an affair according to children interviewed by Nancy Lombard of Edinburgh Napier University as part of a study on children’s attitudes to…
Statistics - Strong GDP growth in the United... →
Seasonally-adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) in the OECD area rose by 0.8% in the fourth quarter of 2009, up from 0.6% in the previous quarter. Real GDP grew strongly in the United States and…
Yep, it was a bad year. GDP in OECD area fell by 3.4% in 2009, the first decline since 1960. But things are looking up http://bit.ly/d6FuMl
Aid Statistics - Donors’ mixed aid performance for... →
Aid to developing countries in 2010 will reach record levels in dollar terms after increasing by 35 per cent since 2004. But it will still be less than the world’s major aid donors promised five…
Royal role in financial reform? OECD Insights suggests less complacency, more scanning the horizon http://bit.ly/7dMwCD