... 級制利得稅說幾句，指OECD對兩級制有批評，他會盡力解釋云云；又表示政府一刀切減稅的機會甚低。其他包括利得稅兩 ...全文
... ng to the OECD, bilateral aid to the world’s least-developed countries fell by nearly 4 percent in 2016. This is an alarming drop for these countries, given that official development assistance (ODA) ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-18
... elopment (OECD), which includes the United States and Japan. But “the EU must prepare to act in the absence of adequate global progress,” Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis told a news confe ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-22
... cross the OECD. And while it goes without saying that economists have many ingenious explanations to offer, none has yet proved persuasive enough to create a consensus. According to the UK’s Office fo ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-21
... elopment (OECD) forecast that the British economy would grow by only 1 per cent in 2018, down from 1.6 per cent this year. “We assume that the UK will leave the EU without a comprehensive free-trade a ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-12
... later the OECD developed the Common Reporting Standard for the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) on tax matters. Some 70 jurisdictions have committed themselves to adopting this system. Hong Ko ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-27
... os in the OECD. Hypothetically, if the US adopted Denmark’s universal free education policy, but kept its tax-to-GDP ratio unchanged, its fiscal deficit would exceed 6 percent of GDP. The US has run d ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-23
... e average OECD levels, their confidence levels in solving science problems dipped. Professor Esther Ho Sui-chu, director of the Hong Kong Centre for International Student Assessment who led the resear ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-07
... elopment (OECD), countries that are turning out the best university graduates in terms of their linguistic and mathematical competence, as well as their ability in resolving problems using information ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-03
... ers – the OECD Convention to Fight Tax Avoidance is an example of this. Fears of lax regulation in offshore financial centers are encouraging more efforts of this sort. Everyone who wants healthy fina ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-23
... rt by the OECD in April this year estimated that the global value of imported fake goods in 2013 was US$461 billion, accounting for 2.5 percent of all trade, up 84 percent from US$250 billion or 1.8 p ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-20
... ions. The OECD predicts that increases in OAD ratios will result in significantly higher public spending on health care, long-term care and pensions. This is a scary prospect, given that public pensio ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-25
... ead among OECD members. While some might attribute Israel’s success in nurturing its hi-tech industry to the long-standing Jewish culture of encouraging innovation, individualism and entrepreneurship, ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-10
... elopment (OECD) countries have hiked personal income taxes than have cut them in the wake of the global financial crisis while value-added tax hikes outnumber cuts 18 to 1. At the margin, higher taxes ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-28
Thirty-one countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) agreed to adopt automatic exchange of tax reports to stop multinational companies using complex tax a ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-28
... he 1.8 in OECD nations. Generally speaking, a nation’s fertility rate has to reach 2.1 in order to avert a situation of population contraction. As for China, it should have an even higher fertility ra ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
... ithin the OECD nations. OPEC members may stick to normal production levels, despite plummeting prices, in a bid to phase out high-cost producers. Meanwhile, the market may also take more time to reach ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-30
... trend. In OECD nations, the labor force participation rate of that age group declined to 6 percent in 2010, compared with 19 percent in 1960. The participation rate is also on the decline in Southeast ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-05
... mports by OECD nations. Japan relies entirely on imported oil. And China has just surpassed the US as the world’s largest oil importer this year and half of its supply comes from the Middle East. Wash ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
