... 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
... elopment (OECD), it said. Oxfam found that India's richest 10 percent use on average just one quarter of the carbon used by the poorest half of the population of the United States. It also said the to ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
... e bottom. OECD expects Russia’s GDP will shrink by 4 percent this year and will only start growing by 1.6 percent in 2017. The European Commission also predicts Russia’s GDP will drop by 3.7 percent i ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-21
... istics of OECD showing that electricity generation costs for a nuclear power plant is 1.5 times less than a coal power plant and twice lower than wind energy. As he put it: "The strong side of nuclear ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-24
... ercent in OECD countries in the mid-2000s. Countries like France, Germany and the Netherlands have lower poverty rates for the elderly population than the average poverty ratio for the entire populati ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-22
