... el of the OECD member countries. The army of intelligent robots may crowd out average job hunters and high employment rate may become the new normal. The role of the government in the secondary alloca ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-27
... ut in the OECD growing by 2.5 percent while the rest of the world’s GDP expands at a 3.8 percent rate – close to the precrisis average. But the long-term economic prospects of the global economy as a ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-11
Economic growth in developed countries slowed for the second straight quarter early this year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said. The Paris-based OECD said the combined gr ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-27
A global school league table from the OECD has put Asian nations in the top five spots, with Singapore taking the prime position and Hong Kong in the second place. The UK is in 20th place, among highe ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-13
... re of the OECD have made tackling this issue extremely difficult, said Antony Ting, an associate professor of economics at Sydney University. "I think if Australia really wants to protect its tax base ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-13
... elopment (OECD). In recent years, the percentage of education spending in our total government expenditure has continued to drop. This year it stands at only 16.7 percent, the second lowest since the ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-17
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development expects India to overtake China in economic growth this year, Reuters reported. For India, the OECD boosted its forecast for growth in gross d ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-19
... elopment (OECD) shows that in the past 30 years, the unemployment rate has been more volatile than the GDP growth rate. The figure ranges from 3.6 times in Germany to 19.8 times in Switzerland. In Chi ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-16
... es. Joint OECD-Eurostat data show that direct government expenditure accounted for 31 percent of R&D spending in the US in 2012. Adding indirect expenditure, like tax breaks, would bring this figu ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-05
... &D by OECD members is 2.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) on average. Hong Kong is stuck at just 0.7 percent. South Korea spent 4.36 percent of GDP on R&D in 2012, making it No. 1 in t ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-20
... osal. The OECD offers guidance on how to source minerals responsibly. Developed in close collaboration with the industry, it offers “detailed recommendations to help companies respect human rights and ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-02
... , WTO and OECD membership have already shown over the past decades, the territory's government is yet to express its stance toward the TPP. Some observers believe it is because local officials don't w ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-18
Traditional healthcare systems are in trouble. In the OECD, costly hospitals and clinics dominate health services, and account for 97 percent of the United States' healthcare spending. These systems a ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-06
When the numbers were added up, teens in China's financial capital were streets ahead of their peers in other countries. The Financial Times reported Wednesday that an OECD study of financial knowledg ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-10
... elopment (OECD). "We can still count on China for some time to continue to produce quite solid growth," Gurria told the Wall Street Journal. "I don't see why people talk about a hard landing in China. ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-05
... s amongst OECD countries, and there appears to be a secular trend towards more lower-paying services jobs. According to a recent research paper by the Center for Economic Policy and Research, the US c ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-26
... wing. The OECD thinks the negative output gap for advanced economies as a group was around 3 percent of GDP last year. This is in stark contrast to similar stages in previous recoveries. It estimated ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-15
... uding the OECD's Pisa tests, and two major US-based studies, Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (Timms) and Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (Pirls) in 41 countries ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-09
... elopment (OECD) in Paris, requires countries to collect and exchange information on bank accounts and the beneficial ownership of companies and other legal structures such as trusts. The Swiss governm ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-07
... ording to OECD estimates, the country's consumption of exports accounts for no more than 5.5 percent of many regional GDP (see chart). Its import demand impact on the developed markets’ GDP growth is ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-17
