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
... and among OECD countries. Its economic prospects are poor. The government has forecast growth of 0.1 percent in 2013 and 0.9 percent in 2014. It has forecast a public deficit in 2013 of 4.1 percent, a ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-21
... e US, the OECD said in a report that the uncertainty in US financial and monetary situation poses increasing risks to global economic recovery. The risks posed by global asset bubbles, which may be ca ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-21
... n China. OECD sees China 2014 growth at 8.2% The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) expects China’s economic growth to accelerate to 8.2 percent next year from an estimated ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-20
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) expects China’s economic growth to accelerate to 8.2 percent next year from 7.7 percent forecast for this year, along with lower inflat ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-20
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) expects China to become a high-income country by 2026 at the earliest, China Business News reported Wednesday, citing an official repor ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-09
