Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: September 2014
OECD unemployment rate nudges up to 7.4% in July 2014
G20 faces persistent gaps in employment and job quality
A large and persistent shortfall in the number and quality of the jobs being created in G20 countries is affecting prospects for re-igniting economic growth, according to a report prepared by the ILO, the OECD and the World Bank Group for the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers meeting taking place in Melbourne this week.
Educational mobility starts to slow in industrialised world, says OECD
Access to education continues to expand worldwide but the socio-economic divisions between tertiary-educated adults and the rest of society are growing. Governments must do more to ensure that everyone has the same opportunity to a good education early in life, according to a new OECD report.
International trade statistics: trends in second quarter 2014
Merchandise trade broadly stable in the second quarter of 2014, with diverging patterns across major economies
G20 GDP Growth - Second quarter of 2014, OECD
G20 GDP growth picks up to 0.8% in second quarter of 2014
Global growth continuing at a moderate pace, OECD says
A moderate expansion is underway in most major advanced and emerging economies, but growth remains weak in the euro area, which runs the risk of prolonged stagnation if further steps are not taken to boost demand, according to the OECD’s latest Interim Economic Assessment.
Governments must tackle regional variations in health care use, says OECD
Health care use varies widely across countries but can also vary as much or more within countries. Governments should do more to improve their health systems to prevent unnecessary interventions and ensure that everyone has the same access to quality healthcare, wherever they live, according to a new OECD report.
OECD releases first BEPS recommendations to G20 for international approach to combat tax avoidance by multinationals
The OECD released today its first recommendations for a co-ordinated international approach to combat tax avoidance by multinational enterprises, under the OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project designed to create a single set of international tax rules to end the erosion of tax bases and the artificial shifting of profits to jurisdictions to avoid paying tax.
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría and UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities & Climate Change Michael R. Bloomberg push for cities to take lead on climate change
Angel Gurría and Michael R. Bloomberg reaffirmed today their commitment to support international cities’ efforts to lead in the global fight against climate change — and called for national support to make this happen.
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría to discuss the Economic Case for Climate Action during UN Climate Summit
As part of the Climate Summit 2014 hosted by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 23 September in New York, the United Nations University (UNU) is hosting a thematic session on “The Economic Case for Climate Action” with global leaders and world renowned experts from China, India, Mexico, and the United States.