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• Statistical annex

  - 2008-06-01

  Annex Table 29. General government primary balances Surplus (+) or deficit (-) as a per cent of nominal GDP 1990 1991 1992 ...

  Tags: Asia, Australia, Belgium, financial, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Investment, Italy, Korea, Luxembourg, OECD, U.K., U.S.

• ENVIRONMENTAL UPDATE

  - 2008-01-01

  Consumers * Are you an "eco-shopper," but confused with all the labels and seals and certified logos? Consumers Union - publisher of Consumer Reports - has a Web site that can give you detailed information on various seals and labels you find on products. You can also learn the meanings...

  Tags: agreement, environment, France, Occidental Petroleum Corp., OECD

• U.S. editorial excerpts -4-

  - 2007-02-19

  NEW YORK, Feb. 15 Kyodo Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press: FREEDOM AND LABOR (The Wall Street Journal, New York) Europe just got its best jobless report in a very long time. The bad news: In a decade when record numbers of people found work...

  Tags: Benefits, firing, France, Germany, hiring, job, OECD, U.S.

• Tanaka To Replace Mandil

  - 2006-12-18

  Nobuo Tanaka of Japan will succeed Claude Mandil of France as the next head of the IEA. Tanaka, currently director for science, technology and industry at the OECD, will take up the post as IEA executive director on Sept. 1, 2007. This marks the first time a non-European has...

  Tags: director, FINANCE, France, Investment, Japan, OECD, Strategy

• French farmers praised for water restraint.(Federal Union of Consumers)(Brief article)

  - 2006-08-04

  French agriculture minister Dominique Bussereau has spoken out in defence of the country's farmers after a consumer group attacked the increase in irrigation of French farmland. Responding to a statement from the Federal Union of Consumers (UFC-Que Choisir?) which cited an OECD report, Bussereau...

  Tags: agriculture, France, OECD

• OECD data paint gloomy picture for protesting French youth

  - 2006-03-28

  BRUSSELS AFP — Whether in terms of the labour market, education or quality of life, a broad range data of published by the OECD paints a gloomy picture for the prospects facing French youth as they demonstrate en masse against the government's new youth jobs contract. Drawing on classic...

  Tags: Brussels, France, Government, OECD, SOFTWARE, youth

• International comparisons of productivity.

  - 2006-02-23

  M2 PRESSWIRE-23 February 2006-UK Government: International comparisons of productivityC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:23022006 Revised data for 2004 continues to show the productivity of UK workers is lower than those in France and the USA, similar to Germany, and above Japan. ...

  Tags: France, Germany, Japan, OECD, productivity, U.K., U.S., worker

• A Classless Act

  - 2005-11-28

  Five years ago in Lisbon leaders of the EU set a bold goal: to make Europe "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" by 2010. So how much progress has Europe made? Not much. Perhaps the biggest disappointment is that many European nations make ambitious claims to...

  Tags: education, Europe, France, Germany, knowledge, OECD, performance

• A Classless Act; Europe likes to think of itself as egalitarian, but workers and immigrants are much more likely to reach university in America.

  - 2005-11-28

  Byline: Andreas Schleicher (Schleicher is head of Indicators and Analysis in the OECD Directorate for Education.) Five years ago in Lisbon leaders of the EU set a bold goal: to make Europe "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" by...

  Tags: education, Europe, France, Germany, OECD, performance, worker

• NEW PUBLICATIONS.

  - 2005-06-30

  *The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources IUCN: A remarkable organisation dedicated to the service of the environment is an NGO which operates in a unique manner. It unites 81 countries and more than 800 NGOs each with equal voting rights during ...

  Tags: blackout, France, OECD