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• Public Debt Jeopardises Recovery: OECD

  ReutersUK - 2009-12-17

  MILAN (Reuters UK) - Countries with mounting public debt jeopardise the sustainability of their economic recovery from the global financial crisis over the next several years, the OECD's new chief economist said in a interview in an Italian newspaper."The recovery could be stronger than expected," Pier Carlo Padoan, who is...

  Tags: OECD, Recovery, Government, Nc, Oukbs

• OECD Warns Public Debt Jeopardizes Recovery: Report

  Reuters - 2009-12-16

  MILAN (Reuters) - Countries with mounting public debt jeopardize the sustainability of their economic recovery from the global financial crisis over the next several years, the OECD's new chief economist said in a interview in an Italian newspaper."The recovery could be stronger than expected," Pier Carlo Padoan, who is also...

  Tags: OECD, Recovery, Government, Nc, Us

• Independence May Cost Banks Billions

  ReutersUK - 2009-11-22

  LONDON (Reuters UK) - Britain's biggest banks would have to raise billions of pounds to achieve complete independence from state support, according to research from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development.To become standalone institutions, the banks would have to raise their core capital ratios above 20 percent, the Paris...

  Tags: Bank, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Britain, Oecd, Oukbs

• Asia Helps Feeble West in Global Recovery -OECD

  ReutersUK - 2009-11-19

  By Brian LovePARIS (Reuters UK) - Asia is leading the global economy out of the deepest downturn in decades but the recovery will be marred by high unemployment and huge government debt across the industrialised countries, the OECD said on Thursday.Central banks and governments in major Western economies should prepare...

  Tags: Gross Domestic Product, OECD, Growth, Recovery, Government, Oukbs

• Asia Helps Feeble West in Global Recovery: OECD

  Reuters - 2009-11-19

  By Brian LovePARIS (Reuters) - Asia is leading the global economy out of the deepest downturn in decades but the recovery will be marred by high unemployment and huge government debt across the industrialized countries, the OECD said on Thursday.Central banks and governments in major Western economies should prepare for...

  Tags: Gross Domestic Product, OECD, Growth, Recovery, Government, Us

• OECD Says Economic Damage Is Lasting, So Stimulus Should Continue

  BNET - 2009-06-25

  Emerging-market economies are already in recovery, and the U.S. and Japan should soon follow, said the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD on June 25. But the next few years of recovery will be weak and fragile, and because the world's economic machinery has suffered severe damage that will...

  Tags: OECD, Recovery, Stimulus, Government, John Keefe

• Few governments enforce foreign bribery prohibition

  - 2008-08-01

  ACCORDING TO A TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL TI report less than half of the governments that adopted the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD Anti-bribery Convention nine years ago enforce the foreign bribery prohibition. The 2008 Progress Report on Enforcement of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials...

  Tags: bribery, Government, OECD, SOFTWARE

• REPORT ON THE SYMPOSIUM ON PRESCHOOL-THE FIRST STEP IN EDUCATION

  - 2008-07-01

  House of Sweden, 2900 K St., NW, Washington, DC According to a recent OECD report, Starting Strong, Sweden ranks as one of the most successful school systems in the world, largely because of a well-designed universal early childhood system. This past fall, I was fortunate to attend an event sponsored...

  Tags: Government, OECD, Sweden, teacher

• Canada

  - 2008-06-01

  Economic growth decelerated sharply late in 2007 mainly because of faltering exports and manufacturing output. Growth is projected to remain weak until spring 2009 as US demand stagnates, but no recession is expected. The current account may dip deeper into deficit, and the general government fiscal balance may show a...

  Tags: Canada, Government, inflation, OECD

• International Think Tank Message: High-Growth Small and Medium-Sized Firms and Innovation Fuel Entrepreneurial Engine

  - 2008-05-12

  Official OECD message is delivered at end of meeting hosted by the Kauffman Foundation and U.S. Department of Commerce KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- After a three-day international workshop on innovation and the global impact of high-growth small and medium-sized firms SMEs, an economic development organization representing 30 nations including...

  Tags: entrepreneurial, Entrepreneurship, Government, innovation, Leadership, OECD, SMB/SME, Strategy, U.S. Department of Commerce