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• OECD hikes US growth forecast, sees UK recession

  - 2008-09-02

  PARIS AFP — The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on Tuesday raised its forecast for US economic growth this year but cut its estimates for Japan and the eurozone, and said Britain faced recession. The OECD, the Paris-based grouping of 30 developed countries, said the US economy would...

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• OECD hikes US growth forecast, sees Britain in recession

  - 2008-09-02

  PARIS AFP — The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on Tuesday raised its forecast for US economic growth this year but cut its estimates for Japan and the eurozone, and said Britain faced recession. The OECD, the Paris-based grouping of 30 developed countries, said the US economy would...

  Tags: Britain, Japan, OECD, recession

• Chapter 1: General assessment of the macroeconomic situation

  - 2008-06-01

  Overview Growth is slowing in response to strong headwinds The odds are improving that financial market turmoil has passed its peak. Still, its fallout will continue to act as a brake on growth for considerable time to come. Other headwinds causing the on-going slowdown in activity in the...

  Tags: asset, bank, FINANCE, financial, inflation, investment, Japan, OECD, tax, U.S.

• Japan

  - 2008-06-01

  Although output growth is slowing somewhat, wage gains and a rebound in housing investment should help sustain the expansion in 2008, and growth is projected to pick up during 2009. While headline inflation has risen to about 1% as a result of soaring import prices, underlying inflation is around zero...

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• 2ND LD: Workers in G-8 nations want reduced gaps, achieved stability

  - 2008-05-12

  NIIGATA, Japan, May 11 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATING WITH OUTCOME OF SUNDAY'S TALKS) Labor ministerial-level officials from the Group of Eight countries gathered in the city of Niigata on Sunday for a three-day meeting in which representatives of labor and employers' groups urged the governments to...

  Tags: Globalization, Government, Japan, job, OECD, Strategy, worker

• 3RD LD: G-8 development ministers vow to boost quality, volume of ODA

  - 2008-04-07

  TOKYO, April 5 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATING WITH BRIEFING DETAILS) Development-related ministers of the Group of Eight nations agreed Saturday to strengthen official development assistance to Africa and other impoverished regions both in terms of quality and volume as they launched a two-day meeting with emerging...

  Tags: Africa, FINANCE, Japan, OECD, Tokyo

• 2ND LD: G-8 warns soaring food prices pose serious development challenge

  - 2008-04-07

  TOKYO, April 6 Kyodo (EDS: RECASTING, UPDATING THROUGHOUT) Development-related ministers of the Group of Eight nations warned Sunday that soaring food prices pose a serious challenge for Africa and other impoverished countries and vowed to tackle together new threats including climate change. The G-8...

  Tags: food, Japan, Manufacturing, OECD

• High-tech Japan shocked as children snub science

  - 2007-12-04

  TOKYO AFP — A new survey shows Japanese children sinking in academic scores and coming last internationally in the percentage seeking science careers, shocking a nation long proud of its technological prowess. Japanese 15-years-olds ranked 10th in mathematics in the latest OECD test, down from sixth in 2003 and...

  Tags: CAREER, Japan, MARKETING, OECD, survey

• Chapter 1: general assessment of the macroeconomic situation

  - 2007-12-01

  OVERVIEW Financial turmoil, housing weakness and oil prices are forefront ... 2007 is set to become the fourth year of above-trend growth in the OECD area (Table 1.1), but activity is now moderating. One cause of this moderation is the cooling of housing markets, which will act to...

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• Japan

  - 2007-12-01

  The economic expansion--the longest in Japan's post-war history--continues despite some deceleration in the pace of growth since early 2007. A further tightening of the labour market is projected to reverse the decline in wages, helping to sustain output growth of some 1 1/2-2% in 2008-09 and pushing inflation into positive...

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