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• 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

• Get an Overview of Diesel Usage in the Major Developing Markets, Including Brazil, China, India, and Russia

  - 2008-01-17

  DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c79902) has announced the addition of "Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel" to their offering. The global drive toward "clean diesel" has accelerated in recent years and parallels the auto industry's efforts to reduce vehicle emissions; both are the result of government mandates to improve...

  Tags: China, Government, Ireland, OECD, refinery, SOFTWARE

• 11 International petroleum

  - 2007-12-01

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tables 11.1a and 11.1b Sources United States See Table 3.1a. All Other Countries and World, Monthly Data 1973-1980: Petroleum Intelligence Weekly PIM, Oil & Gas Journal OGJ, and EIA adjustments. 1981-1993: PIW, OGJ, and other industry sources. 1994 forward: EIA, International...

  Tags: FINANCE, Investment, OECD, OPEC, petroleum, SOFTWARE, United

• OECD health care spend rises to cope with aging populace

  - 2007-11-13

  PARIS AFP — Leading industrialised nations are spending more and more money on health care to cope with aging populations and a surge in the consumption of medicines, the OECD said Tuesday. Data published in an OECD report called "Healthcare at a glance 2007" show that its 30 member...

  Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, OECD, SOFTWARE

• The Fraser Institute: High-Priced Canadian Health Care System Provides Poor Access to Care Compared to Other Nations.

  - 2007-11-05

  CALGARY, ALBERTA, Nov 5, 2007 Marketwire via COMTEX -- Canada spends more on health care than any industrialized nation except Iceland and Switzerland yet we rank near the bottom in terms of access to physicians and new medical technology, according to a new study released today...

  Tags: Benefits, Canada, HEALTHCARE, OECD, SOFTWARE

• Arrested development: the fight against international corporate bribery

  - 2007-11-01

  IN THE last 15 years, there has been growing recognition that corruption--including bribery, extortion and misappropriation--has a particularly insidious impact on developing nations. It distorts markets and competition, breeds cynicism among citizens, stymies the rule of law, damages government legitimacy and corrodes the integrity of the private sector. It is...

  Tags: BAE, bribery, Government, OECD, SOFTWARE, U.K., U.S.

• Tech talk

  - 2007-11-01

  "China has a long way to go to build a modern, high-performance national innovation system."--OECD Review of China's National Innovation System, Aug. 2007, p.60. "Traditional measures of innovation such as market success are significantly lagging indicators. We're interested in measures that are timely, meaningful, and, most importantly, actionable."--David Burrage,...

  Tags: China, Collaboration, Groupware, Leadership, OECD, SOFTWARE

• Tanzania stable and making progress

  - 2007-11-01

  Two recent Non-Governmental Organization NGO reports provide a fascinating look at one of Africa's more puzzling markets--puzzling in the sense that the country is richly endowed with natural resources, has a stable government and a clearly socially sophisticated population. And yet it is one of the poorest countries in the...

  Tags: Africa, Government, OECD, SOFTWARE

• Conference to examine world obesity epidemic

  - 2007-10-19

  WASHINGTON AFP — Some 1,800 researchers will gather in New Orleans this weekend to discuss efforts to treat and contain the worldwide obesity epidemic. More than 300 studies will be presented during the annual conference, organized by the Obesity Society, a US scientific association created 25 years ago to...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Benefits, conference, epidemic, HEALTHCARE, OECD, SOFTWARE, U.S., World Health Organization

• Section 11. International petroleum

  - 2007-10-01

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tables 11.1a and 11.1b Sources United States See Table 3.1a. All Other Countries, Annual Data 1973-1979: EIA, International Energy Annual 1981, Table 8. 1980-2005: EIA, EMEU, International Energy Database, September 2007. 2006: Average of monthly data. All Other Countries, Monthly Data...

  Tags: OECD, OPEC, petroleum, SOFTWARE