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• THE ECONOMY: HOW BAD WILL IT GET A SPECIAL REPORT BY WESTMINSTER

  - 2008-06-08

  NOTHING travels faster than bad news. Last week a report from the international Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD ripped into the British economy, branding it the equivalent of a basket case. It criticised the way the UK has been run for the past decade, saying the options left...

  Tags: Bank of England, Britain, food, job, Manufacturing, OECD, RBS, U.K., unemployment

• 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.

• Waste exports: better protection for developing countries.

  - 2008-01-11

  M2 PRESSWIRE-11 January 2008-UK Government: Waste exports: better protection for developing countriesC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11012008 Developing countries will be better protected against receiving unwanted waste from wealthier nations under revised international rules. The 'Green List'...

  Tags: FINANCE, Government, OECD, regulation, U.K.

• 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...

  Tags: asset, China, corollary, financial, Iceland, inflation, investment, Japan, OECD, tax, U.K., U.S.

• Chapter 3: corporate saving and investment: recent trends and prospects

  - 2007-12-01

  Introduction and summary of the main results Since 2001, OECD corporate net lending has risen sharply For the aggregate OECD corporate sector, the excess of gross saving over fixed investment (i.e. net lending) has been unusually large since 2002, even allowing for the recent fall (Figure 3.1). Indeed,...

  Tags: buyback, dividend, FINANCE, financial, Investment, Japan, M., OECD, surplus, U.K., U.S.

• News: UK relies heavily on employers to provide pensions.

  - 2007-11-26

  Byline: James Thomas The disparity between the UK's occupational and state pension provision has been highlighted in a global indu-stry report. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD Pension Markets Focus underlines just how heavily the UK's pension system is...

  Tags: Benefits, OECD, pension, U.K.

• 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.

• News: UK pensions trail developed nations.

  - 2007-06-18

  Byline: Hannah Williams UK public pension provision is the worst in the developed world, ranking lower than Turkey and Greece, research has shown. The Organisation for Econ-omic Cooperation and Development OECD, an umbrella group uniting 30 leading governments, found the UK...

  Tags: Benefits, Government, Greece, OECD, pension, U.K., worker

• Management Development in Russia: Evidence From Three Provincial Cities

  - 2007-01-01

  [Abstract] This article presents some results gathered as part of a longitudinal research project designed to examine the Russian President's Management Training Initiative RPMTI, a measure introduced by the Russian government in 1997 as a strategy designed to improve the performance of the Russian economy. The research is especially concerned...

  Tags: job, OECD, Russia, salary, training, U.K.

• More jobs, more choice, more opportunity, as UK tops employment figures for G7.

  - 2006-06-13

  M2 PRESSWIRE-13 June 2006-UK Government: More jobs, more choice, more opportunity, as UK tops employment figures for G7C1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:13062006 The UK has the highest rate of employment among all the G7 countries, according to figures out today from...

  Tags: job, OECD, U.K.