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• in Lifestyle
  50% Cut in Foreign Aid Pays for Double Gas Mileage
  The only corporations to object to it thus far are: Daimler AG, and Volkswagen AG.
  by stephengfm / on Nov 17, 2011
• in Politics
  Unrest, High Prices Hamper Africa's Recovery
  Africa weathered the global economic crisis, but rising fuel and food prices could slow 2011 growth, a new report warns.
  by coalporter / on Jun 6, 2011
• in Family
  When Will American Parents Get a Grip About Education?
  American parents want to give their children a competitive edge academically, but they're going about it all wrong
  by shannonford / on May 18, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “oecd”

 

• India joins multilateral forum to curb tax evasion

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  New Delhi, Jan 27 (IANS) In a bid to curb tax avoidance and evasion, India has joined a multilateral forum of which there are over 30 members, including the US, Britain, Japan and South Africa, an official statement said Friday.“By signing the convention, India and the other 31 signatories encourage more countries ...
  3 days ago

• Will Austerity be ended in Davos?

  
  Social Europe Journal — Authority: 118
  The World Economic Forum 2012 is held again in Davos this week. It is the ‘Glastonbury of Globalisation‘ as Larry Elliott of The Guardian aptly put it; but the preparation for this...
  1 week ago

• France and Flexible Employment

  
  Economics — Authority: 123
  This article could be useful as an illustration of the EU context in relation to employment in general, and flexible employment in particular. Attracting inward FDI is arguably a significant benefit of UK membership of the EU, and one of the advantages which the UK can offer compared to, say, France is relatively ...
  1 week ago

• Unit 4 Macro: Russia Joins the WTO

  
  Economics — Authority: 123
  I am using Russia’s entry to the World Trade Organisation in my teaching on international trade and development this term. It appear to be a significant moment for the global economy. Russia is the last member of the Group of 20 major economies to join, after China gained membership in 2001. Progress towards ...
  1 week ago

• Easynomics Court: Leading Indicators vs May 2012

  
  Easynomics — Authority: 112
  NOTE: The “charges” against April 2012 as laid out in the previous Easynomics Court case  have been modified due to a calculation error I made with the Conference Board Leading Economic Index figures. I’ve decided to start a new feature called “Easynomics Court” where a specific month is analyzed using ...
  1 week ago

• Deregulation: A Bad Idea Crosses the Atlantic

  
  The Progressive Economics Forum — Authority: 460
  The Harper government announced today that federal “regulators will be required to remove at least one regulation each time they introduce a new one that imposes administrative burden on business.” At the risk of imposing a proofreading burden on communications staff, that sentence is missing the word “an.” ...
  1 week ago

• IEA cuts 2012 oil demand growth forecast

  
  Dubai Business | Kippreport — Authority: 505
  In its monthly oil market report, the Paris-based agency said there was a rising likelihood of a sharp economic slowdown in 2012, if not a downright recession. “Euro zone indebtedness has not gone away, as downgrades to the credit ratings of a number of major economies testify,” the IEA, the energy agency for ...
  1 week ago

• Debts With Unsolvable Insolvency

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 119
  Time and time again, Europe solves its debt problems... and every time they dont get solved at all. Italian bond yields are edging back up. And Greece is negotiating a default. They want to avoid a naked, noisy default...so they are dressing it up as "voluntary" or "soft". But they cant disguise the fact that ...
  1 week ago

• Global: Reconfiguring the World – Looking Back

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 130
  By Dirk Messner*Courtesy of IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint | DIEBONN (IDN) – There are years that stick in the memory because they are associated with exceptional events: 1989 was the year the Berlin Wall fell, sounding the knell of the East-West conflict, 2001 the year of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, while 2008 will ...
  1 week ago

• Masdar, Devt Bank Japan to invest in renewables

  
  Dubai Business | Kippreport — Authority: 505
  The initiative will be through a renewable energy project platform, Masdar said on Monday. “Given the lack of financing available to fund operational renewable energy projects, it is an opportune time to invest in projects that can provide stable returns to Masdar Capital and DBJ,” chief executive Sultan al Jaber ...
  1 week ago

• No supranational regulatory body should govern the Internet, say U.S. officials

  
  FierceGovernmentIT — Authority: 557
  The United States will oppose attempts to create a "supranational regulatory body" for the Internet during a planned December 2012 meeting of the International Telecommunications Union, said Larry Strickling, head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Strickling spoke Jan. 11 at the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Debt of Capitalism

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 119
  More thoughts on debt and the " Crisis in Capitalism ." "Americans think we are stupid," said a European diplomat at a dinner party in Washington. "But were not stupid. Were just working out the problems involved in forming what you might call a more perfect union." "Well, you can unify all you want...it wont ...
  2 weeks ago

• Work-Life balance

  
  Slow, viu a poc a poc — Authority: 94
  Work-Life balance is one of the key issues in my life. I love my job, but at the same time I love being free to do and enjoy whatever I want, that’s why some times it becames an issue. Where is the balance point? In addition, depending on the country where you live, the chances to balance your work-life are ...
  2 weeks ago

• A treasure trove of data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD):

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 148
  http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/statistics This one is interesting: “OECD composite leading indicators continue pointing to slowdown in economic activity in most major economies” http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/61/11/49381144.pdf
  2 weeks ago

• Newsnight on rebalancing the UK economy

  
  Economics — Authority: 123
  Last night’s edition of Newsnight should be required viewing for all AS and A level economists - and it is a huge shame that it is only available on i-player for another 7 days . Introduced on the shock news that even Tesco is vulnerable to the downturn, it included reports from Andrew Verity looking at whether ...
  2 weeks ago

• OECD lead indicator signals further GDP slowing

  
  Reuters — Authority: 741
  PARIS (Reuters) - Growth in most of the worlds major economies is likely to slow further, according to a leading indicator for November published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Thursday.
  2 weeks ago

• Education for Sustainable Energy Development (ESED) Scholarship Programme, Canada

  
  School'z Gate — Authority: 118
  Education for Sustainable Energy Development (ESED) The Aims To support outstanding students pursuing advanced studies in sustainable energy development and to encourage meaningful contributions to the collective body of knowledge about this subject. Deadline March 9, 2012 Eligibility Students must plan to undertake ...
  2 weeks ago

• Country PFM Systems That Donors Can Believe In – A Glass Half Full

  
  PFM Blog — Authority: 102
  Posted by Camille Karamaga As many participants and stakeholders in developing country budget processes have recognized, channeling external aid through country systems has helped to strengthen institutional and individual capacities, enhance domestic accountability for resources, improve expenditure prioritization, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Donor spending: Who paid up in 2010 — and who didn’t

  
  ONE — Authority: 468
  Sliding in just before the holidays, the OECD-DAC released its final update to the 2010 data on official development assistance (ODA) flows. The DAC — or, Development Assistance Committee — is a grouping of the world’s wealthiest donor countries. It tracks donor spending on development finance and helps ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hard-working Greeks

  
  MacroScope — Authority: 528
  At the epicenter of Europe’s financial crisis, Greece has taken a lot of heat for setting off the panic that now threatens to engulf the rest of the continent. One common story line is that inefficient Southern European states are dragging down a more industrious North, a theme we have previously questioned on ...
  2 weeks ago

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