The average New Zealand worker has had the second-biggest increase in income tax in the OECD, largely because of the bracket creep issue. |
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The OECD believes that carbon taxes are a key to making emissions trading viable. |
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In most OECD countries these contributions are made through hypothecated taxes. |
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But if you their incomes to other high earners, doctors in the US are actually kind of middling by OECD standards. |
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The most recent numbers place it as the seventh-most unequal among 35 OECD states. |
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Such forms of cooperation commonly take place among the developed OECD countries but it is the members of the European Union that have gone farthest in that direction. |
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According to the OECD, 20 countries have higher high school graduation rates than the United States. |
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Universal or near-universal pre-school is a fact of life in most OECD countries, and someday it will come to pass in this one. |
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The US is below the OECD average, whereas Finland is above, as is The Netherlands. |
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The average across the OECD countries in 2008 was to have 77 percent of three to five-year-olds enrolled in pre-school. |
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In any case, those pushing it thought that the OECD, dominated by First World governments and corporate lobbies, was perhaps a more suitable venue for these matters. |
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Infant mortality is one of the lowest in the world, and the proportion of the population that smokes is lower than the OECD average. |
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In 2000, the OECD identified 38 such entities, most of them Caribbean and Pacific islands and European microstates. |
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The program will delve into the specific proposals released by the OECD on Oct. |
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The report shows that in 10 OECD countries, over 40per cent of the national rise in unemployment since the crisis was concentrated in one region. |
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According to these OECD projections, this isn't going to change anytime soon. |
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Currently on the OECD greylist, Anguilla is working hard at getting whitelisted. |
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This protocol is validated by ECVAM and accepted by OECD as a non-animal alternative to the rabbit Draize test. |
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In addition, employment rates in the Eurocurrency area of Europe are still falling and are lower than the OECD average, as a whole. |
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Most industrialized countries in the OECD are not yet ready for the international community's new sustainability pledge. |
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Also, health care and education spending have relatively poor returns by OECD measures, though improvements have been made in both areas. |
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The OECD Economic Survey of Iceland 2008 had highlighted Iceland's challenges in currency and macroeconomic policy. |
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According to an OECD report, Iceland devotes far more resources to healthcare than most industrialised nations. |
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According to an OECD assessment, the amount of toxic materials in the atmosphere is far lower than in any other industrialised country measured. |
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On 27 May 2009 the OECD removed Liechtenstein from the blacklist of uncooperative countries. |
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While the manufacturing sector is thriving, the OECD points out that the service sector would benefit substantially from policy improvements. |
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In 2005, Finland had the fourth most scientific publications per capita of the OECD countries. |
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A review was undertaken by the OECD, having been commissioned by the Scottish government to look at the broad general education. |
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Belgium is also a founding member of the Eurozone, NATO, OECD and WTO, and a part of the trilateral Benelux Union. |
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According to the OECD, deregulation, globalisation, and technology sector growth have been key productivity drivers. |
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By market share measures, domestic markets are the least open of any OECD country. |
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The OECD places Australia among the most expensive nations to attend university. |
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The ratio of international to local students in tertiary education in Australia is the highest in the OECD countries. |
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The OECD attributes this difference to South Africa's widespread welfare system. |
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Norway ranks first on the World Happiness Report, the OECD Better Life Index, the Index of Public Integrity, and the Democracy Index. |
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According to the OECD, the vast majority of financial assets in every country analysed is found in the top of the wealth distribution. |
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In November 2011, the OECD removed Trinidad and Tobago from its list of Developing Countries. |
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The OECD Pisa survey revealed Irish whiz-kids have climbed five places in the rankings to ninth. |
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Linear alkylbenzene sulfonic acids and alkylate bottoms are currently being reviewed by the OECD SIDS program. |
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For example, the OECD index of foreign direct investment restrictiveness shows the United States as the 10th most regulated among 34 countries. |
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By Patrick Love and Ralph Lattimore, Paris, France, OECD Publishing, 2009, 193 pp. |
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The Kingdom of Denmark as a whole is a member of the United Nations, NATO, the OECD and the World Trade Organization. |
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Norway ranks first on the World Happiness Report, the OECD Better Life Index, the Index of Public Integrity and the Democracy Index. |
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The OECD ranks Norway fourth in the 2013 equalised Better Life Index and third in intergenerational earnings elasticity. |
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The country has a market income inequality close to the OECD average, but after public cash transfers the income inequality is very low. |
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As of 2012 This places Denmark above the OECD average and above the other Nordic countries. |
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However, the country ranks below the OECD average in terms of GNP per capita. |
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The following is published by the OECD and is presented in PPPs so to adjust for costs of living. |
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Yugoslavia had observer status in the organisation starting with the establishment of the OECD until its dissolution as a country. |
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In September 2012, the government of Bulgaria confirmed it will apply for full membership before the OECD Secretariat. |
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In 2013, the OECD decided to open membership talks with Colombia and Latvia. |
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Other countries that have expressed interest in OECD membership are Argentina, Peru, Malaysia, and Kazakhstan. |
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In March 2014, the OECD halted membership talks with Russia in response to its role in the 2014 Crimean crisis. |
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In this work, the OECD cooperates with businesses, with trade unions and with other representatives of civil society. |
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Collaboration at the OECD regarding taxation, for example, has fostered the growth of a global web of bilateral tax treaties. |
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On 22 October 2008, at an OECD meeting in Paris, 17 countries led by France and Germany decided to draw up a new blacklist of tax havens. |
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Germany, France, and other countries called on the OECD to specifically add Switzerland to a blacklist of countries that encourage tax fraud. |
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The OECD publishes books, reports, statistics, working papers and reference materials. |
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All titles and databases published since 1998 can be accessed via OECD iLibrary. |
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External researchers can consult OECD publications and archival material on the OECD premises by appointment. |
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The OECD is known as a statistical agency, as it publishes comparable statistics on a wide number of subjects. |
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There are 15 working papers series published by the various directorates of the OECD Secretariat. |
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Exchanges between OECD governments benefit from the information, analysis, and preparation of the OECD Secretariat. |
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The EU states not in the OECD are Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Lithuania, Malta, and Romania. |
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The European Commission participates in the work of the OECD alongside the EU Member States. |
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The OECD has been criticised by several civil society groups and developing countries. |
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The main criticism has been the narrowness of the OECD because of its limited membership to a select few rich nations. |
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According to the OECD Germany has one of the highest labour productivity levels in the world. |
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According to an OECD report in 2014, Germany is the world's third leading destination for international study. |
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The BSX is a full member of the World Federation of Exchanges and is located in an OECD member nation. |
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A recent OECD DAC Commique has seen the donor community update the definition of ODA to better reflect the Sustainable Development Goals. |
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The OECD also lists countries by the amount of ODA they give as a percentage of their gross national income. |
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A 2011 OECD study investigated economic inequality in Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia and South Africa. |
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Since 1995, trillions of dollars have been transferred from OECD and developing countries into tax havens using these schemes. |
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However, he has been criticised over his perceived inaction on enacting policies set forth by the OECD to combat tax avoidance. |
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The OECD, the G20, or the European Union could also institute another list for countries that are inadequate in more than one area. |
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This method of oversight differs from most other healthcare systems in the OECD who look to set clear and consistent standards. |
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Iceland has a market economy with relatively low taxes compared to other OECD countries. |
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Despite low tax rates, agricultural assistance is the highest among OECD countries and a potential impediment to structural change. |
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The letter was handed to OECD Secretary General Angel Guria by Bulgaria's Ambassador to France Marin Raykov, according to the press office of Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry. |
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The Programme for International Student Assessment indicates that Canadian students perform well above the OECD average, particularly in mathematics, science, and reading. |
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The publications are updated accordingly to the OECD iLibrary. |
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Measured by total factor productivity, labour, and capital, British productivity growth between 1979 and 1993 compared favourably with the OECD average. |
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However expenditure as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product had fallen, and was predicted to fall further, as was the UK's place among OECD nations' health expenditure. |
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Spending on education as a proportion of GDP is below the OECD average. |
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As of 2014 The share of the population reporting that they feel that they cannot afford to buy sufficient food in Denmark is less than half of the OECD average. |
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A founding member of the G7, the Eurozone and the OECD, it is regarded as one of the world's most industrialised nations and a leading country in world trade and exports. |
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Contains listing of the latest OECD books, plus ordering information. |
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This term, used today, generally denotes countries that have not developed to the same levels as OECD countries, and are thus in the process of developing. |
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It has been argued that the G20 has been using the OECD as a secretariat. |
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The OECD is funded by contributions from member states at varying rates. |
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It is estimated that public support for farmers in OECD countries costs a family of four on average nearly 1,000 USD per year in higher prices and taxes. |
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Lithuania gained membership in the World Trade Organization on 31 May 2001, and currently seeks membership in the OECD and other Western organizations. |
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In 2011, President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia expressed the country's willingness to join the organisation during a speech at the OECD headquarters. |
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As an international organisation the terms of employment of the OECD Secretariat staff are not governed by the laws of the country in which their offices are located. |
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However, the OECD reported in 2015 that income inequality is higher than it has ever been within OECD member nations and is at increased levels in many emerging economies. |
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Recent growth in overall income inequality, at least within the OECD countries, has been driven mostly by increasing inequality in wages and salaries. |
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The FATF Secretariat is housed at the headquarters of the OECD in Paris. |
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The quality of education in Northern Europe is rated highly in international rankings, with Estonia and Finland topping the list among the OECD countries in Europe. |
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The OECD publishes and updates a model tax convention that serves as a template for bilateral negotiations regarding tax coordination and cooperation. |
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