Author: Organization for Economic Cooperation
Publisher: OECD
Keywords: outlook, employment, oecd
Number of Pages: 275
Published: 2010-09-31
ISBN-10: 9264084681
ISBN-13: 9789264084681

2010 OECD Employment Outlook: Moving Beyond the Jobs Crisis The OECD Employment Outlook provides an annual assessment of labour market developments and prospects in member countries.  This issue focuses on the jobs crisis in particular and looks at steps taken by governments to help workers and the unemployed.  It recommends ways of preventing current high levels of unemployment becoming entrenched. Table of contents Chapter 1. Moving beyond the jobs crisis.Chapter 2. The global crisis in emerging economies: the jobs impact and policy response.Chapter 3. Institutional

Author: OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and D
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Keywords: agenda, policy, designing, bioeconomy
Number of Pages: 323
Published: 2009-04-21
ISBN-10: 9264038531
ISBN-13: 9789264038530

The biological sciences are adding value to a host of products and services, producing what some have labelled the bioeconomy and offering the potential to make major socio-economic contributions in OECD countries. Using quantitative analyses of data on development pipelines and R D expenditures from private and public databases, this book estimates biotechnological developments to 2015. Moving to a broader institutional view, it also looks at the roles of R D funding, human resources, intellectual property, and regulation in the bioeconomy, as well as at possible developments that could influ

Author: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Develo
Publisher: OECD
Keywords: policy, makers, guide, valuation, biodiversity, handbook
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2002-03-01
ISBN-10: 9264197311
ISBN-13: 9789264197312

All societies depend on biodiversity and biological resources, and policy makers are increasingly aware that development pressures are today generating unprecedented rates of biodiversity loss. The fact that biodiversity issues often receive low priority in policy decisions is at least in part due to problems involved in assessing its contribution to society -- these values defy easy description and quantification. What cannot be quantified, or is difficult to monitor and evaluate, is easy to disregard. The result is that biodiversity fails to compete on a level playing field in policy

Author: OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and D
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Keywords: china, surveys, economic, oecd
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2010-02-03
ISBN-10: 9264076670
ISBN-13: 9789264076679

This 2010 edition of OECD’s periodic review of China’s economy finds that China’s spectacular expansion has continued in recent years, making for impressive improvements in living standards. The slowdown associated with the global financial and economic crisis was contained by massive fiscal and monetary policy stimulus, which has boosted domestic demand. This survey includes chapters on recent achievements and prospects, monetary policy, financial reforms, product market regulation and competition, inequality, the labour market, old-age security and the health care system.

Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: times, difficult, reforming, business, doing
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 2009-09-10
ISBN-10: 0821379615
ISBN-13: 9780821379615

Doing Business 2010 is the seventh in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 183 economies--from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe--and over time. Regulations affecting 10 stages of a business’s life are measured: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, e

Author: David M. Marchick Alan P. Larso
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relatio
Keywords: schwartz, irene, series, american, competitiveness, bernard, right, national, investment, security, getting, balance, foreign
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2007-12-14
ISBN-10: 0876093640
ISBN-13: 9780876093641

The Dubai Ports World controversy has shed light on the tensions between Congress and the executive branch over the appropriate balance between foreign investment and national security. In the past few months, members of Congress have met with international companies, homeland security experts, and administration officials to better understand the process of reviewing security concerns associated with foreign investment in the United States. Congress is intent on changing the process and becoming more involved; the challenge ahead is to reform the process in order to minimize the security risk