Tag: OECD

• Monday, August 6th 2012 - 07:40 UTC

  Chile’s discredited Piñera revamps tax reform bill ahead of municipal elections

  

  Chile's government re-drafted a sweeping tax reform bill aimed at helping fund an education overhaul, removing criticized benefits for higher earners as it seeks to help its passage through Congress ahead of key local elections.

• Wednesday, July 25th 2012 - 07:04 UTC

  Germany and France express support for Spain but markets demand more than words

  

  German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and his counterpart from Madrid said Spain’s borrowing costs don’t reflect the strength of its economy as they pledged to work toward deeper integration to fight the debt crisis.

• Tuesday, July 10th 2012 - 21:02 UTC

  The 34-country OECD has 48 million jobless with little hopes until 2014

  

  Unemployment in advanced economies will remain high until at least the end of 2013, with young people and the low-skilled bearing the brunt of what is by far the weakest economic recovery in the past four decades, the OECD said today.

• Tuesday, June 19th 2012 - 06:59 UTC

  Brazil/Argentina agree G20 common position, but will wait to listen to Germany

  

  Brazil and Argentina agreed on Monday “to oppose any financial adjustment plan” and sponsor development and growth policies to face the world crisis, in the framework of the two-day G20 summit taking place in Mexico.

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 01:49 UTC

  OECD/World Bank recommends more inclusive growth economic policy

  

  Economic policy should be better designed to bring about more inclusive growth, ensuring that the benefits of increased prosperity are shared more evenly across society, according to a new report from the OECD and the World Bank.

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 01:21 UTC

  Argentina attacks WTO and US on trade issues at OECD ministerial round

  

  In an offensive to counter recent attacks on Argentina’s restrictive trade policies, Foreign Minister Hector Timerman expressed at the World Trade Organization, WTO, his government’s concern with the current course of global negotiations which face the serious risk of abandoning the development goals agreed when the launching of the current Doha Round of negotiations back in 2001.

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2012 - 18:50 UTC

  OECD anticipated end to weak growth in Brazil but warns about inflation

  

  Weak growth in Brazil seems to be coming to an end, but there are still looming risks in the shape of inflation, credit risk and competitiveness, according to the latest outlook published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2012 - 18:39 UTC

  US and Japan leading economic recovery but still fragile says latest OECD report

  

  The United States and Japan are leading a fragile economic recovery among developed countries that could yet be blown off course if the Euro zone fails to contain its flaring growth crisis, the OECD said on Tuesday.

• Monday, May 21st 2012 - 01:25 UTC

  Bargains forecasts in Uruguay as Argentine investors withdraw funds following new bank rules

  

  By Dean Steinbeck (*) As much as it defies common sense, Uruguay entered into a tax sharing agreement that will scare off Argentine investors; the same group of people who are Uruguay’s biggest source of capital, investment, and innovation.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 09:15 UTC

  UN Tourism office forecasts record over a billion international tourist arrivals

  

  More than one billion tourists will take a trip this year crossing an international boundary, a threshold never before reached, UN officials told a meeting tourism ministers gathering in Mexico this week.