To improve productivity and help address socio-economic challenges, such as ageing, Japan needs to strengthen its innovation performance.

Between 1999 and 2014, the number of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Japan dropped by 21% as a result of the retirement of ageing business owners and weak entrepreneurial intentions in the Japanese population.

Insurance is invisible yet it is everywhere. It is intimately linked to how people live their lives, grow their businesses, save and invest their incomes, anticipate what is essential to them and how they protect themselves against risk.

As environmental pressures continue to rise, governments throughout the OECD area have not been sitting back. If anything, the stringency of their policy measures has been increasing on the whole, not least to combat pollution and climate change. And as the evidence shows, stringent environmental policies can be introduced without hurting overall productivity.

“What is the city but the people?” asked Shakespeare in Coriolanus. All city planning focuses on people and the quality of life. The big cities in Brazil took shape from the 1950s, when the country’s population amounted to approximately 52 million inhabitants, only 36.2% of whom lived in cities.

Brazil has made significant progress in building a reputation for sound fiscal policy since it passed the Fiscal Responsibility Law in 2000. In recent years, however, the fiscal situation has become more difficult as public spending and gross debt have risen.

Brazil is steadily investing in the creation of rules and regulations to converge to governance standards already consolidated in developed countries. Complying with these international standards is indispensable if Brazilian companies intend to operate on a global scale.

Brazil has made significant progress in building a reputation for sound fiscal policy since it passed the Fiscal Responsibility Law in 2000. In recent years, however, the fiscal situation has become more difficult as public spending and gross debt have risen.

Brazil is steadily investing in the creation of rules and regulations to converge to governance standards already consolidated in developed countries. Complying with these international standards is indispensable if Brazilian companies intend to operate on a global scale.

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Monday, March 16

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates to zero and joined forces with other central banks in a bid to prevent a severe economic downturn caused by the coronavirus outbreak. The FT’s Gillian Tett unpacks the sweeping measures. Plus, the rapid spread of the coronavirus and the ensuing travel restrictions have led to one of the worst months on record for the airport industry, and French industrials group Air Liquide is asking would-be buyers of its hand sanitiser unit to offer a higher sum in the wake of the outbreak. 

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HENRY DEEDES: The PM's prognosis was: no pubs, no clubs, and no more trips to the theatre. In fact, no heading outdoors unless extremely necessary.

HENRY DEEDES: Yvonne Doyle, medical director of Public Health England, looked mildly blank when the thorny issue of care homes was raised at yesterday's Downing Street press briefing.

Maddox and Brad have been almost entirely estranged since a 2016 incident where the thespian and son allegedly had a serious altercation while aboard a private plane.

The screen star, 56, is said to have met Jillian Lamb at the local pub where she worked, before hanging out at The Marriott hotel and One Devonshire Gardens back in 1994.

Top intelligence agency officials will brief Republican lawmakers on Thursday on a confidential FBI source who acted as an informant on the Trump presidential campaign.

Senior lawmakers attended classified briefings with intelligence officials on the FBI's probe of Russia's role in the 2016 election.

Hope Hicks pushed President Trump to take control of the coronavirus briefings, which popped up his approval ratings for a few weeks, but have more recently tilted toward political disaster.

MKR's Betty Banks flaunts her pert derrière in Brazilian-cut bikini bottoms during European getaway.

The briefcase, which has a personalised key code, a flash card and is under constant supervision, is said to remotely control Russia's nuclear arsenal.

On Friday she shared two snaps of herself modeling a set of the Smooth Essentials seamless underwear which is designed to lie flat against the skin and feel silky smooth.

The rising actor, 23, took a brief break from the set as he enjoyed some quality time with his famous mother Sadie Frost near their family home in the Cotswolds on Monday.

The former Geordie Shore star, 32, was pictured preparing to ship out isolation care packages to vulnerable Brits with her boyfriend Ercan, 36, in London on Thursday amid the coronavirus pandemic.

President Donald Trump has denied getting told by to intelligence officials that Russia is intervening in the 2020 primaries and wants to help Bernie Sanders.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's speech was interrupted on Thursday night, when a Code Pink protester unfurled a banner reading 'Build Bridges, Not Walls.'

The administration has canceled three classified briefings for lawmakers on the situation with Iran - a move that comes after officials faced criticism for their lack of candor in their last round of briefings.

Donald Trump vowed Monday to bring back his widely-viewed coronavirus briefings, but said they will be limited to one or two a week instead of the daily briefings he held over the last two months.

New White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday defended her February comment that 'we will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here.'

Kelly Clarkson and Pink are kissing certain beauty standards goodbye. The American Idol alum and the So What singer exchanged a few tweets on Twitter on Sunday about aging.

The actress, 24, treated herself to a brief break from the show as she dined at DUCKSOUP in London's Soho district with a male pal on Sunday evening.

In the latest edition of OK! magazine, the couple pose with their two daughters — Ella, three, and three-month-old Mia — as they gush about rekindling their romance following Dan's recent stint on CBB.

The retired footballer, 36, and the glamour model, 33, are reportedly back together after blazing rows over having a baby and 'pressures of fame'.

The Magic Mike actor, 39, and the British singer , 31, are 'fully back together' now after a brief split late last year, an insider spilled to E! on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump raged about media coverage of CDC Director Robert Redfield's warning about a second wave of the coronavirus.

President Donald Trump avoided questions at his White House briefing Friday after giving conflicting responses on his proposed idea of treating coronavirus with disinfectants.

President Donald Trump may be forced to take a back seat at the daily coronavirus task force press briefings, as White House officials look to make up for Thursday's disinfectant blunder.

The White House tried to move CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins to the back of the room before Trump started his Friday coronavirus press briefing.

Gov. Larry Hogan suggested that the 'misinformation' said by President Trump at daily briefings sent the wrong message

The Prime Minister has been informed of the proposals for matches to be played behind closed doors. And Mr Johnson sees the resumption of live sport as key to boosting the moral of the nation.

The former Brexit secretary David Davis said that Cummings's presence could alter the advice offered in meetings. It was last night revealed the PM's chief aide had attended Sage meetings.

Boris Johnson raised fears for his health tonight with a breathless first Downing Street briefing since being discharged from intensive care after battling coronavirus.

Ruby Walsh is content. Happy he is going to the Cheltenham Festival and comfortable his contribution will be only from behind a microphone.

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo and his New York governor brother Andrew Cuomo engaged in another round of playful sibling banter during the latter's daily coronavirus press briefing on Thursday.

Outsourcing the policy-making function is bad enough, but the government should certainly not have allowed trespass on its domain by the Naresh Chandra Task Force, writes Firdaus Ahmed.

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