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Live American Sports Return to ESPN with Cornhole Competition, NASCAR Goes Live Next Week

The Cornhole Mania 2020 doubles tournament broadcasted on ESPN noon, and the singles event will take place at 6 p.m. as some live sports begin making a comeback.




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NRL reacts to league’s one referee plan when the competition restarts on May 28

The NRL appears set to scrap the two referee system in favour of a single referee for the 2020 season, but the move has sparked heated debate in rugby league circles.




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NRL braced for biggest ever cuts as Peter V’landys set to slash $50m

Tune into our new show Fox League Live on Channel 502 Monday to Friday at 6.30pm and on Saturday at 3pm and Sunday at 5pm.




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Paul Kent blasts one referee shift as a threat to integrity of 2020 NRL competition

Tune into our new show Fox League Live on Channel 502 Monday to Friday at 6.30pm and on Saturday at 3pm and Sunday at 5pm.




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1500 residents, eight AFL players — including Sam Petrevski-Seton, who’s happy he didn’t go home

Sam Petrevski-Seton knows he made the right call now.







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Petrov hit with five-place grid penalty

Vitaly Petrov has been slapped with a five-place grid penalty for holding up Timo Glock during qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix




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Closer competition would be good for F1 - Rosberg

Nico Rosberg is hoping Mercedes' rivals can make a step up and start providing some competition this weekend in Malaysia and is particularly looking forward to Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel joining in on his Friday debrief




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Petrov handed Korea grid penalty

Vitaly Petrov has been slapped with a five place grid penalty for the Korean Grand Prix for his part in the accident at the start of the Japanese Grand Prix





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Wonderfully Incompetent Failures of Design

There wouldn't be design without a healthy number of design fails. There's people putting telephone poles in the middle of roads, goofing up headlines, photoshopping the ever-loving reality out of their ads, and making classic stupid signs. You've gotta love it when someone makes a great big sign for their local "Pubic Library." Here are some wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments.




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Tips to Keep Pets Safe During Diwali

Highlights Pet owners across the world love to shower affection on their pets, attributing them to 'best frien




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Why You Need a Rival - The Basics of a Healthy Competition

It's a competitive world out there, where everyone, right from school going kids to top business tycoons are strugglin




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Benefits of Using Steam Cleaning Carpet

Cleaning your carpets is one of the challenging tasks that you could take on. With that said the job usually depends on one’s understanding and more so practice of doing carpet cleaning. Incase if your carpet has lots of stains...




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Drink plenty of water before meals, easy to solve problem of appetite

Every weight loss people are aware of, in weight loss, no matter what is taking diet pills, all must have the control of food intake, and control appetite, then there will be no feeling of satiety, and some people can not stand this...




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Conference: Innovation in skills development for SMEs competitiveness (Ankara, Turkey)

The conference discussed the results of the project as well as policy recommendations on training and skills development for the creation of an innovative and competitive SME sector in OECD countries.




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Growth, Innovation And Competitiveness: Maximising The Benefits Of Knowledge-Based Capital

Growth, Innovation And Competitiveness: Maximising The Benefits Of Knowledge-Based Capital




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Active policies needed for a competitive and sustainable tourism sector

The tourism industry in OECD countries continues to grow strongly despite economic weakness in advanced economies, and outperformed tourism globally in 2014. However, active, innovative and integrated policies are needed to ensure that tourism remains a competitive and sustainable sector, says OECD.




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Boosting competition will help Greece’s consumers and businesses

Lifting many of the regulations stifling business competition in Greece would benefit both consumers, through lower prices, and firms, via higher turnover, according to the OECD.




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OECD Insights: Stimulating competition through open access networks

Even though the term “open access” is widely used in policy discussions surrounding broadband networks, there is little universal agreement as to what it means. A new OECD report helps to shed some light on this important concept by examining how and why open access policies have been implemented in communication markets around the world.




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More competition essential for future of mobile innovation, says OECD

OECD countries must ensure mobile markets remain open and competitive in order to sustain innovation and meet rising demand for data services, according to a new OECD report.




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Colombia telecoms regulator needs more power to increase competition, says OECD

Colombia has done much to strengthen the rules governing its telecommunication sector, but it must give its regulator more power to enforce them in order to increase competition, particularly in the highly concentrated mobile market, according to a new OECD report.




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OECD/INFE International Survey of Adult Financial Literacy Competencies

This report contains the results of an international data collection survey that measured the financial literacy and financial inclusion of adults. A total of 51,650 adults aged 18 to 79 from 30 countries and economies participated in the survey.




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Europe is underachieving in the global competition for talent

The European Union should reform its legal labour migration policies to get its fair share of the global talent pool, according to a new report published by the OECD.




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Addressing Competitiveness and Carbon Leakage Impacts Arising from Multiple Carbon Markets: A modelling Assessment - Environment Working Paper No. 58

Competitiveness and carbon leakage issues have been some of the main concerns in the implementation and discussions of climate policies. This paper examines the macroeconomic and sectoral competitiveness and carbon leakage impacts associated with a range of stylised mitigation policy scenarios.




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Impacts of Carbon Prices on Indicators of Competitiveness: A Review of Empirical findings - Environment Working Paper

Concerns around potential losses of competitiveness as a result of unilateral action on carbon pricing are often central for policy makers contemplating the introduction of such instruments. This paper is a review of literature on ex post empirical evaluations of the impacts of carbon prices on indicators of competitiveness as employed in the literature, including employment, output or exports, at different levels of aggregation.




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Tougher environmental laws do not hurt export competitiveness – OECD study

Countries that implement stringent environmental policies do not lose export competitiveness when compared against countries with more moderate regulations, according to a new OECD study that examines trade in manufactured goods between advanced and emerging economies.




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Carbon Pricing and Competitiveness: Are they at Odds? - Environment Working Paper

This paper reviews ex-post empirical assessments on the impact of carbon pricing on competitiveness in OECD and G20 countries in the electricity and industrial sectors. Most of these assessments find no statistically significant effects of carbon pricing or energy prices on different dimensions of competitiveness, including net imports, foreign direct investments, turnover, value added, employment, profits, productivity, and innovation.




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Conference: Innovation in skills development for SMEs competitiveness (Ankara, Turkey)

The conference discussed the results of the project as well as policy recommendations on training and skills development for the creation of an innovative and competitive SME sector in OECD countries.




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Germany and the Euro Area: Addressing the Competitiveness Challenge - OECD report presented to German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel

Restoring competitiveness is one of the key challenges to bring European economies back on a path of strong, sustainable and balanced growth. Europe could improve its growth prospects by implementing a strategic reform agenda with a broad range of policy reforms to increase productivity, dynamism and employment.




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Germany - Keeping the edge: Competitiveness for inclusive growth

Despite the harsh external economic environment, Germany has managed to reduce unemployment significantly while buttressing the long-term sustainability of its public finances. Drawing on the expertise and experience of OECD member countries, this report sets out key policy priorities to boost productivity growth and social inclusion.




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Active policies needed for a competitive and sustainable tourism sector

The tourism industry in OECD countries continues to grow strongly despite economic weakness in advanced economies, and outperformed tourism globally in 2014. However, active, innovative and integrated policies are needed to ensure that tourism remains a competitive and sustainable sector, says OECD.




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Conference: Innovation in skills development for SMEs competitiveness (Ankara, Turkey)

The conference discussed the results of the project as well as policy recommendations on training and skills development for the creation of an innovative and competitive SME sector in OECD countries.




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Europe is underachieving in the global competition for talent

The European Union should reform its legal labour migration policies to get its fair share of the global talent pool, according to a new report published by the OECD.




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Business brief: Towards an inclusive and competitive labour market for the evolving world of work

The way businesses operate is rapidly changing. A strong online presence and tailored services are crucially important to their global development. Together with the emergence of the on-demand economy the traditional employment relationship is therefore being replaced by a diversity of more detached, agile and adaptable forms of employment.




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Guide to Improve the Regulatory Quality of State and Municipal Formalities and boost Mexico's competitiveness

This Guide provides concrete recommendations of high impact reforms to simplify the processes of business start ups, construction permits, property registration, procurement, and to upgrade regulatory transparency and efficiency in the management of formalities in Mexico.




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Workshop on competition assessment in Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA)

The OECD, in co-ordination with Mexico's Ministry of Economy and COFEMER, organised a workshop to train federal officials to understake competition assessment as part of the RIA framework.




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ASEAN-OECD Good Regulatory Practice Conference 2015: Connectivity, Competitiveness and Regulatory Coherence

This conference provided a multi-disciplinary forum to discuss issues of regulatory reform involving both government and non-government actors.




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Forum on competition and regulation: In pursuit of market efficiency

Forum on competition and regulation: In pursuit of market efficiency




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OECD Announces Winner of Global Data Visualisation Competition

The OECD today announced the winner of its first-ever global data visualisation challenge.




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Competitions: the secret to developing and measuring skills? (Interview with David Hoey, Chief Executive Officer of WorldSkills International)

David Hoey, Chief Executive Officer of WorldSkills International spoke to us of the international skills extravaganza (WorldSkills Leipzig 2013) going on now, between 2-7 July.




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More competition essential for future of mobile innovation, says OECD

OECD countries must ensure mobile markets remain open and competitive in order to sustain innovation and meet rising demand for data services, according to a new OECD report.




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Great Education Debate - We must be able to compete in a global education system (Andreas Schleicher, Deputy Director for Education and Skills and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECD's Secretary-General)

In a global economy, the benchmark for educational success is no longer improvement by national standards alone, but the best performing school systems internationally.




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Does lifelong learning perpetuate inequalities in educational opportunities? (OECD Education Today Blog)

More than 40 years ago, the former French Prime Minister Edgar Faure and his team published one of the most influential educational works of the 20th century: “Learning to Be”, better known as the “Rapport Faure”, in which he mainstreamed the idea of lifelong learning.




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PISA in Focus No. 46 - Does homework perpetuate inequities in education?

While most 15-year-old students spend part of their after-school time doing homework, the amount of time they spend on it shrank between 2003 and 2012. Socio-economically advantaged students and students who attend socio-economically advantaged schools tend to spend more time doing homework.




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Education Indicators in Focus No. 40 - Teachers’ ICT and problem-solving skills: Competencies and needs

The education sector performs well for information and communication technology (ICT) and problem-solving skills, although it still lags behind the professional, scientific and technical activities sector.




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Teaching for Global Competence in a Rapidly Changing World

This new publication sets forward the PISA framework for global competence developed by the OECD, which aligns closely with the definition developed by the Center for Global Education at Asia Society.




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Working Paper 2011/7: The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities:The Case of the Seine Axis

This working paper offers an evaluation of the performance of the ports of the Seine Axis (Le Havre,Rouen, Caen and Paris).