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Mother's Day special: Debina recalls how her mother stitched dress sported by Kajol in Shah Rukh's Baazigar

Debina Bonnerjee has recalled her mother got out of her way to get the dress sported by Kajol in Shah Rukh Khan's Baazigar.




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Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer Ghoomketu finally set to release on OTT

Directed by Pushpendra Nath Misra, "Ghoomketu" is a comedy- drama from the viewpoint of a budding writer (played by Nawazuddin), struggling to make it big in the film industry in Mumbai.




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From Ambani to Jeff Bezos: 9 most ridiculous things owned by world's top billionaires

From Mukesh Ambani's Antilla to Roman Abramovich's Eclipse yacht, check out the nine most ridiculous things owned by the world's top billionaires.




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'Show me your tool' to 'let me touch it': 5 Bollywood hunks and their bizarre casting couch experience

From Ayushmann Khurrana to Ranveer Singh, here's the list of male actors in Bollywood who faced horrific incidents of casting couch in their career.




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Ransom.MSIL.FREEZING.A

Over All Risk Rating : Low


This ransomware is one of the few ransomware families that is loaded and executed under the legitimate PowerShell executable. It also is one of the few that uses restart session manager to terminate processes that have associated files it tries to encrypt.

This Ransomware arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.

It drops files as ransom note.

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Coinminer.Win64.MALXMR.TIAOODBZ

Over All Risk Rating : Low


This miner figured in the fileless GhostMiner that uses WMI Objects. GhostMiner is known to kill competing other miner payloads.

This Coinminer arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.

It uses the system's central processing unit (CPU) and/or graphical processing unit (GPU) resources to mine cryptocurrency.

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Modernizing Russia in a challenging global environment

Russia is facing huge challenges. It is incredibly rich in natural and human assets. To modernize itself and thus diversify, it needs to invest in these assets and to preserve them. The reform agenda is daunting, covering structural, social, environmental and institutional reforms. A lot has already been done but implementation remains a critical challenge, said OECD's Gurría.




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Openings for AngularJS/NodeJS/Java/PHP Tech Lead/Core Dot Net for MNC Company- Andheri Seepz

Company: Confidential
Experience: 4 to 8
location: Mumbai, Mumbai City, Navi Mumbai, Thane
Ref: 24828121
Summary: Openings for AngularJS/NodeJS/Java/PHP Tech Lead/Core Dot Net for MNC Company- Andheri Seepz Experience: 1) Angular JS: 3 to 5 Years 2) Node JS: 3 to 5 Years 3) Java: 3 to 5 Years 4) PHP Tech....




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Graphic Designer Req For Canada | Australia | New Zealand

Company: Pear Visa Immigration Services Private Limited
Experience: 2 to 8
Salary: 45.30 to 61.60
location: Australia, Canada
Ref: 24210092
Summary: Conceptualizing visuals based on requirements Creating images and layouts by hand or using design software Testing graphics across various media




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The Bill Frenzel Champion of Free Trade Award – Economic Club of Minnesota

The OECD Secretary-General spoke to the Economic Club of Minnesota about what must be done to make the trade system that has benefited so many work for everyone.




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The Squeezed Middle Class - How does the United States compare?

This country fact-sheet presents key figures from "Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle Class". This report analyses the trends of middle-income households in areas such as employment, consumption, wealth and debt, as well as perceptions and social attitudes. It also includes recommendations for protecting middle-class living standards and financial security in the face of economic challenges.




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Long-Term Care in New Zealand

An overview of the long-term care situation in New Zealand is available here.




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Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth 2012 - New Zealand Country Note

This note is taken from Chapter 2 of Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth 2012.




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Reflections on 120 years of women's suffrage in New Zealand

On 19 September 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant the right to vote to all adult women. New Zealand's Permanent Representative to the OECD Rosemary Banks says the 120th anniversary of this decision is an time to reflect on that achievement.




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New Zealand not immune from foreign bribery, says OECD

New Zealand must significantly increase its efforts to detect, investigate and prosecute foreign bribery. Since joining the Convention over 12 years ago, New Zealand has not prosecuted any cases of foreign bribery and only four allegations have surfaced to date. Outdated perceptions that New Zealand individuals and companies do not bribe may have also undermined detection efforts.




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Society at a Glance 2014 - Key findings for New Zealand

This note presents key findings for New Zealand from Society at a Glance 2014 - OECD Social indicators. This 2014 publication also provides a special chapter on: the crisis and its aftermath: a “stress test” for societies and for social policies.




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Recruiting Immigrant Workers: New Zealand 2014

New Zealand, is one of the OECD countries with large and longstanding labour migration. The report finds that by and large, the New Zealand labour migration system is functioning well. Several features of the NZ immigration system, such as the Expression of Interest system, are gradually about to become an example for selection systems elsewhere in the OECD.




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Measuring Innovation in Education - New Zealand

The ability to measure innovation is essential to an improvement strategy in education. This country note analyses how the practices are changing within classrooms and educational organisations and how teachers develop and use their pedagogical resources.




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PISA 2012 Financial Literacy results - New Zealand

PISA 2012 financial literacy results focusing on the performance of Spain amongst 17 other countries and economies who participated in the assessment: Australia, Belgium (Flemish Community), Shanghai-China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Israel, Italy, Latvia, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, and the United States




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Job Creation and Local Economic Development in New Zealand

This publication highlights new evidence on policies to support job creation, bringing together the latest research on labour market, entrepreneurship and local economic development policy to help governments support job creation in the recovery. It also includes a set of country pages featuring, among other things, new data on skills supply and demand at the level of smaller OECD regions (TL3).




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Revenue Statistics and Consumption Tax Trends 2014: Key findings for New Zealand

The tax burden in New Zealand declined by 0.9 percentage points from 33.0% to 32.1%, the third largest fall amongst member countries in 2013. The OECD average was an increase of 0.4 percentage points from 33.7% to 34.1%. New Zealand’s standard GST rate is 15%, which is below the OECD average. The average VAT/GST standard rate in the OECD was 19.1% on 1 January 2014.




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Going for Growth 2015: Key findings for New Zealand

Going for Growth 2015: Key findings for New Zealand




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Water Resources Allocation: New Zealand Country Profile

Water resources allocation determines who is able to use water resources, how, when and where. Capturing information from 27 OECD countries and key partner economies, the report presents key findings from the OECD Survey of Water Resources Allocation and case studies of successful allocation reform.




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Strengthening the international community’s fight against offshore tax evasion: Australia, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia and New Zealand join multilateral agreement to automatically exchange information

In a boost for international efforts to strengthen co-operation against offshore tax evasion, seven new countries have joined the agreement to exchange information automatically under the OECD/G20 standard.




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New Zealand economy performing well, but sustaining high levels of growth and well-being will require further reforms

The New Zealand economy has performed well in recent years, but bottlenecks in housing and urban infrastructure, inequalities in living standards and rising environmental pressures all pose challenges for sustaining robust growth and high levels of well-being over the long term, according to the OECD’s latest Economic Survey of New Zealand.




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New Zealand in a good position to raise development aid ambitions

New Zealand is a valued development partner for its small island neighbours, delivering aid effectively and using its experience of natural disasters to help manage risks in the region. It complements its development assistance by using liberal trade and employment systems to support poor countries, according to the OECD’s latest Peer Review of New Zealand.




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OECD Employment Outlook 2015 - Key findings for New Zealand

At 75%, the employment rate in New Zealand is the third highest among OECD countries and has been only marginally affected by the recent economic crisis.




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The Lake Taupo Nitrogen Market in New Zealand - Environment Policy Paper

Nitrogen run-off from farming and other land uses was threatening to undermine the pristine waters of Lake Taupo – New Zealand’s largest and most iconic lake – and to damage a range of economic and cultural activities. In 2011, the regional government introduced a water quality policy package. This bold policy experiment is unique: it is the only trading programme or market where diffuse sources of pollution operate under a cap.




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Education at a Glance 2015: New Zealand

The 2015 edition introduces more detailed analysis of participation in early childhood and tertiary levels of education. The report also examines first generation tertiary-educated adults’ educational and social mobility, labour market outcomes for recent graduates, and participation in employer-sponsored formal and/or non-formal education.




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Environmental taxes: Key findings for New Zealand LINK

This country note provides an environmental tax and carbon pricing profile for New Zealands. It shows environmentally related tax revenues, taxes on energy use and effective carbon rates.




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Environmental pressures rising in New Zealand

New Zealanders enjoy a high environmental quality of life and access to pristine wilderness. However, New Zealand’s growth model, based largely on exploiting natural resources, is starting to show its environmental limits with increasing greenhouse gas emissions and water pollution, according to a new OECD report.




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New Zealand should do more to help workers struggling after redundancy

New Zealand should extend access to income support and introduce a longer minimum notice period for all workers to help disadvantaged laid-off workers find a new job and maintain their job quality and living standards, according to a new OECD report.




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New Zealand: Boost productivity and adapt to the changing labour market

The New Zealand economy continues enjoying a strong, broad-based expansion, driven by booming tourism, high net inward migration, solid construction activity and supportive monetary policy.




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Economic Survey of New Zealand 2017

New Zealand has experienced robust economic growth since 2012, buoyed by record levels of inward migration and strong terms of trade. Employment has expanded vigorously, reversing much of the increase in unemployment since the onset of the global financial crisis.




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The downsides of New Zealand’s inflated house prices

In real terms, house prices in New Zealand increased more than in any other OECD country between 2010 and 2016.




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New Zealand: Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the OECD

Biographical note of New Zealand's Permanent Representative to the OECD.




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OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2017 - New Zealand highlights

This note presents selected country highlights from the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2017 with a specific focus on digital trends among all themes covered.




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Taxation of household savings: Key findings for New Zealand

This note presents marginal effective tax rates (METRs) that summarise the tax system’s impact on the incentives to make an additional investment in a particular type of savings. By comparing METRs on different types of household savings, we can gain insights into which assets or savings types receive the most favourable treatment from the tax system.




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New Zealand - DAC Peer Review of Development Co-operation 2015

While New Zealand is a comparatively small donor, it boasts an internationally-recognised aid programme with specific understanding of the unique Pacific context. It is seen as a flexible and predictable humanitarian donor.




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New Zealand - Medium-term prospects for major agricultural commodities 2018-2027

These graphs offer a brief summary of the commodity trade situation in the country.




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Effective carbon rates: Key findings for New Zealand

This country note for New Zealand provides detail on the proportion of CO2 emissions from energy use subject to different effective carbon rates (ECR), as well as on the level and components of average ECRs in each of the six economic sectors (road transport, off-road transport, industry, agriculture and fishing, residential & commercial, and electricity).




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Good jobs for all in a changing world of work: The new OECD Jobs Strategy – Key findings for New Zealand

The digital revolution, globalisation and demographic changes are transforming labour markets at a time when policy makers are also struggling with slow productivity and wage growth and high levels of income inequality. The new OECD Jobs Strategy provides a comprehensive framework and policy recommendations to help countries address these challenges.




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Action needed to help people with mental health issues in New Zealand

New Zealand has carried out major health and welfare reforms over the past decade but needs to do more to help people with mental health issues stay in work or find a job, according to a new OECD report.




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OECD Skills Strategy 2019: Key findings for New Zealand

This document describes the key findings for Northern Ireland from the OECD Skills Strategy 2019




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New Zealand can improve well-being through better policymaking and reforms to housing and migration policy

New Zealand’s economy has stabilised, with solid growth supporting well-being through jobs and incomes. Ongoing implementation of the government’s new well-being approach to policymaking will offer further opportunities to create a more sustainable and inclusive economy for all New Zealanders, according to a new report from the OECD.




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Revenue Statistics Asia: Key findings for New Zealand

New Zealand's tax-to-GDP ratio was 32.0% in 2017, below the OECD average (34.2%) by 2.2 percentage points, and above the LAC and Africa (21)* averages (22.8% and 18.2%, respectively).




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Taxing Energy Use: Key findings for New Zealand

This country note explains how New Zealand taxes energy use. The note shows the distribution of effective energy tax rates across all domestic energy use. It also details the country-specific assumptions made when calculating effective energy tax rates and matching tax rates to the corresponding energy base.




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Revenue Statistics: Key findings for New Zealand

The tax-to-GDP ratio in New Zealand increased by 0.6 percentage points from 32.1% in 2017 to 32.7% in 2018. The corresponding figure for the OECD average was a slight increase of 0.1 percentage point from 34.2% to 34.3% over the same period.




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How's life in New Zealand?

This note presents selected findings based on the set of well-being indicators published in How's Life? 2020.




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Taxing Wages: Key findings for New Zealand

The tax wedge for the average single worker in New Zealand increased by 0.4 percentage points from 18.4 in 2018 to 18.8 in 2019. The OECD average tax wedge in 2019 was 36.0 (2018, 36.1). In 2019 New Zealand had the 35th lowest tax wedge among the 36 OECD member countries, occupying the same position in 2018.