bil Youth employment and regional development must rank as top priorities in Tunisia to secure stability and prosperity By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:00:00 GMT Tunisia has made great strides since 2011 towards greater inclusivity and fairness in its political system, based on the rule of law, transparency and good governance. Full Article
bil OECD LEED Webinar Series on "Local economic resilience and adaptability to long-term challenges" - Part One By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 10:45:00 GMT The webinars enabled serious discussion on the concept of ‘local economic resilience’ in an informal setting that facilitates interaction and questions. The format featured presentations from policy experts and a roundtable discussion with the audience. Full Article
bil OECD LEED Webinar Series on "Local economic resilience and adaptability to long-term challenges" - Part Two: Resilience in Practice By www.oecd.org Published On :: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 17:00:00 GMT The webinars will enable serious discussion on the concept of ‘local economic resilience’ in an informal setting that facilitates interaction and questions. The format will feature presentations from policy experts and a roundtable discussion with the audience. Full Article
bil Enhancing employability, G20 Report By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:58:00 GMT Skill requirements are changing rapidly as a result of structural shifts. Workforce employability is essential to turn structural change into an opportunity for all. Education and training systems, labour markets, workers and workplaces will have to become more adaptable. A set of concrete actionable measures is proposed to improve the employability of each economy’s workforce. Full Article
bil Enhancing Economic Flexibility: What Is in It for Workers? By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:46:00 GMT Reforms that boost growth by enhancing economic flexibility often meet strong opposition related to concerns that they may imply adverse consequences for categories of workers. This study investigates how making product or labour market regulation more flexible changes workers’ risks of moving out of employment and jobless people’s chances of becoming employed. Full Article
bil Action needed to tackle stalled social mobility By www.oecd.org Published On :: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:00:00 GMT As income inequality has increased since the 1990s, social mobility has stalled, meaning that fewer people at the bottom have moved up while the richest have largely kept their fortunes. This has severe social, economic and political consequences, according to a new OECD report. Full Article
bil Online public consultation on the draft Recommendation on Public Service Leadership and Capability By www.oecd.org Published On :: Mon, 02 Jul 2018 14:32:00 GMT The OECD has launched an online public consultation on the draft Recommendation on Public Service Leadership and Capability. Governments, recruitment managers, human resource officials, international organisations, academics and individuals are encouraged to participate in this consultation and help shape the future of employment and leadership in the public sector. Deadline is the 14 September 2018. Full Article
bil 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk': Engaging But Not Exceptional By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Director: Ang Lee; Cast: Joe Alwyn, Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, Makenzie Leigh, Vin Diesel, Steve Martin, Brain "Astro" Bradley, Arturo Castro. Full Article
bil Accountability, Transparency, Participation: Key Elements of Good Governance By www.oecd.org Published On :: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT In collaboration with the Federal Government of Germany, the OECD organised four workshops at the International Regulatory Reform Conference (IRRC) 2013 in Berlin. The workshops focused on the use of cost-benefit analysis in governmental decision making, as well as on the role of key actors of regulatory governance in the regulatory policy cycle: Parliaments, regulatory agencies and audit offices. Full Article
bil Enhancing Economic Flexibility: What Is in It for Workers? By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:46:00 GMT Reforms that boost growth by enhancing economic flexibility often meet strong opposition related to concerns that they may imply adverse consequences for categories of workers. This study investigates how making product or labour market regulation more flexible changes workers’ risks of moving out of employment and jobless people’s chances of becoming employed. Full Article
bil Liability of Legal Persons for Corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 19:51:00 GMT This cross-country report analyses the legislation on liability of legal persons for corruption and its enforcement in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, highlighting national practices that may be promoted as good practice. While it focuses on 25 countries participating in the Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ACN), examples from OECD countries are also included. Full Article
bil Liability of Legal Persons for Foreign Bribery: A Stocktaking Report By www.oecd.org Published On :: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 15:49:00 GMT This stocktaking report first presents a chronology of how systems for the liability of legal persons have evolved among the 41 Parties to the Anti-Bribery Convention. It then presents a “mapping” of the features of these systems for the 41 Parties. Full Article
bil Roundtable on Corporate Liability for Foreign Bribery By www.oecd.org Published On :: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 19:13:00 GMT 9 December 2016, Paris: Held on International Anti-Corruption Day, this roundtable provided an opportunity for governments, the private sector, civil society, and the media, to reflect on the liability of legal persons following more than 15 years of work by the OECD Working Group on Bribery to promote its application for foreign bribery. Full Article
bil Argentina must urgently enact Corporate Liability Bill to rectify serious non-compliance with Anti-Bribery Convention By www.oecd.org Published On :: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:00:00 GMT Some 16 years after joining the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, Argentina remains in serious non-compliance. Full Article
bil One in five mobile phones shipped abroad is fake By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:00:00 GMT Nearly one in five mobile phones and one in four video game consoles shipped internationally is fake, as a growing trade in counterfeit IT and communications hardware weighs on consumers, manufacturers and public finances, according to a new OECD report. Full Article
bil Chile must conclude its current legislative reforms of the criminal sanctions regime and clarify its corporate liability framework to better combat foreign bribery By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:50:00 GMT Chile must make further progress on key recommendations of the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions, more than three years after its Phase 3 evaluation in March 2014. Full Article
bil Sweden’s Laws on Corporate Responsibility for International Bribery need Urgent Reform By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 17:01:00 GMT Sweden has still not implemented reforms to its Penal Code initially recommended by the OECD Working Group on Bribery in June 2012. Sweden’s legal provisions on corporate liability do not meet the requirements of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions. Full Article
bil AHELO Feasibility Study Report - Volume 1 By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:45:00 GMT This first volume of the report of the Feasibility Study of the Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) focuses on the design and implementation of the Study and the lessons learnt through that process. Full Article
bil Education Indicators in Focus 14 - How is international student mobility shaping up? By www.oecd.org Published On :: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 11:34:00 GMT Between 2000 and 2011, the number of international students has more than doubled. Today, almost 4.5 million tertiary students are enrolled outside their country of citizenship. Full Article
bil More competition essential for future of mobile innovation, says OECD By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:00:00 GMT 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. Full Article
bil Informal Meeting of OECD Ministers of Education - Fostering Relevant Skills and Employability Through Education By www.oecd.org Published On :: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 13:27:00 GMT The informal meeting of OECD Education Ministers will be held in Istanbul, Turkey on 2-3 October 2013. The theme of the meeting is “Fostering Skills and Employability through Education”. Full Article
bil Vulnerability of Social Institutions By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 00:05:00 GMT This report examines the sustainability of social institutions and their ability to absorb and cope with short-term shocks and longer-term trends by providing risk sharing and expenditure smoothing, focusing on pension, health care and unemployment insurance schemes. Full Article
bil Educational mobility starts to slow in industrialised world, says OECD By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 11:00:00 GMT Access to education continues to expand worldwide but the socio-economic divisions between tertiary-educated adults and the rest of society are growing. Governments must do more to ensure that everyone has the same opportunity to a good education early in life, according to a new OECD report. Full Article
bil The sustainability of the UK’s higher education system (OECD Education Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 12:54:00 GMT Skills have become the currency of 21st century economies Full Article
bil PISA in Focus No. 56 - How confident are students in their ability to solve mathematics problems? By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 18:35:00 GMT On average across OECD countries, students’ belief that they can solve mathematics problems (mathematics self-efficacy) is associated with a difference of 49 score points in mathematics – the equivalent of one year of school. Full Article
bil Enhancing Economic Flexibility: What Is in It for Workers? By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:46:00 GMT Reforms that boost growth by enhancing economic flexibility often meet strong opposition related to concerns that they may imply adverse consequences for categories of workers. This study investigates how making product or labour market regulation more flexible changes workers’ risks of moving out of employment and jobless people’s chances of becoming employed. Full Article
bil Education Indicators in Focus No. 51 - Tuition fee reforms and international mobility By dx.doi.org Published On :: Mon, 15 May 2017 11:48:00 GMT In most countries with available data, public educational institutions charge different tuition fees for national and foreign students enrolled in the same programme. In Australia, Austria, Canada, New Zealand and the United States, foreign students pay on average about twice or more the tuition fees charged to national students. Full Article
bil Improve early education and care to help more children get ahead and boost social mobility By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 14:24:00 GMT Countries should step up their efforts to provide affordable and high-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) to improve social mobility and give all children the chance to fulfil their potential, according to a new OECD report. Full Article
bil People on the move: growing mobility, increasing diversity (OECD Education Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:20:00 GMT In August 2015, a newspaper published a story about Sam Cookney’s commute to work. Pretty boring, one would think, as long commutes are nothing new for most of us. However, Sam’s story is not so common. He works in London and commutes, several times per month, from Barcelona! Full Article
bil How PISA measures students’ ability to collaborate (OECD Education Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 18:44:00 GMT Late next month (21 November, to be exact) we’ll be releasing the results PISA’s first-ever assessment of students’ ability to solve problems collaboratively. Why has PISA focused on this particular set of skills? Because in today’s increasingly interconnected world, people are often required to collaborate in order to achieve their objectives, both in the workplace and in their personal lives. Full Article
bil PISA in Focus No. 77: How does PISA measure students’ ability to collaborate? By www.oecd-ilibrary.org Published On :: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 18:46:00 GMT Solving unfamiliar problems on one’s own is important, but in today’s increasingly interconnected world, people are often required to collaborate in order to achieve their goals. Teamwork has numerous benefits, from a diverse range of opinions to synergies among team members, and assigning tasks to those who are best suited to them. Full Article
bil Is the growth of international student mobility coming to a halt? (OECD Education Today Blog) By oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr Published On :: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:50:00 GMT Higher education is one of the most globally integrated systems of the modern world. There still are important barriers to the international recognition of degrees or the transfer of credits, but some of the basic features of higher education enjoy global convergence and collaboration. Full Article
bil Stability And Growth: What Role For EU Cohesion Policy? By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT The European Union faces serious challenges today, with public finances in poor shape, weak long-term growth prospects and an unemployment level close to 10%. In this context, the regional policy can play a crucial role to unleash the growth potential of our economies, says OECD Secretary-General. Full Article
bil What cities for the next 3 billion?: OECD symposium By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 01:02:00 GMT Three world experts discuss the future of cities in the current context of rapid urbanisation. This meeting was held in Paris on 4 December 2012. Full Article
bil Workshop: Accessibility to services in regions and cities - Measures and policies By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:00:00 GMT This workshop is to discuss the policy relevance of inequalities in the access to services in regions and cities, including the institutional and territorial organization for service delivery. Full Article
bil Youth employment and regional development must rank as top priorities in Tunisia to secure stability and prosperity By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:00:00 GMT Tunisia has made great strides since 2011 towards greater inclusivity and fairness in its political system, based on the rule of law, transparency and good governance. Full Article
bil Urban Mobility System Upgrade: How shared self-driving cars could change city traffic? By internationaltransportforum.org Published On :: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:21:00 GMT This report explores this question on the basis of detailed mobility data including origin, destination and timing of all trips for a mid-sized European city. ITF developed a model to test various alternative transport system configurations that would provide the same level of mobility (locations and timing) as today. Full Article
bil Business brief: Innovation and urban mobility in Brazil By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 26 May 2015 18:19:00 GMT “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. Full Article
bil OECD LEED Webinar Series on "Local economic resilience and adaptability to long-term challenges" - Part One By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 10:45:00 GMT The webinars enabled serious discussion on the concept of ‘local economic resilience’ in an informal setting that facilitates interaction and questions. The format featured presentations from policy experts and a roundtable discussion with the audience. Full Article
bil OECD LEED Webinar Series on "Local economic resilience and adaptability to long-term challenges" - Part Two: Resilience in Practice By www.oecd.org Published On :: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 17:00:00 GMT The webinars will enable serious discussion on the concept of ‘local economic resilience’ in an informal setting that facilitates interaction and questions. The format will feature presentations from policy experts and a roundtable discussion with the audience. Full Article
bil Low-level presence of transgenic plants in seed and grain commodities: Environmental risk/safety Assessment, and availability and use of information By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:23:00 GMT This Biosafety document aims to serve as an aid to risk assessors and regulators; providing guidance on handling the aspects of an environmental safety assessment, accessing and using information in situations of low-level presence (LLP) of transgenic plants in seed and grain commodities. Full Article
bil Perry and the fallibility of US justice By www.ft.com Published On :: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:09:38 GMT It would be wrong for charges against the Texas governor to be allowed through the courts Full Article
bil United States 52 Week Bill Yield By tradingeconomics.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 07:03:00 GMT US 52 Week Bill Bond Yield was 0.15 percent on Friday May 8, according to over-the-counter interbank yield quotes for this government bond maturity. Historically, the United States 52 Week Bill Yield reached an all time high of 17.31 in September of 1981. Full Article
bil United States 4 Week Bill Yield By tradingeconomics.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 07:03:00 GMT US 1 Month Bill Bond Yield was 0.10 percent on Friday May 8, according to over-the-counter interbank yield quotes for this government bond maturity. Historically, the United States 4 Week Bill Yield reached an all time high of 5.17 in November of 2006. Full Article
bil France 6 Month Bill Yield By tradingeconomics.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 07:03:00 GMT France 6 Month Bond Yield was -0.46 percent on Friday May 8, according to over-the-counter interbank yield quotes for this government bond maturity. Historically, the France 6 Month Bill Yield reached an all time high of 11.34 in January of 1990. Full Article
bil France 3 Month Bill Yield By tradingeconomics.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 07:03:00 GMT France 3 Month Bond Yield was -0.54 percent on Friday May 8, according to over-the-counter interbank yield quotes for this government bond maturity. Historically, the France 3 Month Bill Yield reached an all time high of 12.30 in January of 1993. Full Article
bil Top tips to cut your tax bill By www.ft.com Published On :: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:28:02 GMT Make the most of this year’s allowances Full Article
bil Ten ways to cut your energy bills as usage soars during lockdown By Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:01:43 +0100 Householders are being warned that the surge in energy usage will come at a price - with bills set to increase by an average of £32 a month. Full Article
bil My wonderful brother and an awful truth...a plea take notice of those with learning disabilities By Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 00:56:45 +0100 I worry about my brother Tom. He has Fragile X, the most common cause of inherited learning disability. He can't write, read or understand money. He refers to Covid-19 as 'this bloody flu virus'. Full Article
bil Trump says US will start buying $3billion of agricultural goods from farmers to give to food banks By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 04:54:06 GMT President Trump announced the $3billion food buy - part of April's $16billion farmer assistance program - would begin next week, as unemployment continues to soar in the US. Full Article