Quantcast

Posts related to ‘OECD’

global economy

OECD Offers Outlook and Suggestion for Returning Global Growth in 2013

Posted: March 28, 2013 at 9:15 am

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has issued a global growth report for 2013. While the global economy is said to be improving, the obvious drag pointed out ...
Read Full Story »

Spending on Research Still Lags

Posted: September 13, 2012 at 12:03 pm

Private sector spending on research and development fell by 4.5% in 2008 as a result of the global financial crisis, according to a new report from the Organization for Economic ...
Read Full Story »

Developed Economies Will Continue Decline — OECD

Posted: September 13, 2012 at 8:56 am

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said this morning that the most of the world’s major economies will continue to slow down in the next several months. The ...
Read Full Story »

Crude Supply Down, Demand Up — IEA (VLO, PSX, XOM, CVX)

Posted: September 12, 2012 at 7:32 am

In its monthly Oil Market Report released this morning, the International Energy Agency (IEA) raised its global demand projections for 2012 and 2013 by 100,000 barrels a day to 89.8 ...
Read Full Story »

What’s Important in the Financial World (9/6/2012)

Posted: September 6, 2012 at 6:12 am

OECD Outlook on Europe The OECD reports that the recession in Europe has begun to become an irresistible drag on the economy throughout much of the balance of the developed world. ...
Read Full Story »

OECD Notes Slowdown in Global Economy

Posted: July 9, 2012 at 10:16 am

The OECD has joined the parade of economic think tanks saying that the global economy is slowing down. The agency’s May 2012 composite leading indicators for China and India have ...
Read Full Story »

Is the US Losing its Lead in Innovation?

Posted: June 27, 2012 at 10:37 am

The OECD has just released its Economic Survey of the United States, and once the word gets out, the report is likely to spark a lot of interest among the ...
Read Full Story »

Working Longer — 67 is the New 65

Posted: June 12, 2012 at 10:23 am

The OECD has released a new report on retirement and pensions that conclude that governments can in fact raise retirement ages gradually as life expectancy rises in order to ensure ...
Read Full Story »

Chinese, Indian Economies Slowing: OECD

Posted: June 11, 2012 at 8:00 am

The OECD today released its composite leading indicators (CLIs) for April, noting that national economies are diverging, with some expanding moderately, while others contract. The US, Japan, and Russia continue ...
Read Full Story »

The Happiest Countries in the World

Posted: May 22, 2012 at 6:18 am

For the second year in a row, 24/7 Wall St. examined the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s report on life satisfaction in the developed world. Economic prosperity, health and ...
Read Full Story »

OECD Indicators Point to Economic Growth

Posted: April 10, 2012 at 10:04 am

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said today that the world’s developed countries are showing signs of economic growth, led by the US and Japan. The OECD’s index ...
Read Full Story »

US, European Economic Growth on Different Trajectories

Posted: March 29, 2012 at 9:37 am

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released its latest economic assessment for the G7 group of the world’s largest developed economies. The OECD expects economic growth of ...
Read Full Story »

More Useless Advice About Unemployment

Posted: September 27, 2011 at 6:30 am

The heads of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the International Labour Organization want the world to know that there is a global unemployment problem, particularly among developed ...
Read Full Story »

Inflation Slows, A Little

Posted: August 3, 2011 at 6:40 am

The OECD reports that inflation among its members slowed a very small amount in June. The agency's Consumer Price Index report showed that "Compared to the previous month, consumer prices ...
Read Full Story »

Countries With The Most People Over 100

Posted: July 12, 2011 at 6:36 am

The first person to live to over 150 years of age has already been born.  This, according to the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence Foundation. The United Nations says that ...
Read Full Story »