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Bond Insurers in Danger, OECD Lowers Growth Forecast, What Funds are Buying
2008-06-05 21:47:00 by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Bond insurer crisis back in full swing… after months of dithering, Moody’s ready to pull the plug National accounting standard radically altered… how a new rule could plague financials Bernanke talks up the dollar: Day 2, the Harvard edition Hedge funds buy the farm, literally… the new destination for hot hands Chris Mayer on investing in Africa The bond insurer crisis… it’s back baby, big-time. Moody’s all but promised to lower its ratings of MBIA and Ambac yesterday. The two bond insures have dodged the spotlight lately as commodity and energy prices have skyrocketed. But no more… MBIA and Ambac once again threaten to devastate the finance industry. “Regulatory pressure helped push Moody’s to finally admit that the emperor has no clothes,” says Dan Amoss. “Moody’s will almost certainly follow up with a downgrade, which would force MBIA into runoff mode. Since late February, when Moody’s affir...
Statistiche sul Broadband nei paesi OECD
2008-05-21 09:51:00 Qui il rapporto completo. 235 milioni di utenti broadband, cresciuti del 18% yoy, penetrazione media del 20% sulla popolazione. La fibra l’8% di tutte le connessioni broadband, il 40% in Giappone. Denmark, the Netherlands, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Finland, Korea and Sweden lead the OECD with broadband penetration well above the OECD average, each surpassing the ...
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The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
2008-05-21 07:40:00 1. The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (the Guidelines) are recommendations addressed by governments to multinational enterprises. They provide voluntary principles and standards for responsible business conduct consistent with applicable laws.
By: Asiaing.com
OECD: Subprime losses could hit $420 billion
2008-04-18 04:16:00 The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) reported that the losses related to the subprime mortgage bust could hit $420 billion based on an ultimate recovery of mark-to-market assets to 40 to 50% of their initial value. The OECD denied that the $1 trillion loss that the IMF has been reporting lately is ...
OECD warns that subprime crisis is not over: report
2008-04-09 10:27:00 PARIS - THE subprime crisis is not over, the head of the OECD Angel Gurria said on Wednesday, describing it as a 'collective bankruptcy' and damning failures throughout the chain of financial risk and regulation.Mr Gurria was particularly critical of supervision of the financial sector, telling the French newspaper Liberation that the rules 'were not sufficiently respected or were not strict enough.'He said: 'The entire institutional chain, well oiled, all this sophistication, on Tuesday the pride of the authorities, has been put into question by this collective bankruptcy.'In this respect, he pointed his finger at 'the banks, the investment funds, intermediaries, the credit rating agencies, the insurers.'The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development works on behalf of 30 industrialised nations to study conditions in many areas of economic management and to advise on best practice.On Tuesday the International Monetary Fund estimated that what it termed the collec...
Israel is Hosting a Professional Workshop of the OECD on Environment
2008-04-06 22:06:00 Israel is Hosting a Professional Workshop of the OECD on …Israel Ministry ...
By: Israel-Times.com
OECD chief sees global crisis lasting till 2009
2008-04-03 04:55:00 PARIS - Economic downturn in the United States and the global confidence crisis will make 2008 very difficult and it is not until next year that a way out will begin to appear, OECD chief Angel... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
OECD lowers US growth outlook
2008-03-20 14:10:00 Paris - The OECD reduced its forecasts for US economic growth to 0.1 per cent quarter-on-quarter in the first quarter of this year and zero for the second, in an update of key first-half predictions published on Thursday.
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OECD Rates US Labor, Schools, and Healthcare Performance
2008-03-06 05:00:00 Washington, D.C., 3/5/08—The new Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development report “Going for Growth 2008” (available at www.oecd.org) confirms that Americans work more hours than Europeans. “As the saying goes, Europeans are lazy, but Americans are crazy”, said Jørgen Elmeskov, Acting Chief Economist at OECD. The difference comes from the fewer hours that European women work, largely because of high marginal tax rates. European and American males tend to work roughly the same number of hours per week. The report found that investing in efficiency in primary and secondary schooling could provide big payoffs. More user choice, more information about the performance of individual schools, outcome-based budgeting arrangements, greater managerial autonomy, efficient school size, and avoidance of early streaming lead to higher efficiency. If all schools in OECD countries, including the United States, performed at the best national level, they would improve by 10% in...
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The OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2007
2007-12-15 18:06:00 Published every two years, the OECD Science, Technology and Industry (STI) Scoreboard brings together over 200 internationally comparable quality indicators to explore the progress of national innovation strategies and recent developments in science, technology and industry.Its goal is to inform policy makers on questions of high policy interest, including:The international mobility of researchers and scientistsThe growth of the information economyInnovation by regions and industriesInnovation strategies by companiesThe internationalisation of researchThe changing role of multinational enterprisesNew patterns in trade competitiveness and productivityBy providing a wide array of indicators for policy analysis, the STI Scoreboard has become a widely used reference which combines statistical rigour with easy access and readability. The key findings are presented as bullet points alongside graphs highlighting the relative importance of countries. In addition, brief technical notes provi...
By: St Wojcik's Blog
The OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2007
2007-12-15 18:06:00 Published every two years, the OECD Science, Technology and Industry (STI) Scoreboard brings together over 200 internationally comparable quality indicators to explore the progress of national innovation strategies and recent developments in science, technology and industry.Its goal is to inform policy makers on questions of high policy interest, including:The international mobility of researchers and scientistsThe growth of the information economyInnovation by regions and industriesInnovation strategies by companiesThe internationalisation of researchThe changing role of multinational enterprisesNew patterns in trade competitiveness and productivityBy providing a wide array of indicators for policy analysis, the STI Scoreboard has become a widely used reference which combines statistical rigour with easy access and readability. The key findings are presented as bullet points alongside graphs highlighting the relative importance of countries. In addition, brief technical notes provi...
By: St Wojcik's Blog
WORLD - OECD starting accession talks with Israel
2007-12-03 17:18:00 The 30 members of OECD have decided to start opening to Chile, ...
By: Israel-Times.com
Interview with author of OECD?s ?Biofuels: Is the cure worse than the disea
2007-11-22 02:20:00 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released a report called "Biofuels: Is the cure worse than the disease?" (download the PDF link seems to be broken) earlier this fall. One of the authors of the report, Ronald Steenblik (who is also the Director of Research for the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)), was interviewed by Renewable Energy Access about the critical tone the report took towards biofuels and, IMHO, does a fine job of defending his attacks on government subsidies of biofuels and of suggesting we wait until second-generation biofuels (e.g., cellulosic ethanol) are commercially ready before investing heavily in an ethanol infrastructure.Read the whole thing.Related: USA and Europe ethanol producers peeved with OECD's report on bad biofuels The OECD says yes to biofuels, but with conditions [Source: Renewable Energy Access]
USA and Europe ethanol producers peeved with OECD?s report on bad biofuels
2007-10-04 04:56:00 A few months ago, a report with the OECD seal showed some concerns about biofuels. Media published the report and, like a snowball, the thing ended up being "the OECD document that condemns biofuels". Now, the Renewable Fuels Association and European Bioethanol Fuel Association (eBIO) have sent an open letter to the General Secretary of the OECD, Ángel Gurria, and they're quite angry.First of all they say that the document, even with a disclaimer that says that it may not be supported by the OECD or any of its state members, has the Organisation's seal and should be backed up or dismissed by them. The report, which cannot be found on the OECD's site but can be found at the websites of "antiethanol third parties" (their words), expressed serious concerns about ethanol made from grains.The two associations state that in previous documents, the OECD has given full support to biofuels as a means of reducing CO2 emissions but the document is written from a partisan position that ...
OECD warns on US slowdown
2007-09-05 22:27:00 The US economy is likely to face a 'quite significant' slowdown this year because of the fallout in its subprime mortgage market, which warrants the US Federal Reserve cutting interest rates, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and
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OECD warns market turmoil will hit world growth
2007-09-05 11:19:00 Market turmoil and the woes in the US subprime mortgage market will crimp world economic growth this year, the Organisation of Economic Co-Operation and Development said on Wednesday, as it called for better regulation to address the 'serious
By: Get rich
OECD gives Switzerland good education marks
2007-08-03 09:01:00 Despite progress, the number of graduates remains below the OECD averageComment at Faves | View original page
EUROPE: Biofuels to buy farm prices in next decade: OECD/FAO
2007-07-06 01:06:00 The rapid growth of the world's biofuel industry is likely to keep farm commodity prices at high levels in the next decade as it will boost demand for grains, oilseeds, and sugar, a major study said on Wednesday. The study, co-written by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said biofuels would have a major impact on the agriculture sector between 2007 and 2016. "Bioenergies have become a key factor in the functioning of agriculture markets," Loek Boonekamp, a senior OECD official, told reporters after the release of the study. "In the medium term we believe that they could lead to prices on international markets rising quite considerably, at higher levels than what we had predicted in former outlooks and above the average of the last 10 years," he added. Boonekamp said that farm prices, mainly grains, would likely rise by 20 to 50 percent over the next decade. He added that although the lo...
EUROPE: Biofuels to buy farm prices in next decade: OECD/FAO
2007-07-06 01:06:00 The rapid growth of the world's biofuel industry is likely to keep farm commodity prices at high levels in the next decade as it will boost demand for grains, oilseeds, and sugar, a major study said on Wednesday. The study, co-written by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said biofuels would have a major impact on the agriculture sector between 2007 and 2016. "Bioenergies have become a key factor in the functioning of agriculture markets," Loek Boonekamp, a senior OECD official, told reporters after the release of the study. "In the medium term we believe that they could lead to prices on international markets rising quite considerably, at higher levels than what we had predicted in former outlooks and above the average of the last 10 years," he added. Boonekamp said that farm prices, mainly grains, would likely rise by 20 to 50 percent over the next decade. He added that although the lo...
MEXICO: Difiere Gurra (OECD) con Greenspan sobre inversin en PEMEX [ma.gn
2007-06-14 20:59:00 Tags: FED, Greenspan, Jos Angel Gurra, Mexico, OCDE, PEMEX
By: ENERGY BLOG
Asian boom to aid global economy: OECD report
2007-05-24 15:58:00 Paris, May 24 (DPA) The latest OECD economic outlook report released in Paris Thursday forecasts a sustained recovery in Europe, a “soft landing” in the US and a solid world growth trajectory fired by the Asian boom. In 2007 and 2008, the economy of the 31 OECD countries would witness a GDP growth of 2.7 percent, ...
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Turkey's New Light Bulb, and the OECD's Grim Innovation/Patent Report
2007-05-21 23:29:00 THE GOOD NEWS It seems Professor Hilmi Volkan Demir of Bilkent University has something to be proud of. He and his research students were able to develop white light generated from using nanocrystal hybridization on a light emitting diode (LED), with tunable color properties. Apparently, this is the first time this has been done. An article highlighting this (no pun intended) was published in the Journal of Nanotechnology. According to an article in the TDN, international interest has started coming in. With Turkish universities and government funding being a guarded and bureaucratic source for innovation in Turkey, it is difficult to tell where this may be heading, but it does give hope that the steering of Turkey's young minds may be breaking free in the right direction. The acid test will be continued management and success of future proposals, and hopefully we will see further spinouts. Then maybe all the money being spent on Technoparks may start to payoff. Alternate ...
OECD Countries' Crude Inventories Falling Fast
2007-03-15 14:48:00 by Kevin Stecyk The International Energy Agency, energy watchdog, is reported to have warned about falling crude inventories. According to the article, OECD countries have been reducing their inventories at a rate of 1.26 million barrels per day, compared to historical norms of 100,000 to 400,000 barrels per day. I remain bullish on oil companies because demand continues to grow while supplies
By: ENERGY BLOG
Australia at the Bottom of the OECD on Workers’ Rights
2007-03-06 20:37:00 With the World Trade Organisation General Council assessing Australia’s trade policies this week in Geneva, a new ITUC report highlights the negative impacts on the country’s workforce of the Government’s industrial relations laws, which impose heavy restrictions on internationally-recognised labour standards.From Homepage of International Trade Union Confederation.The report strongly criticises the Australian Government’s industrial relations laws (“WorkChoices” Act), which makes Australia the only developed country where employers can refuse to negotiate with a union even when employees are union members and want their union to represent them. The report documents the severe legal limits that are imposed on the basic rights of Australian workers to organise in trade unions and the strict restrictions the laws place on the items that can be included in collective bargaining, in violation of International Labour Organisation standards which Australia has ratified.The fu...
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