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24 février 2017

A dash of data: Spotlight on Dutch households

Economic growth (GDP) always gets a lot of attention, but when it comes to determining how people are doing it’s interesting to look at other indicators that focus more on the actual material conditions of households. More...

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24 février 2017

Two cheers for lower food prices: Good for poor consumers and not the real issue for farmers

What’s the difference between a Mississippi mud pie and a Haitian mud cake? The answer is mud. The mud pie is a dessert containing vast amounts of chocolate. The mud cake is literally that, mud with some salt and margarine mixed in. More...

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24 février 2017

Towards an empowering state: turning inclusive growth into a global reality

We live in turbulent times. Nine years on from the eruption of the financial crisis, we remain stuck in a low growth trap. To make matters worse, the great upheaval in our economies has now transmuted into a profound political crisis in many countries. More...

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24 février 2017

The OECD as the cradle of the Club of Rome

The Club of Rome’s first report, The limits to growth, appeared in 1972 and was ultimately published in thirty languages and sold over thirty million copies worldwide. More...

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24 février 2017

More private capital for infrastructure investment in Asia?

Since the financial crisis, infrastructure investment has moved up the political agenda in most countries – now also including the USA. Asia is often seen as the world’s infrastructure laboratory, with massive construction of transport and energy projects. More...

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24 février 2017

Back to the 80s: Projections for living standards and inequality in the UK

The UK economy has, in many respects, performed well recently. Last week it was revealed that GDP grew by 2 per cent in 2016, above the OECD average, and higher than forecasters expected when the country voted to leave the European Union. More...

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24 février 2017

Telling the whole truth in a post-truth environment

In 2016, surprisingly for many, Oxford Dictionaries chose as their Word of the Year “post-truth”, an adjective defined as: “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”. This runs contrary to the main tenet of the OECD, the “house of best practices” whose works and analysis depend on high quality statistics and solid empirical evidence. More...

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24 février 2017

Calendrier 2017 des publications statistiques du SIES - 1er quadrimestre

La sous-direction des Systèmes d'Information et des Études Statistiques diffuse chaque année de nombreux indicateurs statistiques auprès du grand public, conformément à sa mission en tant que service statistique ministériel de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche. Voir l'article...

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24 février 2017

A Responsibility Revolution in the Fashion Industry

The collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in 2013 with a loss of over 1,130 lives was a jarring reminder that though much has been accomplished to improve working conditions in global supply chains, more is needed. More...

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24 février 2017

Bergen Summer Research School 2017, 12-22 June, Bergen (Norway)

The Bergen Summer Research School, an interdisciplinary venue for exploring some of the challenges of our time, will offer six PhD courses ranging from migration, higher education, global health, water management, poverty, and the use of language. More...

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