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17 février 2016

Flabber-gassed by our noxious air: can electric vehicles save us?

By Shayne MacLachlan. Paris is a beautiful city but has an ugly problem with air pollution. Using 2 wheels to get to work, one becomes acutely aware of this insidious addiction to cars, and the “essence” of the problem, DIESEL. Queuing at the red lights (which unlike many Parisians I observe) sucking up the carcinogenic fumes, should I feel happy or sad knowing that those in the cars themselves are getting a worse dose of “the product” than those using greener ways to get about? Switching to electric vehicles could save some lives and certainly might help the French public purse as the health, economic and financial damages of air pollution are costing the country an estimated EUR 100 billion per year. More...

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17 février 2016

Rest in peace Moped, electric scooters are here

By Minh Ha-Duong. In the last decade two-wheeler electric vehicles have been taking over the streets of Asian capitals, to the point that it is time to declare the gas moped commercially dead. Rest in peace. More...

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17 février 2016

A dash of data: Spotlight on German households

By OECD Statistics Directorate. Economic growth (GDP) always gets a lot of attention, but when it comes to determining how people are doing economically it’s interesting to look at other indicators that focus more on the actual material conditions of households. Let’s see how households in Germany are doing by looking at a few of these other indicators. More...

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17 février 2016

Making Trade and Investment Work for People

By Ken Ash. Both the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the OECD New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) explicitly recognize that trade and investment are not goals in themselves, but are a means to an end. More...

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17 février 2016

Let’s Get Realistic About a Multilateral Investment Agreement

By Shaun Donnelly. I found some very interesting questions and even a few answers in the recent “OECD Insights” blog post on international investment agreements by Professor Jan Wouters from the University of Leuven. More...

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17 février 2016

Where do OECD countries stand in the “war against cancer”?

By Gaétan Lafortune. In his State of the Union address in 1971, President Richard Nixon declared a “war on cancer”. World Cancer Day provides a timely opportunity to reflect on how much progress has been achieved over the past 45 years in the United States and other OECD countries in winning this war. More...

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17 février 2016

Learning from Firms in East Asian Production Networks

By Ganeshan Wignaraja. Slowing growth in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) – the world’s second largest economy – is grabbing the headlines with some suggesting a third wave of the 2008 global financial crisis. More...

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17 février 2016

Structural Policies and Distributional Consequences

By Christian Kastrop. In a majority of OECD countries, growth over the past three decades has been associated with growing disparities in household income. This suggests that some of the forces driving GDP have also fuelled inequalities. More...

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17 février 2016

Skills for growth: human capital composition and economic performance

By Fabio Manca. The role played by human capital and skills in fostering economic growth and technological progress has been the focus of a large strand of economic literature for decades. That said, at the beginning of the century, economists were still struggling to clearly pin down the contribution of human capital on the economic growth of a large sample of countries More...

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17 février 2016

What future for work in a digitised world?

By Shruti Singh and Guillermo Montt. Many innovations over the past decades have substituted labour and changed how we work. Much of the tasks we perform today are mediated by computers or machines. Connectivity is a requirement as different jobs and tasks can and in fact are carried out over distances and borders. Many factories are almost completely automated because industrial robots are now cheap and easy to customise. More...

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