Messages from Pisa 2000

COLLECTIF

OECD.

In coming decades, governments will be increasingly confronted with enduring societal challenges—threats to the physical environment, the management of natural resources, growing mobility and its consequences, increasing security concerns, and a gradual shift to the information society. Tackling these challenges effectively will require consistent, sustained, coordinated efforts over long periods of time. Space-based technology can help in this regard. Space technology offers inherent strengths, such as non-intrusive, ubiquitous coverage, dissemination of information over broad areas, rapid deployment, and global navigation capability. Space systems may be able to provide effective support to public action, if appropriate applications can be developed in a timely manner. Space 2030 explores the challenges for developing space-based applications. It assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the institutional, legal, and regulatory frameworks that currently govern space activities. The book concludes with an overall policy framework for governments to use when drafting policies designed to ensure that the limitless potential of space is actually realized.

Space 2030: Tackling Society's Challenges

OECD, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Literature & Fiction

<div> This book takes stock of the progress made by OECD member countries in implementing policy reforms and suggests future priorities for each. It examines how states with weak labor utilization, as some European countries, could increase labor force participation and thus raise living standards. The publication also discusses how countries with comparatively low labor productivity, such as Japan, could reduce their income gap relative to the leading countries. It also suggests policy prioritiesfor strongly performing countries. Economic Policy Reforms provides a rich set of recent comparative indicators covering structural policy areas such as labor markets, education, and product market regulation. These indicators enable countries to see their economic performance and structural policies in comparison with others. In addition, the book contains four analytical chapters covering: Trends in product market regulation in OECD countries, including recent indicators The effectsof pension schemes on the labor-force participation of older workers The trends and determinants of the labor-force participation of women The long-term budgetary implications of tax-favored retirement saving plans </div>

Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth

Business & Money

Economics

This book reviews Finland's success in achieving balanced development over the past decade and assesses the challenges that it faces in maintaining this success. Given intense competition in both ICT and more traditional product markets, as well as rapid ageing of the population, it looks at how Finland might maintain and enhance the competitiveness of the regions that are the nation's economic drivers and how the country can promote innovation and entrepreneurship in intermediate cities particularly vulnerable to low cost competition. It also examines how Finland might facilitate growth in those regions that have potential for development, but so far have been less successful in exploiting their comparative advantages.

Finland (OECD Territorial Reviews)

OECD

This publication sets out the proceedings of the second Asian Regional Conference on the Evolution of the System of Radiological Protection, held in Tokyo in July 2004, organised by the NEA in order to consider regional, social and cultural differences in approaches to improving the integration of radiological protection within modern concepts of risk governance.

Evolution of the System of Radiological Protection: Second Asian Regional Conference (Radiation Protection)

Asian Regional Conference On The Evolution Of The System Of Radiological Protection (2nd : 2004 : Tokyo, Japan)

Despite all the talk of globalization, the world economy is still far from a textbook model of unfettered trade. Nontariff barriers on goods have been lowered significantly in the course of successive trade negotiations, but more can be done. This is the message conveyed by the Doha Development Agenda, the mandate of which includes negotiations to further improve market access for nonagricultural products. This volume reviews concerns that exporters and governments have raised about market access. It looks at where and why certain nontariff measures are being applied to traded goods, including prohibitions and quotas, nonautomatic import licensing schemes, customs fees and charges, and export restrictions. Looking beyond Tariffs will expand the knowledge base of policymakers, negotiators, and anyone interested in learning about the use of these measures and other market access issues.

Looking Beyond Tariffs: The Role of Non-Tariff Barriers in World Trade (Oecd Trade Policy Studies)

International

Although health systems differ widely in their design, the inputs they use, and the outcomes they attain, policymakers in all OECD countries share the common goal of achieving high-performing health systems. Health and health care have improved dramatically over the past few decades, but at a cost, and public budgets are feeling the pinch. At the same time, further opportunities exist to improve the performance of health systems. Developed nations are grappling with the issues of sustainable financing, equitable access to services, better health outcomes, consumer responsiveness, and receiving maximum value for their money. This volume offers a synthesis of findings from recent OECD studies undertaken as part of the three-year Health Project, an initiative to answer many of the key questions facing today's health policy makers. It provides information and analysis on a wide variety of topics, such as new and emerging health-related technologies, long-term care, private health insurance, health care cost control, equity of access across income groups, health workforce planning and productivity, and waiting times for elective surgery. Building on international experience and grounded in new data on cross-country differences, this report offers an up-to-date map of the road to performance improvement.

Towards High-Performing Health Systems: The OECD Health Project

Book by Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development

National Accounts Of OECD Countries: General Government Accounts 1992-2003 (OECD National Accounts)

Organisation For Economic Co-operation And Development

Accounting

Implementing the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

OECD/OCDE

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Messages from Pisa 2000

Space 2030: Tackling Society's Challenges

Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth

Finland (OECD Territorial Reviews)

Evolution of the System of Radiological Protection: Second Asian Regional Conference (Radiation Protection)

Looking Beyond Tariffs: The Role of Non-Tariff Barriers in World Trade (Oecd Trade Policy Studies)

Towards High-Performing Health Systems: The OECD Health Project

National Accounts Of OECD Countries: General Government Accounts 1992-2003 (OECD National Accounts)

Implementing the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

Implementing the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention