This is better than the performance of many OECD countries.

Today it ranks in the middle of the OECD countries.

And here we have high income countries in the OECD.

According to OECD data, Japan is last of all OECD member countries in terms of political representation for women.

This means that the OECD countries will have to lead by example.

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OECD countries with higher female labor force participation rates also have higher birth rates.

OECD countries need to lead by example and meet the commitments that they have made.

The OECD has indexed how easy it is to fire an employee in member countries.

In many rich OECD countries, the financial crisis and recession have made government intervention popular again.

The share of net investment in GNP is now the second lowest in all OECD countries.

South Korea s working age population is falling by 1.2 annually the fastest decline among OECD countries.

In the past decade, these countries have, as OECD research has shown, become dependent on Chinese growth.

The US and other advanced countries have been pushing for much smaller changes, to be recommended by the OECD, the advanced countries club.

OECD countries should honor the target of allocating the equivalent of 0.7 of GDP annually to foreign aid

From 1970 to 2012, the GDP share of services in the OECD countries increased from 53 to 71 .

In most OECD countries, the participation rate of university educated women stood between 70 and 90 in 2013.

Three quarters of the extra CO2 will come from China, India, and the Middle East, and as much as 97 from non OECD countries as a whole although non OECD per capita emissions will still be far lower on average than in the OECD.

The OECD is a collaborating partner.

In 2004, OECD countries spent more than four times their official development aid budgets on support for domestic farmers.

The OECD is a multinational grouping of 30 countries established nearly a half century ago, with Switzerland a member.

The value of all ODA in 2006 was 126 billion, less than half the value of private remittances, even though it includes assistance from OECD and non OECD countries, as well as from China.

For example, tests administered by the OECD in 2003 found that Brazilian students ranked last in mathematics among 40 countries.

Between 1970 and 1995, GDP per capita in Sweden lagged by about 18 behind the average of rich OECD countries.

Moreover, huge waves of migrants from developing countries to OECD countries challenge the assimilation capacity of the latter and deprive the former of its educated work force.

The same is true of other OECD countries and emerging markets, where rapidly increasing incomes have put pressure on asset prices.

In OECD countries, the share of salaries in GDP has fallen by about ten percentage points, on average, to roughly 57 .

Most OECD countries began to take tobacco control seriously in the last two decades, and have decreased male tobacco deaths since.

NEW YORK With unemployment climbing in the United States and other OECD countries, job creation is a key objective for policymakers.

The OECD average is at around 1.74, but some countries, including Germany and Japan, produce less than 1.4 children per woman.

Most OECD countries began to take tobacco control seriously in the last two decades, and have decreased male tobacco deaths since.

PARIS As the deepest economic crisis of our lifetimes stretches into its seventh year, most OECD countries are continuing to underperform.

That said, India has relied much less on foreign direct investment than China, and has even exported FDI to OECD countries.

The Organization for Cooperation and Economic Development (OECD) said that most member countries showed in September clear signs of economic slowdown.

Until now, the international regime, led by the IMF and OECD, has pushed countries to allow foreign banks to enter their markets.

The OECD countries, on average, use 160 kilograms of oil equivalent energy for every 1,000 of GDP (measured at purchasing power parity).

Indeed, of the ten countries that received the most medals at the London games, all except China and Russia are OECD members.

Between 2005 and 2025, OECD countries are expected to experience a 35 increase in the percentage of their workforces with tertiary education.

As recently as 2001, only 5 of outward FDI came from non OECD countries by 2011, that share had soared to 21 .

Six OECD countries do better than America in terms of output per hour worked Norway, Belgium, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Germany.

Its debt GDP ratio is only a fraction of that of the US, and one of the lowest among the OECD countries.

The US experience is consistent with OECD evidence that students from countries with greater income inequality score lower on academic achievement tests.

In 2004, OECD countries spent more than four times their official development aid budgets on support for domestic farmers. In 2000, the World Bank estimated that OECD agricultural protectionism cost the developing world 20 billion in welfare losses annually.

During the period from 1980 to 2000, only two OECD countries, Germany and Greece, recorded slower growth in income per capita than France.

Non OECD countries account for 87 of the increase, so their share of world primary energy demand will rise from 51 to 62 .