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

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

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

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

It joined the OECD and is an important member of the G 20.

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.

This means information more, it calls for the same type of mature, neutral and dispassionate analysis that, say, OECD delivers to its own member countries.

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

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The specific objective was to facilitate co ordination of capacity building assistance in the field of chemicals pesticides management provided by OECD member countries to developing countries, including those with economies in transition.

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

For the first time, the OECD became directly involved with non member countries in the Middle East, and in 2009 Syria was included in its development cooperation master plan.

It s no surprise that Chile is considered a developed country the only South American member of the OECD.

It is a member of the European Union, NATO, the OECD, the OSCE and the Council of Europe.

The Union s 25 member countries are very diverse.

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

The combined aid commitments of OECD Development Assistance Committee member countries would mean a doubling of official development assistance to Africa between 2004 and 2010 that is, if they are honored.

The combined aid commitments of OECD Development Assistance Committee member countries would mean a doubling of official development assistance to Africa between 2004 and 2010 that is, if they are honored.

This means information more, it calls for the same type of mature, neutral and dispassionate analysis that, say, OECD delivers to its own member countries. The new African Economic Outlook (AEO), an attempt to dispel this cloud of stereotyped knowledge by analyzing the comparative prospects of 22 countries, is based on the OECD model.

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.

OPEC calculates member countries' quotas based on proven reserves.

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.

The OECD has indexed how easy it is to fire an employee in member countries. Employees enjoy the least protection in the US, and a high degree of protection in Italy, France, and Germany.

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.

Among member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development (OECD), Japan has a relatively high incidence of income inequality (although there is some debate whether or not inequality is rising or falling).

The OECD is a collaborating partner.

In the IMF world, member countries are referred to as shareholders.

Its member countries have strong legal frameworks and well functioning societies.

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

Austria has been a member of the United Nations since 1955, joined the European Union in 1995, and is a founder of the OECD.

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.

Leaders from both member states and candidate countries face a historic decision.

That objective, insofar as EU member countries are concerned, has been met.

Indeed, positioning and bargaining among the euro s member countries has already started.

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.