Current News:

Specialists outnumber GPs in most OECD countries - OECD Health Data 2007
18-July-2007 - The medical profession is a growth industry: OECD Health Data 2007 shows that the number of doctors in OECD countries has increased by 35% over the past fifteen years to 2.8 million. In most countries, this growth was driven largely by rising numbers of specialists – up nearly 50% between 1990 and 2005 - compared with the 20% increase in general practitioners (GPs). More...

Rebalancing of world growth continues, says OECD Economic Outlook
24-May-2007 - The latest Economic Outlook forecasts a soft landing in the US, a strong and sustained recovery in Europe, a solid trajectory in Japan and buoyant activity in China and India. But it warns too of risks posed by imbalances in current accounts and, possibly, in financial and housing markets. More...

Chair's summary of the OECD Council at Ministerial Level, Paris, 15-16 May 2007
16-May-2007 - Spain was honoured to chair the 2007 Ministerial Council Meeting, which focused on the theme Innovation: Advancing the OECD Agenda for Growth and Equity. More...

OECD World Forum on Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies - Istanbul 27-30 June 2007
How can societies better measure their progress or setbacks? The question lies at the heart of a long-term OECD project to explore how the effective use of information can benefit democracy, empower individual citizens and stimulate a global debate on what progress means. More...

New Deputy Secretaries-General at the OECD
21-Feb-2007 - The Secretary-General of the OECD presented his proposals to fill the four vacancies for Deputy Secretaries-General, which were approved by the Council. They will replace the four officials that served during the mandate of former Secretary-General Donald J. Johnston, and whose terms have expired. More...

OECD Secretary-General stresses governments’ role in anti-corruption drive
18-Jan-2007 - OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría stressed the important role of governments in preserving the credibility and integrity of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, at the session of the OECD Working Group on Bribery held in Paris on 16-18 January 2007. More...

US Only OECD Country with Real Minimum Wage Decline
15-Jan-2007 - Recent experience in other countries can help to inform the American debate about the appropriate level for the minimum wage. Most OECD countries have statutory wage floors, but they have set their minima at very different levels. More...

Peer Review: a Tool for Co-operation and Change - an Analysis of an OECD Working Method
Peer review is a tool widely used in international organisations and the OECD in particular. How can it be defined and what role does it play? What is the relationship between peer review and peer pressure and are they effective mechanisms for enhancing co-operation and stimulating change? More...

Publications:

Taxing Wages 2005-2006
Special Feature: The Tax Treatment of Minium Wages
The OECD’s annual compendium of tax data shows little change in levels of taxation on wage earners in different OECD countries, with Turkey, Poland and France levying the most on a single-earner married couple with two children on average earnings and Ireland, New Zealand and Iceland taking the least. More...

International Migration Outlook 2006
This first issue of the International Migration Outlook (previously published annually under title Trends in International Migration) analyses recent trends in migration movements and policies in all OECD member countries. More...