Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General, speaks at the Bali Conference on Climate Change, December 2007
©OECD Observer No. 264/265, December 2007-January 2008The Bali road mapThe United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference in Bali in December 2007 was high in political stakes as well as emotion. But did it produce a result and what more might be done? New Zealand’s climate change ambassador offers his views.
(640 words)- New Zealand: Easing back
Activity so far in 2007 has picked up markedly in a context of unprecedented high prices for New Zealand’s major commodity exports, maintaining pressure on resources and inflation. Monetary conditions have been tightened, while domestic risk spreads have widened in conjunction with the international financial market turbulence. These factors should cause growth to slow over the near term, allowing a moderation of inflation and eventual monetary easing.
(154 words) - Childcare counts
Choosing the career track versus the family track is a personal choice that has become a global concern. Family-friendly policies are essential, says Babies and Bosses - Reconciling Work and Family Life, not only to promote child development and family wellbeing, but to reduce poverty, underpin productivity and bolster employment in our ageing societies.
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- Who pays the highest income tax?
- Transfer pricing: Keeping it at arm’s length
- OECD in Figures
- Bullying at school: tackling the problem
- The brain drain: Old myths, new realities
- The income taxes people really pay
- The minimum wage: Making it pay
- Immigration in the European Union: problem or solu...
- GDP and GNI
- Spain’s economy
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