OECD Economies and the World Today
The OECD's database of economic, environmental and social statistics is respected as a guide to global development. This yearbook, covering 2002, draws out the trends from the statistics and looks at future prospects through a series of authoritative commentaries.
The core aim of the OECD is to promote worldwide economic growth and sustainable development and to forge policies to support this aim. To measure progress and assess the development of the modern world, the organization has compiled, from its thirty Member-states and from across the world, a unique and formidable database.
The OECD database of economic, environmental, and social statistics is one of the richest and most respected available, and is unrivalled as a guide to global development.
This new publication, OECD Economies and the World Today, is aimed at business leaders and policy makers. Its purpose is to present some of the headline statistics in a clear and accessible way and then draw out trends from the statistics and look at future prospects through a series of authoritative commentaries. The book is comprised of 20 sections designed to reflect the most pressing challenges in public policy today, from ongoing causes of concern such as economic performance and education to questions demanding immediate attention such as corporate governance
and money laundering.
In essence, the book aims to give non-specialists, particularly from the commercial sector, a picture of performance and prospects in the world's leading economies.
Along with expert commentaries from the OECD and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, contributors include amongst others: The Irish Prime Minister; The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations; Oxfam's Senior Policy Advisor; the Secretary-General of the International Chambers of Commerce; the Deputy Secretary General of The World Energy Council, Green Peace's Climate Policy Director; and the Director-General of The World Health Organization.
BOOK DETAILS :Paperback, 256 Pages, Dimensions 234 x 142 MM Language English.
1 Performance of OECD economies
2 Emerging and transition economies
3 Trade
4 Finance and investment
5 Delivery of public services
6 Tax
7 Competition and regulatory reform
8 Money laundering
9 Bribery and corruption
10 Corporate governance and accountability
11 Environment and sustainable development
12 Energy
13 Transport
14 Science and innovation
15 The network economy
16 Education and skills
17 Employment
18 Migration and mobility
19 Health and safety
20 Insurance, pensions and the ageing society
Adam Jolly is a business writer and editor specializing in the management of growth, innovation, technology and risk. He is Consultant Editor on a number of Kogan Page titles including The Handbook of European Intellectual Property Management; Clean Tech Clean Profits and The Innovation Handbook.