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Integrity delivers better lives.
Unlike other essential goods, like clothing, shelter, or food, we take cheap or even free water for granted. It often takes a crisis, such as a major drought or flood, to spur investment and policy reforms in improving water security.
By assessing the capabilities and knowledge of students in the highest-performing and most rapidly improving education systems, the OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment provides valuable options for reform and information on how to achieve it.
Ending our reliance on fossil fuels was never going to be easy.
The OECD should respond directly to the specific needs of the member countries. You basically say, ‘What works?’ You don’t have to go on a discovery trip. It’s all there; you just call them, and they know. It’s like a knowledge bank.
I was an economist out of the National University of Mexico, where you lived the realities of Mexico all the time.
Those who argue for Brexit are wrong, and that is because they have not been properly informed about the costs.
Some challenges remain, but the bottom line is that low-carbon options can and should play a much greater role in energy supply.
Every country faces its own obstacles to reaching gender equality, and to make a real difference, we must change public policies in tandem with stereotypes, attitudes, and behaviors.
If the world is to avoid a collision with nature – one that humanity surely cannot win – we must act boldly on every front, particularly with respect to carbon pricing and the coherence of our economic and energy policies.
I think there are going to be more countries joining the euro.
We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality in societies… that is undesirable.
History is full of lessons for how water crises could have been avoided or better managed.
Israel is a producer of growth.
There is no upside for the U.K. in Brexit. Only costs that can be avoided and advantages to be seized by remaining in Europe. No one should have to pay the Brexit tax.
We never tell countries that they should have a particular number in terms of a tax number, you know, if countries can make do with whatever average tax they have. The question is, do they apply it to everybody? Or do they give sweetheart deals to some companies?
When, as an individual, you are not paying taxes, it is evasion. As a corporate, it is legal shrewdness or tax engineering.
A more robust approach to global warming is needed if we are to avoid catastrophe. Unlike the recent financial crisis, there is no bailout option for the earth’s climate.
It isn’t only rich countries that suffer from the effects of tax havens. Developing countries also lose billions of dollars in tax revenues due each year because wealthy individuals and some companies use tax havens to move assets and income offshore.
When a large financial institution is allowed to fail, you put in jeopardy hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people.
Israel should share its great wealth with its neighbors, like the Palestinians, in areas like governance and investment as well as the building of institutions.
Everywhere, you have a fatigue for reform… that’s very serious.
The OECD deals with the economic aspects of a host of issues, including education, health, and the environment.
Reforms to product and labour markets, education, innovation, green growth, competition, taxes, health – they are the things that should be the object of our primary focus in the context of a long-term strategy to restore sustained growth.
If we want a stronger, cleaner, and fairer world economy, we need to deal with the controversial areas of globalisation, such as tax havens.
Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies.
In a country like Mexico, you can’t forget about poverty – about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.
It is not good to cut exports or imports.
Countries like Japan do not have to change their cultures to address their educational shortcomings; they simply have to adjust their policies and practices.
Nobody in their right mind will even attempt or even think of leaving the European Union, because they will understand that it is not in their best interest.
I was strongly against Brexit. I speechified against Brexit.
Principles of fair and equitable treatment included in many treaties are uncontroversial as general principles of good public governance.
The home is the planet. Unless you’re a Martian, you know, we’re sharing the planet. And – and the emissions don’t stop and CO2 doesn’t stop with the border between France, Spain or between Canada and the United States.
The euro is going to continue to be the largest single trading block.
I say just put a big fat tax on carbon.
Our work at the OECD shows that migration, if well managed, can spur growth and innovation. Unfortunately, in the past, migration has not always been well managed: migrants have been concentrated in ghetto-like conditions, with few public services or employment prospects.
We are totally schizophrenic. We are trying to reduce emissions, and we subsidize the consumption of fossil fuels.
In the face of sluggish growth, aging societies, and increasing educational attainment of young women, the economic case for gender equality is clear.
The U.K. is much stronger as a part of Europe, and Europe is much stronger with the U.K. as a driving force.
Our planet is warming dangerously.
We need to focus much more on the bottom 40 per cent. They are losing ground, and the fact that they are losing ground blocks social mobility and brings down economic growth.
If we can rid the world of financial centres that thrive on lack of transparency, non-cooperation, and weak regulation, an important step towards a fairer and cleaner world economy will have been achieved.
It doesn’t really matter who owns things so long there is enough competition, which means lower pricing, better quality goods, more variety, and an economy where the consumers are the big winners.
One of the greatest challenges of democracies today is the question of financing campaigns. It’s a tremendous challenge. Obviously I think the solution is to have the governments pay for all the campaigns and not to have any private contributions.
It will be crucial the E.U. and the U.K. maintain the closest economic relationship possible.
Coal is the most carbon-intensive fuel available for electricity generation. The most urgent threat to climate policy is the scale of new investments in unabated coal-fired electricity generation still being planned.
Our mission is to make the world economy work better.
Social cohesion and inclusive growth are additional crucial perspectives to incorporate into public policies, targeting a renewed social contract that reduces inequalities and benefits the whole of society.
Most businesses do not take governments seriously when it comes to climate, primarily because many governments have inconsistent and incoherent policies and then often keep changing them, sometimes retroactively. This makes businesses reluctant to invest in greener technologies.
Japan’s future prospects depend on ensuring fiscal sustainability over the long term.
European leaders cannot afford to be afraid. The refugee crisis is not one from which they can opt out. No magic wand will empower leaders to transport more than a million people back across the Aegean and the Bosphorus to Mosul and Aleppo, or across the Mediterranean to Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan.
If you are trying to favor the unions by having more rigid labor market and keeping wages very high, you could be blocking people from getting new jobs.
Some politicians fear the burden that migrants will impose on local communities and taxpayers. Others fear extremists masquerading as genuine refugees.
In a globally interdependent world, a better financial and investment system cannot be achieved on a country-by-country basis. There may be no one-size-fits-all model for economic development, but without global standards and complementary regulations, the long-term outlook for the world economy will remain bleak.
I have family who are British citizens and who want to be citizens of the world and citizens of the E.U.
