Report: Countries Face A 'Great Challenge' Economically For The Foreseeable Future
An OECD report due for release this month will say markets and governments face an uphill struggle to fund themselves next year amid extreme uncer...
An OECD report due for release this month will say markets and governments face an uphill struggle to fund themselves next year amid extreme uncer...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.05.2011 | Business
Scales continue to tip in the rich's favor the world around. Income inequality -- the gap between a society's richest members and its poorest -- i...
Posted 11.28.2011 | Business
Germany and France stepped up a drive on Monday for intrusive powers to reject national budgets in the euro zone that breach EU rules, as a market...
Wendell Potter | Posted 11.28.2011 | Politics
Americans are not getting nearly as much bang for the health care buck as citizens of most other developed countries -- and even some countries in the developing world.
AP | Posted 11.28.2011 | Business
PARIS — The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Monday policy makers around the world must "be prepared to face the worst...
Cliff Schecter | Posted 01.14.2012 | Politics
So what do you do when financial analysts are warning that housing prices are headed for a "triple dip," the second largest Swiss Bank (Credit Suisse)...
Posted 11.14.2011 | Business
None of the world's major economies will escape a slowdown, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said on Monday, highlightin...
Michael Shank | Posted 01.11.2012 | Education
Without a strong American commitment to a quality education, it is no surprise that Rick Perry, a son of this education system, cannot recall government agencies.
Posted 12.31.2011 | Business
The euro area is headed toward a sharp economic slowdown in 2012, with some countries set for negative growth, and failure to restore confidence i...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 12.27.2011 | Business
WASHINGTON -- A central concern for those in the Occupy movement -- that the economic system in the U.S. is rigged in favor of the well-off -- has bee...
Posted 12.25.2011 | Business
An international drive against offshore tax havens has reaped nearly 14 billion euros from would-be tax evaders, the Organization for Economic Coo...
Justin Snider | Posted 12.17.2011 | Education
For America to avert catastrophe and regain both its educational edge and economic dominance, how -- and how urgently -- must must U.S. higher education change?
Posted 10.14.2011 | World
What makes people happy? That's the question the Organisation for Economic Cooperation And Development tries to answer in its latest report, How's Lif...
Posted 12.10.2011 | Business
(Vicky Buffery) - The outlook for the world's major economies is continuing to darken according to the latest data from the OECD published on Mond...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.14.2011 | Business
Banks are among some of the most hated companies in America, largely for their role in causing a global financial crisis. That reputation could only g...
The Economist | Editors | Posted 11.11.2011 | Business
A little geographical imagination helps to convey the scale of joblessness in the West. If the 44m people who are unemployed in the mainly rich member...
Posted 11.08.2011 | Business
(Leigh Thomas) - The outlook for economic growth in developed countries has got much worse in the last three months, the OECD said on Thursday and...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.01.2011 | Business
It's well known that Americans put in long hours at the office. But now, thanks to an infographic from tribeHR using data from the OECD, we can compar...
Jack Jennings | Posted 10.30.2011 | Education
If teachers are so important, why don't our schools attract and keep the best teachers? A major reason is that we aren't willing to pay excellent teachers what they deserve.
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.17.2011 | Education
U.S. students rank poorly in proficiency on both domestic and international math exams, a problem that could cost the country $75 trillion over 80 yea...
Joel Rubin | Posted 10.11.2011 | World
Just as the current Israeli protests are being made against an ostensibly solid government, this can change overnight. We've learned this from the Arab Spring. What seems to be a solid government one day can turn to mush the next.
Sasha Lezhnev | Posted 10.09.2011 | Impact
Ending the world's deadliest conflict is no easy task, but a growing consensus of Congolese civil society, electronics and metals companies, investors, and governments are now taking action to do so.
AP | Posted 10.09.2011 | Business
VIENNA -- World demand for oil will grow this year and next despite signs that the tepid international economic recovery is running out steam, OPEC sa...
The Huffington Post | James Sunshine | Posted 09.13.2011 | Business
Legal immigration to the U.S. has slowed considerably since the Great Recession began, according to a newly released report by the Paris-based Organiz...
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 09.04.2011 | Business
Spiking food prices could mean that even some of the employed soon won't be able to bring home the bacon. The price of pork bellies, that part of t...
Posted 12.12.2011 | Business