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Labor marks Anti-Poverty Week with new proposals

... opposition leader Simon Crean, said Australia has one of the highest rates of poverty for any Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) country, with 2.4 million Australians now living below the poverty line, including one million ...

APEC will seek to exorcise the failures of WTO Cancun

Next week's meeting of heads of states and ministers at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, will focus on multilateral trade and security issues and will aim to further enhance business facilitation among the 21 ...

OECD urges governments to improve job opportunities to the marginalised

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has said that governments must do more to improve the job opportunities for women, older workers, people with disabilities and the low-skilled. In the latest OECD Employment Outlook report ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ordinaries gain slightly

... value. Meanwhile, the Commonwealth ministers meeting in Brunei commenced today, amidst calls for greater focus on cooperation between countries and a focus on alleviating poverty amongst the 54 member states. Meanwhile the Australian dollar climbed to ...

Australia's current unemployment rate compares favourably with OECD average

... (ABS), is far lower than the standardised unemployment rate of 7.2% (July 2003) for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. The OECD average for the Euro area is worse, at a standardised 8.9%, which is 0.5 percentage ...

OECD predicts continued economic recovery

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced recently in a report published by its chief economist Jean-Philippe Cotis that a US economic recovery is unfolding whilst in Japan, growth has surprised on the upside, but in ...

Slow to moderate economic growth for the OECD

The latest composite leading indicators released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) predict slow to moderate economic growth ahead in the 30-nation OECD, which includes Australia. According to the OECD, May data indicate ...

Global bonds sell-off from their unsustainable levels: ICAP

... growth for an extended period as witnessed in the early 1990s' recessions in a number of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) economies and seen in Japan for much of the past decade. The resultant reduction in new investment and ...

Healthcare expenditure at record highs: OECD

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has said current spending on health care amongst its member states - including Australia - is at a record high, with the bulk of that spending largely due to the rising cost of pharmaceuticals ...

OECD enhances international consumer protection activities

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has announced that consumers across the world will enjoy greater protection due to the OECD Council's adoption of the Guidelines for Protecting Consumers from Fraudulent and Deceptive ...