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Australian tax burden less than OECD average: Costello

The latest Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) revenue statistics reveal that Australia has the sixth lowest taxes amongst the 30-nation group. "This was 6.8 percentage points lower than the OECD average of 36.9% and represents ...

Labor marks Anti-Poverty Week with new proposals

... 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 working Australians. The ...

Macquarie to purchase Swedish rail link

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2003
... fund's initial equity raising. MEIF is intended to be a new wholesale fund targeting investment infrastructure in Europe's OECD countries. The A-Train will be the fund's second seed asset after Macquarie's purchase of UK water utility South East Water ...

Macquarie Bank buys into UK water firm for $948m

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2003
... Macquarie said its new MEIF will be a wholesale private equity fund formed to invest in infrastructure assets in European OECD countries. It will target investments providing essential services to communities and which have a strategic competitive advantage ...

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 ...

Australia's current unemployment rate compares favourably with OECD average

... 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 points higher than ...

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 ...

ICAP says US current account deficit causing considerable global uncertainty

... billion (about $769 billion). This has been matched by roughly equal improvements in the current account balances of other OECD economies, dynamic Asia, developing economies and an increase in the measurement error that confront statisticians trying ...

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

... 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 the lower real growth ...