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Greater fiscal discipline needed: OECD

The Australian government should maintain its fiscal objective of keeping the budget balanced over the economic cycle and allow fiscal policy to play a stabilisation role through the operation of the automatic stabilisers, according to a report from ...

OECD standardised unemployment rate rises

The standardised unemployment rate for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries has risen to 7.2 percent in September, which is 0.1% higher than the previous month and 0.2% higher than a year earlier. In the Euro area ...

Latest OECD data indicates moderate to strong economic global growth

The latest Composite Leading Indicators (CPI) figures for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a 30-nation organization of which Australia is a part of, has indicated that moderate to strong recovery lies ahead for the economies ...

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

The Federal Opposition Labor party will mark Anti-Poverty Week with a commitment to convene a national summit on poverty and inequality and set targets for income, employment, health, education and community services as part of a whole government strategy ...

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

Australia's current unemployment rate, announced at a 13-year low 5.8 per cent yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), is far lower than the standardised unemployment rate of 7.2% (July 2003) for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation ...

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

In its weekly economic insight released today, ICAP reported that a major correction in global bond markets has begun, and that it remains unlikely that bond yields will reach their June lows again in this cycle. ICAP mentioned that the only rationale ...