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unusual facts about Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development



Banking in Singapore

Tax evasion is illegal in Singapore; however, according to an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development official, Singaporean authorities tend to cooperate with other countries' tax authorities only when evasion of Singaporean taxes is involved.

Broad measures of economic progress

In 2007, the European Commission, the European Parliament, Club of Rome, OECD and WWF hosted a conference titled "Beyond GDP".

Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías

In addition, Urzúa Macías worked as a consultant to the World Bank on four occasions, as well as the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, the United Nations Development Programme and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development .

Dennis Tirpak

He was the head of the climate change unit at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for three years.

Graeme Wheeler

From 1984 to 1990 he was economic and financial councillor for the New Zealand delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, eventually becoming director of macroeconomic policy at the New Zealand Treasury in 1990.

Hurt Report

The 1999, the European Commission conducted the MAIDS report, comparable in scale to the Hurt Report, following Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) standards, and studying 921 accidents as well as exposure data on an additional 923 cases from five locations in France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain and Italy.

International Public Sector Accounting Standards

Observers on the IPSASB meetings include ADB, EU, IASB, IMF, INTOSAI, OECD, UN, UNDP and the World Bank.

Jakob Maersk oil spill

The cost of the catastrophe was estimated at 2.8 million dollars by the international Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

MAIDS report

The MAIDS (Motorcycle Accidents In Depth Study) report is a large-scale, comprehensive study of Powered Two Wheelers (PTW, i.e., motorcycles, scooters and mopeds) accidents carried out across five European countries, using both accident and exposure (or control) cases, as was done in the Hurt Report, and following the standards of OECD.

Michael Layton, 2nd Baron Layton

Lord Layton was a Member for Metallurgy of the Allied Control Commission in Berlin after World War II, later being on the Economic Sub-Committee which founded the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris.

Monique Jérôme-Forget

She has been heavily involved in the community, working for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, la Cinematheque Québécoise, the Quebec federation for the environment, the Social policies committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Medical Council of Canada and the Société investissement jeunesse.

Offshore investment

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the European Union (EU) and the United States of America (USA) continue to promote improved transparency on tax information and substantial progress has been made in the past 5 years.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

In 2011, President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia expressed the country's willingness to join the organization during a speech at the OECD headquarters.

Pobal Chill Chomáin

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has deemed a PCC complaint about the three oil companies involved admissible (for breaching their guidelines for multinationals), and has offered to mediate between the two sides.

Stijn Claessens

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Bank for International Settlements (BIS), World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (member Advisory Group Debt Relief Study)

Water resources management in Chile

It is not clear that lower flows in rivers adversely affect populations of aquatic species, but the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has analyzed the status of species in Chile and report that 41 of 44 vertebrate freshwater species are encountering conservation problems.


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