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This OECD Observer issue no. 206 focuses on regulation with 8 articles and also includes articles on Mexican agriculture, Chinese self-sufficiency in food, network computing, the Irish labour market, and the ministerial communiqué.

This issue no. 205 of the OECD Observer features articles on social policy, pension policy, aid to the Sahel, telecommunications, the agricultural outlook, agriculture and the environment, science and society, fisheries, liberalisation and new OECD members, New Zealand's reforms, the French labour market, and Norwegian education.

This issue no. 204 of the OECD Observer features articles on technology and industrial performance, support to industry, government ethics, economic instruments and the environment, entrepreneurship, investment in the Urkaine, Japanese corporate governence, and the OECD Economic Outlook.

This 203rd issue of the OECD Observer features articles on food security, environmental indicators for agriculture, resting the land, farmers and the environment, ageing and public policy, employment in the regions, restraints on trade, enterprise in West Africa, Canada's pension system,and US corporate governance.

This 202nd issue of the OECD Observer features articles on trade and labour standards, trade and product safety, flexible firms and employment, innovation, services for children at risk, internationalisation of education, the German welfare system, and the OECD Employment Outlook.

This issue no. 201 of the OECD Observer features articles on trade, antitrust policy, elder care, renewable energy, Asian energy, competition and the internet, China entering the 21st Century, fiscal consolidation and monetary policy, the Korean social security system, and the OECD Economic Outlook.

This issue number 200 of the OECD Observer features articles on the knowledge-based economy, services, helping industry help itself, West Africa in 2020, military spending in the regions, data transmission, science in Korea, and public sector reform in New Zealand.

This review uses the OECD Policy Framework for Investment to present an assessment of the investment climate in Viet Nam and to discuss the challenges and opportunities faced by the government of Viet Nam in its reform efforts. It includes chapters on foreign investment trends and performance, the entry and operations of foreign investors, the legal framework for investment, corporate governance and competition policy, tax reforms, investment promotion and facilitation, infrastructure connectivity, investment framework for green growth and policies to promote and enable responsible business conduct.

This first OECD Investment Policy Review of Lao PDR uses the OECD Policy Framework for Investment to assess the investment climate in Lao PDR and discusses the challenges and opportunities faced by the Government of Lao PDR in its reform efforts. It includes chapters on trends in foreign investment and trade, the legal framework for investment, regulatory restrictions on foreign investment, corporate governance, investment promotion and facilitation, promoting and enabling responsible business conduct, infrastructure connectivity and the investment framework for green growth.

This publication provides an overview of the economic development of the member countries of the OECD since 1970. The tables mainly show derived statistics such as growth rates and percentage shares. Coverage includes national accounts, population and labour force, prices and domestic finance, as well as international trade with OECD and groups of non-member countries.  This is the last edition of this book that will be published.

This annual publication provides an overview of the economic development of OECD countries since 1960.  The tables mainly show derived statistics such as growth rates and percentage shares. They include national accounts, population and labour force, prices, domestic finance and foreign trade.
 
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Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal,  Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States

This publication presents guidance for the compilation of distributional results on household income, consumption and saving consistent with national accounts totals. These results are a key input for evidence-based policies targeting inequality and fostering inclusive growth, providing insights into key dimensions of material well-being across household groups. The results complement existing inequality measures by including elements that are often lacking from micro statistics and by providing inequality measures consistent with macroeconomic aggregates, broadening the scope for analyses, while also capturing households and transactions that are typically underrepresented in micro data. Moreover, while the estimates do require a number of statistical choices and assumptions, they have a high degree of international comparability because of the common methodology and their alignment to national accounts results. The handbook provides an overview of the conceptual framework underlying the distributional results and discusses various aspects in relation to the compilation and presentation of the distributional results. It aims to assist compilers in deriving high-quality distributional results and to provide users with more insights into the main benefits of these results as well as into the way that the results have been derived.

This publication provides a summary of the key methodological issues surrounding indicators and statistics on the space sector and the larger space economy and it meant to be complementary to The Space Economy at a Glance 2011 .

The digital economy is growing, with producers increasingly using digital technology to revolutionise their production processes, and with new business models being created based on the digital transformation. To improve the visibility of digitalisation in macroeconomic statistics, the Digital Supply and Use Tables (SUTs) framework has been developed under the auspices of the OECD’s Informal Advisory Group (IAG) on Measuring GDP in a Digitalised Economy. In the Digital SUTs framework, three dimensions are introduced for measuring the digital economy: the nature of the transaction (the “how”), the goods and services produced (the “what”), and the new digital industries (the “who”). The OECD Handbook on Compiling Digital SUTs explains these three dimensions and includes examples. It also presents the high priority indicators that have been agreed by the IAG and includes recommended templates for producing the outputs.

This handbook provides answers to questions such as "What is a teacher?", "What do we mean by public education expenditure?" as well as questions concerning the use of the indicators "How should I interpret expenditure per student?" "What is it measuring?".  In so doing, the handbook aims to facilitate a greater understanding of the OECD statistics and indicators produced and so allow for their more effective use in policy analysis.  Equally, it provides a ready reference of international standards and conventions for others to follow in the collection and assimilation of educational data.  This publication describes the methodology used in the International Survey of Upper Secondary Schools(ISUSS) and in related OECD publications and allows researchers to understand and replicate its analyses.

This publication presents an internationally agreed set of guidelines for producing micro statistics on household wealth, It addresses the common conceptual, definitional and practical problems that countries face in producing such statistics, and are meant to improve the comparability of the currently available country data. The Guidelines, prepared by an international expert group working under the auspices of the OECD, propose a set of standard concepts, definitions and classifications for micro wealth statistics, and cover different phases in the statistical production process, including sources and methods for measuring particular forms of wealth, best practice in using household surveys or other sources to compile wealth statistics, the development of analytic measures, the dissemination of data, and data quality assurance.