Table of Contents

-Consequences of the oil price rise: The need for international action: Highlights from the speech of OECD's Secretary General, Emile van Lennep to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe 3

-What can be learned from recent difficulties in agricultural markets by A. Simantov, OECD Director for Agriculture 6

-The potential for fuel conservation: The case of the automobile 13

-The OECD Member Countries (comparable statistics for 1972) 19

-Environmental education in the universities: A Key to " Relevance " 27

-Development aid and the population problem 31

-Should fixed interest securities be tied to prices? 36

-Two OECD surveys on manpower 37

--Latest demographic trends and projections for 1985

--Rapid information on migration: SOPEMI

-At OECD 41

--OECD's Energy Committee

-New OECD publications 42