Angel Gurria
Nigerian Mashi Muhammed Kabir (L), acting Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service shakes hands with OECD General Secretary Angel Gurria after Nigeria signed an OECD multilateral convention on mutual administrative assistance in tax matters during a signing ceremony at the OECD headquarters in Paris on May 29, 2013.
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We all have a stake that they [the Japanese] succeed because it's such a big engine of the economy and has been in the repair shop for so long
An overvalued housing market and a bubble are not the same thing
The question is balance — a balance between the availability and use of the natural endowment that you may have ... And the question of intergenerational responsibility with the environment… The question, on the other hand, is just the fact that you have availability does not mean that’s what you have to go for.More quotes »
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Overvalued Housing Market Not the Same as Bubble
By David George-Cosh Originally posted on Canada Real Time . The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development made some waves last week when it said Canada’s housing market was one of the few countries under its watch that is both overvalued and from Wall Street Journal Blogs Read more »
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OECD report: Global demands for food, water to rise
Integrating green growth strategies into their economic policies will be critical to developing countries going forward as they work to secure a more prosperous and comfortable quality of life for their citizens, a new OECD report has determined. The rep from Jerusalem Post Read more »
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OECD: Israel's Budgetary Restraint the Right Decision
Secretary-General Angel Gurria of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development told Finance Minister Yair Lapid, Thursday, that Israel's budgetary restraint was proper for the state of the country's economy. Meeting during a gathering of OEC from Arutz Sheva Read more »
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OECD expects global economy growth to improve, but at varying rates
PARIS, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Global economy is picking up in the coming two years but significant divergence exists across countries, said the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Wednesday in its new report. "The global economy i from SINA English Read more »
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Europe a drag to world economic recovery
OECD General Secretary Angel Gurria (right), pictured with Chile Minister of Finance Felipe Larrain, says Europe will weigh on the world economic recovery. Source: AFP THE recession in Europe risks threatening the world's economic recovery, a leading int from Adelaide Now Read more »
