OECD economies and the world today Book

	Foreword
	Introduction
	About the OECD
	How the OECD collects its statistics
1	Performance of OECD economies
1.1	New patterns of globalization	3
1.2	Productivity growth	6
1.3	Ireland and globalization	9
1.4	The Finnish economic model	11
2	Emerging and transition economies
2.1	Momentum in Monterrey	21
2.2	Making markets work for the poor	23
2.3	China and the world economy	26
2.4	Prospects for another investment boom?	28
3	Trade
3.1	Trade after Doha	33
3.2	International trade and poverty reduction	35
4	Finance and investment
4.1	The future of money	41
4.2	Towards a more benign financial stability outlook?	43
4.3	New statistics on central government debt	45
4.4	Disaster recovery and contingency planning - the legacy of 11 September	47
5	Delivery of public services
5.1	Managing conflicts of interest	55
5.2	The challenges of retirement departure in the public service	58
5.3	Governments and globalization	61
5.4	Tri-partite partnerships	63
6	Tax
6.1	Trends in tax burdens	69
6.2	Environmentally related taxes	74
6.3	The ever-changing landscape of e-tax	77
7	Competition and regulatory reform
7.1	Improving regulatory practices in OECD countries	83
7.2	Levels of economic freedom	86
8	Money laundering
8.1	Terrorist financing	91
8.2	The complexities of combating money laundering	93
9	Bribery and corruption
9.1	Enforcing the anti-bribery convention	97
9.2	The fight against bribery and corruption	99
9.3	Russia's fight against corruption	101
10	Corporate governance and accountability
10.1	Corporate governance, investment and market integrity	105
10.2	Corporate responsibility	107
10.3	Conformance and performance	111
10.4	Corporate accountability and labour rights in the global economy	113
11	Environment and sustainable development
11.1	Sustainable consumption	119
11.2	Indicators to measure decoupling of environmental pressure from economic growth	125
11.3	Mining, metals and sustainable development 128
11.4	Climate policy: approaching a point of no return	130
11.5	Reporting sustainability	133
12	Energy
12.1	All a matter of timing	141
12.2	Electricity market reform	143
13	Transport
13.1	Ageing and transport	151
13.2	Sustainable mobility	154
13.3	Worldwide upheavals in road systems	157
14	Science and innovation
14.1	Mobilizing science for innovation	163
14.2	Reforming public sector research	167
15	The network economy
15.1	Beyond the hype	175
15.2	The extended enterprise	180
15.3	Investing in knowledge	182
15.4	E-commerce	184
16	Education and skills
16.1	Knowledge and skills for life	189
16.2	Levels of educational attainment	193
16.3	Lifelong learning policies in the knowledge society	197
16.4	E-learning	199
17	Employment
17.1	Improving job opportunities	203
17.2	The global challenges of youth employment	206
17.3	Becoming an employer of choice: lessons from the United States and Europe	209
18	Migration and mobility
18.1	International mobility of highly-skilled workers	213
18.2	Migration after 11 September	216
19	Health and safety
19.1	Keeping track of health and health spending amongst OECD countries	221
19.2	Investing in health, investing in our common future	231
19.3	Food safety	233
20	Insurance, pensions and the ageing society
20.1	Shifting risks	239
20.2	Regulating and supervising private pensions	243
20.3	Golden opportunity or paradise lost?	245