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Environmental Risks and Insurance : A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Insurance in the Management of Environment-Related Risks
2003
catastrophic in their consequences. Therefore, the elaboration of effective risk-management plans, aimed at formulating viable … management of environmental risks - environmental pollution risk and natural catastrophe risk in particular. It discusses the … issue of insurability of such risks, analyses the increasing risk of liability for environmental pollution and the …
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The Contribution of Reinsurance Markets to Managing Catastrophe Risk
OECD - 2018
catastrophe risk and to reducing the economic and insurance market disruption that often follows catastrophic events. …
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Teenage career uncertainty : Why it matters and how to reduce it?
OECD - 2024
PISA 2022 finds that two in five students aged 15, across all OECD countries have no clear career plans. The proportion of students who can be described as career uncertain has grown by more than half since 2018. This is a matter of concern. Analysis of multiple longitudinal studies in different...
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Electricity in India: Providing Power for the Millions
2002
The quality of Indian electricity, which is still provided mainly by the electricity boards of the several federal states, has deteriorated sharply. This has seriously impeded the country's economic growth. India needs now to meet the growing demand for electricity from more than a billion...
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Purchasing power parities and real expenditures : benchmark year ...
OECD - Paris : OECD - 1985(1987) - 2005(2007); damit Ersch. eingest.
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Greening household behaviour : the role of public policy
2011
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Vers un mode de consommation durable des ménages ? : Tendances et politiques dans les pays de l'OCDE
2002
La poursuite des objectifs de développement durable passe par un changement des modes de consommation. Dix ans après le Sommet de la Terre de Rio de Janeiro, quel bilan peut-on dresser ? Les pays de l'OCDE se sont-ils engagés dans la voie de la consommation durable ? Comment promouvoir une...
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Greening Household Behaviour : The Role of Public Policy
2011
Developing growth strategies that promote greener lifestyles requires a good understanding of what factors affect people’s behaviour towards the environment. Recent OECD work based on periodic surveys of more than 10 000 households across a number of countries and areas represents a...
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Do students spend enough time learning?
OECD - 2017
In some countries and economies, such as Beijing-Shanghai-Jiangsu-Guangdong (China), Qatar,Thailand, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates, students spend at least 54 hours per week learning at and outside of school combined, whereas in others, like Finland, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and...
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Social Expenditure: Aggregated data (Edition 2023)
OECD - 20XX
The Aggregated dataset is a subset of the OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) database, has been developed in order to serve a growing need for indicators of social protection and social policy. It includes reliable and internationally comparable aggregate statistics on public and mandatory...
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