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L' économie politique de la réforme : Retraites, emplois et déréglementation dans dix pays de l'OCDE
Tompson, William - 2010
En analysant vingt tentatives de réforme structurelle menées dans 10 pays de l’OCDE, ce rapport examine pourquoi certaines de ces réformes politiques sont appliquées et d'autres non. Les études de cas présentées dans l’ouvrage illustrent un large éventail de démarches visant à la...
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Reforms for an Ageing Society
2000
This book reviews recent trends, reforms and lessons learned in the 29 OECD countries as they relate to ageing. Recent reforms have been driven mainly by fiscal factors - to adjust systems such as pensions and long-term care to the ageing of the baby boom generation. This remains a main concern...
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Life expectancy at 65
OECD - 20XX
Life expectancy at age 65 years old is the average number of years that a person at that age can be expected to live, assuming that age-specific mortality levels remain constant. However, the actual age-specific death rate of any particular birth cohort cannot be known in advance. If rates are...
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Civil service pension reform in developing countries : Experiences and lessons
OECD - 2020
This study examines reforms to civil service pension arrangements in a number of developing countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. These arrangements are a significant component of public-sector remuneration in many developing countries and they can carry substantial risks, not only...
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Reforming pensions: myths, truths and policy choices
Barr, Nicholas A. - In: Reforming public pensions : sharing the experiences of …, (pp. 99-125). 2004
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Is memorisation a good strategy for learning mathematics?
OECD - 2016
Fewer 15-year-olds in East Asian countries reported that they use memorisation than did 15‑year‑olds in some of the English-speaking countries to whom they are often compared. In no PISA-participating education system did boys report more intensive use of memorisation than girls when...
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Are disadvantaged students given equal opportunities to learn mathematics?
OECD - 2016
Some 65% of socio-economically advantaged students reported that they know well or have often heard of the concept of quadratic function, on average across OECD countries; but only 43% of disadvantaged students so reported. On average across OECD countries, the 20% of students who are most...
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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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Greece : reform of social welfare programmes
2013
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Pushing ahead with reform in Korea : labour market and social safety-net policies
2000
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