OECD – Impact Lab

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OECD predicts global capitalism will collapse in 50 years

July 14, 2014

Symbol of capitalism

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a pro-establishment, pro-market thinking organization has released a report predicting a collapse in global economic growth rates, a rise in feudal wealth disparity, collapsing tax revenue and huge, migrating bands of migrant laborers roaming from country to country, seeking crumbs of work. They prescribe “flexible” workforces, austerity, and mass privatization.

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Countries ranked by quality of life

February 12, 2014

What is your recipe for a better life?

Money is important, but it isn’t everything. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development created the Your Better Life Index to compare the quality of life as well as economic prowess of its 34 member countries. The index measures each country using 11 different lines, including income, employment, health, education, environmental quality, and its citizens’ opinions about life satisfaction, work-life balance, and a sense of community. Because people have different priorities, the OECD index allows them to rank countries according to their own values. The United States remains at the top for income and wealth, but it lags behind as a place to live a long and happy life. National Journal

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U.S. students rank below global average in math, reading, and science

December 4, 2013

Students in Shanghai ranked as the world’s best.

The OECD is out with new global rankings of how students in various countries do in reading, science, and math. You can see below how Asian countries are obliterating everyone else in these categories.

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The high price of tuition-free college in Sweden

June 5, 2013

Swedish college students still graduate with a ton of debt.

Colleges and universities in Sweden are free. But students there still end up with a lot of debt. The average at the beginning of 2013 was roughly 124,000 Swedish krona ($19,000). Sure, the average US student was carrying about 30% more, at $24,800.

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Do women in the U.S. have the best quality of live?

May 24, 2012

Australia gets top honors for overall wellbeing.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has recently released the Better Life Index and according to the index women in the United States have the best quality of life of any developed nation.

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OECD warns quality of patents ‘falling dramatically’

September 22, 2011

Companies are filing overly broad patents on obvious ideas in the hope that one day the technology will become feasible.

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development reports that “the quality of patent filings has fallen dramatically over the past two decades. The rush to protect even minor improvements in products or services is overburdening patent offices. This slows the time to market for true innovations and reduces the potential for breakthrough inventions.”

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Top 10 Happiest Countries in the World

June 6, 2011

Danish residents have consistently rated themselves as the happiest in the world for years.

The question, which has been debated by philosophers for centuries, is “what makes people happy?” That question is now being tackled by international bureaucrats and the results are interesting, to say the least.

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