Pursuant to Article 1 of the Convention signed in Paris on 14th December 1960, and which came into force on 30th September 1961, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) shall promote policies designed: − to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of living in Member countries, while maintaining financial stability, and thus t...

By tracing Japan’s history, we argue that families and communities have played important roles in the country’s successful socieconomic performance. The argument is first made by comparing Japan’s socioeconomic data with those of other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Then, we look into some case studies to gain a better understanding of the roles played ...

one of the specific aspects of our time is the existence of world trade organization as an important international center. this organization regulates the commercial laws among the countries, and tries to provide a suitable environment for trade by eliminating the subsidies using protection policies and making a better condition for competition. in order to achieve this objective, the economic ...

In this paper, we present a simple model that offers a unified framework for the analysis of economic growth and economic development. In our model, the transformation of production relationships, a key feature of the process of economic development, goes hand-in-hand with economic growth. The main driving force of this pattern is that economic growth in relatively backward economies is associa...

The cyclical economic downturn in the United States has forced many Extension administrators to rethink and adjust services and programming. The Cooperative Extension System (CES), the organization primarily responsible for governmental Extension work in the United States, at Iowa State University responded to this economic downturn by restructuring its organization from county based to a regio...

he United States spends more money per capita on health care than any other nation, and it offers some of the most sophisticated care in the world. Yet it lags behind many less affluent countries on basic health indicators such as infant mortality and life expectancy rates. Similarly, the United States ranks second only to Norway among OECD countries in per-student spending on education, yet it...

Non-clinical animal studies to assess the safety of compounds under development have to comply with Good Laboratory Practice (GLP). The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has established the Mutual Acceptance of Data (MAD) system in OECD member countries for the mutual acceptance of non-clinical safety study data. Since 1997 non-OECD-member countries have also been ab...

Nowadays, states spend more attention, time, and money on performance measurement and evaluation in the public sector than ever before (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD], 1996; Pollitt & Bouckaert, 2000, p. 87; Power, 1997). Results-based management is the talk of the day at all levels of the public sector: local, regional, national, and even supra national. Schools a...

The most recent developments of strategies and policies in the mental health field in Europe are related to the World Health Organization (WHO) Declaration and Action Plan on Mental Health signed by all the Ministers of Health of all Member States in the European Region (2005). The Action Plan proposes ways and means of developing comprehensive mental health policies, listing 12 areas in which ...

BACKGROUND In the day surgery system are intertwined elements of state health policy, health care payers' interests, employers of health care system, as well as the interests and wishes of patients. A problem in the health policy is to find a way to regulate ambulatory and short-term surgical procedures, which are hardly distinguishable, and still fulfil the requirements of transparent financin...