The OECD is a unique forum where the governments of 30 democracies work together to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalisation. The OECD is also at the forefront of efforts to understand and to help governments respond to new developments and concerns, such as corporate governance, the information economy and the challenges of an ageing population. The Organisati...

BACKGROUND Despite epidemic numbers of obese and overweight pre-school children, professionals report a lack of confidence and self-efficacy in working with parents around lifestyle change. HENRY--Health Exercise Nutrition for the Really Young--trains health and community practitioners to work more sensitively and effectively with parents of babies and pre-school children around obesity and lif...

32 Productivity is, once more, on the agenda in many OECD countries. It has long been regarded as the long-run driver of economic growth, but attention for productivity-related issues has waxed and waned over the past decades. In recent years, productivity growth has received a great deal of attention in several OECD countries, notably Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and ...

The role of OECD in the development of national and international risk/safety assessment frameworks is presented and discussed. The most relevant OECD bodies in this context have contributed a lot to the development of international biosafety frameworks, inter alia by organizing international conferences in the areas of food/feed and environmental safety of GMOs, focusing on practical and curre...

Debasmita Misra*, Thomas Oommen, Avinash Agarwal, Surendra K. Mishra, Anita M. Thompson Geological Engineering, College of Engineering and Mines, University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 755800, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA Tufts University, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, 200 College Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee-247667, Uttaranchal, India...

1 Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. 2 Institute of Neuroscience, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve & Brussels, Belgium. 3 Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. 4 ImpAct, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Inserm U1028, CNRS UMR 5092, Université Claude...

In the recent years, renewable energy sources are an important component of world energy consumption. GDP is one of the main measures of a country’s economic activity. Most of the studies examine the impact of renewable energy consumption on GDP with single equation model and the others use dynamic panel data. Since the Granger causality analysis’s findings of this paper establish bidirectional...

Patrick J. POLLARD*, Christoph LOENARZ†, David R. MOLE*, Michael A. MCDONOUGH†, Jonathan M. GLEADLE‡, Christopher J. SCHOFIELD† and Peter J. RATCLIFFE*1 *Henry Wellcome Building for Molecular Physiology, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, U.K., †Chemistry Research Laboratory and The Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxfor...