PENSIONS AT A GLANCE 2009: RETIREMENT-INCOME SYSTEMS IN OECD COUNTRIES – ISBN 978-92-64-06071-5 – © OECD 2009 17 Methodology Future entitlements under today’s parameter and rules The pension entitlements that are presented are those that are currently legislated in OECD countries. Changes in rules that have already been legislated, but are being phased-in gradually, are assumed to be fully in p...

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Note prepared for the OECD-Secretariat and the OECD TIP-group Presented at the 2nd OECD-workshop on cluster analysis and cluster-based policy Vienna, May 4th & 5th 1 This draft was prepared by Theo Roelandt and Pim den Hertog using the contributions of the focus group members. A full list of the participants of the focus group and the papers prepared for the focus group meetings has published i...

The OECD publication “Recombinant DNA safety considerations” (OECD, 1986), better known as the “OECD Blue Book”, has the reputation of being the first publication that endeavored to present comprehensive considerations on the environmental safety of recombinant DNA technology. Indeed, the book coined some of the key concepts in the discussion, e.g. the “case-by-case” and “stepby-step” approache...