The OECD Employment Outlook provides an annual assessment of labour market developments and prospects in member countries. This issue focuses on the jobs crisis in particular and looks at steps taken by governments to help workers and the unemployed. It recommends ways of preventing current high levels of unemployment becoming entrenched.
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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 Organisation provides a setting where governments can compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and work to co-ordinate domestic and international policies.
OECD in Figures 2008 covers the following areas: Demography and health Economy Prices and finance Energy Labour Science and technology Environment Education Public finance International trade and investment.
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OECD and FAO see agricultural commodity prices remaining high and growing more volatile
Source: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Agricultural commodity prices should ease from their recent record peaks but over the next 10 years they are expected to average well above the mean of the past decade, according to the latest Agricultural Outlook from OECD and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
The current high prices will hit poor and hungry people hardest, particularly those who are net food buyers in urban areas in low income countries. Humanitarian aid is the best short term solution for this situation while in the longer term the emphasis in these countries needs to be on improving farm productivity as well as growth and broader economic development.
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