20-September-2016
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In Lyon and New York, we charted a comprehensive agenda for action for better investment in the health workforce. The release of "Working for Health and Growth: Investing in the Health Workforce" is a milestone in our common quest to create the right health jobs, with the right skills, in the right places.
20-September-2016
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We must unite to tackle the challenges of migration in today’s globalised world. Our International Migration Outlook helps put the facts on the table, and offers some pointers for the way forward. Now we need to move to implementation.
19-September-2016
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Our agenda is ambitious, but also critical. Our analysis, data and knowledge of health labour markets, along with our ability to develop benchmarks and best practices, will help countries implement the type of health workforce transformations we need for the future.
19-September-2016
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United, we can tackle the challenges that arise with large movements of migrants and refugees. Together, we can improve our policies to unleash the potential of migrants. Migration is not a threat, it is a hope, the hope of the migrants and their family for a better life and for all of us for a more prosperous and harmonious world.
19-September-2016
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The recommendations we agree on today will chart the course for an expanded, transformed, and sustainable global health workforce that will help our economies flourish and achieve their full potential. I look forward to hearing your views on the bold actions required to steer the global health workforce in this direction.
18-September-2016
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The Sustainable Development Goals give us a unique opportunity. The road to 2030 might be a long one, but the OECD will be there every step of the way. It is in this spirit that the OECD and OSF invited you here tonight: together we will look to develop the measures, uncover the evidence, and identify the policies that will deliver better access to justice.
15-September-2016
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Education remains a key driver of individual well-being, social progress and inclusive growth. The evidence presented in Education at a Glance 2016 is overwhelming ─ employment, earnings, health outcomes, and life satisfaction are all closely linked to educational attainment and skills.
10-September-2016
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While much has already been accomplished to strengthen tax compliance and enforcement, there is still further progress to be made. And second, we think that greater consideration needs to be given to the role that tax policy can play to foster trade, investment and growth. Now is a good time to look at the aspects of tax policy and administration that may be undermining investment, which remains too weak, not least in Europe.
5-September-2016
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Policy matters! The G20 must take bold action to escape the low-growth trap, tackle slowing productivity growth and rising inequalities, and make the most of technological progress while minimizing its disruptive impact. The OECD stands ready to support this effort to achieve, in the words of our Chinese hosts, an innovative, invigorated, interconnected and inclusive growth.
4-September-2016
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Policy action is moving in the right direction, but we can only escape the self-reinforcing low-growth trap by meeting the aims of the Hangzhou Action Plan to forge a path towards strong, sustainable, balanced and inclusive growth.