“…Australia has managed to decouple economic growth from the main environmental pressures and has made impressive progress in expanding protected areas. …”

“…The study examines the main initiatives for promoting digital inclusion, reinforcing public sector capacity, and achieving efficient public service design and delivery. …”

“…This report analyses the incorporation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in higher education in Latin America, focusing mainly on what is commonly referred to as “e-learning”. …”

“…This paper analyses the main features of Slovakia’s public expenditure system, reviews expenditure trends, and discusses recent reform initiatives. …”

“…The workshop included presentations by leading academics and OECD staff from the Economics Department, the Directorates of the Environment, Science and Technology, and Statistics and the Development Centre. A list of the main participants, and links to their presentations, are given in an Annex. …”

“…This paper reviews the main areas for reform, including retail trade, pharmacies, professional services such as legal and medical services, and various network industries including electricity, telecommunications and inter-city buses. …”

“…Le présent article décrit un projet de recherche ayant pour objectif de collecter des données de première main auprès des utilisateurs des écoles (élèves, enseignants, directeurs d’écoles), ainsi que des données sur les performances académiques auprès des élèves. …”

“…This paper examines the main forces at play behind this run-up and provides some insight into whether and how they might possibly unwind in the future, a process that may already be underway. …”

“…In section 3, we examine the ex-post evidence on competition for the market, with particular emphasis on the East Coast Main Line franchise in Great-Britain, drawing in part on Preston (2008b). …”

“…What are the recent trends and prospects for investment in power generation? What are the main drivers and barriers? This book assesses these issues and gives special emphasis to the question of how uncertainties may affect investment decisions. …”

“…Evolution récente et perspectives -Evolution récente -L'offre et la demande -Balance des paiements -Salaires, prix et revenus -Politique économique -Politique des revenus -Politique budgétaire -Politique et évolution monétaires -Politique et problèmes de main-d'oeuvre -Perspectives -Exportations -Demande intérieure -Importations -Balance des paiements II. …”

“…This book presents the proceedings of a workshop entitled the "Handling of Timescales in Assessing Post-Closure Safety" of deep geological repositories for radioactive waste organised in Paris on 16-18 April 2002 and hosted by the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN). The main objective of the workshop was to identify and discuss approaches related to, and work done on, the timescales issue within national radioactive waste management programmes in the context of assessing post-closure safety. …”

“…This book presents the main results of the OECD Innovation Microdata Project -- the first large-scale effort to exploit firm-level data from innovation surveys across 20 countries in an internationally harmonised way, with a view to addressing common analytical questions. …”

“…This book includes the texts of the invited presentations, the reports of the deliberations held in the five working groups, as well as the main conclusions of the workshop…”

“…A competitive, responsive, well-organised transport sector facilitates trade, but creating the conditions for this poses policy challenges that must be tackled if transport is to contribute fully to globalisation. This was the main theme of the 17th ITF/OECD Symposium. These conference proceedings contain summaries of the opening session ceremonies and discussions and the full text of the 16 papers presented as introductory reports for the discussions. …”

“…The roadmap focuses on five main industrial applications: high-purity CO2 sources, biomass conversion, cement, iron and steel and refineries. …”

“…This paper first reviews the main causes for excessive use of environmental resources in a market economy, and how governments may conduct policies to counter environmental degradation. …”

“…The review identifies two main themes running through these five areas: The first is the need for more effective whole-of-government co-ordination of strategy-setting and implementation, led by the centre of government. …”

“…Politique économique -Politique budgétaire -Politique monétaire et évolution de la situation -Politique commerciale et politique en matière de changes -Politique de la main-d'oeuvre et politique régionale III. Perspectives et conclusions -Perspectives concernant le PIB en 1970 -Perspectives concernant la balance des paiements -Conclusions quant à la politique à suivre Annexe statistique…”

“…Next, we describe the design of our study, and discuss and elaborate on the main empirical findings. Based on this, we present practical guidelines for policy makers and insurance companies aiming to introduce PAYD schemes as a tool to reduce crash risk, improve traffic safety, and reduce the negative environmental impacts of car use…”