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22-Dec-2008
The economic downturn will hit the Internet economy hard in 2009, according to the latest available OECD estimates. The IT Outlook 2008 says that the IT industry is likely to have grown by 4% at most in 2008 compared to the previous year. But with the outlook for the global economy worsening and business and consumer confidence plumetting, growth will remain flat or decline in 2009.
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from 24-Jun-2009 to 25-Jun-2009
OECD’s 30 member countries will hold their annual Ministerial Council Meeting in Paris on 24-25 June 2009 under the chairmanship of Korean Prime Minister Seung Soo Han. This is the first time that Korea, which joined OECD in 1996, will chair an OECD Ministerial Council Meeting.
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18-Dec-2008
Young people in Japan are finding it increasingly hard to get permanent jobs and the Japanese authorities should expand vocational training schemes and increase social security coverage for young non-regular workers in order to help them.
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17-Dec-2008
Korea has been hard-hit by the global financial crisis. In addition, it faces a number of medium-term challenges to sustaining growth, notably tax reform, enhancing service sector productivity and reforming the labour market and education system.
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16-Dec-2008
Turkey compares well with other OECD countries in terms of biodiversity and its relatively low level of greenhouse gas emissions per head of population, but it faces significant future environmental challenges due to unsustainable patterns of production and consumption.
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