Search Results for: OECD
China Begins G-20 Leadership With Ideas to Reduce Dollar’s Role
December 7th, 2015
South Korea, France to lead working group exploring SDR use China exploring ways to make system more resilient to shocks As China takes the reins of the Group of 20 for the coming year, the first indications are emerging ...
OPEC 168th Meeting concludes
December 7th, 2015
The 168th Meeting of the Conference of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was held in Vienna, Austria, on Friday, 4th December 2015 under the Chairmanship of its President, HE Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, whom the Conference ...
Israel joins international efforts to boost transparency and end tax evasion
November 26th, 2015
Israel signed today the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters, making it the 91st jurisdiction to join the world’s leading instrument for boosting transparency and combating offshore tax evasion. The Convention provides for all forms of ...
Tax transparency and reform leave nowhere to hide for tax functions of the future on data demands
November 19th, 2015
Employees in tax functions need to fundamentally change the way they use and gather data if they are to meet the growing demands on business of tax transparency, reform and technology enabled decision making. PwC’s latest research into the ...
Oil prices edge up on reports of falling inventories, but glut remains in place
November 18th, 2015
Oil prices edged up on Wednesday following reports of falling stockpiles and rising refinery activity, but analysts said the market would remain under pressure for the rest of the year and into 2016. Industry group American Petroleum Institute (API) ...
Australia, Germany Sign New DTA
November 17th, 2015
Australia and Germany have signed a new double tax agreement (DTA) that lowers withholding tax rates on cross-border income and introduces new anti-abuse and prevention of non-taxation rules. The new agreement was signed on November 13 and replaces the ...
IEA releases Oil Market Report for November
November 16th, 2015
Non-OPEC output to slip more than 0.6 mb/d in 2016 as demand growth slows to 1.2 mb/d from five-year high Global demand growth is forecast to slow to 1.2 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2016 after surging to ...
Emerging market slowdown and drop in trade clouding global outlook
November 10th, 2015
A further sharp downturn in emerging market economies and world trade has weakened global growth to around 2.9% this year – well below the long-run average – and is a source of uncertainty for near-term prospects, says the OECD. ...
Asia Pacific stock markets continue slide as Chinese inflation weakens
November 10th, 2015
Investors have taken fright at the prospect that the US Fed could raise interest rates at the point when China is experiencing persistently weak demand Stock markets in Asia Pacific have continued to slide as the spectre of higher borrowing ...
Snapshots of Well-Being Across High-Income Countries
November 4th, 2015
Well-being is a multidimensional concept, for countries as well as for individuals. Thus, in the recent OECD report “How’s Life 2015: Measuring Well-Being,” the emphasis goes well beyond basic one-dimensional measures of well-being like per capita GDP and offers comparisons ...
