Gold Production in South Africa decreased to 4.90 percent in January from 24.10 percent in December of 2019. Gold Production in South Africa averaged -4.31 percent from 1981 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 75.70 percent in October of 2013 and a record low of -47.10 percent in October of 2012. In South Africa, gold production accounts for 16 percent of total mining production. This page provides - South Africa Gold Production YoY- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Precipitation in Myanmar decreased to 18.73 mm in December from 45.24 mm in November of 2015. Precipitation in Myanmar averaged 160.36 mm from 1901 until 2015, reaching an all time high of 749.12 mm in August of 1939 and a record low of 0.40 mm in January of 1940. This page includes a chart with historical data for Myanmar Average Precipitation.

Myanmar is the 130 least corrupt nation out of 175 countries, according to the 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index reported by Transparency International. Corruption Rank in Myanmar averaged 155.12 from 2003 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 180 in 2011 and a record low of 129 in 2003. The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A country or territory's rank indicates its position relative to the other countries and territories in the index. This page provides the latest reported value for - Myanmar Corruption Rank - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

The total population in Myanmar was estimated at 54.1 million people in 2019, according to the latest census figures and projections from Trading Economics. Looking back, in the year of 1960, Myanmar had a population of 21.0 million people. The population of Myanmar represents 0.70 percent of the world´s total population which arguably means that one person in every 144 people on the planet is a resident of Myanmar. This page provides - Myanmar Population - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

The transportation sub-index of the CPI basket in Myanmar decreased to 114.62 points in February of 2020 from 117.14 points in January of 2020. Cpi Transportation in Myanmar averaged 100.82 points from 2013 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 118.78 points in October of 2018 and a record low of 87.69 points in March of 2016. This page provides - Myanmar Cpi Transportation- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Precipitation in Andorra decreased to 1.78 mm in December from 66.44 mm in November of 2015. Precipitation in Andorra averaged 65.99 mm from 1901 until 2015, reaching an all time high of 213.75 mm in May of 1977 and a record low of 1.49 mm in January of 1993. This page includes a chart with historical data for Andorra Average Precipitation.

Korea tops a new OECD PISA survey that tests how 15-year olds use computers and the Internet to learn. The next best performers were New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Hong-Kong China and Iceland.

Austria should eliminate subsidies which encourage early retirement and target social transfers more effectively, according to the OECD’s latest economic survey.

Furthering efforts to fight against international tax evasion and bank secrecy, members of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes have issued 12 new peer review reports.

Austria has a higher share of immigrants in the total working-age population than many other OECD countries. At the same time, the framework for integration policy is less developed than in a number of other OECD countries. These are among the main findings of this review.

This spotlight report draws upon the OECD report Equity and Quality in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools.

This publication reviews the labour market integration of immigrants and their children in three OECD countries (Austria, Norway and Switzerland) and provides country-specific recommendations. It also includes a summary chapter highlighting common challenges and policy responses. It is the third and last in a series which has covered eleven OECD countries.

Education at a Glance 2013 - Country notes and key fact tables

There are few OECD countries where vocational education and training (VET) is held in such high regard or takes so many forms as in Austria. Some 60 percent of young Austrians aged between 25 and 34 have completed a VET course below tertiary level (vocational school or technical college).

The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes has released peer review reports assessing the tax systems of 13 jurisdictions for information exchange.

These country notes contain indicators which compare the political and institutional frameworks of national governments as well as revenues and expenditures, employment, and compensation. They include a description of government policies on integrity, e-government and open government.

Highlights for Austria from Pensions at a Glance which is a comprehensive examination of pension systems in OECD and selected non-OECD countries looking at recent trends in retirement and working at older ages, evolving life expectancy, design of pension systems, pension entitlements, and private pensions.

Country notes with main key findings of the book and key fact tables: a customised snapshot of a country's educational environment, highlighting the most important issues in the educational landscape.

This publication highlights new evidence on policies to support job creation, bringing together the latest research on labour market, entrepreneurship and local economic development policy to help governments support job creation in the recovery. It also includes a set of country pages featuring, among other things, new data on skills supply and demand at the level of smaller OECD regions (TL3).

This publication analyses the reform and the Austrian labour migration management system in international comparison.

Water resources allocation determines who is able to use water resources, how, when and where. Capturing information from 27 OECD countries and key partner economies, the report presents key findings from the OECD Survey of Water Resources Allocation and case studies of successful allocation reform.

The 2015 edition introduces more detailed analysis of participation in early childhood and tertiary levels of education. The report also examines first generation tertiary-educated adults’ educational and social mobility, labour market outcomes for recent graduates, and participation in employer-sponsored formal and/or non-formal education.

Education at a Glance 2016 - Country Notes

The Austrian economy is strengthening, supported by recent tax reform and a pick-up in international trade. With business and household confidence rising and the short-term outlook favourable, policymakers should enact deeper structural reforms that will improve both fiscal sustainability and social cohesion.

This note presents marginal effective tax rates (METRs) that summarise the tax system’s impact on the incentives to make an additional investment in a particular type of savings. By comparing METRs on different types of household savings, we can gain insights into which assets or savings types receive the most favourable treatment from the tax system.

The Austrian standard VAT rate is 20.0%, which is above the OECD average. The average VAT/GST¹ standard rate in the OECD was 19.3% as of 1 January 2019. The previous standard VAT rate in Austria was 18% in 1983. It changed to the current level in 1984. Austria applies reduced VAT rates of 10% and 13% to a number of goods and services as well as one specific regional rates.

Österreich - Ländergesundheitsprofile 2019: Launch presentation. The Country Health Profiles provide a concise and policy-relevant overview of health and health systems in the EU/European Economic area, emphasizing the particular characteristics and challenges in each country against a backdrop of cross-country comparisons.

Precipitation in Uruguay increased to 170.49 mm in December from 97.45 mm in November of 2015. Precipitation in Uruguay averaged 100.76 mm from 1901 until 2015, reaching an all time high of 358.54 mm in February of 2010 and a record low of 7.70 mm in August of 1948. This page includes a chart with historical data for Uruguay Average Precipitation.

Housing Index in Uruguay increased to 273.05 Index Points in the fourth quarter of 2013 from 217.47 Index Points in the second quarter of 2013. Housing Index in Uruguay averaged 140.18 Index Points from 1991 until 2013, reaching an all time high of 273.05 Index Points in the fourth quarter of 2013 and a record low of 43.35 Index Points in the fourth quarter of 2003. In Uruguay, Housing Index is measured by the Index of New Housing Construction Volume with the base value of 100 in 1990. This page provides - Uruguay New Housing Construction Index - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Uruguay scored 71 points out of 100 on the 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index reported by Transparency International. Corruption Index in Uruguay averaged 63.02 Points from 1997 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 74 Points in 2015 and a record low of 41.40 Points in 1997. The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A country or territory’s score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). This page provides the latest reported value for - Uruguay Corruption Index - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Uruguay is the 21 least corrupt nation out of 175 countries, according to the 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index reported by Transparency International. Corruption Rank in Uruguay averaged 27.14 from 1997 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 42 in 1998 and a record low of 19 in 2013. The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A country or territory's rank indicates its position relative to the other countries and territories in the index. This page provides the latest reported value for - Uruguay Corruption Rank - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

The transportation sub-index of the CPI basket in Uruguay increased to 201.41 points in April of 2020 from 200.75 points in March of 2020. CPI Transportation in Uruguay averaged 101.82 points from 1997 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 201.41 points in April of 2020 and a record low of 34.75 points in March of 1997. This page provides - Uruguay Cpi Transportation- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Precipitation in Morocco decreased to 2.47 mm in December from 8.07 mm in November of 2015. Precipitation in Morocco averaged 27.18 mm from 1901 until 2015, reaching an all time high of 126.11 mm in December of 1996 and a record low of 0 mm in July of 1980. This page includes a chart with historical data for Morocco Average Precipitation.

Gross Fixed Capital Formation in Morocco increased to 314963 MAD Million in 2018 from 302226 MAD Million in 2017. Gross Fixed Capital Formation in Morocco averaged 75401.06 MAD Million from 1952 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 314963 MAD Million in 2018 and a record low of 690 MAD Million in 1957. This page provides - Morocco Gross Fixed Capital Formation - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Morocco scored 41 points out of 100 on the 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index reported by Transparency International. Corruption Index in Morocco averaged 36.76 Points from 1998 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 47 Points in 2000 and a record low of 32 Points in 2004. The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A country or territory’s score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). This page provides the latest reported value for - Morocco Corruption Index - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Morocco is the 80 least corrupt nation out of 175 countries, according to the 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index reported by Transparency International. Corruption Rank in Morocco averaged 74.52 from 1998 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 91 in 2013 and a record low of 37 in 2000. The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A country or territory's rank indicates its position relative to the other countries and territories in the index. This page provides the latest reported value for - Morocco Corruption Rank - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

The transportation sub-index of the CPI basket in Morocco decreased to 109.90 points in March of 2020 from 111.90 points in February of 2020. CPI Transportation in Morocco averaged 108.35 points from 2008 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 114 points in July of 2014 and a record low of 102.70 points in March of 2009. This page provides - Morocco Cpi Transportation- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

G20 finance ministers have agreed new principles on financial consumer protection developed by the OECD. “Without consumer trust and confidence we could jeopardise the basis for global economic recovery and growth,” said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría.

At this Financial Regulation Session of the G20 Leaders Summit, M. Gurría spoke of 'a comprehensive reform of the international financial architecture that should include financial inclusion, protection and education'.

The OECD/INFE High level Principles on National Strategies for Financial Education provide international guidance to policy makers with a view to developing evidence-based, co-ordinated and tailored approaches to financial education, both in emerging markets and more advanced economies. G20 Leaders recognised the important role of financial education policies when they endorsed these Principles in 2012.

This seminar aimed to advance shared understandings on policies to make the most of cross-border capital flows in support of growth and development and on the value of international co-operation, including the OECD Codes of Liberalisation, in the current context of serious global financial turbulence.

This report concludes that actual application of bail-ins, involving bondholders in loss sharing, could effectively reign in perceptions of implicit guarantees for bank debt. However, bail-ins are rare owing to concerns about contagion risks and depositor and investor protection, so implicit guarantees persist.

Paris, 5 December 2012: This conference addressed the evolution of the terrorism threat and whether current insurance solutions adequately answer the needs of market players in an ever changing risk context.

This conference, taking place on 4-5 March 2013 in New Delhi, India, addressed specific issues relating to financial literacy in India and the Asia region. It presented the output of the Russia/OECD/World Bank Trust Fund on Financial Literacy and Education.

London, UK. Discussions at this event focused on how to make Defined Contribution pensions work better for members, designing Defined Ambition pension plans, guarantees v. risk sharing pension deals and pensions communication and individual behaviour.

The management of operational risk is at the heart of efficient government, but countries often fail to apply good or even routine operational risk management practices and have difficulty in understanding how to put the processes in place. This paper sets out a widely-applicable and relevant policy approach and management framework and illustrates its practical application in Turkey.

The OECD provides an update on global economy in this statement to the International Monetary and Financial Committee - April 2013.

This statement by Adrian Blundell-Wignall and Paul Atkinson was presented to the German Bundestag's Finance Committee Hearing on the Draft Bank-Separation Law (Drucksache 17/12601) on 22 April 2013.

The crisis has shown that there is no such thing as an optimal banking structure or model. The Liikanen report highlighted excessive risk taking and excessive reliance on short-term funding not matched with adequate capital protection. The French reform of the banking sector builds on this insight as well as the agreement reached by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the European CRD 4 to foster financial stability.

Co-organised by the G20 Russian Presidency and the OECD, this roundtable focused on policy measures to address constraints in long-term investment. It was organised back-to-back with the 2013 OECD Forum and the OECD-Euromoney Infrastructure Summit.