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The next few decades hold the prospect of remarkable progress in a wide range of pervasive technologies that are likely to have a profound effect on how we live, work, and spend our leisure time. These technologies are sit to revolutionize the worlds of medicine, agriculture, travel, retailing... much that is familiar in our daily lives. Used wisely, they could be of huge benefit to mankind. Used wrongly, they could mean lost opportunities and unnecessary risks. The challenge for society is immense. What would be the cost of failure to embrace dynamic change? What kind of ethical dilemmas...
The next few decades hold the prospect of remarkable progress in a wide range of pervasive technologies that are likely to have a profound effect o...
As ever greater value is being placed on people's skills, knowledge, and dispositions, the demand for learning and relearning over a lifetime is increasing. Against the background of a forward-looking lifelong approach to learning, four chapters cover access and participation in education and training, changes in the teaching process and new roles for teachers, pathways through initial education to employment, and financing tertiary education through students.
As ever greater value is being placed on people's skills, knowledge, and dispositions, the demand for learning and relearning over a lifetime is in...
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Pension systems are changing the world over. Both OECD and non-OECD countries are coming to face the consequences of demographic changes, and some have already embarked on innovative processes of pension reform. In this new environment employer and personal pension arrangements are expected to gain much prominence. This new OECD series is devoted to improving our understanding of private pension systems worldwide. It will provide an invaluable tool for academics, policy makers and actors in the private sector who will find in it a reference work on the main issues involved in the design,...
Pension systems are changing the world over. Both OECD and non-OECD countries are coming to face the consequences of demographic changes, and some ...
In an era of globalization, decentralization, and knowledge-based economies, governments are having to reshape public sector leadership to cope with new challenges. This environment requires new roles for public sector leaders, including change agents, promoters of enhanced performance, coordinators of government policies, and keepers of public service values. Many governments of OECD member countries are developing new public sector leadership models. This is the first report to examine key leadership issues across OECD member countries, including the strategies and practices governments...
In an era of globalization, decentralization, and knowledge-based economies, governments are having to reshape public sector leadership to cope wit...
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This landmark study of the material well-being of older people in nine OECD countries --Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States --uses a wealth of new data to shed light on the challenges facing policy-makers as they anticipate the coming retirement of the baby-boom generation. The findings are often surprising. In all the countries surveyed, policies have been fundamentally successful, with older people at all income levels tending to maintain or even increase their material standards of living once they stop working. This...
This landmark study of the material well-being of older people in nine OECD countries --Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sw...
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How can growing social diversity be harnessed to make for more creative societies in the future? Three powerful forces are simultaneously shaping the social foundations of the future: deep-seated change in underlying economic systems, rapid global inte
How can growing social diversity be harnessed to make for more creative societies in the future? Three powerful forces are simultaneously shaping the ...
It was a financial crisis, or was it? Did a band of speculators and money-changers pull the rug out from under the Thai, Malaysian, Philippine, Indonesian and Korean economies, thereby trashing the Asian Miracle? Or were more profound, longer-term pres
It was a financial crisis, or was it? Did a band of speculators and money-changers pull the rug out from under the Thai, Malaysian, Philippine, Indone...
Regulatory reform has been key to the transformation of the Mexican economy over the past 15 years. Formerly inward-looking and heavily regulated, the Mexican economy today is relatively open and market-based. The rapid pace, broad scope, and depth of
Regulatory reform has been key to the transformation of the Mexican economy over the past 15 years. Formerly inward-looking and heavily regulated, the...
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Integrity is a fundamental pre-condition for governments seeking to provide a trustworthy and effective framework for the economic and social life of their citizens. The cost of corruption to governments is increasingly well known and documented. It is now widely recognised that countering corruption and promoting public integrity are critical for sustained economic development. Corruption, however, is not a cause but a consequence: as much the result of systemic failure as individual dishonesty. Preventing corruption is as complex as the phenomenon of corruption itself, and a combination...
Integrity is a fundamental pre-condition for governments seeking to provide a trustworthy and effective framework for the economic and social life ...
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What keeps governments awake at night? In the face of challenges and opportunities posed by globalization, rapidly evolving technologies, changing demographics, rising citizen expectations, and competition from the private sector, governments need to continue to explore and exploit new ways of working. Questions for the future: How can governments best prepare themselves for current and future reform challenges? How can a public sector develop a culture responsive to change? What types of leaders are needed? How can governments better communicate with citizens? How can governments create a...
What keeps governments awake at night? In the face of challenges and opportunities posed by globalization, rapidly evolving technologies, changing ...