Retirement Savings & Investment Tax Treatment in the OECD & EU
Universal savings accounts could be a simpler solution to many countries’ systems of private retirement savings investment tax treatment.| Tax Foundation
Canada has the power to shape its own competitiveness by making itself an attractive destination for investment this 2025 budget season.| Tax Foundation
Universal savings accounts could be a simpler solution to many countries’ systems of private retirement savings investment tax treatment.| Tax Foundation
Instead of getting stuck in a reactionary posture, European countries should simply aim for competitiveness, and the EU can support that work with stronger, more stable trade relationships.| Tax Foundation
Rather than returning to a world of retaliatory tax measures and transatlantic disputes, the OECD should continue to decrease the compliance costs of Pillar Two by simplifying the rules to reduce any possible risk that the US has a compliance cost advantage and working with G7 countries on a side-by-side solution.| Tax Foundation
Academic software has grown exponentially. Software Heritage Archive data shows where it's being created, what languages are used, and the crisis in licensing. The post From lab to lecture hall: The rise of software in academia appeared first on Software Heritage.| Software Heritage
POLICY LANGUAGE, POLICY MARKETING, AND POLITICAL RHETORIC Dr. Belinda Howard (Australia) has recently addressed the maze of language, descriptors, and phrases that accompany career guidance in education, employment, and social inclusion policies in Australia at state, territories, and federal level. These descriptors included pathways, transitions, career development and career education, used almost interchangeably. Each state and territory framed […] The post NAVIGATING THE POLICY LANG...| ICCDPP
In my previous post I wrote about my personal opinion what is R&D. In this post I'm going to analyze definition given by OECD, which might be argued to be a relevant authority for such topics. OECD produces for decades a document called Frascati Manual which is about collecting and reporting data about R&D. The latest version is from 2015 and that one is used as the basis for this post.| Everything about nothing
EU GUIDELINES ON LIFELONG GUIDANCE, BOLOGNA PROCESS FOLLOW-UP GROUP, AND PRINCIPLES OF THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF THE EUROPEAN AREA OF HIGHER EDUCATION On a daily basis, we all need the competence to visualise, plan, and implement our futures. Students who participate in higher education institution programs are no different, particularly with reference to their futures in […] The post CAREER GUIDANCE AND HIGHER EDUCATION: A EUROPEAN UNION POLICY PERSPECTIVE appeared first on ICCDPP.| ICCDPP
Even after years of attempts at reform, offshore havens still offer secrecy for those determined to hide money and evade tax. In a week when Britain's Overseas Territories have ignored yet another deadline for functioning 'beneficial ownership' registers, new figures on UK tax enforcement...| TaxWatch
Despite Russia’s brutal invasion, Ukraine’s economy forges ahead. There may be stalemate on the battlefield, but on the economic front, Ukraine is advancing. More than three years into Russia’s invasion, the country’s economy has demonstrated remarkable resilience, growing by 2.9 per cent in 2024—a figure that would be impressive even in peacetime. According to the …| Emerging Europe
OECD Working paper 2024 based on PISA 2022 results This working paper is a salutary reminder of the challenges of translating good policy and systems intentions into effective mechanisms for developing teenagers’ career visualisations and plans for the future. It is based on the analysis of responses of 62 schools and 2138 students attending those schools […] The post OECD: CAREER GUIDANCE FOR SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE MADRID REGIONAL GOVERNMENT AREA, SPAIN appeared first on ICCDPP.| ICCDPP
By Sirini Jeudy-Hugo, OECD Environment Directorate The next round of international climate negotiations at COP28 in Dubai mark a critical juncture. They should prepare the ground for countries to step up their climate ambition and action in response to the first global stocktake of...| Environment Focus
By Lylah Davies and Sophie Trémolet, OECD Environment Directorate Developed and developing economies alike are exposed to water risk. The numbers are staggering. 2.2 billion people, a quarter of th…| Environment Focus
By Marijn Korndewal and Sophie Trémolet, OECD Environment Directorate With the French President and the Mayor of Paris looking to take a dive in the river Seine soon, water quality is hot news in F…| Environment Focus
Un paese è considerato avanzato se ha un’economia robusta, un’industria all’avanguardia, un mercato diversificato, un esercito addestrato, una popolazione istruita e alleati affidabili con i quali condividere valori comuni, preferibilmente democratici e liberali. Il valore di ciascuna di queste componenti rimane valido se esistono nel paese imprese e organizzazioni capaci di innovare incessantemente i propri … Continua a leggere →| Zhu+Rich Sagl
New Zealand has got to do the hard yards on its greenhouse gas emissions.| E2NZ.org
Four visuals for the OECD's Global Plastic Outlook| Visual Cinnamon
The other thing I am really looking forward to, is the tutorial I’ll teach together with Dominikus Baur. We will look at all the practical aspects of producing successful web-based data visualizations — except the actual data vis code. So, we will discuss deeplinking, performance, shareability, help and explanations, fallbacks, mobile optimizations – all the stuff that makes great web applications really great, but which we all underestimate all the time.| Well-formed data
A few notes on a new, big project I have been involved with: The OECD Data Portal is now in public beta. It is still a bit rough around the edges, but we are excited to see the full website in its entirety. The main design credit goes to Raureif, and the UI implementation has been done by 9elements. I have been responsible for the chart design and specifications, and general data visualization strategy.| Well-formed data
OECD Regional Well-Being: A new site for the OECD, and once again with my great collaborator Dominikus Baur and some help from my friends over at Raureif.| Well-formed data
