OECD
oecd.org
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
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used in the courses
MRK 460 IBM600 |
MGTC44
MGTC46 |
INTRODUCTION | The primary
purpose
of the OECD is to gather information about the activities of various
countries and regions, so that senior government persons can use this
to make informed decisions.
Example: a senior member of a government Ministry of Communications might want to recommend something to the Cabinet Minister who is responsible for a new bill on communications - as part of the research to determine what the bill should deal with, a government person might want to know something about communications in other countries - they would seek that information from the existing OECD files, or ask the OECD to research the information if it did not exist.The OECD does a lot of tabulation and "statisticial manipulation" to create information across several countries. In many cases, they simply seek out the existing statistics from whatever national agency of the country they are dealing with. |
INTRODUCTION
some problems |
Sometimes there are difficulties when the information being sought is not available in the same form or with the same quantifiers; for example, someone at the OECD might be researching information related to the number of women lawyers in each country - which might apply to some education policy being developed. In some countries the records might be detailed, in some countries they might not be divided according to gender so you would only know the total number, not the number of women and men. |
OECD Basics | The OECD groups
34 member countries in an organization that, most importantly,
provides governments a setting in which to discuss, develop and perfect economic and social policy. Parts of the OECD Secretariat collect data, monitor trends, analyse and forecast economic developments, while others research social changes or evolving patterns in trade, environment, agriculture, technology, taxation and more. oecd.org/about/membersandpartners/list-oecd-member-countries.htm
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Example of the OECD Reports and how they can impact Canadians | ![]() From the Wall Street Journal 2015 March 18th As reported in several American
and Canadian newspapers
"... The Organization for Economic Corporation and Development is cutting its growth outlook for Canada this year and next, but acknowledging plunging oil prices will lead to lower interest rates..." Financial Post |
Example of the OECD Reports and how they can be used by politicians | ![]() The webpage on the Canadian government website commenting on Canada's contributions to, and involvement with the OECD canadainternational.gc.ca/oecd-ocde/january2009-janvier2009.aspx?lang=eng |
Example of the OECD Reports and how they can provide helpful information | Example of the
OECD Reports and how they can provide helpful information:
Re: the "environment"
"Canada at bottom of OECD, new report" is the title of a comment on the davidsuzuki.org site Suzuki,citing the report
author, says
Using the material in the
report
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Example of the OECD Reports and how they can provide helpful information | Example of the
OECD Reports and how they can provide helpful information:
Re: Inflationary spending:
Porter reports that the "OECD's latest Economic Outlook conceded its forecasters were caught off guard by the Canadian economy's ability to cope with the rising currency. "The economy exhibited a more solid economic performance than previously envisaged," quotes Porter |
Example of the OECD Reports and how they can provide helpful information | Example of the
OECD Reports and how they can provide helpful information:
Re: Agricultural Subsidies:
The conclusion is that Canadian farmers will have to spend more money to produce their agricultural products, therefore they need a higher price at which to sell, to recover costs. If the American farmers have higher subsidies, then they can sell products at a lower price which makes it more attractive for overseas customers to buy American farm products, compared to Canadians. Some Canadian politicians, particularly those with rural constituents) will use this OECD information to argue with NAFTA administrators that American subsidies are unfair and therefore Canadians should be allowed to have import tariffs on American farm products coming into Canada - even if we have NAFTA.
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Example of the OECD Reports and how they can provide information | 2003 Sept 16th,
CTV news aired a story on their network about an OECD study that showed
15 yr old Canadian high school students had scores on standardized reading
and math and science tests that ranked Canada high compared to the rest
of the world. No doubt this information will be used in the positive and
negative by the political parties in the current provincial election (Sept-Oct
2003) in Ontario. The political party in power, the Conservatives, might
say the OECD ranking shows education is working well in Ontario, the Liberals
and the NDP may use this information to show education needs to improve
so we can rank higher.
http://www.nides.bc.ca/GlobeArticle.asp |
An interesting stat from the OECD | Canada spends more per capita on education than any other country in the OECD |
University degrees by gender
in 1991..
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Example of the OECD Reports and how they can be used by politicians | The OECD Report
on Canada 2009
www.oecd.org/dataoecd/27/53/42671752.pdf Immigration: OECD says "Canada has more immigrants than the United States, with 20% (still 20% in 2021) of the population foreign-born." - such stats can be used by the government in a number of differents ways
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Example
of the OECD Reports and how they can be used by political parties
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The federal
Progressive Conservative party quotes the OECD on their website when they
are making a point about taxation effecting Canadian competitiveness.
"Canada has the highest personal income taxes in the G7 and we have the second highest corporate taxes in the OECD. This creates a competitive disadvantage between Canada and our other trading partners. In today's global economy it is clear that competitive tax rates are essential."The federal NDP also quote from the OECD (same document ! ) "Canada ranks second highest in national wealth, and lowest in family support" |
Example of the OECD Reports and how they can be used by companies | Companies
use OECD reports to make positioning statements.
For example, some companies might want to quote OECD reports that make favourable statements about the business sector or the market situation that the company is involved in. Royal LePage Real Estate Services - a rather large Canadian company, has a section on their website in which they talk about the attractive reasons to invest in Canada - the angle is that if companies invest in Canada it means they need to acquire real estate and hopefully Royal LePage can position themselves to be the broker. Part of this "pitch" is to explain why Canada is attractive, so Royal LePage quotes from an OECD report saying "The OECD says Canada has
the highest computer literate population in the G7.
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above - screen capture from
Royal LePage's website
- section on "Information
for Foreign Investors"
permission to use the screen
capture, and link to Royal LePage, comes from Andrea Kuch
National Communications
Director, Royal LePage in an email 2005 July 5th. Copies of emails kept
in the permissions binder.
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