Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

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Americans Are Way Behind In Math, Vocabulary, And Technology

Roberto A. Ferdman | The Atlantic | October 9, 2013

The United States ranks lower than other developed countries in many key skills, according to a new report. Read More »

Economic Slowdown Tied To Rise In Obesity In Richer Nations: OECD

Susan Heavey | Reuters | May 27, 2014

The rate of obesity continues to climb across the world's most developed countries, with certain nations and groups of people such as women and the poor hit harder by the recent economic crisis, the OECD said on Tuesday. Read More »

Open Government Will Reshape Latin America

Stefaan Verhulst | GovLab | June 9, 2014

...The potential for Open Government to improve government’s decision-making and performance is huge. And it is particularly immense in middle income countries such as the ones in Latin America, where the combination of growing incomes, more sophisticated citizens’ demands, and broken public services is generating a large bottom-up pressure and requesting more creative solutions from governments to meet the enormous social needs, while cutting down corruption and improving governance...

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