Econoshock.be

Your history
Tags
- Nuclear
- NRC
- Nouriel Roubini
- NOS
- Nobelprice
- Netherlands
- NBB
- Nassim Taleb
- Moody's
- Monitoring
- Mobility
- Milton Friedman
- McKinsey Global Institute
- Mathematics
- Marketing
- Man of the year
- Luc Vansteenkiste
- Liquidity crisis
- Lehman Brothers
- Lamfalussy
- Lagarde
- Labour market
- Labour costs
- La Libre Belgique
- Kris Peeters
- Knack
- Keynes
- Joseph Stiglitz
- Jean-Pierre van Rossem
- Japan
- Jaga
- Ireland
- Investors
- Investment
- Interest rates

Recent stories for "OECD"

Display

items per page, ordered by

Trust vital in the networked economy

Consulting firms Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey both launched indicators measuring the internet-intensity of developed economies. In a "Freakonomics"-kind of spirit, we squared the result with a key element for the networked economy : trust. The OECD has developed statistics to measure the level of trust that people have in ...

Written by Geert Noels
On June 28, 2011
Tags : Financial

Bring back the "haruspex" please

The IMF and OECD remain quite confident that the world economy is just undergoing a soft patch. (Bank) economists have been issuing buy-recommendations on equities, corporate and high yield bonds, Greek debt and the new Coldplay-CD. The latter is a good reference point, because just like some recent Coldplay-songs, we have a ...

Written by Geert Noels
On June 24, 2011
Tags : Financial Markets

Het blauwe goud

Next Monday , 22nd of March, is "World Water Day".Water is becoming a scarce resource. Some forecast "wars for water" in ten years time.Agriculture is the biggest user of water in most countries. Worldwide, it accounts for about 70% of freshwater used. In OECD countries, where industrial and household demand is higher than in many ...

Written by Geert Noels
On March 19, 2010
Tags : Environment Environment

Cool charts on (un)employment

(Click for interactive chart) The OECD has made some cool (I agree, it seems ironic when talking about unemployment) charts.The tool is interactive , and fiddling around you will find some interesting facts.To start with something we should all know: * Belgium has the second lowest labour participation rate in the ...

Written by Geert Noels
On January 28, 2010
Tags : Labor Force

China: the imperative to change

So, China is an economic miracle, but needs some social improvement, right ?Not completely. The Chinese economy has shown an incredible growth record. As written in the book Econoshock: the Chinese monster has been created by the greed of the western world to produce always cheaper, and to consume more and more - and ...

Written by Geert Noels
On February 02, 2010
Tags : China

Most recent
Most discussed
Most viewed

Members of the 'Econopolis Group'