Quotes by Jose Angel Gurria - Page 2

Israel should share its great wealth with its neighbors, like the Palestinians, in areas like governance and investment as well as the building of institutions.
Jose Angel Gurria / Economist
Governance
Investment
Neighbors
Palestinians
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Creating a global platform for collaboration in education research and innovation has been the PISA initiative's aspiration from its conception in the late 1990s.
Jose Angel Gurria / Economist
Aspiration
Collaboration
Conception
Initiative
Platform
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There is no upside for the U.K. in Brexit. Only costs that can be avoided and advantages to be seized by remaining in Europe. No one should have to pay the Brexit tax.
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Avoided
Advantages
Brexit
Remaining
Seized
Upside
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We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality in societies... that is undesirable.
Jose Angel Gurria / Economist
Cases
Globalisation
Increase
Inequality
Levels
Undesirable
Dealing
Generating
Societies
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In a world that places a growing premium on social skills, education systems need to do much better at fostering those skills systematically across the school curriculum.
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Curriculum
Fostering
Premium
Social Skills
Education World Better
Education Better World
Systematically
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A more robust approach to global warming is needed if we are to avoid catastrophe. Unlike the recent financial crisis, there is no bailout option for the earth's climate.
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Catastrophe
Financial Crisis
Global Warming
Robust
Bailout
Option
Unlike
Recent
Warming
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We need to focus much more on the bottom 40 per cent. They are losing ground, and the fact that they are losing ground blocks social mobility and brings down economic growth.
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Bottom
Economic Growth
Mobility
Blocks
Cent
Per
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Gender equality is essential for ensuring that men and women can contribute fully at home, at work, and in public life for the betterment of societies and economies at large.
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Equality
Betterment
Men And Women
Public Life
Life Work Men
Life Work Women
Contribute
Economies
Ensuring
Societies
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Governments can and do expropriate investors or discriminate against them. Domestic judicial and administrative systems provide investors with one option for protecting themselves.
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Administrative
Investors
Judicial
Discriminate
Domestic
Option
Governments
Protecting
Systems
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Transparency and effective tax co-operation must be shared principles applied by all. Until they are, nations will need to protect themselves against loss of revenues to tax havens.
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Loss
Principles
Transparency
Applied
Co-Operation
Effective
Haven
Revenues
Shared
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High levels of inequality generate high costs for society, dampening social mobility, undermining the labour market prospects of vulnerable social groups, and creating social unrest.
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Inequality
Labour
Levels
Mobility
Prospects
Undermining
Unrest
Generate
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Every country faces its own obstacles to reaching gender equality, and to make a real difference, we must change public policies in tandem with stereotypes, attitudes, and behaviors.
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Equality
Faces
Gender
Obstacles
Reaching
Tandem
Attitudes
Behaviors
Policies
Real Difference
Stereotypes
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Our leaders must get to grips with the huge risk that carbon dioxide emissions pose to the economy and the environment. As we know, carbon dioxide is a long-lived gas. It hangs around.
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Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
Emissions
Gas
Grips
Pose
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I feel confident that leaders will rise to this challenge with a stronger commitment to tackle climate change and seize the economic opportunities that a post-carbon world has to offer.
Jose Angel Gurria / Economist
Climate Change
Commitment
Stronger
Change World Climate
Rise
Economic Opportunities
Seize
Tackle
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It doesn't really matter who owns things so long there is enough competition, which means lower pricing, better quality goods, more variety, and an economy where the consumers are the big winners.
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Goods
Pricing
Variety
Better Quality
Owns
Winners
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If we can rid the world of financial centres that thrive on lack of transparency, non-cooperation, and weak regulation, an important step towards a fairer and cleaner world economy will have been achieved.
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Economy
Financial
Regulation
Thrive
Transparency
Weak
World Economy
Achieved
Cleaner
Fairer
Towards
Important Step
Rid
Step
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Social cohesion and inclusive growth are additional crucial perspectives to incorporate into public policies, targeting a renewed social contract that reduces inequalities and benefits the whole of society.
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Benefits
Cohesion
Crucial
Social Contract
Additional
Contract
Inclusive
Inequalities
Perspectives
Policies
Renewed
Targeting
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The G7 doesn't have a permanent secretariat. The OECD can help the G8 and set the agenda for them. The secretary general of the OECD should be going to them proactively and discussing issues and priorities.
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Discussing
Permanent
Priorities
Secretary
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We need to achieve zero emissions from fossil fuel sources by the second half of the century. That doesn't mean by 2050 exactly, but it means by that time we need to be pretty much on the way to achieving it.
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Zero
Emissions
Fossil Fuel
Fuel
Achieving
Fossil
Sources
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The benefits of growth have not trickled down. Income inequalities have become one of the biggest global challenges, attracting growing attention not only in academic literature but also among policymakers globally.
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Academic
Income
Attracting
Inequalities
Policymakers
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Regulations for international accounting and funding will have to be examined to identify policies that inadvertently discourage institutional investors from putting their resources into longer-term, illiquid assets.
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Accounting
Assets
Funding
Investors
Discourage
Examined
Identify
Inadvertently
Institutional
Policies
Regulations
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Coal is the most carbon-intensive fuel available for electricity generation. The most urgent threat to climate policy is the scale of new investments in unabated coal-fired electricity generation still being planned.
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Available
Coal
Electricity
Fuel
Urgent
Scale
Planned
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The home is the planet. Unless you're a Martian, you know, we're sharing the planet. And - and the emissions don't stop and CO2 doesn't stop with the border between France, Spain or between Canada and the United States.
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Canada
Co2
Emissions
Spain
Border
Martian
Sharing
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If the world is to avoid a collision with nature - one that humanity surely cannot win - we must act boldly on every front, particularly with respect to carbon pricing and the coherence of our economic and energy policies.
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Carbon
Coherence
Collision
Pricing
Boldly
Policies
Surely
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Improving the quality of our lives should be the ultimate target of public policies. But public policies can only deliver best fruit if they are based on reliable tools to measure the improvement they seek to produce in our lives.
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Quality
Target
Tools
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The OECD should respond directly to the specific needs of the member countries. You basically say, 'What works?' You don't have to go on a discovery trip. It's all there; you just call them, and they know. It's like a knowledge bank.
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Discovery
Bank
Respond
Directly
Trip
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Israel has been doing very well, but there are challenges the country faces, like poverty and social integration of the Orthodox, Arab, Beduin, and Ethiopian population, which will be essential for sustaining strong growth over time.
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Faces
Growth
Integration
Orthodox
Population
Poverty
Sustaining
Arab
Essential
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Unlike other essential goods, like clothing, shelter, or food, we take cheap or even free water for granted. It often takes a crisis, such as a major drought or flood, to spur investment and policy reforms in improving water security.
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Crisis
Drought
Flood
Goods
Granted
Improving
Investment
Policy
Security
Shelter
Cheap
Clothing
Essential
Unlike
Major
Reforms
Spur
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Reforms to product and labour markets, education, innovation, green growth, competition, taxes, health - they are the things that should be the object of our primary focus in the context of a long-term strategy to restore sustained growth.
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Innovation
Labour
Long Term
Strategy
Context
Reforms
Object
Restore
Sustained
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Many governments are giving subsidies to fossil fuel production and consumption that encourage greenhouse gas emissions, at the same time as they are spending on projects to promote clean energy. This is a wasteful use of scarce budget resources.
Jose Angel Gurria / Economist
Government
Fossils
Giving
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One of the greatest challenges of democracies today is the question of financing campaigns. It's a tremendous challenge. Obviously I think the solution is to have the governments pay for all the campaigns and not to have any private contributions.
Jose Angel Gurria / Economist
Campaigns
Financing
Tremendous
Contributions
Governments
Solution
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It isn't only rich countries that suffer from the effects of tax havens. Developing countries also lose billions of dollars in tax revenues due each year because wealthy individuals and some companies use tax havens to move assets and income offshore.
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Assets
Billions
Developing
Developing Countries
Effects
Income
Offshore
Rich Countries
Wealthy
Billions Of Dollars
Due
Each Year
Haven
Revenues
Suffer
Tax Revenues
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Some refugees will find it relatively easy to find jobs. A university-educated Syrian civil engineer arriving in Munich will need to learn some German, but once this is done, he or she is unlikely to have to wait too long before employers come knocking.
Jose Angel Gurria / Economist
Arriving
Employers
Unlikely
German
Civil
Wait
He Or She
Relatively
Refugees
Syrian
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By assessing the capabilities and knowledge of students in the highest-performing and most rapidly improving education systems, the OECD's Program for International Student Assessment provides valuable options for reform and information on how to achieve it.
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Assessment
Improving
Valuable
Capabilities
Options
Rapidly
Systems
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We never tell countries that they should have a particular number in terms of a tax number, you know, if countries can make do with whatever average tax they have. The question is, do they apply it to everybody? Or do they give sweetheart deals to some companies?
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Deals
Sweetheart
Apply
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Our work at the OECD shows that migration, if well managed, can spur growth and innovation. Unfortunately, in the past, migration has not always been well managed: migrants have been concentrated in ghetto-like conditions, with few public services or employment prospects.
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Employment
Innovation
Migration
Prospects
Concentrated
Unfortunately
Services
Spur
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Ensuring a better future for all South Africans will require increased access to higher education, a stronger and fairer labour market, deeper participation in regional markets, and a regulatory framework that fosters entrepreneurship and allows small businesses to thrive.
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Better Future
Deeper
Higher Education
Labour
Participation
Stronger
Thrive
Education Future Better
African
Ensuring
Fairer
Fosters
Regional
Regulatory
Require
Small Businesses
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The whole banking sector in Mexico was literally bankrupt. For whatever reason, instead of intervening in the sector or supporting the banks, the government expropriated them. We went through the very laborious period of selling the failing banks to the wealthy people of Mexico.
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Banking
Failing
Intervening
Mexico
Selling
Banks
Laborious
Sector
Supporting
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Most businesses do not take governments seriously when it comes to climate, primarily because many governments have inconsistent and incoherent policies and then often keep changing them, sometimes retroactively. This makes businesses reluctant to invest in greener technologies.
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Greener
Reluctant
Invest
Governments
Incoherent
Policies
Primarily
Technologies
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The OECD advocates a risk-based approach to water security and is calling on governments to speed up their efforts to improve efficiency and effectiveness of water management. We recommend improving water pricing to recover costs and to reflect the value of water to users and society.
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Effectiveness
Improving
Management
Pricing
Speed
Users
Advocate
Efforts
Governments
Recommend
Reflect
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You do need more revenues, and you do need to cut expenses. But you also don't want to go in a direction whereby increasing taxes creates a reticence to create new jobs. You don't want to increase taxes on work. You don't want to increase taxes on investment and the creation of wealth.
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Expenses
Investment
Reticence
Creates
Increasing
New Jobs
Revenues
Whereby
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We need better measures of people's expectations and levels of satisfaction, of how they spend their time, of their relations with other people... We need to focus on stocks as much as on flows, and we need to broaden the range of assets that we consider important to sustain our well-being.
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Assets
Levels
Range
Satisfaction
Well Being
Time Focus Better
Broaden
Flows
Measures
Stocks
Sustain
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The concept of national treatment is a core component of investment and trade agreements. It promotes valuable competition on a level playing field. Investment treaties should not turn this idea on its head, giving privileges to foreign companies that are not available to domestic companies.
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Available
Investment
Level Playing Field
Trade Agreements
Valuable
Agreements
Component
Domestic
Playing Field
Privileges
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European leaders cannot afford to be afraid. The refugee crisis is not one from which they can opt out. No magic wand will empower leaders to transport more than a million people back across the Aegean and the Bosphorus to Mosul and Aleppo, or across the Mediterranean to Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan.
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Refugee
Somalia
Sudan
Transport
Empower
Magic Wand
Mediterranean
Million People
Wand
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In a globally interdependent world, a better financial and investment system cannot be achieved on a country-by-country basis. There may be no one-size-fits-all model for economic development, but without global standards and complementary regulations, the long-term outlook for the world economy will remain bleak.
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Bleak
Complementary
Development
Economic Development
Financial
Investment
Long Term
One Size Fits All
Outlook
Standards
World Economy
World Better Will
Achieved
Basis
Model
Global
Interdependent
Regulations
Remain
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Governments must address inconsistencies in their energy strategies, consider the links with broader economic policies, and stop sending mixed signals to consumers, producers, and investors. In particular, they must assess whether the right regulatory arrangements are in place to allow clean-energy investments to compete on a risk-return basis.
Jose Angel Gurria / Economist
Arrangements
Investors
Links
Signals
Address
Assess
Broader
Compete
Economic Policies
Governments
Mixed
Policies
Regulatory
Sending
Strategies
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We need to make growth greener, to make our economic and environmental policies more compatible and even mutually-reinforcing. This is not just a matter of new technologies or new sources of renewable, safe energy. It is about how we all behave every day of our lives, what we eat, what we drink, what we recycle, re-use, repair, how we produce and how we consume
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Environmental
Technology
Growth
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While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we have not paid much attention in detecting a level of social welfare. We, as a member of the society, must now take steps to create an index to indicate other critical elements to be focused on in order to restore reliability of world statistics.
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Elements
Gdp
Order
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