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Guidelines for Cost-effe...
Improving the environmental performance of agriculture is a high priority in OECD and many non-OECD countries. This will be of increasing concern in the future given the pressure to feed a growing world population with scarce land and water resources. Policy has an important r...
(2010)
140 Reads
Creditor Reporting Syste...
Aid Activities in Support of HIV/AIDS Control
This publication presents comprehensive statistics on aid flows in support of HIV/AIDS control. The analysis of aid flows covers the years 2000-2006, including trends in donors’ aid and the degree of targeting to countries most in need; estimates are provided for year 2007. Th...
(2008)
117 Reads
Effective Transport Poli...
Many companies and other large employers have put in place initiatives to address the traffic-related nuisances generated by their activities and, in particular, the traffic generated by their workers and customers. Such Corporate Mobility Management (CMM) initiatives are the ...
(2010)
110 Reads
OECD Rural Policy Review...
Rural Scotland represents an important resource for national development and growth, but large unexploited potential remains. Many of Scotland’s strengths are rural in nature, including an abundant land area, rich natural and cultural resources, higher standards of living, and...
(2008)
104 Reads
Zum Zusammenhang von Nac...
Nachbarschaft lässt sich anhand der Kategorien „räumliche Nähe“, „soziale Interaktion“ und „Heterogenität“ beschreiben. Das Zusammenwirken dieser Kategorien bewirkt im positiven Fall das Zusammenwirken der Bewohnerschaft in einem Nachbarschaftsnetzwerk, das sich über unterschi...
(2009)
93 Reads
OECD-Prüfbericht zur Pol...
Deutschland
Dieser Prüfbericht befasst sich mit den Herausforderungen und Chancen ländlicher Räume in Deutschland. Nach wie vor besteht ein erhebliches Ost-West-Gefälle, und dieses hat eindeutig auch ländliche Dimensionen. Auch Faktoren wie GAP-Reformen, Bevölkerungsalterung und Migration...
(2007)
63 Reads
Move-Motivierende Kurzin...
Evaluationsergebisse des Fortbildungsmannuals sowie der ersten Implementierungsphase
MOVE - Motivierende Kurzintervention - ist ein Interventionskonzept zur Förderung und Unterstützung der Veränderungsbereitschaft junger Menschen mit problematischem Suchtmittelkonsum. Die Beratungsstrategie der Motivierenden Gesprächsführung eignet sich insbesondere dazu, die ...
(2005)
116 Reads
Prävention im Fokus unte...
Werkstattgespräche der BZgA mit Hochschulen
m Rahmen des Begutachtungsverfahrens aller Ressortforschungseinrichtungen des Bundes durch den Wissenschaftsrat wurde auch die Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung im Jahr 2007 auf ihre Leistungsfähigkeit als Ressortforschungseinrichtung untersucht. Die daraus resulti...
(2010)
179 Reads
Wirkungsanalyse zur Wett...
Seit dem Jahr 2001 lobt die Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung einen Bundeswettbewerb für Suchtprävention aus. Während der erste Wettbewerb („Vorbildliche Strategien kommunaler Suchtprävention“) noch auf den gesamten Bereich der Suchtprävention ausgerichtet war, kon...
(2009)
115 Reads
Arts and Figures: Geiste...
GeisteswissenschaftlerInnen im Beruf
by Constantin G..., Jürgen Fohrmann, Harald Welzer, and Markus Zwick
Das Spannungsverhältnis von Studium und Berufswelt im Zeichen von Globalisierung und Bologna-Prozess aus Sicht der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Diskussionen über die gesellschaftliche Relevanz der Geisteswissenschaften konzentrieren sich meist auf deren Stellu...
(2010)
34 Reads
OECD Reviews of Risk Man...
Large-Scale Floods and Earthquakes
Damages to economic assets resulting from natural disasters have soared in the past fifteen years, and climate change models forecast intensified exposure to extreme weather in many OECD countries. This OECD review of risk management policies focuses on Japan, because the geog...
(2009)
28 Reads
OECD Rural Policy Review...
With more than 700 million residents living in rural areas, China is still a predominantly rural country. But despite substantial improvements in standards of living, the Chinese countryside is largely lagging behind.This report analyses the key socio-economic forces at work i...
(2009)
35 Reads
Regulatory Impact Analysis
A Tool for Policy Coherence
Regulatory impact analysis (RIA) is a systemic approach to critically assessing the positive and negative effects of proposed and existing regulations and non-regulatory alternatives. This publication brings together recent OECD research and analysis concerning methodological ...
(2009)
20 Reads
Progress in Policy Refor...
Investment Reform Index 2006
This report constitutes one of the pillars of the Investment Compact’s work. It provides governments with an overview of each country's performance on investment policy reform and will support them in setting priorities and further improving the investment environment. It is b...
(2007)
18 Reads
Who's Hungry? And How Do...
by Laurie DeRose, Ellen Messer, and & Sara M...
Who's Hungry? And How Do We Know? recognizes that any attempt to reduce hunger requires a sound understanding of which people are affected. It differentiates between food shortage (regional food scarcity), food poverty (inadequate household food supplies), and food deprivation...
(1997)
16 Reads
Destined for Failure: Am...
American Prosperity in the Age of Bailouts
by Nicolas Sanchez, Christopher ..., and Francis Sanzari
The United States is mired in the aftermath of booming economic prosperity, resembling the trouble recently experienced by the Japanese economy due partially to similar Keynesian bailouts and subsidies. Now more than two years into the current financial crisis, Ameri...
(2010)
55 Reads
Regional Development Pol...
Policy makers need both a handy reference guide to the regional policies of their own and other countries and a broader analysis of trends in regional policies, based on sound, comparable information. Regional Policies in OECD Countries responds to this need. It is the first ...
(2010)
14 Reads
OECD Pensions at a Glanc...
Public Policies across OECD Countries
Government-mandated pension and retirement policies have changed dramatically during the past decade. Pensions at a Glance presentsa consistent framework for comparing public-pension policies across OECD countries, as well as reliable data. The report thus provides the basis f...
(2007)
13 Reads
OECD Reviews of Innovati...
ThisOECD Review of Innovation Policyoffers a comprehensive assessment of the innovation system of Luxembourg, focusing on the role of government.It provides concrete recommendations on reforms needed to ensure that additional public investment in R&D will yield the expected ec...
(2007)
9 Reads
OECD Reviews of Innovati...
The OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy offer a comprehensive assessment of the innovation system of individual OECD member and non-member countries, focusing on the role of government. A growing political awareness of the importance of innovation for the Chile’s future has rece...
(2007)
9 Reads
