Angel Gurria
Economy
Greek FinMin to Visit Britain, France, Italy
Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, will travel to London on Monday, February 2, for talks with his British counterpart George Osborne. The meeting will focus on the start of a close cooperation between the two countries on issues of...
Economy
OECD's Ramos: Greece Is More Than Just Balance Sheet
As Chief of Staff for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and its official representative to the G20, Mexican Gabriela Ramos is perhaps among the world's most powerful women, and in a recent interview in Paris with Greek...
Economy
OECD Backs Greek Debt Cut
While hailing progress in implementing reforms - many others remain stuck in limbo - Greece's economy is still in such dire straits that the government should be allowed by its international lenders to write off much of what it...
Greece
OECD Predicts Greece's Debt Will be 157 Percent of GDP by 2020
The Greek Minister of Finance, Yiannis Stournaras was stunned by the findings of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s report concerning the course of the Greek economy. Besides the prediction of further recession (0.4 percent) during 2014 --...
Greece
OECD: Unemployment Close to 28% for 2014
The forecasts for unemployment in 2014 are ominous, according to data in a recent OECD report, which estimate that unemployment will dramatically increase in 2014, leaving 48 million people jobless in 34 member states of the OECD, among which...
Europe
Greek Immigrants Like Germany Best
With Greece's crushing economic crisis creating an exodus, especially the young, to other countries, the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD,) said that Germany remains the destination of choice for them.
Germany ranks fifth in the list for...
Business
OECD Chief Gurria Says Eurozone Will Stay Intact
The European Central Bank should do more to stem the crisis in the Eurozone because current financial entities are not sufficient, the Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Sept. 2.
"If you have the...