The mortality from CVD has decreased in recent decades after its peak in mid-1980s at a slightly faster pace than many other OECD countries but it is still higher than the OECD average, at 476 per 100 000 population in 2011, 59% higher than the OECD average of 299 (Figure 1). Potential years of life lost, a commonly used measure of premature mortality, at 1 079 per 100 000 population for diseas...

The Transformation of Schooling in a Networked World " Every student needs a grandparent to link them to the past and a PC to take them into the future. " (UK01-Greenfield) 1. In early 1998, at an informal meeting of the OECD Ministers of Education, the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) was directed to develop plans for a programme on ICT and the quality of schooling. The re...

As countries implement stricter environmental policies, the need for tools to compare countries’ policy stringency is becoming more pressing. The OECD Environmental Policy Stringency (EPS) index has become a widely used tool analysis since its creation in 2014. This paper updates EPS over three decades from 1990 2020, across 40 and 13 instruments, focussing on climate change air pollution mitig...

The rapid evolution of telecommunication, World Wide Web, and computing technologies continues to shape the businesses around the globe. In this rapidly changing technological environment, a country’s broadband Internet readiness has become a significant factor of the global competitiveness of a nation. Using a modified Porter’s diamond model, this study compares broadband Internet development ...