Health through OECD
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The Environment, Health and Safety Programme Managing Chemicals through OECD presents about The OECD, OECD and the Environment, OECD’s Environment, Health and Safety Programme, Common policies and high-quality instruments for chemical safety.
34p thanhtoyz 16-07-2016 57 3 Download
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With particular respect to environmental product innovations, we find that a large ma- jority of facilities in these OECD countries report that their measures are aimed at production processes and not so much at products to reduce environmental impacts. While pollution problems have been mastered quite successfully through the use of cleaner processes at the production site, product-integrated environmental innovations still seem to suffer from poor market incentives.
51p loixinloi 08-05-2013 49 3 Download
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The DAC Reference Document on Poverty and Health, jointly published by the OECD and the World Health Organization (WHO), is the outcome of a joint effort by DAC members working together through the DAC Network on Poverty Reduction. It builds on bilateral agency experience and the work of leading organisations such as the WHO, the World Bank and other United Nations agencies as well as non-governmental organisations.
90p crius75 07-01-2013 56 1 Download
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The recognition of gender equality as a cross-cutting issue in the Paris Declaration and the OECD-DAC’s gender marker system to assess the contribution of overseas development assistance (ODA) to gender equality goals have also been important contributions to greater effectiveness. With its emphasis on development effectiveness and the recognition of gender equality and the empowerment of women as critical to achieving development results, the Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation also advances progress through a series of concrete commitments.
14p connicquy 20-12-2012 65 6 Download
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In modern technological society small businesses are expected to have an innovative role in the emerging knowledge economy, especially at an international level (EC, 2005; BERR, 2008). In fact the effective use of technological innovation is considered to be a prerequisite for small business survival (Packham, 2002; Packham et al, 2005). It has long been recognised that the small business sector is important for economic growth and it has been noted that there is a need for an international focus on small businesses having access to international markets (OECD, 2005).
168p tuanloc_do 04-12-2012 54 11 Download
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Employers play an important and growing role in sponsoring private health cover as a workrelated benefit. A large part of private health insurance policies in OECD countries with the highest levels of PHI population coverage are provided through the workplace. For example, this is the case in the United States and Canada (almost 90% of PHI policies), the Netherlands (60%), and France (50%).
27p quaivatxanh 01-12-2012 45 4 Download