The research showed a higher correlation between economic status and achievement than in any other OECD country.
Did you know that, America is the only OECD country that taxes its citizens who reside abroad?
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Potential GDP growth will fall below 1% by 2020 as the population ages, says an OECD country survey this week.
Data from 2008 indicate that hours spent by teachers on instruction is higher in the US than in any other OECD country.
The Secretary of State should be required to report to Congress on the specific responses and level of cooperation of each OECD country within two weeks.
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He completely neglects to mention that the rate of death by assault in the United States is roughly 500% higher than any other OECD country .
The chart illustrates how developing (non-OECD) country oil demand has dramatically increased since the mid-1990s while developed world (OECD) demand has decreased.
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The employment rate, only 44% of the workforce, is the lowest in the OECD rich-country club.
The OECD found the country has a strong sense of community but "only moderate levels" of civic participation.
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Russia's wish list includes visa-free travel, the adoption of EU standards and membership of the World Trade Organisation and the OECD rich-country club.
They might also be reading documents from the International Monetary Fund, the US Energy Department, the OECD (the richer country's economic club) or from the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), with its Fossil Fuel Price Projections.
The British Medical Association said the UK has fewer doctors per head of population than almost any other country in the OECD.
At one point British officials had to give quarterly reports to their fellow OECD members to explain their country's lack of adequate legislation on sleaze.
America's structural budget deficit will soon be bigger than that of any other OECD member, and the country badly needs a plan to deal with it.
According to a comprehensive study carried out by the OECD, a rich-country club, Finland leads the world at educating its children, and Finnish teachers must be educated to that level.
New regulations likely to be proposed by the State Department next year may follow guidelines being drafted by the UN and the OECD, a rich-country club, that will advise companies on how best to trace the origin of their materials.
Germany ranks as the eighth most productive country by worker out of the OECD countries - or the seventh out of the European countries - while Greece comes in at 24th.
Today, the rate that OECD countries spend per poor person in their own country, compared to other poor countries, stands at 30, 000-to-1.
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In its recent Economic Outlook the OECD revised down expectations for 2008 growth in virtually every country.
But so far only one big, awkward country, Russia, has formally applied to join the OECD.
According to the OECD, the US has the distinction of being the only industrialised country where the next generation is not going to be better educated than the previous - in a form of educational downward mobility.
Instead, OECD calculates, with 95% confidence, a range of ranks that the country falls within.
Singapore was chosen as a country which has become increasingly attractive to highly skilled migrants, according to the OECD reports.
However, the OECD warned that Japan's economic recovery was "surrounded by uncertainty" given the country's high debt levels, which amount to more than 200% of gross domestic product (GDP).
Average daily commuting times in Beijing -- which boasts one of the country's larger subway networks -- are 79 minutes, roughly double the OECD average.
For a record 535-plus days since an election in June 2010, the country has had a caretaker government under Yves Leterme (who is leaving to join the OECD).
The UK economy will contract in the first three months of 2012, taking the country back into recession, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a tough-talking OECD-linked outfit that fights money laundering and terrorist financing, encompasses in some form just about every country, barring a handful of pariahs like Iran and North Korea.
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