Gloomy forecasts just released by the OECD predict that America, Japan, the euro area and the OECD as a whole will slide into recession in 2009-if they are not already there.

国际经合组织(OECD)刚刚发布了对未来的悲观预测：2009年，美国，日本和欧元区国家都将进入衰退期，如果它们不是已经开始衰退的话。

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An OECD report found that although the United States spends more, per child, on education than any other OECD country, it lags behind in funding the early years.

一个“经济合作与发展组织”发现，尽管美国比任何“经济合作与发展组织”的国家在每个儿童的教育上花的钱都多，但是在学前教育资金上却落后于其他国家。

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Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, an economist at the OECD, says, “For most OECD countries, the prospects are of a very fragile and weak recovery, for the overall economy and thus for IT.”

经合组织的经济学家萨沙 伍兹-爱森特称，“对于大多数经合组织成员国来说，经济整体复苏乏力，IT业亦是如此。”

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In two thousand six, the United States had lower scores in mathematics than twenty-three of the other twenty-nine OECD countries.

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The OECD has the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA.

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That is one of the highest rates in Europe. Young French are even harder hit Anne Sonnet is an OECD economist specializing in the youth labor market.

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Among a range of OECD criticisms, current U.S. tax policy inhibits economic development and trade among OECD member nations.

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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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Plus, the OECD Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters wasamended to allow non-OECD and non-Council of Europe members to join.

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