The OECD notes that just seven out of more than 800 professions identified by the commission qualified for automatic recognition of qualifications across borders.

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Randall Jones, an economist at the OECD, notes that South Korea uses 1.5 times as much energy for every unit of GDP as does Japan.

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The IEA notes that OECD industry stocks declined 9.2 million barrels to 2, 643 million barrels.

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The ratio is closely watched because as Ferrarone notes it shows a high degree of correlation to the year-over-year change in the OECD leading indicators, which in turn closely corresponds to market returns.

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