Angel Gurria

Angel Gurría: The tax global dodgers

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008

Angel Gurría Commitment to aid flows must be combined with a crackdown on tax havens, and Britain can do more

UNEMPLOYMENT: Over 20 million more unemployed in the world by 2010, estimates OECD

France24 (Free subscription) | 22/12/2008

Angel Gurria, head of the OECD, forecasted that by 2010 the number of jobless people in the world will have risen by between 20 and 25 million. He expect most of the 30 OECD countries to suffer recession until the end of the second quarter in 2009.

OECD Head: Turkish Environment Can Benefit from Financial Crisis

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008

Unsustainable consumption levels pose a problem for Turkey, the OECD says. Photograph of Kanyon Mall by dysturb via flickr. Visiting Turkey this week, Angel Gurría, secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), praised the country for its strong economic growth and environmental advances, but warned that the global financial crisis should not...

OECD Head: Turkish Environment Can Benefit from Financial Crisis

Green & Clean @ Vedvarende Energi (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008

Unsustainable consumption levels pose a problem for Turkey, the OECD says. Photograph of Kanyon Mall by dysturb via flickr. Visiting Turkey this week, Angel Gurría, secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), praised the country for its strong economic growth and environmental advances, but warned that the global financial crisis should not...

OECD Head: Turkish Environment Can Benefit from Financial Crisis

Sustainability Digest (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008

Unsustainable consumption levels pose a problem for Turkey, the OECD says. Photograph of Kanyon Mall by dysturb via flickr. Visiting Turkey this week, Angel Gurría, secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), praised the country for its strong economic growth and environmental advances, but warned that the global financial crisis should not...

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“THE ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE”: OECD SIDE EVENT THURSDAY DECEMBER 11 2008

Cambridge Forecast Group Blog (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008

... on Thursday 11 th December 13.00-15.00 Room: Aesculapian Snake (Pavilion 14B, 1st floor) Chair: Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General Presentation of OECD work: Lorents G. Lorentsen, Director for Environment, OECD High Level Panel Discussion: Rachmat Nadi Witoelar, Environment Minister, Indonesia Janusz Zaleski, Deputy Environment Minister, Poland Joan Ruddock, MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary...

Cayman gets the argument wrong

Tax Research UK (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008

The Cayman News Service carried an article by Tim Ridley, chair of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority in response to that by Angel Gurria in the Guardian last week. He said: The Secretary-General of the OECD (a Paris based organisation whose staff enjoy privileged tax free remuneration packages, yet roundly criticises genuine tax free jurisdictions), Angel [...]

The OECD has smelt the coffee

Tax Research UK (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008

Angel Gurría, secretary general of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has an article in the Guardian this morning. I admit to some pleasure in reading it: there are clear signs that the OECD is moving its position and that it is quite clearly listening to what we have been saying to it, and [...]