3 minute read For anyone walking the Parisian streets, the growing mountains of sometimes burning trash make the current waste crisis impossible to ignore. The striking sanitary workers, in response to the French Government’s pension reform, made us all stop and think about how much waste we produce.
read more4 minute read À se promener dans Paris depuis une semaine, il est impossible de ne pas remarquer le spectacle et les odeurs des amas d’ordures ménagères entassés dans les rues. La grève des éboueurs contre la réforme des retraites du gouvernement français nous amène tous à réfléchir à la quantité de déchets que nous produisons.
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2 minute read Since mothers frequently shoulder the majority of the caregiving responsibilities, ECEC can help mothers find their desired work/family balance.
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6 minute read Late into a recent evening in January, the city of Paris, together with 30 neighbouring municipalities, mobilised around two thousand volunteers to take stock of the excluded and uncounted, people without shelter, as part of its sixth annual street count; la Nuit de la Solidarité.
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5 minute read In many OECD countries, Welfare States have expanded from a rudimentary base 60 years ago to the more comprehensive systems we see today. Public social expenditure amounted to less than 10% of GDP in 1960, but has more than doubled…
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6 minute read Data on availability and use of paid leave entitlements is crucial for understanding the effectiveness of paid parental leave policies. However, the design of paid leave policy varies markedly across countries.
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5 minute read Improving people’s well-being is at the core of the OECD’s mission.
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6 minute read Our news release on economic growth and well-being in the second quarter of 2022 showed real Household Disposable Income (HDI) per capita in the OECD declining by 0.5% while real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita rose…
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