in?2016,?much?higher?than?the?average?level?in?OECD?countries.?The?saving provides?a?buffer?for?Chinese?residents?against?the?income?cut-off. Third,?a?sound?internet?infrastructure?allows?employees?to?work?from?home.?As of?April?2018,?95?percent?of?villages?and?99?percent?of?the?population?
The family sits among piles of UNASSEMBLED PIZZA BOXES and folds them in silence. The crunch of cardboard is the only sound as the cheap Pizza Time logo comes in and goes out of the foreground. They hear a truck rattling closer. Through the window, they see a STREET FUMIGATION TRUCK sp...
The CIA Factbook ranks the US life expectancy as 49th from the top in 2024. Figure 3. Figure 3 (above) shows a chart I found several years ago, showing how US female life expectancy has been dropping, relative to other high-income countries. Figure 4. Figure 4 shows that US lif...
The OECD has recently completed a report quantifying the amount of both producer and consumer subsidies for their member countries, and some work has been implemented on analyzing the effects of consumer subsidy removal. However, there is hardly any investigation of the consequences of producer ...
“Giant steps forward have been made in tax transparency after the global financial crisis a decade ago,” he tells Chris Sanger, our Global Tax Policy Leader. The 50-jurisdiction FTA includes OECD and non-OECD countries and is the OECD’s subsidiary body that encourages tax authority leaders ...
Unemployment rate, clean energy, and ecological footprint in OECD countries Though there is a trade-off between unemployment and environmental degradation in OECD countries, the development of new technologies, especially in the clean... CF Ng,KJ Yii,LS Lau,... - 《Environmental Science & Pollut...
Nowadays dietary habits in many countries are disconnected from the locally available resources and land. Current diets harm ecosystems and people’s health. (Re-)regionalising food systems and aligning diets with planetary boundaries can be one way to reconnect people to the food that they eat. ...
Countries worldwide have adopted relevant climate policies to control greenhouse gas emissions and promote sustainable growth [3]. However, there may be many shortcomings in the development of climate policies by governments. Many governments focus primarily on the cost of policy implementation when ...
All goods and services counted in nominal GDP are valued at the prices that those goods and services are actually sold for in that year. Nominal GDP is evaluated in either the local currency or U.S. dollars at currency market exchange rates to compare countries’ GDPs in purely financial ter...
Now that we know what makes up a company’s environmental footprint, the next question is: How do you measure it? According to a survey conducted by Bank of America, it turns out that 86% of its small business clients don’t know the answer to that question. There are ma...