Getting family-friendly policies right will help reduce poverty, promote child development, enhance equity between men and women and stem the fall in birth-rates, according to this report, which compares the different approaches that the 30 OECD countries take to help parents balance their work and family commitments. Selected material from the report is available free...

Progress in the prevention and treatment of diseases has contributed to remarkable improvements in life expectancy and quality of life in OECD countries in recent decades. At the same time, spending on health care continues to climb, consuming an ever-increasing share of national income: health expenditure now accounts for 9% of GDP on average in...

More and more OECD governments are giving firms tax breaks to drive innovation while cutting their direct spending on business research and development (R&D), and are also encouraging public research organisations to commercialise their inventions, according to this report. Two thirds of the 30 OECD member countries offered businesses tax subsidies in 2006, up from...

This new portal provides access to a range of broadband-related statistics gathered by the OECD. Policy makers must examine a range of indicators which reflect the status of individual broadband markets in the OECD. The OECD has indentified five main categories which are important for assessing broadband markets.

This report is an update of an earlier OECD Health Working Paper, and reports on the results of a second round of data collection from 32 countries. It reports on the results of that second round of data collection. Data is presented here on an augmented indicator set considered fit for the purpose of making...