That’s the question that the latest OECD Environmental Outlook was written to answer.
The Factblog team helped by translating the most crucial messages into graphical form.
Emerging economies have made good progress on health coverage recently, but the share of out-of-pocket payments in total health expenditure remains significantly higher than in most advanced countries. Direct payments by people receiving healthcare can represent quite a blow to the living standards of households’. This is especially the case for poor households, though can also be true for relatively better-off households when the costs of hospitalisation, medicines, or even forgone income are high.
Poverty rates are usually a measure of personal income. But how can public services affect relative poverty, that is, when the monetary value of public services, known as “extended income” is brought into the equation?
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Today, How is Life?, the Better Life Index companion publication, launches.
To mark this event, the Factblog is presenting selected charts from the book. read more…
One way to measure education performance is to look at the total cost of teachers’ salaries compared with the number of students being taught. According to the OECD’s Education at a Glance, Luxembourg has the highest salary cost in primary and secondary education, reflecting a combination of relatively high teachers’ salaries and smaller class size. In contrast, in Chile class size is far larger, and teachers’ pay is lower, leading to relatively low overall salary costs in education. read more…
Food prices have increased over the year to January 2011 in many of the world’s economies. Moreover, those increases, which accelerated from mid-2010, reversed the downward trend in food prices of 2009 and the first half of 2010, OECD-FAO Agriculture Outlook 2011-2020 says. read more…
Migration into OECD countries fell by about 7% in 2009 to 4.3 million people, down from just over 4.5 million in 2008. Recent national data suggest migration numbers fell further in 2010, the 2011 International Migration Outlook says. read more…
We’ve made improvements to the Better Life Index, notably you can now embed your own index on your web site as I’ve done here. This feature is available via “share this index”.
Other new features include more explicit pop-up information and better internal navigation.
Create your better life index now!
Your better life index, the tool I mentioned in a previous post, is now live at http://oecdbetterlifeindex.org.
We took the opportunity of OECD’s 50th anniversary to unwrap our branded url shortener, so you can reach it at http://oe.cd/bli as well.
