This report identifies, describes, and assesses effective innovations and policies in job creation, entrepreneurship, and local development. It highlights new evidence on policies to support job creation, bringing together LEED's* latest research on labor market, entrepreneurship, and local economic[...]
Nations around the world are undertaking wide-ranging reforms to better prepare children for the higher educational demands of life and work in the 21st century. What are the skills that young people will need in a rapidly changing society, and what competencies do teachers need to effectively teach[...]
This report examines the state of empirical knowledge about the impact of arts education on educational outcomes. Arts education is often said to be a means of developing critical and creative thinking. It has also been argued that arts education enhances performance in nonarts academic subjects suc[...]
The nineteenth edition of the Agricultural Outlook, and the ninth prepared jointly with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), provides projections to 2022 for major agricultural commodities, biofuels and fish. Notable in the 2013 report is the inclusion of cotton for the[...]
Humanity has witnessed unprecedented growth and prosperity in the past four decades, with the size of the world economy more than tripling and population increasing by over 3 billion people since 1970. This growth, however, has been accompanied by environmental pollution and natural resource depleti[...]
"Education at a Glance" is the authoritative source for accurate and relevant information on the state of education in the OECD's 34 member countries, as well as a number of nonmember G-20 nations. The 2012 edition features more than 100 charts, 200 tables, and 90,000 data.In this comprehensive volu[...]