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Jose Angel Gurria
Mexican
Economist
Born:
May 8
,
1950
Better
Education
People
Will
World
You
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Every country faces its own obstacles to reaching gender equality, and to make a real difference, we must change public policies in tandem with stereotypes, attitudes, and behaviors.
Jose Angel Gurria
Change
Equality
Gender
Country
Own
Every
Must
Faces
Stereotypes
Obstacles
Attitudes
Reaching
Make
Policies
Real
Tandem
Real Difference
Behaviors
Difference
Public
European leaders cannot afford to be afraid. The refugee crisis is not one from which they can opt out. No magic wand will empower leaders to transport more than a million people back across the Aegean and the Bosphorus to Mosul and Aleppo, or across the Mediterranean to Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan.
Jose Angel Gurria
People
Will
Mediterranean
Back
Crisis
Out
Somalia
Magic
Magic Wand
More
Leaders
Empower
Than
Afford
Refugee
Wand
Afraid
Cannot
Which
Across
Transport
European
Sudan
Million
Million People
High levels of inequality generate high costs for society, dampening social mobility, undermining the labour market prospects of vulnerable social groups, and creating social unrest.
Jose Angel Gurria
Society
Market
High
Costs
Unrest
Generate
Prospects
Undermining
Vulnerable
Inequality
Mobility
Labour
Social
Creating
Groups
Levels
'Tax' is a bad word for politicians.
Jose Angel Gurria
Word
Politicians
Bad
Tax
I feel confident that leaders will rise to this challenge with a stronger commitment to tackle climate change and seize the economic opportunities that a post-carbon world has to offer.
Jose Angel Gurria
Change
Commitment
World
Opportunities
Challenge
Will
Stronger
Rise
Tackle
Economic
Seize
Economic Opportunities
Leaders
Feel
Climate
Climate Change
Offer
Confident
Principles of fair and equitable treatment included in many treaties are uncontroversial as general principles of good public governance.
Jose Angel Gurria
Good
General
Fair
Principles
Equitable
Governance
Public
Many
Included
Treaties
Treatment
Providing investors with recourse against governments is valuable.
Jose Angel Gurria
Valuable
Recourse
Investors
Providing
Governments
Against
Some politicians fear the burden that migrants will impose on local communities and taxpayers. Others fear extremists masquerading as genuine refugees.
Jose Angel Gurria
Fear
Burden
Will
Politicians
Others
Local
Extremists
Some
Masquerading
Genuine
Impose
Refugees
Taxpayers
Communities
Regulations for international accounting and funding will have to be examined to identify policies that inadvertently discourage institutional investors from putting their resources into longer-term, illiquid assets.
Jose Angel Gurria
Will
Resources
Examined
Investors
Putting
Institutional
Identify
Policies
Discourage
Accounting
Inadvertently
Regulations
International
Assets
Funding
The OECD advocates a risk-based approach to water security and is calling on governments to speed up their efforts to improve efficiency and effectiveness of water management. We recommend improving water pricing to recover costs and to reflect the value of water to users and society.
Jose Angel Gurria
Management
Water
Value
Reflect
Society
Speed
Approach
Recommend
Security
Costs
Recover
Pricing
Calling
Advocate
Governments
Up
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Improve
Efforts
Improving
Users
By assessing the capabilities and knowledge of students in the highest-performing and most rapidly improving education systems, the OECD's Program for International Student Assessment provides valuable options for reform and information on how to achieve it.
Jose Angel Gurria
Education
Knowledge
Achieve
Valuable
Systems
Rapidly
Student
Students
Most
How
Provides
Reform
Options
Improving
Information
Capabilities
International
Assessment
Program
The whole banking sector in Mexico was literally bankrupt. For whatever reason, instead of intervening in the sector or supporting the banks, the government expropriated them. We went through the very laborious period of selling the failing banks to the wealthy people of Mexico.
Jose Angel Gurria
Government
People
Whatever
Intervening
Sector
Wealthy
Through
Instead
Failing
Supporting
Period
Mexico
Selling
Very
Laborious
Banking
Bankrupt
Banks
Literally
Them
Reason
Whole
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