The OECD Observer

 

Summer 1999, No. 217/218

• Letters ,  from Terence Bendixson and Carliene Brenner

• Editorial: The constituency of the future ,  by Donald J. Johnston

• News Brief

   

  Economy

• United States: riding out the boom ,  by Richard Herd

• Coping with the consequences of ageing ,  by Richard Herd

• Ireland’s economic boom

• Mexico: looking forward with caution ,  by Bénédicte Larre

• Modest growth prospects in world economy  

• Bulgaria: beginning to catch up  

• Who pays the highest income tax?   by Flip de Kam and Chiara Bronchi

   

  Spotlight: Welcome to the 21st Century

• The future comes soon enough

• What policy-makers have to think about ,  by Wolfgang Michalski

• Population growth: facing the challenge ,  by Michel Andrieu

• China, a demographic time bomb ,  by Michel Andrieu

• The city in the global village ,  by Michel Andrieu

• Is growth the solution to the demographic question? ,  by Michel Andrieu

• Feeding tomorrow’s world ,  by Pierre-Alain Schieb

• Water worries ,  by Patrick Love

• Health after wealth ,  by Michel Andrieu

• Energy fifty years on: time for a change ,  by Barrie Stevens

• The changing face of energy geopolitics ,  by Patrick Love

• 21st century technologies: a future of promise ,  by Wolfgang Michalski

• A better future for work? ,  by Michel Andrieu

• The future of the global economy: towards a long boom? ,  by Riel Miller

   

  Science and Technology

• From Big Science to Little Science ,  by Stefan Michalowski

• Megascience and the new global forum

• Neutron drought ahead

• Promoting innovation—does it matter? ,  by Jean Guinet and Dirk Pilat

   

  Society

• Learning cities ,  by Kurt Larsen

• Into the future with the social sciences ,  by Jean-Eric Aubert

   

  Development

• Asia’s industrial crisis: what really happened ,  by Thomas Andersson and Peter Avery

• Japan and Asia: developing ties ,  by Aelim Chi and Maiko Miyake

   

  OECD.org

• Podium: Facing forward together ,  by José Ángel Gurría, Mexico’s Finance Minister

• The 1999 OECD ministerial

• Some highlights of the 1999 ministerial conclusions

• Scientific and Technological ministerial

• Ten years of combating money laundering

• Brazil and privatisation

• Calendar of upcoming events 1999

   

  Book Review

• EMU

• Telecommunications