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A leading Russian pollster says President Vladimir Putin continues to have strong political support in the country despite a worsening economic situation.

Tax burdens and revenue collection across the OECD countries are reaching record levels not seen since before the global financial crisis. Nevertheless, the tax mix continues varying widely across the advanced economies.

Early signs show that Vietnam’s economic recovery is on track, says the World Bank’s Taking Stock report, released. Vietnam’s economic growth is expected to improve from 5.4 percent in 2013 to 5.6 percent in 2014.

On November 19, the Management of the International Monetary Fund completed the second review under the Staff-Monitored Program (SMP) with Sudan.

Commissioner Pierre Moscovici was asked to account for the European Commission’s decision to give France, Italy and Belgium more time to hit Eurozone budgetary targets by Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee MEPs on Tuesday. MEPs urged that budget plan deadlines should be met and that criteria for applying rules more flexibly to some EU member states than others should be clear and detailed.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team, led by Paul Ross, met with the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from November 10-21, 2014 to discuss macroeconomic policies and a structural reform agenda that could form the basis of a possible nine-month Staff-Monitored Program (SMP).

Mikhail Khodorkovsky calls on MEPs to support opposition forces in Russia

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiators and experts were quizzed on safeguards for labour standards and public services, and how a TTIP deal could help to create high-quality jobs, at a joint public hearing held by the Employment and International Trade committees on Tuesday.

On the occasion of the OECD High Level Policy Forum on Migration taking place on December 1 and 2 2014, Secretary-General Angel Gurria congratulates President Obama on taking action to address the unsustainable situation of undocumented immigrants. “A consensus approach to migration policy in the United States is needed.

The increasing number of people moving within the European Union is driving the rise in migration registered in OECD countries, after several years of decline caused by the crisis. High skilled migration and humanitarian movements to OECD countries are also increasing. Migration policies need to keep pace with these changes, according to a new OECD report.