But it added that China had weathered the global financial crisis better than other OECD member countries.

BBC: China needs 'renewed reform momentum', says OECD survey

Every year on average about a third of the workers in the 30 member countries of the OECD part from their employers, and roughly the same number find new ones.

ECONOMIST: The crunch may entrench unemployment

The OECD reckons that the average worker in its member countries currently gets a state pension of around 42% of his average earnings.

ECONOMIST: Falling short

Every three years the OECD tests the academic abilities of 15-year-old children in its member states and some other countries.

ECONOMIST: Academic excellence

Despite the purported goal of free markets, in recent years the OECD has taken to use the taxpayer money entrusted to it to promote policy recommendations via reports that have irritated member countries due to critical methodological errors, and incorrect, incomplete, or sometimes even fictitious data.

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