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" Ending our reliance on fossil fuels was never going to be easy. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Easy
Ending
Fossil Fuels
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" 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. "
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Speed
Value
" Governments must address inconsistencies in their energy strategies, consider the links with broader economic policies, and stop sending mixed signals to consumers, producers, and investors. In particular, they must assess whether the right regulatory arrangements are in place to allow clean-energy investments to compete on a risk-return basis. "
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" The concept of national treatment is a core component of investment and trade agreements. It promotes valuable competition on a level playing field. Investment treaties should not turn this idea on its head, giving privileges to foreign companies that are not available to domestic companies. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Head
Investment
Giving
" To give students the best possible chance to succeed, education must prepare them to handle issues that transcend national boundaries. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Handle
Succeed
Best
" Every single stage of reform becomes more difficult because you use political capital. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Stage
More
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" Those who argue for Brexit are wrong, and that is because they have not been properly informed about the costs. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Because
Wrong
Costs
" The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Dilemma
Fall
More
" The G7 doesn't have a permanent secretariat. The OECD can help the G8 and set the agenda for them. The secretary general of the OECD should be going to them proactively and discussing issues and priorities. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Help
Priorities
Them
" If the world is to avoid a collision with nature - one that humanity surely cannot win - we must act boldly on every front, particularly with respect to carbon pricing and the coherence of our economic and energy policies. "
Jose Angel Gurria
World
Act
Energy
" Our work at the OECD shows that migration, if well managed, can spur growth and innovation. Unfortunately, in the past, migration has not always been well managed: migrants have been concentrated in ghetto-like conditions, with few public services or employment prospects. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Always
Growth
Innovation
" Israel should share its great wealth with its neighbors, like the Palestinians, in areas like governance and investment as well as the building of institutions. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Great
Building
Investment
" 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
Knowledge
Most
Education
" 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
Magic
Empower
Crisis
" There is no upside for the U.K. in Brexit. Only costs that can be avoided and advantages to be seized by remaining in Europe. No one should have to pay the Brexit tax. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Europe
Costs
Only
" The euro is going to continue to be the largest single trading block. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Block
Going
Continue
" History is full of lessons for how water crises could have been avoided or better managed. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Water
Been
Lessons
" When a large financial institution is allowed to fail, you put in jeopardy hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Fail
Financial
You
" Governments can and do expropriate investors or discriminate against them. Domestic judicial and administrative systems provide investors with one option for protecting themselves. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Systems
Judicial
Against
" Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Many
Middle
Social
" The OECD deals with the economic aspects of a host of issues, including education, health, and the environment. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Education
Environment
Health
" 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
Funding
Will
Resources
" Some challenges remain, but the bottom line is that low-carbon options can and should play a much greater role in energy supply. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Role
Energy
Challenges
" I have family who are British citizens and who want to be citizens of the world and citizens of the E.U. "
Jose Angel Gurria
World
British
Citizens
" Some refugees will find it relatively easy to find jobs. A university-educated Syrian civil engineer arriving in Munich will need to learn some German, but once this is done, he or she is unlikely to have to wait too long before employers come knocking. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Need
She
Wait
" More dangerous than voting for change... is that people no longer vote because they have lost trust not only in governments but in democracy. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Change
Voting
Vote
" Words must be matched by action if change is to become lasting. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Action
Become
Change
" We never tell countries that they should have a particular number in terms of a tax number, you know, if countries can make do with whatever average tax they have. The question is, do they apply it to everybody? Or do they give sweetheart deals to some companies? "
Jose Angel Gurria
Know
Tax
You
" The City of London is always going to be there and will continue to be important. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Always
Will
Important
" In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty. "
Jose Angel Gurria
You
Country
Forget
" You can accuse Europeans of being many things - except fast. "
Jose Angel Gurria
Being
You
Things