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" We cannot sustain long-term growth in our economies if we do not protect and preserve our environment. "

Jose Angel Gurria

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" Most businesses do not take governments seriously when it comes to climate, primarily because many governments have inconsistent and incoherent policies and then often keep changing them, sometimes retroactively. This makes businesses reluctant to invest in greener technologies. "

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" Social cohesion and inclusive growth are additional crucial perspectives to incorporate into public policies, targeting a renewed social contract that reduces inequalities and benefits the whole of society. "

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" You do need more revenues, and you do need to cut expenses. But you also don't want to go in a direction whereby increasing taxes creates a reticence to create new jobs. You don't want to increase taxes on work. You don't want to increase taxes on investment and the creation of wealth. "

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" I have family who are British citizens and who want to be citizens of the world and citizens of the E.U. "

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" Governments need to be seriously sceptical about whether new coal provides a good deal for their citizens. "

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" Countries like Japan do not have to change their cultures to address their educational shortcomings; they simply have to adjust their policies and practices. "

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" Nobody in their right mind will even attempt or even think of leaving the European Union, because they will understand that it is not in their best interest. "

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" 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. "

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" At the OECD, we stand ready to continue to help our member and partner countries to design, promote, and implement Better Policies for Better Lives. "

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" The OECD deals with the economic aspects of a host of issues, including education, health, and the environment. "

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" Reforms to product and labour markets, education, innovation, green growth, competition, taxes, health - they are the things that should be the object of our primary focus in the context of a long-term strategy to restore sustained growth. "

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" Why did we lose Brexit? Why, because 60 per cent of youth didn't believe they needed to go and vote. "

Jose Angel Gurria

" The benefits of growth have not trickled down. Income inequalities have become one of the biggest global challenges, attracting growing attention not only in academic literature but also among policymakers globally. "

Jose Angel Gurria

" Our leaders must get to grips with the huge risk that carbon dioxide emissions pose to the economy and the environment. As we know, carbon dioxide is a long-lived gas. It hangs around. "

Jose Angel Gurria

" Everywhere, you have a fatigue for reform... that's very serious. "

Jose Angel Gurria

" 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

" There probably could be some mileage in running a comparative study about how best to finance electoral campaigns around the world. "

Jose Angel Gurria

" Economic resources are not all that matter in people's lives. "

Jose Angel Gurria

" 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

" Our planet is warming dangerously. "

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" We need better measures of people's expectations and levels of satisfaction, of how they spend their time, of their relations with other people... We need to focus on stocks as much as on flows, and we need to broaden the range of assets that we consider important to sustain our well-being. "

Jose Angel Gurria

" I was an economist out of the National University of Mexico, where you lived the realities of Mexico all the time. "

Jose Angel Gurria

" Providing investors with recourse against governments is valuable. "

Jose Angel Gurria

" Principles of fair and equitable treatment included in many treaties are uncontroversial as general principles of good public governance. "

Jose Angel Gurria

" 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. "

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" 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

" The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma. "

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" History is full of lessons for how water crises could have been avoided or better managed. "

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" The euro is going to continue to be the largest single trading block. "

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" We need to focus much more on the bottom 40 per cent. They are losing ground, and the fact that they are losing ground blocks social mobility and brings down economic growth. "

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