According to the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment ( PISA ) 2009, the average Portuguese 15-years old student, when rated in terms of reading literacy, mathematics and science knowledge, is placed at the same level as those students from the United States, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, France, Denmark, United Kingdom, Hungary and Taipei, with 489 points ( 493 is the average ).

According to the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment ( PISA ), the average Portuguese 15-years old student was for many years underrated and underachieving in terms of reading literacy, mathematics and science knowledge in the OECD, nearly tied with the Italian and just above countries like Greece, Turkey and Mexico.

* the percentage of low-achieving 15-year olds in reading literacy, as measured at level 1 in the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment should have decreased by at least 20 % compared to the year 2000

As a result of having made a commitment in accordance with the OECD's 2001 Progress Report on the OECD's Project on Harmful Tax Practices, Gibraltar is not included in the OECD's list of uncooperative tax havens.

In 1992 and revised in 2002 the OECD's Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems and Networks proposed the nine generally accepted principles: Awareness, Responsibility, Response, Ethics, Democracy, Risk Assessment, Security Design and Implementation, Security Management, and Reassessment.

The OECD's Council Working Party on Shipbuilding ( WP6 ) will continue its efforts to identify and progressively reduce factors that distort the shipbuilding market.

He criticised Brown for hiding higher taxes by counting tax credits as a negative income tax, citing the OECD's classification of it as an increase in spending.

Inter-country monitoring would be achieved by using a sample of attainments linked to the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment.

Following these measure, Cyprus was excluded from the OECD's harmful tax haven blacklist and was placed on the OECD white list of territories which have substantially implemented the internationally agreed standard in tax transparency.

The OECD's Frascati Manual describes Applied Research as one of the three forms of research, along with Basic research & Experimental Development.

Blacklisted jurisdictions effectively resisted the OECD by noting that several of the member nations of OECD also were tax havens according to the OECD's own definition.

* OECD's statistics portal.

Fairly detailed extracts of the OECD's ODA statistics are available here free.

A history of the DAC by Helmut Führer, former Director of the OECD's Development Co-operation Directorate.

As recognized by the OECD's Working Party on Aid Effectiveness, at the beginning of the 21st century it became apparent that promoting widespread and sustainable development was not only about amounts of aid given, but also about how aid was given .< ref > Working Party on Aid Effectiveness, " Transforming Global Partnership for Development, March 2010.

The OECD's Frascati Manual, a methodology for research and development statistics, originated from a meeting at the Villa Falconieri in June 1963.

After an intense global campaign was waged against the MAI by the treaty's critics, the host nation France announced in October 1998 that it would not support the agreement, effectively preventing its adoption due to the OECD's consensus procedures.

The negotiations on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment were formally launched by the OECD's Ministerial Council in May 1995 and they commenced in September 1995.

This was succeeded in 1978 by a gentlemen's agreement facilitated by the OECD's now defunct Trade Directorate, which established a Working Party on Officially Supported Export Credits.

* international review of curriculum and assessment framework a very useful website that provides comparative information about the education system of many countries.

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund now use the IOSCO Core Principles in reviewing the financial health of different country's regulatory systems as part of these organization's financial sector assessment program, so laws against insider trading based on non-public information are now expected by the international community.

general assessment: services are adequate ; facilities provide radiotelephone and telegraph, coastal radio, aeronautical radio, and international radio communication services

Hazard identification and risk assessment tools and techniques are described in the international standard ISO 17776: 2000, and organisations such as the IADC ( International Association of Drilling Contractors ) publish guidelines for HSE Case development which are based on the ISO standard.

** general assessment: excellent domestic and international services

It was reported that one of the aims of the programme was to prepare São Toméan troops for international peacekeeping missions. Previous phases of reform saw the armed forces downsized considerably in the early 1990s in line with a reduction in regional threat assessment.

Even the most credible international assessment body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ), has refused to attempt subjective probabilistic estimates of future temperatures.

In the affected area, 2. 4 million of 3. 6 million people are considered highly vulnerable to food insecurity An international assessment stated that, of these, over 800, 000 face extreme food insecurity and another 800, 000 in moderately insecure food situations are in need of aid.

General assessment: good inter-island and international connections

The IISS publishes The Military Balance, an annual assessment of nations ' military capabilities ; the Armed Conflict Database ; Survival, a journal on global politics and strategy ; Strategic Survey, the annual review of world affairs ; the Adelphi Papers series of monographs ; and Strategic Comments, online analysis of topical issues in international affairs.

A balanced assessment would have to acknowledge that Nick LaRocca was an important figure in taking jazz from a regional style to international popularity, the leader of the most influential jazz band of the period from 1917 to 1921, and a good player in a very early jazz style on records such as " Clarinet Marmalade ".

To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.

Analyzing the comorbid state of patient S, 73 years of age, using the most used international comorbidity assessment scales, a doctor would come across totally different evaluation.

An international independent team made an assessment of research quality in TUT in 2011

Other popular international assessment systems include QuestionMark and EvaluNet XT.

Additionally, there is no standard product quality assessment or grading system, making international trade of the fruits difficult.

The reduction in the assessment rate ceiling was among the reforms contained in the 1999 Helms-Biden legislation, which links payment of $ 926 million in U. S. arrears to the UN and other international organizations to a series of reform benchmarks.

Loudon's Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, 8 vols., ( 1838 ) is probably the most significant work on the subject in British history and included an account of all trees and shrubs that were hardy in the British climate, an international history of arboriculture, an assessment of the cultural, economic and industrial value of trees and four volumes of plates.

Some residents of St. Stephen who opposed the measure challenged the tax assessment in the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, arguing that the provincial Legislature lacked the constitutional authority to authorise a tax to support the building of an international railway, as that would intrude on the exclusive legislative authority of the Parliament of Canada.

* Asia Network Forum, an international forum conformity assessment bodies which represents each Asian economy, CQC ( China ), ETC ( Chinese Taipei ), JQA ( Japan ), KTL ( Korea ) and TUV-SUD-PSB ( Singapore ), has agreed to establish for promoting trades in the region and the coalition among members.

In addition, a 2007 assessment of research publications by Thailand Research Fund put SIIT at the top of all engineering faculties in the kingdom in terms of equivalent international journal papers per faculty member and in terms of impact factor per faculty member.

National and international agencies involved in impact assessment studies have included sections devoted to sensitivity analysis in their guidelines.

aid, assessment, disability support services, international student services, counselling and the career resource centre.