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Montreal – Public Administration Minister Boštjan Koritnik took part on Friday in a virtual session of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, the first meeting of the alliance founded this summer. Koritnik said Slovenia was working on a national AI programme.

Paris – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has slightly upgraded its forecast for Slovenia’s GDP in 2020, projecting that it will fall by 7.5% this year, while also downgrading the expected rebound in 2020, to 3.4%.

In the first half of June, the OECD said that Slovenia’s economy was expected to shrink by 7.8% this year, and then grow by 4.5% in 2021.

Covid-19 vaccines being developed in combination with ongoing financial stimulus program are key to improving global economic growth, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said in its latest Economic Outlook report.

The economic sectors especially hard hit by the measures introduced to curb the spread of the coronavirus, such as retail commerce and tourism, account for 45 percent of all employment in Greece, according to data compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In this respect, Greece holds the worst position among 29 OECD member-states.

Greece must take immediate action to place restrictions on the issuing of licenses for strategic investments and the development of public land that bypass existing zoning regulations as they pose a serious risk to the environment, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned in its Environmental Performance Review of the country.

The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) slashed its 2020 global economic growth forecasts, in an update of its projections on March 2, in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Greece's economy has benefited by 5.66 billion euros from adopting 161 market reforms recommended by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, out of a total of 775 in the OECD's "toolkit," according to provisional calculations by the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV).

"In many families I'm in touch with, kids ended up needing therapy to be able to cope with the pressure. We've heard from parents whose children were suffering so much they tried to commit suicide."

Turkey has been very successful at educating more children, said a senior official for international assessment exams at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Dec. 19. 

Deputy Economy Minister Liliya Ivanova met Kevin Hamilton, Canada's ambassador accredited to Bulgaria, who is based in Bucharest, Romania, the Economy Ministry said.