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Anticipates moderate growth in US and eurozone

Teenagers' math and reading skills decline globally, worsened by COVID; mobile phone use linked to poorer results

OECD says Covid-19 jobs crunch already 10 times worse than 2008 global financial crisis

British officials suspend cooperation due to concern over administrative structures

Stresses global recession looks increasingly likely in the first half of this year

Analyst expects selling to continue even if virus-affected global economy recovers

Finance ministers, central bankers from the G20 met in Riyadh for talks, with digital taxation topping their agenda

OECD says this could boost national tax revenues by a total of $100b a year

French minister urges US to negotiate with OECD to reach agreement on taxing tech giants

Cites govts are failing to get to grips with climate change, digitalisation of economies

FBR shares financial details with NA panel of data provided by OECD

Says global economy risks entering new, lasting low-growth phase

Briefs NA panel on recovery and actions taken in offshore account cases

Most serious challenge is abuse of financial account information

Officials cite weak monitoring, corruption as key reasons behind low receipts

International aid remains unable to achieve its stated goals

The leaders of ten EU countries including Germany and France to hold crisis talks on migration in Brussels on Sunday

Pakistan proposed imposing a 5% tax on digital revenues, hitting US tech giants such as Google, Amazon and Facebook

PM's aide Haroon Akhtar says OECD also seeks protection of taxpayer record

Report identifies India as top recipient of philanthropic giving, BMFG biggest private donor in the world

FBR recently made amendments to Income Tax Rules 2002

Even if there was an exchange of information it is going to be exceedingly difficult for the revenue collectors

Rapid economic growth over decades has seen Seoul's GDP boom, but birth rates have gone in the opposite direction

Senate panel says Dar misled parliament over offshore accounts

It also signed the MCAA to give effect to OECD multilateral convention

OECD’s test will assess how well students can think critically about information provided via social media

Study looks at 10 countries with top priority on attracting back migrants

Secretary general says it will determine ultimate owner of the money invested in offshore companies

May include non-resident Pakistanis in definition of citizens

Federal government to approve instrument of ratification on Friday

Pakistan has become signatory to the OECD's Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matter

Convention aims to curb tax evasion, federal cabinet has given approval

Development comes after cabinet gave its approval

Experts say government has tried to use the prospect of becoming an OECD signatory as an excuse to get laws passed

News comes amidst growing mistrust of govt’s intention regarding ‘Maryam Law’

Millions of documents covering nearly 40 years of business were leaked from the archives of Mossack Fonseca