https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Out of the OECD group of most advanced or emerging economies, Spain is the nation where inequalities have risen the second-most - far more than even crisis-hit Greece or emerging Mexico, according to a report by aid group Oxfam https://www.thelocal.es/20160119/spains-rich-get-richer-as-poor-get-poorer Tue, 19 Jan 2016 09:56:41 +0100 spains-rich-get-richer-as-poor-get-poorer The gap between the rich and poor of Spain has widened during the economic crisis, a new report on income inequality has confirmed. https://www.thelocal.es/20150521/gap-widens-between-spains-rich-and-poor Thu, 21 May 2015 16:55:35 +0200 gap-widens-between-spains-rich-and-poor Spain needs to do more to protect the environment, including scrapping harmful subsidies, according to a new report. https://www.thelocal.es/20150302/oecd-report-criticizes-spain-on-environment Mon, 02 Mar 2015 15:21:00 +0100 oecd-report-criticizes-spain-on-environment Crisis-hit Spain is continuing to see a fall in the number of permanent migrants entering the country despite a slight overall rise across the OECD, a new report published on Monday shows. https://www.thelocal.es/20141201/spain-slips-in-migration-rankings-oecd-migration Mon, 01 Dec 2014 12:26:00 +0100 spain-slips-in-migration-rankings-oecd-migration Want to know which Spanish region has the best and worst healthcare? Or the highest and lowest incomes? And what about housing quality? Read on to discover the best (and worst) that Spain's regions have to offer. https://www.thelocal.es/20141015/spains-best-and-worst-regions-to-live-oecd-well-being Wed, 15 Oct 2014 20:30:00 +0200 spains-best-and-worst-regions-to-live-oecd-well-being More young people in Spain are NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training) than anywhere else in the EU, with graduate unemployment also tripling the OECD average, a new report shows. https://www.thelocal.es/20140909/education-report-reveals-spains-jobless-generation Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:51:00 +0200 education-report-reveals-spains-jobless-generation Spain must strengthen competitiveness in its businesses to bring down its towering jobless rate and cement its recovery from recession, the OECD economic grouping warned on Monday. https://www.thelocal.es/20140908/spain-must-boost-business-to-seal-recovery-oecd Mon, 08 Sep 2014 17:53:00 +0200 spain-must-boost-business-to-seal-recovery-oecd The fall in Spanish salaries during the country's crisis, one of the largest in the OECD, could actually hamper the country's recovery by bringing on deflation and killing off consumer demand, the OECD has warned in a new report. https://www.thelocal.es/20140903/oecd-warns-over-falling-spanish-salaries Wed, 03 Sep 2014 17:34:00 +0200 oecd-warns-over-falling-spanish-salaries Spain's university graduates leave "a lot to be desired" when it comes to basic skills like reading comprehension and maths knowledge, the head of the OECD warned during a conference in Madrid on Monday. https://www.thelocal.es/20140708/spains-graduates-ill-equipped-for-work-says-oecd-chief Tue, 08 Jul 2014 12:24:00 +0200 spains-graduates-ill-equipped-for-work-says-oecd-chief The number of permanent immigrants entering Spain plummeted by over 20 percent in 2012, figures published by the OECD on Tuesday reveal. https://www.thelocal.es/20140521/spain-falls-in-popularity-for-immigrants Wed, 21 May 2014 12:05:01 +0200 spain-falls-in-popularity-for-immigrants The Spanish government is seriously failing in its official international aid commitments, experts have warned, after the OECD on Wednesday released figures showing the country is near the back of the development spending line. https://www.thelocal.es/20140410/crisis-eats-into Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:53:55 +0200 crisis-eats-into A study based on findings from the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has revealed that Spanish 15-year-olds struggle with real-life problems such as booking tickets online or even using a vacuum cleaner. https://www.thelocal.es/20140401/spanish-students-fail-real-life-problems-test-2 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 15:01:00 +0200 spanish-students-fail-real-life-problems-test-2 Spain's rich have been left virtually unaffected by the crisis while the poor have seen their incomes seriously dented, a new OECD study shows. Here The Local outlines the report's key findings. https://www.thelocal.es/20140318/spains-rich-breeze-through-crisis Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:17:00 +0100 spains-rich-breeze-through-crisis Spain must fight unemployment by doing more to free up its labour market, including further cuts to severance pay, the OECD club of industrialized nations said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20131218/oecd-urges-spain-to Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:04:32 +0100 oecd-urges-spain-to The head of Spain's top nursing association said he was "ashamed" that Spanish nurses were leaving for Germany to do menial health care work at a time when Spain itself needs over 100,000 new nurses. https://www.thelocal.es/20131126/spains-nurses-going-to-germany-to-wash-backsides Tue, 26 Nov 2013 12:58:00 +0100 spains-nurses-going-to-germany-to-wash-backsides Spaniards are getting healthier but spending cuts could hurt the country's most vulnerable citizens in the longer term, a new OECD study shows. https://www.thelocal.es/20131122/spending-cuts-hurting-spaniards-health-oecd Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:53:15 +0100 spending-cuts-hurting-spaniards-health-oecd People in Spain have the third highest top marginal tax rate in Europe with only the wealthy Danes and the Swedes coughing up more, a new report shows. https://www.thelocal.es/20131025/spaniards-pay-third-highest-tax-in-europe Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:39:00 +0200 spaniards-pay-third-highest-tax-in-europe In the wake of Spain's dismal results for reading and maths in the OECD's Survey of Adult Skills, The Local challenges you, the reader, to try out some of the questions for yourself. Are you game? https://www.thelocal.es/20131010/oecd-take-the-test Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:19:00 +0200 oecd-take-the-test Spaniards between the ages of 16 and 65 have worse maths skills than adults in 22 other OECD member states and also scored the second worst marks for reading comprehension, a new study shows. https://www.thelocal.es/20131008/spain-bottom-of-the-class-for-maths-and-reading-oecd Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:21:00 +0200 spain-bottom-of-the-class-for-maths-and-reading-oecd The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) warned on Tuesday that Spain's unemployment level won't be coming down in the next 18 months. https://www.thelocal.es/20130716/spains-jobless-rate-will-rise-in-2014-oecd Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:04:00 +0200 spains-jobless-rate-will-rise-in-2014-oecd