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Since I arrived at the OECD in 1996, I have participated in more conferences on more issues than I would have imagined possible. These many and varied meetings focused on almost every area of public policy Without exaggeration, I can report that in all cases a common thread of consensus was education

as the fundamental building block of social and economic progress. Would this have been the case, say, 100 or even 50 years ago? I doubt it.

The OECD's report on the causes of growth in the "new economy", which will be delivered to our Ministerial Council in May, will assign an important role to human capital. Another driver of growth in the new economy is technology, particularly information and communication technologies (ICT). What matters is how they work together: countries can be awash with technology, but it takes human skills and talent both to operate it and to undertake the reorganisation of work and commercial relationships that can improve productivity and lift growth potential.

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