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That's the 8th highest among the 38 member countries of the OECD.

That would make it the fourth best performer in the G7 group of rich nations, according to the OECD, external, behind the US, Canada and France, but ahead of Italy, Germany and Japan.

South Korea has the largest gender pay gap in the OECD, a group of the world's rich countries.

The OECD's economic predictions are released twice per year, and aim to give a guide about what is most likely to happen in the future.

I had previously interviewed Claudia Chwalisz, who then led the OECD's work on innovative citizen participation, and she told me that political polarization was a design feature of electoral systems, but that its effects could be mitigated through a broader democratic vision: