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from 30-May-2011 to 01-Jun-2011
Under the theme “Broadening opportunities for development”, the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) features Angel Gurría, Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen (Harvard University), World Bank Chief Economist Justin Yifu Lin and other leading academics and experts to debate such issues as measuring inequality of opportunities, structural transformation, employment creation and labour regulation, gender equity and human capital formation, training and youth. Join the debate via twitter or access the live-feed online
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from 15-Dec-2010 to 16-Dec-2010
The OECD-DAC Task Force on Public Financial Management met in New Delhi on December 15-16 to tackle one of the major barriers to development: lack of capacity in public financial management (PFM). Hosting the meeting, Mr. Vinod Rai, Comptroller & Auditor General of India, expressed his confidence that this network will promote experience sharing for better targeting of aid, resource mobilization, and sustainable debt management. The Auditor General highlighted the importance of sharing experiences to ensure the desired outcomes of public expenditure in partner countries.
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on 18-Oct-2010
Date: 18 October 2010
Venue: United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
This one day workshop aims to enhance knowledge sharing and mutual learning on LCG among countries in the Asia-Pacific region and international donor agencies.
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Investing in Food Security in a Global Economy
from 05-May-2009 to 06-May-2009
The number of malnourished people around the world is estimated to have risen to nearly one billion this year as the food, fuel, financial and economic crisis takes their toll on developing countries. How to ensure food security for the world’s poor, as part of a broader concern with feeding the world (9 billion people) in 2050, was the subject of a high-level meeting organised jointly by the OECD (DCD and TAD) and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on 5 and 6 May 2009 at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris.
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on 26-Feb-2010
The OECD 2010 Fragile States Survey on international responses to states affected by conflict and insecurity will be released at a joint event with the CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction (PCR) Project in Washington, D.C., Friday, February 26, from 9-11:00 am at CSIS, B1 Conference Center (1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20006). To attend the event, please RSVP to Katherine Hubbard at KHubbard@csis.org.
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Aid effectiveness and environment: How to enhance environmental governance and management through the use of country systems?, Lilongwe, Malawi
on 04-Mar-2010
This meeting focused on integratation of environment into planning and public financial management.
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from 16-Nov-2009 to 18-Nov-2009
At the PARIS21 Consortium meeting, held in Dakar, Senegal from November 16 to 18, 2009, the participants unanimously affirmed that an effective and efficient statistical system is an essential element of good governance and that urgent action is still required if the data needed to monitor the Millennium Development Goals are to be provided by 2015.
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from 11-Nov-2009 to 12-Nov-2009
African ministers and business leaders will meet in Johannesburg, South Africa on 11-12 November to discuss how African countries can exit the financial crisis and build stronger and more sustainable economies at the NEPAD-OECD ministerial and roundtable.
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on 17-Mar-2009
The OECD has released a new report – Managing Water for All: Pricing and Financing – at an event during the World Water Forum in Istanbul. Emphasising the economic, social and environmental benefits of investing in water and sanitation, the report includes information about the agricultural uses of water, financing water supply and sanitation, water pricing, private sector participation in the water sector and aid flows to water.
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