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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 05-Jan-2011 to 05-Dec-2011
The Latin American Economic Outlook 2011 was presented in Madrid on 13 December 2010, at a seminar hosted by Casa de América. High-level representatives from the Spanish public and business sectors were invited to comment on the two main topics of this year's Outlook: the reaction of Latin American economies to the crisis and the role of their emerging middle classes in development.
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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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on 01-Oct-2010
In a context of unprecedented changes in the world economy and major development challenges, development requires a comprehensive approach to ensure policies beyond aid are supportive of the countries’ development goals. Experts for PCD and development from OECD countries, emerging economies and developing countries, as well as from international organizations, gathered to discuss the implications of the shifting gravity of the world economy on PCD; to share policies and experiences of PCD at global and national level; and exchange views on the ways forward.
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The 2010 African Economic Outlook will be launched at the African Development Bank’s Annual Meetings in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire on May 24. This year’s edition finds the continent reeling from the effects of the world’s deepest and most widespread recession in half a century.
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from 01-Dec-2009 to 02-Dec-2009
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and the OECD Development Centre organised a workshop on "Equality, Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development" in Helsinki, Finland, on 1-2 December 2009. The workshop focused on the promotion of social and gender equality in development work.
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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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on 12-Mar-2010
Gender equality is an important facet of progress, as reflected in the Millennium Development Goals. Within the context of the 15 years’ anniversary of the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing and around the date of International Women’s Day 2010, UNESCO and the OECD Development Centre are jointly organising an International Workshop on “Gender Equality and Progress in Societies”.
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