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from 23-May-2008 to 26-May-2008
A high-level Iraqi government delegation led by H.E. Baqr Jabor Al-Zubaidy, Minister of Finance of Iraq, will visit OECD, May 26 – 27, to discuss a number of issues including development aid, investment, taxation and anti-corruption measures. The meeting is organised by OECD and UNDP.
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on 08-May-2008
An OECD international workshop in Kansas City (USA) on innovation and the global impact of high-growth small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Twenty experts from around the world presented their recommendations on how policymakers can encourage entrepreneurship and the fast growth of innovative small firms.
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on 13-Jun-2007
Do we have the right set of indicators to measure the outcomes and impacts of innovation? To what questions about the impacts of R&D and innovation would policy makers like the data to give an answer? What extra insights on innovation do we gain by linking different surveys and datasets? This workshop to be held in Paris will address these and other questions and discuss the implications for future OECD work in this area.
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on 22-May-2007
The workshop reviewed studies of the impacts of broadband roll-out and use: a) on economic performance at aggregate level and in the business sector, and b) on the geographical distribution of economic activity and employment, on content producers and users, and on households. It covered recent and ongoing analysis for as a wide range of OECD countries.
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from 18-Jan-2005 to 19-Jan-2005
As part of the preparatory process of the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (to be held in Tunis on 16-18 November 2005) the OECD is collaborating with UNCTAD, ILO and the ITC in organising a WSIS Thematic Meeting on the Economic and Social Implications of ICT. OECD's work on the links between ICTs and economic growth, social development and performance of enterprises that has been carried out under the aegis of ICCP and WPIE will provide some of the fundamental arguments presented at this meeting.
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from 10-Jan-2005 to 11-Jan-2005
This conference is designed to deepen the common understanding of how difficult-to-measure knowledge resources drive an increasingly virtualized economy, and to assess prospects for advancing and regenerating knowledge infrastructure, institutions, and policies.
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103rd meeting of the Council Working Party on Shipbuilding
on 18-Dec-2006
The meeting took place at the OECD Headquarters in Paris.
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on 09-Oct-2006
This conference shed light on a crucial issue concerning the phenomenon of globalisation and its impacts upon the development of the “knowledge economy”: the link between innovation, structural change and productivity growth amid the intensification of cross-border economic linkages. It discussed the scope for public policy in implementing a national innovation and growth strategy in the global economy, and offered guidance for future work in this domain, in particular by the OECD Committee on Industry, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE).
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on 24-Jul-2006
Summary of the 102nd Meeting of the OECD Council Working Party on Shipbuilding held in Paris on 24 July 2006.
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from 19-Jun-2006 to 20-Jun-2006
This seminar brought together banking regulators and members of the Task Force of the Asian Roundtable on Corporate Governance to discuss and advance on recommendations for better governance of banks in the region. The Financial Stability Institute of the Bank for International Settlements co-organised the meeting with the OECD.
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