The Currency Premium and Local-Currency Denominated Debt Costs in South Africa

06-Jan-2004

This paper aims at identifying the determinants of South African currency premia in order to assess the scope of South African economic policies for narrowing the spread on local-currency denominated debt.

Land, Conflict and Development: What Role for Donors?

02-Jul-2003

Participants formulated preliminary guidance on how donors can best incorporate land issues in their policy frameworks for the management and mitigation of conflict. In the summary you will find preliminary policy conclusions, and proposals from the participating experts on how to further advance this agenda.

Public Opinion Research, Global Education and Development Co-operation Reform: In Search of a Virtuous Circle

02-Apr-2003

Citizens in OECD countries support more solidarity and justice at the international level: if they knew more about global development issues, they could provide informed, critical support to reformers in their country, so as to foster more coherent development co-operation policies.

WTO and OECD Launched Requests for Information to Support Doha Development Agenda

01-Apr-2003

OECD Ministers issued an urgent call at their 2002 ministerial meeting in Paris for action to address the trade concerns of developing countries, including market access, welcoming the OECD work with the World Trade Organisation to create a database in support of the Doha Development Agenda.

OECD Development Centre to Get New Director in July 2003

01-Apr-2003

Dr Louka Katseli, Professor of Economics at the University of Athens, has been appointed Director of the Development Centre.

African Economic Outlook 2002/2003

26-Mar-2003

The objective of this publication is to review annually the recent economic situation and the short-term likely evolutions of selected African countries. The Outlook is drawn from a country-by-country analysis based on a unique analytical design. This common framework includes a forecasting exercise for the current and the following year using a simple macroeconomic model, together with an analysis of the social and political context. It also contains a comparative synthesis of African country prospects, placing the evolution of African economies in the world economic context. A statistical appendix completes the volume.

Public Support for International Development

13-Jan-2003

Is public support for international development failing? The question was examined in a number of contexts during a meeting of experts brought together in a joint enterprise by the OECD Development Assistance Committee and the OECD Development Centre.

Development Centre Studies: Public Attitudes and International Development Co-operation

10-Jan-2003

This collection of studies of public attitudes to development co-operation in OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Member countries demonstrates that the concept of "aid fatigue" is misplaced. A serious lack of adequate knowledge about development co-operation, however, is also revealed.

Public Opinion Research, Global Education and Development Co-operation Reform: In Search of a Virtuous Circle

06-Jan-2003

This paper was presented by Ida Mc Donnell and Henri-Bernard Solignac Lecomte at the Europe-Wide Global Education Congres in Maastricht on 15. - 17 November 2002.

The Reference on Africa

Special focus on technical and vocational skills development in Africa.


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