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08-Jun-2009
Australia joined the LEED Programme in January 2009. Australia is represented on the LEED Directing Committee by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relation (DEEWR).
The Netherlands joined the LEED Programme in January 2009. The Netherlands is represented on the LEED Directing Committee by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW).
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15-May-2009
What policy initiatives and broader development strategies could inspire policymaking in Wales and other similar old industrial regions?
With 25 policy interventions and development strategies from OECD countries, the four final reports tackle the broad issues of business productivity improvement and labour market participation, and have been made available for download.
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30-Jan-2009
Twice before, Country Fact Sheets have been published by the OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance providing valuable up-to-date information on the policy framework and setting, the structures, objectives and results of area-based partnerships. In autumn 2009, “forumpartnerships2009” – Country Fact Sheets will be published again with the aim to provide an update on what has changed over the last 3 years. The Forum invite you to provide information on the partnership in your country or region.
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26-Jan-2009
A two day Round Table was held under the auspices of the OECD Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship (WPSMEE) in Turin, Italy on 26 and 27 March 2009 at the invitation of the Banca Intesa Sanpaolo. The round table aimed to promote a tri-partite dialogue among governments, SMEs and financial institutions, on possible measures to help SMEs and entrepreneurs through the crisis and suggest recommendations. It will be a basis for the WPSMEE's input into the OECD Strategic Response to the Financial and Economic Crisis.
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SME financing in the global financial crisis
12-Nov-2008
In response to the financial and economic turmoil, SME & Entrepreneurship policymakers are taking measures and call for a coordinated international initiative.
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13-May-2008
A three-day international workshop on innovation and the global impact of high-growth small and medium-sized firms (SMEs), organized by OECD with the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, hailed entrepreneurship and the fast growth of innovative small firms as the engines of economic growth.
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21-Apr-2008
OECD governments could boost economic growth and help create jobs if local agencies and authorities had more power and autonomy to adjust employment and training programmes to meet local needs, concluded OECD employment ministers.
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30-Aug-2007
The OECD LEED Programme has just released a report on "Enhancing the Capacity of Partnerships to Influence Policy” which gathers the experience of the two capacity building seminars organised by the Trento Centre for Local Development in close co-operation with the Forum office unit at the Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) in Vienna Austria.
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06-Jul-2007
This study provides an agency or city with the opportunity to have progress reviewed by an international team of experts, to have their successes and good practices documented and widely disseminated, and to have a peer review process, involving both individual experts and practitioners, and the representatives of OECD member governments. Cities and development agencies interested in participating in these reviews are invited to contact the OECD Secretariat.
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06-Jul-2007
Low skills represent a considerable risk in today’s knowledge economy, and local level stakeholders are increasingly becoming important players in addressing skills issues. LEED is currently examining ten case studies of innovative practice in designing local skills strategies from East Asia, Europe, Australasia and North and South America.
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