Southeast Asian Economic Outlook 2011 Seminar, 13 July 2011

23-Aug-2011

The Southeast Asian Economic Outlook 2011 (SAEO 2011) Seminar took place on 13 July 2011.  It provided an opportunity for experts to exchange views on current economic challenges in the region, based on the initial results of the forthcoming report to be released later this year.

Topics discussed were: Economic Outlook 2011 – 2016 and macroeconomic policy challenges in Session 1; Synopsis of medium-term structural policy challenges in the region in Session 2 and Green growth in Session 3 (click on the title above to see the Agenda).

US, a generous donor, is committed to making aid more effective

28-Jul-2011

The United States has significantly enhanced its development strategies, policies, and programmes. It should continue to reduce overlaps and improve co-ordination.

Aid for Trade at a Glance 2011: Showing Results

18-Jul-2011

Aid for trade is making progress. Our 2011 monitoring survey shows partner countries recognise the need to mainstream trade in their national and regional development strategies, and are making progress towards this objective. And donors are responding by continuing to mobilise additional resources.

Speech: OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria introduces Aid for Trade at a Glance 2011

18-Jul-2011

On the occasion of the Third Global Review of the joint OECD/WTO Aid for Trade Initiative, the OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria introduced the third edition of Aid for Trade at a Glance, entitled Showing Results.

Download: Effective aid, effective development

07-Jul-2011

Download the feature essay entitled "Effective Aid, Effective Development" in the Summer 2011 edition of Global Asia, written by Stephen Groff, Deputy Director of the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD).      

New thinking on statebuilding

16-Jun-2011

Tackling the challenges associated with fragility requires a concerted international effort to support sustainable statebuilding processes, based on robust state-society relations. Our policy guidance introduces an internationally accepted conceptual framework and offers recommendations for strategy development, programme design and delivery, and day-to-day operations in the field and at headquarters.

Does peacebuilding bring peace?

14-Jun-2011

Representatives from fragile states and donors discuss what works and what doesn’t at the second International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in Monrovia, 15-16 June.

Strengthening public financial management and foreign aid management in developing countries, Manila, Philippines, 6 June 2011

07-Jun-2011

Asian Development Bank hosted this meeting of the OECD DAC's Task Force on Public Financial Management to examine ways to strengthen developing countries’ public financial management and their ability to receive and manage foreign aid.

Representatives from over 40 countries and international organizations around the world met in Manila to address one of the major barriers to economic growth in the developing world: inadequate public financial management systems. 

Aid for Trade to the LDCs: Starting to Show Results

27-Apr-2011

Since the adoption of the Brussels Programme of Action for Least Developed Countries in 2001, the share of the Least Developed Countries in world merchandise trade has increased and some of this improved capacity to trade is attributable to USD 73 billion donors committed to trade-related aid programmes. This new publication, a joint OECD-WTO contribution to the Fourth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (Istanbul, Turkey, 9-13 May), shows the results achieved by some of these programmes and the lessons to be learned.

Launch of HLF4 Dedicated Website

20-Apr-2011

With Busan only seven months away, the dedicated website provides background information, information for delegates, logistics, and contact information for the event. Delegates are also invited to sign up for the Busan Bulletin on the site.