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		      <description><![CDATA[The Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs (DAF, www.oecd.org/daf) helps governments to improve the domestic and global policies that affect business and markets. DAF identifies policies and best practices designed to keep markets open, competitive and sustainable while combating market abuses and economic crime through international co-operation. It works in the fields of anti corruption, corporate governance, competition law and policy, investment, financial markets, insurance, private pensions, and private sector development.]]></description>
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		      <pubDate>Thu Nov 05 13:40:55 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Mobilising financial resources - boosting energy investment and carbon finance in Africa ]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[African ministers and business leaders will meet in Johannesburg, South Africa on 11-12 November to discuss how African countries can exit the financial crisis and build stronger and more sustainable economies at the NEPAD-OECD ministerial and roundtable.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu Nov 05 16:32:36 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Finance, business and the crisis]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Read about OECD efforts to help governments improve the domestic and global policies that affect business and markets in the wake of the global economic crisis.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Jun 17 14:26:35 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Fixing Finance - Origins of the financial crisis and requirements for reform]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[What caused the global financial crisis, and what direction should the policy reform agenda take? Why did residential mortgage-backed securities and credit default swaps explode from around 2004? Adrian Blundell-Wignall discusses the origins of the financial crisis and requirements for reform at the New America Foundation, as part of the OECD Breakfast Series.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Nov 04 16:02:27 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Insurance Companies and the Financial Crisis]]></title>
							         <link><![CDATA[http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/0/41/43868704.pdf]]></link>
							         <description><![CDATA[This article looks at insurance companies during the current financial crisis. While insurers as a group have cushioned rather than amplified the downward pressures during the financial crisis due to their relatively long-term investment horizons, some clearly have increased such pressures. Many of the financial instruments that were at the core of difficulties served an insurance function. Therefore it is not too surprising that some insurance companies have been affected by the crisis on one or the other side of their balance sheets, that is on the asset or the liability side.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[G20: International standards on structural policies key to emerging from crisis]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Welcoming the adoption of the Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth by G20 leaders gathered in Pittsburgh for the G20 summit, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría said new sources of jobs and growth needed for the global economy to effect a sustained recovery, will only emerge if the right structural policies are adopted by the world’s leading global economies.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[The Financial Crisis: Reform and Exit Strategies]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[The financial crisis required governments to make massive interventions in their financial systems. This book sets out priorities for reforming incentives in financial markets as well as for phasing out these emergency measures. ]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[OECD, WTO and UNCTAD call on G20 for stronger commitment to more open trade and investment]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[The OECD, World Trade Organisation and the UN’s Conference of Trade and Development have called on the leaders of the G20 countries to make a stronger commitment to open trade and investment as the global economy begins its recovery from the crisis.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Mon Sep 14 14:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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