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		      <description><![CDATA[OECD work on development is carried out primarily by the Development Co-operation Directorate/DAC, the Development Centre, the Sahel &amp; West Africa Club/SWAC and the Centre for Co-operation with Non-Members/CCNM. These four entities work toward contributing to the development of both OECD members and non-members. The large number of themes (listed on the left) reflects the variety and ever increasing areas of work of these OECD bodies as they seek to respond to the global policy concerns of the development world.]]></description>
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		      <pubDate>Fri Nov 20 10:03:01 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[MENA-OECD Ministerial Conference in Marrakech will tackle reforms for development, growth, and employment]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Amid a world economic crisis that has cut growth and sent inward investment reeling, government ministers and business leaders from Arab countries will meet their OECD counterparts in Marrakech on 22-23 November 2009 to discuss ways to boost employment, spur investment, strengthen governance, and tackle poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu Oct 29 20:14:26 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[25th Annual Meeting of the Food Crisis Prevention Network (RPCA) ]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[On the occasion of its 25th anniversary (Bamako/Mali), the RPCA focuses on “Markets, Local Product, Processing and Food Security”. Network members will also discuss the food and nutritional situation of the agricultural campaign 2009/2010.
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							         <pubDate>Thu Nov 19 10:43:22 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Dakar Declaration on the Development of Statistics]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[At the PARIS21 Consortium meeting, held in Dakar, Senegal from November 16 to 18, 2009, the participants unanimously affirmed that an effective and efficient statistical system is an essential element of good governance and that urgent action is still required if the data needed to monitor the Millennium Development Goals are to be provided by 2015.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu Nov 19 15:40:59 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[The 0.85 Percent Solution for Low-Income Countries]]></title>
							         <link><![CDATA[http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2009/0924_development_g20_kharas.aspx]]></link>
							         <description><![CDATA[As long as interest rates are so low and crisis needs are so great, it’s time to make IBRD resources more widely available to promote development. Homi Kharas, OECD Development Centre Non-Residential Fellow and Senior Fellow, Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings, puts forward his solution for helping poor countries through the crisis.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[DACnews October 2009 - Conflict and dialogue: What can the development community do better?]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[This issue of DACnews zeroes in on two important areas of attention for the development community: conflict and dialogue. It takes a look at how the reality of conflict impinges on development, and vice versa. It also focuses on the growing complexity of the development landscape, and how increasing dialogue is helping to build a road on common ground.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Disasters strike Asia and the Pacific - What can evaluation tell us about the best ways to respond?]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[The tsunamis that hit Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, Typhoon Kesanta in the Philippines and Mekong region, and recent earthquakes in Indonesia are salient reminders of the need to better integrate disaster risk reduction into development practices. As relief efforts start up, evaluations of past disaster responses can provide informative lessons.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Aid conditionality: recipients can say 'no']]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Policy conditions placed on aid rarely improve its impact on growth and human development. However, donors continue to place significant conditions on their giving. A new study by Development Centre Senior Economist Andy Mold calls for more modesty from the donor community when defining “good” and “bad” practices, and concludes that the financial crisis should act as a catalyst for a thorough re-examination of aid conditionality. Recipient countries need to say ‘no’ more often to aid with excessive strings attached.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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