Renewal of OECD Secretary-General’s mandate by the OECD Council

"The pursuit of relevance continues to be my guiding objective in order to improve the well-being of our citizens and help design better policies for better lives (...) We will do it armed with our foundational values: openness, objectivity, boldness, pioneering spirit and sound ethics", said OECD Secretary-General.

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Launch of the OECD 2010 Economic Survey of Portugal

According to A. Gurría, the most immediate challenge for Portugal is to foster investor confidence and to avoid the cyclical increase in unemployment from becoming structural.

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Lançamento do Estudo Económico de 2010 sobre Portugal da OCDE

O desafio mais imediato é o fomento da confiança dos investidores, já que spreads elevados não só põem em perigo a sustentabilidade orçamental, mas também colocam em risco a retoma da actividade , ao aumentarem os custos de financiamento em toda a economia.

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Leading Group on innovative sources of financing for development

Absent a major push in the next five years, we will fail to meet our commitment to the world’s poorest, according to Angel Gurría. He added that raising inequality will not jeopardise future growth and prosperity only in the developing world, it will threaten the global economy as a whole.

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Smarter partnerships for development

Smarter partnerships can leverage the maximum out of aid and become the main driver of progress towards achieving the MDGs by 2015, according to Angel Gurría.

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Millennium Development Goals: A job well done?

OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría encourages all countries to meet their commitments to the world’s poorest by achieving the MDGs by 2015.

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Launch of the OECD Economic Survey of the United States

Supported by substantial stimulus measures, the US economy has started to grow again after the economic crisis but Mr. Gurría argued that efficient spending would be key to strenghten public finances. In this respect, the recent health-care reform, which includes measures to reduce the growth in health-care spending, is an important landmark, Mr. Gurría stated.

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Domestic resources mobilisation: Achieving development and the MDGs in a sustainable way

Equitable and efficient tax systems and administrations have an important role to play in securing domestic funding for development, according to Angel Gurría. He added that African policy makers need to reform tax systems and generate revenues, to complement external sources of financing, such as official development assistance, remittances and foreign direct investment.

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Launch of the report on mutual review of development effectiveness in Africa 2010

Attending the UN summit on the Millenium Development Goals, Angel Gurría highlighted four priority issues for Africa: we need to complement Africa’s efforts in domestic resource mobilisation by an effective international action to tackle tax havens, illicit financial flows, bribery and corruption. We also need to re-double our efforts to drive forward multilateral trade liberalisation. We must direct aid to where the need is greatest

Finance: review of causes and management of the crisis

At the heart of the crisis are failures of financial regulation, of supervision, of risk management and of corporate governance.