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G20 Study: Whistleblower Protection Frameworks, Compendium of Best Practices and Guiding Principles for Legislation

At the Seoul Summit in November 2010, G20 Leaders identified the protection of whistleblowers as one of the high priority areas in their global anticorruption agenda. For that purpose, the Members asked the OECD: To prepare a blue print of the study on best practices for discussion and adoption at the Bali meeting; leading to the preparation of a compendium of best practices and guidelines for legislation on the protection of

Horizontal Agreements in the Environmental Context - Competition Policy Roundtable - OECD

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This document reproduces the Report by the Chair of the Annual Meeting of the National Contact Points (NCP) which was held in June 2011. This report reviews NCP activities as well as other implementation activities undertaken by adhering governments over the June 2010 - June 2011 period.

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Pension Funds Investment In Infrastructure: Policy Actions, OECD Working Paper on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions, No.13

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Corporate Governance in Asia - Asian Roundtable on Corporate Governance

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Budapest Roundtable on non-tariff barriers in CEFTA 2006: Summary report

Held in Budapest on 4 November 2011, discussions focused on the results of the first cycle of assessing progress on the elimination of non-tariff barriers based on the Multilateral Monitoring Framework.