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The prime objective of the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs (DAF, www.oecd.org/daf) is to identify policies and best practices designed to keep markets open, competitive and sustainable while combating market abuses and economic crime through international co-operation.
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from 07-May-2008 to 08-May-2008
Co-hosted by the OECD and the US Treasury, this conference seeks to advance and elevate the dialogue on financial education in the international arena, share experiences on best practices and look at applied research. A live webcast of the conference will be transmitted on the YABT website www.ybiz.net and OAS website www.oas.org.
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29-Apr-2008
Many people have a poor understanding of the financial issues that affect their lives, according to OECD analysis. To help them, OECD countries have agreed new good practices on financial education relating to private pensions and insurance that call on governments and business to work together to improve financial literacy in order to give people the tools they need to secure their future.
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The OECD will be closed May 8-12 2008
from 01-May-2008 to 12-May-2008
The OECD will be closed from May 8-12 2008 (Victory Day and Pentecost).
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15-Apr-2008
Fundamental reform of the financial system and its regulation is needed to address the issues highlighted by the current financial markets crisis, according to the OECD Financial Markets Committee. Priority should be given to private sector initiatives to speed up the recovery of financial markets but government intervention may be needed.
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09-Apr-2008
OECD countries are committed to keeping their investment frontiers open to sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) as long as these funds invest for commercial, not political ends. That is the message in a letter from OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría to G7 Finance Ministers detailing a common OECD position on policies towards sovereign wealth funds.
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15-Apr-2008
This report reviews previous estimates of losses from subprime mortgages and indicates these could amount to between US$ 350 and 420 billion, what the losses mean for deleveraging in the economy and what policy options there are to deal with the negative economic consequences of deleveraging.
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03-Apr-2008
In recent years a growing number of countries have reassessed their international investment policies in response to national security concerns and the emergence of new categories of foreign investors, including Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs). OECD countries and non-OECD partners are working together to reconcile these concerns with the goal of preserving and extending the open international investment system.
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from 27-Mar-2008 to 28-Mar-2008
Organised in Paris on 27-28 March 2008, this year's Global Forum focused on best practices in promoting investment for development. The opening session was a ministerial roundtable discussion on the political economy of investment policy reform co-chaired by the Secretaries-General of the OECD and UNCTAD. This event brought together the global network of policy makers, academics, business leaders, labour representatives, and members of civil society dealing with the policy challenges of international investment.
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04-Apr-2008
International investment agreements set ground rules for how host governments treat foreign investors. This publication provides an unparalleled source of information on four key issues: the definition of investor and investment; the interpretation of umbrella clauses in investment agreements; coverage of environmental, labour and anti-corruption issues; and the interaction between investment and services chapters in selected regional trade agreements.
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15-Jan-2008
To eliminate barriers to competition, governments can use the approach developed in the OECD’s new Competition Assessment Toolkit. The Toolkit is a method for identifying unnecessary restraints on market activities and developing alternative, less restrictive measures that still achieve government policy objectives. It draws on experiences of many OECD jurisdictions and will evolve based on feedback from ongoing country experiences.
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