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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.
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from 22-Nov-2009 to 23-Nov-2009
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).
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19-Nov-2009
The expansion of guarantees for banks by governments has been a key element of the policy response to the recent financial crisis. This course of action was helpful and it has avoided a further accelerated loss of confidence in banks. But it is not without costs. Costs include those arising from distortions to competition and incentives. Additional costs have arisen as policy actions have not been as closely coordinated across borders as might have been desired. Going forward, policies need to be more consistent.
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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.
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on 13-Oct-2009
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.
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27-Oct-2009
This article discusses vulnerabilities in selected segments of the insurance sector and identifies specific issues related to the role of the insurance sector in the current financial crisis.
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25-Sep-2009
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.
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17-Sep-2009
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.
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14-Sep-2009
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.
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