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African Economic Outlook 2012 launched
28-May-2012
The launch of the African Economic Outlook takes place on Monday, 28 May, 2012 in Arusha at the Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank.
The 2012 and 2013 growth forecasts and figures are released along with this year’s special report on Promoting Youth Employment. Online you will also find the full, web-exclusive and country specific economic reports for 53 out of the 54 African countries.
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on 25-May-2012
The International Economic Forum on Latin America and the Caribbean is a yearly high-level event that brings together policy-makers, CEOs, and experts from Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe to discuss the LAC-region’s economic performance and share solutions to its development challenges.
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on 10-May-2012
The OECD Development Centre and the United States Department of State are co-hosting the launch of the updated 2012 Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) in Washington on 10 May. The 2012 version of the SIGI reflects changes in laws or practices, an updated conceptual framework and improved data sources for over 100 countries.
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09-May-2012
Social and legal discrimination against women remains a major obstacle to economic development in emerging and developing countries, according to the latest edition of OECD’s Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI). Though women’s rights are improving in a number of countries, in others women are still barred from contributing to the social and economic well-being of their families.
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on 19-Apr-2012
Developing Asia is forecast to grow by 7.2% in 2011, 6.9% in 2012 and 7.3% in 2013. The greatest risk to Asia’s outlook is the continued uncertainty in Europe’s sovereign debt problems. Raising living standards and reducing poverty should be a priority in the years to come to ensure that benefits of growth are widely shared.
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from 19-Apr-2012 to 21-Apr-2012
In the context of the preparation for the 4th OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policies that will take place in New Delhi on 16-19 October 2012, the High Commission of Planning of Morocco and the OECD Development Centre jointly organised the African Conference on ‘Measuring Well-Being and Fostering the Progress of Societies’, held on Thursday 19 to Saturday 21 April 2012 in Rabat at the Centre d’Accueil et de Conférences (CAC), Avenue Essanaoubar, Hay Riad.
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16-Mar-2012
DevCom invites all development communication practitioners to contribute with short Think Pieces illustrating successful approaches and strategies in communicating results of development. These Think Pieces will constitute background documents for debates during the IDB/DevCom Seminar on "Communicating Development Results" (23-24 April in Washington DC) and will be compiled into an exclusive DevCom publication “Good Practice in Communicating Development Results”.
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12-Mar-2012
Growth in Asia will remain weak in the coming months but improvements can be seen in several countries. Positive signs, related to stable domestic demand notably in Indonesia, mitigate effects of global economic turmoil. Global uncertainty – mainly from the Eurozone – is a major risk for the region, more so for export-dependents such as Singapore and Malaysia. Growth in China and India remain weak and signs of weakening domestic demand in China is a major concern.
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from 19-Apr-2012 to 21-Apr-2012
The conference was held on 19 to 21 April 2012 in Rabat. Jointly organised by the OECD Development Centre and the High Commission for Planning of Morocco in collaboration with the OECD Statistics Directorate, The Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), it gathered around 250 regional policy makers, statisticians, academics and other stakeholders with a specific interest in the field.
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08-Mar-2012
The Development Centre has adopted a more active social media policy and can now be found on numerous social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Flikr. The new Social Media page has been created bringing all these technologies together as a one-stop shop for users to find everything the Development Centre has been doing.
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16-Feb-2012
The 4th edition of European Report on Development, to be published in mid-2013, will address the emerging debate on the post-2015 global agenda on development and consider the main challenges for the next 15 years.Within the framework of the 50th anniversary of the OECD Development Centre, a working-lunch was organised to present the preparatory work for the report and discuss its potential coverage.
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13-Feb-2012
This year the OECD Development Centre celebrates its 50th Anniversary. To commemorate this special occasion, the Centre will bring together a broad range of high level representatives from academia, partner institutions and OECD and non-OECD governments, offering analysis and reflections on key development issues that will shape the direction of the Centre in the years to come.
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03-Feb-2012
Organised by the OECD Development Centre, the OECD/Korea Policy Centre and the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, the regional seminar on “Narrowing development gaps in Southeast Asia: A policy dialogue on inclusive growth” took place on 15 & 16 February 2012 in Seoul, South Korea.
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31-Jan-2012
This paper studies the interaction between different actors in the policy-making process of fiscal transfer reform in Colombia, using the “life cycle of reform” framework to analyse this reform and following critical phases in the process. This paper shows that the economic context and institutional factors, such as the new political structure for interactions between agents after the 1991 Constitution, were fundamental in achieving the reform. Moreover, it confirms previous studies showing that communication and compensation strategies play a key role in the approval of reforms.
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31-Jan-2012
This paper studies sources of technological upgrading in China and India. China and India's export products associated with a productivity level much higher than a country at their income level. China is now the largest exporter of high-technology products in the world, while India has been more successful in exports of business and information technology services. It presents empirical evidence on the important role of FDI inflows and imported capital goods that embody new technology for TFP growth in a large panel of advanced and developing countries.
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25-Jan-2012
Increased domestic resource mobilization is widely accepted as crucial for countries to successfully meet the challenges of development and achieve higher living standards for all their people.
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25-Jan-2012
Revenue Statistics in Latin America, a joint publication by the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, the OECD Development Centre, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Inter-American Centre of Tax Administrations, was launched in Santiago, Chile on 25 January, 2012.
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25-Jan-2012
The Fiscal Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean (Observatorio Fiscal de América Latina y el Caribe or OFILAC) was launched on 24 January and aims to improve the quality of fiscal policy in Latin America by providing access to analysis, data, monitoring and debates on fiscal policy throughout the region.
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25-Jan-2012
New working paper release from Fedesarrollo on Making reform in Colombia: the process of regional transfer reform. This paper was prepared for The Korea Development Institute and the OECD project on Making Reform Happen in Developing Countries to promote debate in Busan at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness.
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17-Jan-2012
The DevCom Seminar on “Communicating Development Results” will take place on 23 & 24 April 2012 in Washington DC. This seminar is jointly organised with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
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05-Jan-2012
Working Paper N° 307: Labour Market Changes, Labour Disputes and Social Cohesion in China describes basic situations of labour disputes and examines the determinants of labour disputes from macro and micro perspectives and finds that the advent of the Lewis Turning Point enlightens the awareness of workers striving for rights and interest in the labour market. Labour disputes have intensified in China in recent years, alongside the labour shortages and wage inflation, particularly since 2008 when several Chinese labour related laws were issued or updated.
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20-Dec-2011
Working Paper N° 306: Revisiting MDG Cost Estimates from a Domestic Resource Mobilisation Perspective, brings updated global estimates of the additional financial resources needed in developing countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It argues that the international community needs to broaden its notion of development co-operation beyond Official Development Assistance to reach the MDGs as the 2015 deadline approaches.
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06-Dec-2011
During the opening speech of the 8th National Congress on Infrastructure in Cartagena, Colombia, President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia cited Mario Pezzini, Director of the OECD Development Centre, referring to the Colombian assessment prepared by the Development Centre presenting project costs and the final cost estimate on Colombian infrastructure projects (video in Spanish).
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29-Nov-2011
Growth for the six Southeast Asian economies, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam, will be 5.0% in 2011, and is projected to be 5.6% during 2012- 2016, 2% lower than in 2010.
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on 21-Nov-2011
The 2012 edition of the Perspectives on Global Development report focuses on how to build more cohesive societies in the new global context. Co-organised with the Club of Madrid, the launch presented the main findings of the report and contributed to the policy dialogue on issues related to social cohesion featuring high level policy makers from OECD and non-OECD countries.
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The 2011/12 edition of the Southeast Asian Economic Outlook (SAEO) will be launched in Jakarta on 29 November, 2011 at the occasion of the regional seminar on “The Economic Outlook and Policy Challenges of Southeast Asia.”
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28-Oct-2011
The Latin American Economic Outlook 2012: Transforming the State for Development was presented by OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría and ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena during the XXI Iberoamerican Summit in Asunción, Paraguay on 28 October 2011.
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The Latin American Economic Outlook 2012: Transforming the State for Development will be launched at the Ibero-American Summit in Asunción, Paraguay, on Friday 28 October at 12:00 GMT-4. For the first time, this long-standing flagship of the OECD Development Centre is co-published with the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The report will be presented by OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría and ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena in Asunción in the presence of high representatives Ibero-American states.
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The conference will gather experts and policy makers sharing research and experience, ranging from local to global initiatives, and marks the launch of a new book by the OECD Development Centre: "Tackling the Policy Challenges of Migration: Regulation, Integration, Development." The book is the result of a three-year project on Effective Partnerships for Better Migration Management and Development, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. It provides a contribution to the current debate on international migration, focusing on three elements in standard policy dialogue.
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24-Aug-2011
The International Economic Forum on Africa, organised by the OECD Development Centre with the African Development Bank, the UN Commission for Africa and the UNDP has grown to become the largest annual public event on Africa in Europe. This year, the Forum celebrated its 11th anniversary with hundreds of journalists, business people, development co-operation professionals, researchers, civil society representatives and students coming together to hear and engage with a panel of experts discussing the findings of the African Economic Outlook (AEO).
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20-Jun-2011
Jointly organised with the KDI Center for International Development, the workshop on "Knowledge Sharing for Development: Taking Stock of Best Practices" took place on 11 & 12 July 2011 at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris.
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The OECD Development Centre, the Ibero-American Secretariat, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Government of Mexico co-organise a policy dialogue event to discuss fiscal policy in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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06-Jun-2011
African countries should develop closer cross-border ties in dealing with traditional and emerging partners so they can boost sustainable and inclusive growth, according to the African Economic Outlook 2011, launched today.
Africa´s economies have weathered the global crisis relatively well and have rebounded in 2010. Recent political events in North Africa and high food and fuel prices are likely to slow the continent’s growth down to 3.7 percent in 2011. During this year, sub-Saharan Africa will grow faster than North Africa. The new report predicts a rebound to 5.8 percent in 2012.
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04-May-2011
InnovaLatino.org is the result of a joint study between INSEAD and the OECD Development Centre with the support of Fundación Telefónica. The report is based on a survey of 1500 manufacturers highlighting innovative business models and marketing methods in Latin America.
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