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13-May-2008
Africa’s average real GDP grew by 5.7 per cent in 2007. The 2008 African Economic Outlook report , jointly published by the African Development Bank, the OECD Development Centre and the UNECA expects the rate of GDP growth to strengthen to about 6 per cent in 2008 and in 2009.
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on 07-May-2008
OECD-World Bank Policy Forum on "Creating more and better Jobs: What do we know? What can be done?" in Rabat, Morocco.
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10-Apr-2008
The ODA figures for 2007 show that donors face a real challenge in meeting their aid commitments. Political will and high public support are indispensible if donors want to live up to their promises. Discussions in the DevCom Network show that publics care most about the concrete results of development aid. In order to better integrate how agencies manage for and communicate about results, the DevCom Network and the Joint Venture on Managing for Development Results are teaming up for a meeting in Berlin on 19-20 May to address this issue.
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09-Apr-2008
OECD Development Centre Director, Javier Santiso, joined high-level policymakers and business leaders to discuss Latin America’s most pressing issues at the World Economic Forum on Latin America annual meeting. The Latin American Economic Outlook has also been discussed at this year’s gathering in Cancún, last 15, April.
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25-Mar-2008
The second edition of the Development Centre’s best-selling volume was launched in Beijing on 25 March at a ceremony presided over by OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría. In this book, also available in Chinese, Professor Angus Maddison is projecting sustained growth for China that should produce higher per capita income and the largest economy on the planet by 2015.
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19-Mar-2008
Three new countries have joined the Organisation’s Development Centre. Egypt, Israel and Vietnam officially took their seats at the Centre’s Governing Board meeting on 18 March 2008. This represents a significant extension of the Development Centre’s membership in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Earlier in February, Poland rejoined the Centre, whose members now total 32.
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on 07-Mar-2008
On the occasion of International Women's Day, the OECD Development Centre launched a new interactive website,Wikigender (www.wikigender.org), to share and exchange information on gender equality issues.
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29-Feb-2008
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) is becoming increasingly important as a means to finance and provide the range of services needed to sustain growth and poverty reduction. In recognition of this, the Government of Vietnam and the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan are hosting a forum in Hanoi on 3d March. Development Centre’s Counsellor, Kiichiro Fukasaku, has been invited to provide a review of policy issues in this area.
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from 28-Feb-2008 to 29-Feb-2008
At this Roundtable, co-organised in Geneva with the World Economic Forum, senior executives identified which private financial flows are most effective in stimulating economic growth and poverty reduction. They also discussed how donors can help catalyse these flows.
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on 14-Feb-2008
The French edition of this publications was officially launched at the Agence française de développement (AFD) on 14 February 2008.
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15-Jan-2008
Informal employment is back on the research and policy agenda. This working paper discusses the diverse forms of informal employment, focussing on incentives and constraints determining labour market outcomes. “Reloading” informal employment argues for a re-thinking of the current policy agenda and maps out important further directions for research.
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21-Nov-2007
Better and more coherent migration policies can contribute to the fight against global poverty. This is the main conclusion of "Migration and Developing Countries", a new report by the OECD Development Centre that was presented today at the German Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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26-Oct-2007
Co-operation between the private sector and government in designing policy is worth both the effort and the risks involved, says Public-Private Dialogue in Developing Countries, a new Development Centre Study by Nicolas Pinaud. Indeed, while more efficient and effective policies can result from dialogue between business and government, the danger of clientelism, corruption and rent seeking are ever-present; particularly in the poorest countries, which are those that stand to benefit the most from such dialogue.
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10-Oct-2007
Informal institutions, such as family and kinship structures, traditions, and social norms, have largely been overlooked in the international development debate. This remarkable book reflects the views and experiences of policy makers and experts in their search to make informal institutions an instrument for achieving development objectives.
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05-Oct-2007
Everyone agrees that developing-country ownership is a condition for effective development finance. But examples of true ownership are rare. Our Global Forum Workshop on Ownership in Practice (27-28 Sept. 2007) left us with a rich set of case studies, messages and policy recommendations, in time for major international conferences in Accra (Ghana) and Doha (Qatar) next year.
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18-Jul-2007
Year II of the OECD Global Forum on Development is now underway, with "ownership" as its leading theme. Our next Workshop, on "Ownership in Practice", will ask how developing countries - and their citizens - can take the lead in tracking, managing and making the most of their development finance flows.
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on 05-Jun-2007
The Forum on African Perspectives, jointly organised by the OECD Development Centre and the African Development Bank, featured a presentation and discussion of the brand new edition of the African Economic Outlook and focused on "Access to Drinking Water and Sanitation", an issue of major significance to the African continent.
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12-Jun-2007
This book is a comprehensive roundup of the ways in which private enterprise development can help economic growth and poverty reduction in poor countries. It details the activities of the private sector in developing and emerging economies and it demonstrates how these activities are inter-related with government policies. To this end, several case studies are presented to provide concrete examples from Africa, Asia and elsewhere.
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27-Apr-2007
Aid alone cannot finance development; new actors and fresh sources of finance are essential complements to it. This highly stimulating book takes a deep look at the changes in the "international development finance architecture".
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