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<title><![CDATA[International Economic Forum on Latin America and the Caribbean, 31 May]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The fifth edition of the Forum, on 31 May. How can governments engage reforms in favour of higher productivity by more adequately addressing the needs of SMEs and by better including them in the production structure?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 16:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[DEV Working Paper No. 317: Opening the black box of contract renegotiations: An analysis of road concessions in Chile, Colombia and Peru]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This paper reviews road concession programmes in Chile, Colombia and Peru over the period 1993-2010 and analyses how their shortcomings have resulted in large extra fiscal costs. Weak State institutions, unclear legislation and deficient contract design have allowed for frequent and costly renegotiation of road concessions. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 09:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[DEV Working Paper No. 316: The politics of transport infrastructure policies in Colombia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This joint work by the OECD Development Centre and Fedesarrollo focuses on the policy making process of transport infrastructure in Colombia for the period 2002-10. It identifies the main bottlenecks to be improved in the implementation of public policies in the main phases of the transport infrastructure policy cycle, namely planning, budgeting, execution (i.e. new investment and maintenance), and monitoring and evaluation.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 09:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Latin American Economic Outlook 2013_Chinese]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Latin American Outlook 2013 in Chinese]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/dev/americas/Final Chinese LEO 2013.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Making Development Happen: Fiscal Policy for Development in the Dominican Republic]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tax reforms must play a central role in a country’s medium- and long-term development strategy. The report analyses some of the possible tax reforms in the Dominican Republic within a regional and international context of good practices. The fiscal recommendations are made within the context of the institutional frameworks, with particular emphasis on matters of economic policy that should be considered in the reform process.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Making Development Happen: Fiscal policy for development in the Dominican Republic]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Making Development Happen: Fiscal policy for development in the Dominican Republic]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/dev/americas/Final_Politica_fiscal_desarrolloRepDopm.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dev Centre Working Paper No. 315 - What drives tax morale?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The paper contributes to a better understanding of the determinants of tax morale in developing countries. The paper provides an overview of the literature and a summary of the empirical evidence of the socio-economic and institutional drivers of tax morale, based on perception surveys such as the World Values Survey, as well as regional surveys like Afrobarometer, Asiabarometer and Latinobarometro.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/dev/americas/WP315 AE.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lanzamiento del Informe Perspectivas Económicas de América Latina 2013: Transformación de la Estructura Productiva y Papel de las PYMES en el Desarrollo Regional

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<description><![CDATA[Palabras de Angel Gurría,Secretario General OCDE, Lanzamiento del Informe Perspectivas Económicas de América Latina 2013: Transformación de la Estructura Productiva y Papel de las PYMES en el Desarrollo Regional
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<link>http://www.oecd.org/dev/americas/lanzamientodelinformeperspectivaseconomicasdeamericalatina2013transformaciondelaestructuraproductivaypapeldelaspymeseneldesarrolloregional.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New SME policies needed to boost Latin America's growth, say OECD and ECLAC]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Latin American governments must act now to strengthen growth and development and counter these risks, according to the 2013 Latin American Economic Outlook, jointly produced by the OECD Development Centre and ECLAC.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/dev/americas/newsmepoliciesneededtoboostlatinamericasgrowthsayoecdandeclac.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Latin America: Tax revenues are rising, but still low and varied among countries]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tax revenues in Latin American countries are lower as a proportion of their national incomes than in most OECD countries, but are rising slowly. Revenue Statistics in Latin America shows that the average tax revenue to GDP ratio in the 15 Latin American countries covered by the report increased from 19% in 2009 to 19.4% in 2010, after falling from a high point of 19.7% in 2008. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Latin American Economic Outlook 2013]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Latin American Economic Outlook 2013: SME Policies for Productive Development will be launched at the Ibero-American Summit in Cadiz, Spain, on Friday 16 November. This long-standing flagship of the OECD Development Centre is co-published with the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/dev/americas/leo2013.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Attracting knowledge-intensive FDI to Costa Rica]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Attracting knowledge-intensive FDI to Costa Rica]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Attracting Knowledge-Intensive FDI to Costa Rica: Challenges and Policy Options]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Development Centre just released the report “Attracting Knowledge-Intensive FDI to Costa Rica: challenges and policy options” under the new series Making Development Happen. Costa Rica is an interesting case of a deep economic transformation from primary products to manufacturing and services.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/dev/americas/E-book FDI to Costa Rica.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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