Domestic resources mobilisation: Achieving development and the MDGs in a sustainable way

Equitable and efficient tax systems and administrations have an important role to play in securing domestic funding for development, according to Angel Gurría. He added that African policy makers need to reform tax systems and generate revenues, to complement external sources of financing, such as official development assistance, remittances and foreign direct investment.

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Attending the UN summit on the Millenium Development Goals, Angel Gurría highlighted four priority issues for Africa: we need to complement Africa’s efforts in domestic resource mobilisation by an effective international action to tackle tax havens, illicit financial flows, bribery and corruption. We also need to re-double our efforts to drive forward multilateral trade liberalisation. We must direct aid to where the need is greatest

Promoting effective aid for trade

The Development Assistance Committee (DAC) is helping to tackle the challenge of how poorer countries can benefit more from trade and jointly with the WTO OECD will review self-assessment questionnaires sent to donors and partner countries.

Integrating climate change adaptation into development planning: A practice-oriented training based on the OECD Policy Guidance

Links to the training package to accompany the training sessions organised by the OECD Climate Change Task Team.

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Perspectives on Global Development: Shifting Wealth

Speaking at the launch of the Perspectives on Global Development 2010, Angel Gurría says that the centre of economic gravity is moving from West to East, from the industrialised economies to the large developing economies, particularly China and India. The latest forecasts anticipate that emerging and developing economies will account for nearly 60% of world GDP by 2030.

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Economy: Developing Countries to account for 60% of Global GDP by 2013

The economic and financial crisis is accelerating a longer-term structural transformation in the global economy, with the aggregate economic weight of developing and emerging economies on the verge of surpassing that of the countries that currently make up the advanced world, according to new analysis from the OECD Development Centre.

Germany - DAC Peer Reviews of Development Co-operation

Germany has been one of the world’s largest bilateral donors for the past two decades, but it spent only 0.35% of its national income on official development assistance ODA) in 2009.

Belgium - DAC Peer Reviews of Development Co-operation

Belgium’s development co-operation has gained new momentum over the last two years, driven by international commitments and a process of self-reflection