OECD Investment Policy Reviews - China: Progress and Reform Challenges

This study records and evaluates the development so far of an enabling environment for FDI and suggests policy options designed to improve it further. Foreign investors were initially attracted to China by cheap land and labour, the promise of a large market and, to some extent, by fiscal incentives. To sustain and increase large-scale FDI inflows, it is now necessary

Development Centre Seminars: Asia and Europe: Services Liberalisation

This book demonstrates some of the pitfalls associated with services liberalisation but none the less recommends perseverance and even acceleration of the reforms.

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Enterprise Policy Performance Assessment (EPPA) for Albania

The analysis and assessments in this report provide valuable insights into the key issues confronting SME owners and managers in Albania, and the challenges for policy makers.

Land, Conflict and Development: What Role for Donors?

The aim of the seminar was to help formulate preliminary proposals/guidance on how donors could best incorporate land issues in their policy frameworks for the management and mitigation of conflict, and propose next steps to further advance this agenda.

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DAC Encourages Finland to Increase the Size and Focus of its Aid Programme and to Build on Good Work on Aid Quality

The DAC welcomed Finland's government commitment to reach an Official Development Assistance/Gross National Income ratio of 0.45% by 2007, on the way to the internationally agreed aid target of 0.7% ODA/GNI by 2010. This will mean a doubling of t...

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DAC ruft Finnland dazu auf, den Umfang und den Fokus seiner Entwicklungsprogramme zu erhöhen und auf die DAC Arbeit zur Stärkung der Qualität der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit aufzubauen

The DAC welcomed Finland's government commitment to reach an Official Development Assistance/Gross National Income ratio of 0.45% by 2007, on the way to the internationally agreed aid target of 0.7% ODA/GNI by 2010. This will mean a doubling of t...

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• Le CAD encourage la Finlande à accroître le volume et à opérer un recentrage de son programme d'aide en s'appuyant sur les résultats de ses excellents travaux concernant la qualité de l'aide
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Global Forum on International Investment: Attracting International Investment for Development

This publication is a collection of conference papers from the OECD Global Forum on International Investment (GFII) held in Shanghai on 5-6 December 2002.

Aid for water supply and sanitation (February 2003)

Short analysis of trends in aid for water extended by members of the DAC and multilateral institutions, prepared by the DAC Secretariat for the 3rd World Water Forum in Kyoto.

Policy Brief: Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries: A Positive Reform Agenda

OECD countries have recently agreed to a positive reform agenda for agricultural policies. Central to this agenda is the need to set out clearly the objectives of agricultural policies, and to monitor the performance of alternative policies in at...

Enterprise Policy Performance Assessment (EPPA) for Croatia

This report provides valuable insights into the key issues confronting SME owners and managers in Croatia, and the challenges for policy makers. It draws on the practical experience and views of Croatian SME representatives, expert advisors, and the OECD and EBRD.