Publications & Documents

Trade for Growth and Poverty Reduction - How Aid for Trade Can Help

Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management - Korean version

The glossary of key terms in evaluation and results-based management should facilitate and improve dialogue and understanding among all those who are involved in development activities and their evaluation, whether in partner countries, development agencies and banks, or non-governmental organisations.

Presentation of the OECD Latin American Economic Outlook 2011 in The Dominican Republic

The Latin American Economic Outlook 2011: How middle-class is Latin America? was presented in Santo Domingo on 9 March 2011, at the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development of the Dominican Republic.

Experts Workshop on Aid for Trade Implementation, 28-29 March 2011

OECD organised an expert workshop on the implementation of Aid for Trade, with a focus on the trade dimension of the Aid for Trade Initiative.

Synthesis report: Lessons Learned and Actions for Busan and Beyond

The Synthesis report aims to bring into greater focus the key issues pertaining to capacity development.The report is specifically assembled by a professional team as a best effort attempt to pull together, in one location, the evidence of what we are learning in each of the priority capacity areas of the Accra Agenda for Action.

United Arab Emirates Statistical Reporting to the OECD Development Assistance Committee

In 2010, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) provided whole-of-government reporting of its aid flows at the activity level to the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), making it the first country outside the DAC’s membership to report in such detail.

ADB/ADBI workshop on "Climate Change and Green Asia"

The OECD Development Centre Head of Regional desks, Mr. Kiichiro Fukasaku, participated as a lead discussant in Session II "Current Pledges to Curb Emissions and National Strategies for Promoting Green Growth" of the two-day International Workshop on "Climate Change and Green Asia" in Japan.

DEV Working Paper No. 297: Ascendance or Descendants? On Intergenerational Education Mobility in Latin America

Persistence in educational achievements across generations in Latin America arises from high returns to education, low progressivity in public investment in human capital and lack of access to proper financing. Education and other social policies to boost upward mobility are discussed.

Improving Indonesia's Investment Climate

This article focuses on Indonesia’s progress in improving its policy framework for investment and asks what more can be done to attract high quality investment into the country. It is part of the Investment Insights series.

DEV Working Paper No. 296: The Macroeconomic Effects of Large Exchange Rate Appreciations

In a sample of 128 countries, we identify 25 episodes of large nominal and real appreciations shocks and study their macroeconomic effects in a dummy-augmented panel autoregressive model. Results show that an exchange rate appreciation can have strong effects on current account balances.