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Launched in 2008, the OECD Eurasia Competitiveness Programme helps accelerate economic reforms and improve the business climate to achieve sustainable economic growth and employment in 2 regions:
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Central Asia - Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
Eastern Europe and South Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine
The OECD Eurasia Competitiveness Programme involves the OECD, governments and the private sector in a comprehensive approach that involves regional dialogue, peer review, definition of reform priorities and assistance in implementation. Ownership by the region is reinforced by an organisational structure in which economies from Central Asia and Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus chair the Advisory Council and expert working groups.
The regional approach allows countries to define priorities and learn from their peers on how to design and implement successful policies and institutions. The OECD also supports countries in implementing reforms through business climate and sector-specific strategies targeted to their priorities.
The programme aims to:
- achieve political endorsement of a regional investment climate policy agenda
- develop national investment agendas that define investment climate priorities and encourage specific reforms
- support the implementation of reform
- encourage countries to adhere to the OECD Declaration on International Investment, and converge toward OECD and EC standards
- increase visibility of regional priorities, such as access to finance for small and medium-sized enterprises and corporate governance.
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Meetings
>> Trento, 25-28 October 2011 Capacity building seminar: Implementing SME policy tools in Eastern Europe and South Caucasus
>> Astana, 29-30 June 2011 Initiatives for the Agribusiness, Retail and Information and Communication Technologies sectors
>> Prague, 15-17 June 2011 Ministerial Conference on Enterprise and Competitiveness Policies for Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus
>> Kyiv, 7 April 2011 Workshop on land reform issues in Ukraine
>> Davos, 27 January 2011 Launch of the Central Asia Competitiveness Outlook
>> Astana, 3 November 2010 Launch of the Kazakhstan Sector Competitiveness Strategy
>> Brussels, 25 October 2010: First meeting of the Eastern Partnership Enterprise Policy Working Group
>>Warsaw, 17 November 2009: Financial sector reform in transition economies, and policies for SME growth: First meeting of the Working Group on Financial Markets Development and Impact of Central Banks of the South Caucasus and Ukraine Initiative
>>Bucharest, 15-16 October 2009: Link between an enlarged Europe and its new neighbourhood: the Eurasia Competitiveness Programme participates
>>Astana, 17 September 2009: Promoting investment in times of economic crisis and beyond: Preliminary meeting of the working group on investment climate, policy and promotion of the Central Asia Initiative
>>Bodrum, 3 July 2009: Investment strategies in times of economic crisis and beyond: First meeting of Working Group on Investment Climate, Policy and Promotion of the South Caucasus and Ukraine Initiative
>>Berlin, 14-15 May 2009: New challenges and opportunities for regional co-operation: Germany's South East Europe Society invites the Eurasia Competitiveness Programme
>>Bishkek, 28-29 April 2009: Central Asia Invest stakeholders meeting: Central Asia Invest invites the Eurasia Competitiveness Programme
Contact
For specific inquiries on the Eurasia Competitiveness Programme, please contact Antonio Somma, Acting Head of the Eurasia Competitiveness Programme, at antonio.somma@oecd.org
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Permanent URL: www.oecd.org/daf/psd/eurasia
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