How can we foster new sources of growth such as innovation and ‘green’? How can we hone skills and create the jobs necessary to help young people and older workers have a place in the labour market? As the global economic balance shifts, how do we ensure that new wealth is shared, and that we are creating a stronger, cleaner and fairer world?
What happened during OECD Week?
OECD’s 50th Anniversary Week (watch video) combined the annual OECD Ministerial Meeting and Forum. The Forum, a public event, brings together ministers, business, labour, civil society and academia to share policies and ideas. The Forum fed into the Ministerial Meeting, where government leaders and ministers discussed issues on the global agenda. The US, with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, chaired the Ministerial and Germany was the co-chair. Read the Chair's Summary.
What did they talk about?
Topics include new sources of growth and jobs, gender equity, sharing wealth, and new paradigms for development. The OECD will also launch its twice-yearly Economic Outlook, its approach to green growth and a new initiative that measures quality of life beyond GDP.
50 years: past, present and future
For half a century (interactive timeline), the OECD has been the gold standard of international co-operation, providing analysis and policy advice to help improve people’s lives. OECD Week 2011 is a moment to take stock of what has been accomplished and to prepare for what remains to be done.
"On this 50th anniversary, let us reaffirm our shared commitment to “better policies for better lives” as we usher in a new era of cooperation not only across the Atlantic, but among our partners throughout the world."
“The OECD helped us improve our economic and social system and rethink its foundations [….] In the new world that we must build, I firmly believe that the OECD can offer new ideas...”
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