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The OECD Council at Ministerial level has decided to give special attention to the impact of member country policies on developing countries. It has mandated the OECD Secretariat to look at the dimensions of its policies beyond aid alone and to assess trade-offs and synergies between whole-of-government policies, namely to assess policy coherence for development. The Policy Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance of Japan and the OECD have launched joint research to support the OECD initiative on coherence by conducting a regional case study on a range of OECD country policies and their impact on Asian developing economies. This approach will facilitate the examination of concrete issues and challenges of policy coherence for development and the drawing of policy implications.
The kick-off meeting for the project took place on Friday, 14 November 2003. The meeting set the framework and objectives for the project and discussed the terms of reference for papers on aid, migration and agriculture, as well as on strategies for integrating East Asia’s low-income countries into the regional and global market. Terms of reference for all individual papers are being finalised with contributing authors and will be posted here.
Although the East Asian miracle has been studied intensively from the aspect of the domestic policies that brought about the successes, this is the first attempt to look at these successes through the lens of OECD policies and their impacts – negative and positive – on the region over the past 15-20 years. This initiative seeks to derive the policy implications in an objective, balanced fashion, not only for the future development of Asia, but also for other regions of the world in the context of the 21st century -- is the model exportable? The project will involve and share results and insights with OECD Directorates and Committees.
Key dates:
19-20 April 2004 Midterm meeting of contributing authors to review draft papers
10-11 June 2004 Seminar on The Impact and Coherence of OECD Country Policies on Asian Developing Economies
More information about this project can be obtained from Alexandra Trzeciak-Duval (Email: alexandra.trzeciak-duval@oecd.org) and from Kiichiro Fukasaku (Email: kiichiro.fukasaku@oecd.org).
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