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The majority of the committments asked of developing countries in recent years require them to undertake policy reforms, since development results will depend primarily on the success achieved by these countries as they integrate the world economy. In line with principles of partnership, OECD and developing countries have agreed to mutual accountability for meeting these commitments. But OECD countries have not only agreed to increase the funds allocated to development co-operation. They have also committed themselves to try to address aspects of incoherence in their foreign and domestic policies that can have an adverse impact on developing countries.
Known in the OECD as policy coherence for development, this programme aims to faciltate and support efforts of OECD countries to encourage systematic promotion of mutually reinforcing policy actions relevant to developing countries, creating synergies across government departments and agencies. It strives to strengthen policy coherence, to help fill gaps in relevant analytical work, and to gain a better understanding of institutional arrangements in OECD countries designed to address these issues.
In this new series, called "The Development Dimension", the OECD seeks to analyse the development aspects of policies in specific domains. Be it coherence between development objectives and macroeconomic, financial or trade policies – or in relation to institutional, agricultural, fisheries, migration, environmental or other policies – the OECD proposes to explain both policy trade-offs and policy synergies. By systematically taking the development dimension of member country policies into account, OECD analysis and dialogue can help change behaviour in support of development in an ever more integrated, interdependent global economy.
Publications in this series include:
-- Reconciling Development and Environmental Goals: Measuring the Impact of Policies
-- Policy Coherence in the Fisheries Sector in Seven West African Countries
-- Policy Coherence for Development: Promoting Institutional Good Practice
-- Fostering Development in a Global Economy: A Whole of Government Perspective
-- Agriculture and Development: The Case for Policy Coherence
-- Migration, Remittances and Development
-- Cotton in West Africa: The Economic and Social Stakes
-- Miracle, Crisis and Beyond. A Synthesis of Policy Coherence Towards East Asia
-- Fishing for Coherence: Fisheries and Development Policies
-- Trade, Agriculture and Development: Policies Working Together
-- The Development Effectiveness of Food Aid: Does Tying Matter?
-- Coherence of Agricultural and Rural Development Policies
-- Integrating Human Rights into Development: Donor Approaches, Experiences and Challenges
-- Aid for Trade: Making it Effective
-- Trade Related Assistance: What do Recent Evaluations Tell Us?
How to obtain these publications.
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Reconciling Development and Environmental Goals: Measuring the Impact of Policies (Oct 2008)
Policy coherence is increasingly in the interest of OECD countries and developing countries alike, given their growing economic, social and environmental interdependence. Decision makers need to be informed of possible interactions and consequences of their decisions before spending public funds or adopting reforms or policies that may adversely affect developing countries.
This report is an innovative contribution to providing the quantitative input sound decision making needs. It presents scenarios showing numerical results of changes to individual policies as well as policy packages implemented simultaneously by OECD and developing countries. The results can be used to anticipate the outcomes of decisions and implement the appropriate set of policies. The scenarios also show how policy combinations could substantially improve both economic and environmental outcomes together, confirming the need for policy coherence.
You can read the pdf, or purchase a hard copy, via the Online Bookshop.
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Policy Coherence in the Fisheries Sector in Seven West African Countries (Dec 2007)
This report presents outcomes of a study, conducted by the OECD Fisheries Policies Division, in partnership with the SWAC and ENDA Diapol/REPAO, which takes a developing country perspective on the issue of policy coherence in fisheries. The aim of the study is to apply the OECD policy coherence for development analytical framework to the fisheries situation within a regional African context. Seven West African countries (Cape Verde, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Senegal and Sierra Leone, - all members of the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission) are analysed within this framework. Key areas for action by international, regional and local partners are suggested in the report, including the need for a multi-stakeholder dialogue on policy coherence as a priority-setting exercise.You can read the pdf, or purchase a hard copy, via the Online Bookshop.
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Policy Coherence for Development: Promoting Institutional Good Practice (Sept 2005)
This publication sets out the key lessons learned from a process launched in 2003 aimed at drawing lessons from DAC peer reviews. It focuses on how OECD/DAC governments organise themselves to respond to the challenge of policy coherence for development. It describes some current institutional approaches of DAC members for bringing together all aspects of policy that impact on developing countries, giving examples from recent peer reviews. The publication also highlights emerging good practice among DAC members.
You can read the pdf, or purchase a hard copy, via the Online Bookshop. Readers at subscribing institutions can access the online edition via SourceOECD, our online library.
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Fostering Development in a Global Economy: A Whole of Government Perspective (Oct 2005)
This publication takes up the pressing issues of coherence between trade, agriculture, migration and aid policies. It proposes concrete evaluation approaches, methods and governance, and concludes with a specific proposal to evaluate the OECD's efforts in promoting policy coherence for development.
The pdf can be browsed, or a hard copy purchased, via the Online Bookshop. Readers at subscribing institutions can access the online edition via SourceOECD, our online library.
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Agriculture and Development: The Case for Policy Coherence (November 2005)
Despite concerted efforts over recent years, the incoherence between some of the OECD countries’ agricultural policies and their declared development goals remains blatant, and seriously undermines the credibility of political commitment to these goals. In order to break the vicious cycle of broken promises about agricultural policy reforms, those who make decisions on domestic, trade and regulatory policies in OECD countries need an analytical framework that makes the choices and trade-offs clear. This publication responds to their need.
The pdf can be browsed, or a hard copy purchased, via the Online Bookshop. Readers at subscribing institutions can access the online edition via SourceOECD, our online library.
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Migration, Remittances and Development (Nov 2005)
This publication presents the current situation with regard to the magnitude and economic impact of migrants’ remittances to their countries of origin. In 2004, remittances exceeded official development aid in several emigration countries: they totalled USD 126 billion according to IMF estimates.
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Miracle, Crisis and Beyond. A Synthesis of Policy Coherence Towards East Asia
What factors govern growth and sustainability? The remarkable recent development of several East Asian countries had brought this question to the fore. This volume looks at the impact of OECD country policies on the region in a variety of areas: trade, investment, environment, agriculture, finance and aid, as well as macroeconomic policies and regional co-operation. It examines the coherence lessons of these OECD-country policies. Lastly, it contributes answers to the world-wide quest for ways to reduce poverty and promote growth with equity.
The pdf can be browsed, or a hard copy purchased, via the Online Bookshop. Readers at subscribing institutions can access the online edition via SourceOECD, our online library.
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Cotton in West Africa: The Economic and Social Stakes (December 2006)
This book contends that dialogue between developed and developing countries should continue in order to find a lasting solution to the difficulties facing the cotton sub sector. It sets out the regional stakes linked to the economic and social importance of cotton in West Africa. It retraces the consultation process on the West African cotton crisis with the aim of finding a negotiated solution acceptable to all parties. Also discussed are the challenges and the measures that need to be taken over the medium and long term in order to prevent this sub sector’s sudden collapse. You can read the pdf, or purchase a hard copy, via the Online Bookshop. Readers at subscribing institutions can access the online edition via SourceOECD, our online library.
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Fishing for Coherence: Fisheries and Development Policies (ISBN 9264023941)
Four main types of policy coherence issues in fisheries are identified and ten case studies are classified accordingly, resulting in an organising framework towards a better understanding of fisheries and development coherence issues. Is policy coherent at all levels, from international to local, for example in the area of fisheries trade (transnational) and development policies. Is fisheries policy coherent with other sectoral policies, notably environmental policy? A complementary typology allows policy makers to gauge the extent to which policy makers have addressed coherence.
The pdf can be browsed, or a hard copy purchased, via the Online Bookshop. Readers at subscribing institutions can access the online edition via SourceOECD, our online library.
Summaries of this publication in Portuguese and Spanish are also available.
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Trade, Agriculture and Development: Policies Working Together
(ISBN 9264022007)
Why is policy coherence for development important to policy makers, producers and the rural poor? How does it affect global agricultural trade? Can greater policy coherence help reduce poverty reduction and alleviate hunger? These are some of the issues addressed in these proceedings of the OECD Global Forum on Agriculture, held in Paris on 30 November - 1 December 2005.
The pdf can be browsed, or a hard copy purchased, via the Online Bookshop. Readers at subscribing institutions can access the online edition via SourceOECD, our online library.
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The Development Effectiveness of Food Aid: Does Tying Matter?
(ISBN 9264013466)
This study provides a detailed look into two food aid issues: first, a comparison of the relative costs of providing in-kind with cash contributions; second, the inherent costs involved in tying food aid. The findings of this study show that, in most circumstances, financial aid rather than food aid in-kind is the preferable option, not only for providing project assistance or budgetary support for general development, but even for the distribution of food. We learn that in many food-deficit situations, local procurement is not always a feasible option. In conclusion, context-specific rationale is always required for relying on food aid in kind in preference to financial aid.
The pdf can be browsed, or a hard copy purchased, via Online Bookshop. Readers at subscribing institutions can access the online edition via SourceOECD, our online library.
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Coherence of Agricultural and Rural Development Policies
(Published in English only)
How far can sector-specific agricultural policies contribute to the economic performance of rural areas? To what extent can rural development policies contribute to the economic performance of rural areas, in particular of agriculture? The recent OECD Workshop on Coherence of Agricultural and Rural Development Policies examined these and other issues through thematic studies and country experiences. See here for more information on this publication.
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Integrating Human Rights into Development: Donor Approaches, Experiences and Challenges
This book enhances understanding on why and how we need to work more strategically and coherently on the integration of human rights and development. It reviews the approaches of different donor agencies and their rationales for working on human rights, and identifies the current practice in this field. It illustrates how aid agencies are working on human rights issues at the programming level, and it draws together lessons that form the core of the current evidence around the added value of human rights for development. This publication shows that there are various ways for donor agencies to take human rights more systematically into account.
The pdf can be browsed, or a hard copy purchased, via Online Bookshop. Readers at subscribing institutions can access the online edition via SourceOECD, our online library.
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Aid for Trade: Making it Effective (October 2006)
This publicaton sets out how much aid the members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) are already providing towards trade-related activities. It reviews the effectiveness of existing programmes, and argues that reinforcing mutual accountability at the local level, together with a global review mechanism, i.e. applying the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, would enhance the impact of Aid for Trade. In particular, strengthening country ownership and management for results are essential to ensure that Aid for Trade delivers larger benefits from the multilateral trading system to the least developed and developing countries, and enables them to develop effectively.
The pdf can be browsed, or a hard copy purchased, via Online Bookshop. Readers at subscribing institutions can access the online edition via SourceOECD, our online library.
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Trade Related Assistance: What do Recent Evaluations Tell us? (2007)
(ISBN 9789264031197)
This publication draws on key findings and recommendations emerging from available donor evaluation reports, assesses factors that have contributed to the success (or failure) of past programmes, and provides guidance for enhancing the effectiveness and impact of future trade-related assistance. It argues that despite some positive results, further improvements are necessary, in particular, with regards to donor programming, donor harmonisation and donor-recipient partnerships, and by better taking account the basic principles of the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. This report contributes to ongoing discussions for effectively designing and delivering “aid for trade” as a complement to the Doha Development Agenda. The pdf can be browsed, or a hard copy purchased, via Online Bookshop. Readers at subscribing institutions can access the online edition via SourceOECD our online library.
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