Background reading

• Meeting of the OECD Council at Ministerial Level - Key Information
  This brochure provides ministers, senior officials, the media and the public with the lastest information on OECD work pertaining to the issues that will be discussed during the Ministerial Meeting.
  
  
• Meeting of the OECD Council at Ministerial Level - Programme and Key Documents
  This brochure sets out the programme of the ministerial meeting, the context and issues for discussions for the following items: Strategic Orientations for the OECD: Report by the Secretary-General; The Road to Recovery; Green Growth: Overcoming the Crisis and Beyond; Keeping Markets Open for Trade and Investment.

Ministerial Documents

• Strategic Orientations for the OECD: Report by the Secretary-General - C/MIN(2009)1
• The Road to Recovery - C/MIN(2009)2
• Green Growth: Overcoming the Crisis and Beyond - C/MIN(2009)3
  Green Growth: Overcoming the Crisis and Beyond - C/MIN(2009)3/CORR1
• Keeping Markets Open for Trade and Investment - C/MIN(2009)4
• Progress Report on Accession - C/MIN(2009)6
• Progress Report on Enhanced Engagement - C/MIN(2009)7
• 2009 Interim Report on the OECD Innovation Strategy: an Agenda for Policy Action on Innovation - C/MIN(2009)8
• Synthesis Report on the Strategic Response - C/MIN(2009)9
  • Report on the Strategic Response - Finance, Competition and Governance: Priorities for Reform and Strategies to phase out Emergency Measures - C/MIN(2009)9/ANN1
  • Report on the Strategic Response - Strategies for Aligning Stimulus Measures with Long-Term Growth - C/MIN(2009)9/ANN2
  • Report on the Strategic Response - Fostering Innovation for Sustainable Growth - C/MIN(2009)9/ANN3
  • Report on the Strategic Response - Preliminary Report on the Implications of Trade-Related Policy Responses to the Economic Crisis - C/MIN(2009)9/ANN4
  • Report on the Strategic Response - The Impact of the Global Crisis on SME and Entrepreneurship Financing and Policy Responses - C/MIN(2009)9/ANN5
• Progress Report on Climate Change - C/MIN(2009)10
• Building Trust and Confidence in International Investment (Report by countries participating in the "Freedom of Investment" process) - C/MIN(2009)11
• Status Report: Inventory of Investment Measures taken between 15 November 2008 and 15 June 2009 - C/MIN(2009)12
• Commodity Prices and Food Security - C/MIN(2009)15/REV1
• Progress Report on OECD's Work on Policy Cohrence for Development - C/MIN(2009)16

Strategic Orientations for the OECD

• Tackling the crisis: OECD's strategic response

The Road to Recovery

• State of the economy: see our latest projections from the OECD Economic Outlook.
  

Green Growth: Overcoming the Crisis and Beyond

• From Grim to Green - OECD Messages on Green Growth (.pdf)
• From Grim to Green: towards a low-carbon future
  Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the International Economic Forum of the Americas - Plenary Session : "Energy & Sustainable Development in the Context of the Economic Crisis"
• OECD's Innovation Strategy
• Costs of Inaction on Key Environmental Challenges (2008)
• OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030 (2008)
• An OECD Framework for Effective and Efficient Environmental Policies (2008)
• Environmental Policy, Technological Innovation and Patents (2008)
• Economics of Climate Change Mitigation
• Biofuel Support Policies: An Economic Assessment (2008)
• The Political Economy of Environmentally Related Taxes (2006)
• Managing Water for All: An OECD Perspective on Pricing and Financing - Key Messages for Policy Makers (2009)
• The Water Challenge: OECD's Response
• Working together for environmental sustainability: Joint High-Level Meeting of the Development Assistance Committe (DAC)-Environment Policy Committee (EPOC) 

Keeping Markets open for Trade and Investment

• OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2009-2018 (2009)
• Policy Brief: Keeping markets open at time of economic crisis (2009)
• Insights - International Trade: Free, Fair and Open (2009)
• Policy Brief: Globalisation, jobs and wages (2007)
• Regionalism and the Multilateral Trading System
• Protecting freedom of investment at the OECD
• Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
• OECD Investment Instruments

General Information about the OECD

• OECD Annual Report 2009 (.pdf, 6.46 Mb)
  It is the only publication that brings the full breadth of the OECD's work into one volume. It is a key instrument for explaining the work of the OECD, while presenting insights into major world economic developments and providing transparency.
• OECD enlargement and engagement with non-members
• Previous meetings of the OECD Council at Ministerial Level: 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004.