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<title><![CDATA[G20/OECD High-level roundtable on institutional investors and long-term investment
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<description><![CDATA[Co-organised by the G20 Russian Presidency and the OECD, this roundtable will focus on policy measures to address constraints in long-term investment. It is organised back-to-back with the 2013 OECD Forum and the OECD-Euromoney Infrastructure Summit.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 10:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Public consultation on draft high-level principles on long-term investment financing by institutional investors]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[2-24 May 2013. The OECD is now inviting comment on draft high-level principles intended to help governments facilitate and promote long-term investment by institutional investors.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/publicconsultationondrafthigh-levelprinciplesonlong-terminvestmentfinancingbyinstitutionalinvestors.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 16:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fixing finance ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[There are good reasons why the public has lost confidence in banking and finance. Two issues in particular must be addressed before it can be restored– moral hazard and conflict of interest. Reforms should ensure that banks and bankers–not taxpayers–pay the price of failure and are held fully accountable for their actions.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 10:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OECD Central Government Debt Statistics 2012]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Governments are major issuers of debt instruments in the global financial market. This volume provides quantitative information on central government debt instruments for the 34 OECD countries.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Statement to the German Bundestag's Finance Committee Hearing on the Draft Bank-Separation Law
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<description><![CDATA[This statement by Adrian Blundell-Wignall and Paul Atkinson was presented to the German Bundestag's Finance Committee Hearing on the Draft Bank-Separation Law (Drucksache 17/12601) on 22 April 2013.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Government Debt Management and Operational Risk: A Risk Management Framework and its Application in Turkey]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The management of operational risk is at the heart of efficient government, but countries often fail to apply good or even routine operational risk management practices and have difficulty in understanding how to put the processes in place. This paper sets out a widely-applicable and relevant policy approach and management framework and illustrates its practical application in Turkey.]]></description>
<link>http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5k483jnqxtms-en</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[13th Tokyo Roundtable on Capital Market Reform in Asia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The implications of the European sovereign debt crisis for Asia, the globalisation of the funding of investments and the contribution of long-term institutional investors to growth were amongst the topics explored at the 2013 Tokyo Roundtable.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/13thtokyoroundtableoncapitalmarketreforminasia.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Banking in a challenging environment: Business models, ethics and approaches towards risks]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This article summarises discussions from a financial roundtable addressing concerns about structural flaws in the way banks operate and are being regulated and supervised in the wake of on-going banking sector problems involving financial fraud and banking scandals. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/financial-markets/Banking_in_a_challenging_environment.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The future of the Asian economic and financial community]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This article by OECD Deputy Secretary-General Rintaro Tamaki focuses on three issues that will be important in shaping the future of the Asian economic and financial community: trade, funding long-term investment and strengthened regional financial co-operation.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/financial-markets/Future_of_Asian_economic_financial_community.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Improving the design of retirement saving pension plans]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This roadmap identifies elements of good design and public policy to assist countries to strengthen retirement income adequacy in an environment where pension benefits result from assets accumulated during working life.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/private-pensions/designingfundedpensionplans.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Conference on defined contribution pensions, guarantees and risk sharing]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[London, UK. Discussions at this event focused on how to make Defined Contribution pensions work better for members, designing Defined Ambition pension plans, guarantees v. risk sharing pension deals and pensions communication and individual behaviour.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/conferencedcpensionsguaranteesrisksharing.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India-OECD-World Bank Conference on financial education in India and Asia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This conference, taking place on 4-5 March 2013 in New Delhi, India, addressed specific issues relating to financial literacy in India and the Asia region. It presented the output of the Russia/OECD/World Bank Trust Fund on Financial Literacy and Education. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/oecd-wbconferencefinancialeducationindiaasia.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OECD government borrowing set to rise slightly in 2013]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The gross borrowing needs of OECD governments are projected to increase slightly to around USD 10.9 trillion in 2013, up from the already high level of USD 10.8 trillion in 2012, according to a new OECD report. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The gross borrowing needs of OECD governments are projected to increase slightly to around USD 10.9 trillion in 2013, up from the already high level of USD 10.8 trillion in 2012, according to the 2013 edition of the OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/oecdsovereignborrowingoutlook.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Housing, financial and capital taxation policies to ensure robust growth in Sweden]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Extensive structural reforms since the early 1990s have strengthened the resilience of the Swedish economy to shocks.]]></description>
<link>http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5k4c0vtc1kkk-en</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OECD-World Bank Conference on building financial capability in Africa and the Middle East]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This conference in Nairobi, Kenya, addressed specific issues relating to financial literacy in Africa and the MENA region. It presented the output of the Russia/OECD/World Bank Trust Fund on Financial Literacy and Education.
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<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/oecd-wbseminarfinancialcapabilityafricamiddleeast.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Exchange rates, interest rates and other monthly monetary and financial statistics]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Monthly monetary and financial statistics contains financial statistics on five separate subjects: monetary aggregates, interest rates, exchange rates, reserve assets, and share prices.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/exchangeratesinterestratesandothermonthlymonetaryandfinancialstatistics.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Strengthening Euro Area banks]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Big changes are needed to strengthen the capital positions of euro area banks. European banks remain at the heart of the euro area crisis. Despite actions to strengthen banks and build a banking union, confidence in the euro area banking system remains weak, and is likely to remain so until underlying concerns over low capitalisation of some banks are addressed.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/strengtheningeuroareabanks.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Insurance Statistics Yearbook]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This book provides major official insurance statistics for all OECD countries including data on premiums collected, claims, commissions by type of insurance, investments by type of investment, and numbers of companies and employees. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/financial-markets/insurancestatisticsyearbookoecd.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[2nd International Meeting on Terrorism Risk Insurance]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Paris, 5 December 2012: This conference addressed the evolution of the terrorism threat and whether current insurance solutions adequately answer the needs of market players in an ever changing risk context.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/2ndinternationalmeetingonterrorismriskinsurance.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Developments in the value of implicit guarantees for bank debt: The role of resolution regimes and practices]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This report concludes that actual application of bail-ins, involving bondholders in loss sharing, could effectively reign in perceptions of implicit guarantees for bank debt. However, bail-ins are rare owing to concerns about contagion risks and depositor and investor protection, so implicit guarantees persist.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/Value_Implicit_Guarantees_Bank_Debt.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Responding to the crisis: what are OECD countries doing to strengthen their public finances? ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[OECD countries are intensifying their fiscal consolidation  efforts, introducing additional measures and extending the time horizon to implement them. Most have announced  fiscal consolidation of more than 3% of GDP over the period 2009-15, according to the OECD’s Restoring Public Finances 2012. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/respondingtothecrisiswhatareoecdcountriesdoingtostrengthentheirpublicfinances.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Efficient Public Sectors for Better Governance
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<description><![CDATA[OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría opens the Global Forum on Better Governance for Inclusive Growth held in Paris.  The Forum will focus on public sector reforms worldwide and identify lessons learned, good practices and innovative solutions for advancing the governance reforms necessary to foster inclusive growth.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/efficientpublicsectorsforbettergovernance.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global Insurance Market Trends 2012]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A complement to the OECD insurance database, this report monitors and analyses the insurance industry’s overall performance and health in OECD countries and Hong Kong (China), India, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, South Africa and Thailand.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/insurance/GlobalInsuranceMarketTrends2012.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A Bank Divided Can Stand]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Financial-market complexity shouldn't lead to crisis. There is a better, simpler way: Split the banks.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[G20 ministers welcome OECD disaster risk assessment and financing framework]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[G20 Finance Ministers have welcomed a new OECD/G20 framework designed to help governments develop financial strategies for disaster risk management.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/insurance/g20ministerswelcomeoecddisasterriskassessmentandfinancingframework.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 11:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Business Models of Banks, Leverage and the Distance-to-Default]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This study models the distance-to-default (DTD) of a large sample of banks from 2004 to 2011 and examines the results from the perspective of policy approaches that aim to reduce the riskiness of banks.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/BanksBusinessModels.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Latin American Economic Outlook 2013]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Latin American Economic Outlook 2013: SME Policies for Productive Development will be launched at the Ibero-American Summit in Cadiz, Spain, on Friday 16 November. This long-standing flagship of the OECD Development Centre is co-published with the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/leo2013.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tax: Revenues rising slowly across the OECD]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In most OECD countries tax revenues are continuing to rise in relation to GDP from the 2008-09 declines seen at the beginning of the crisis, according to OECD’s annual Revenue Statistics. OECD countries collected about 34.0%  of GDP in taxes in 2011, compared with 33.8% in 2010. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/taxrevenuesrisingslowlyacrosstheoecd.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Portugal: rebalancing the economy and returning to growth through job creation and better capital allocation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Low growth and huge current account deficits have characterised the Portuguese economy over the past decade.]]></description>
<link>http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5k918xjjzs9q-en</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[High-level seminar on capital flow management and liberalisation: the role of international co-operation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This seminar aimed to advance shared understandings on policies to make the most of cross-border capital flows in support of growth and development and on the value of international co-operation, including the OECD Codes of Liberalisation, in the current context of serious global financial turbulence.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/seminaroncapitalflowmanagementandliberalisation.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pension Markets in Focus]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Pension Markets in Focus provides a unique source of comparable statistics and indicators of funded pension plan systems from an international perspective and  also facilitates cross-country comparisons of the most up-to-date statistics and indicators on key aspects of retirement systems across OECD and non-OECD countries. It provides information about the main trends and features of funded pension plan systems in a clear and concise]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/pensionmarketsinfocus.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tackling Turkey’s external and domestic macroeconomic imbalances]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Effective macroeconomic and structural policies helped Turkey bounce back quickly and strongly from the global crisis, with annual growth averaging close to 9% over 2010-11]]></description>
<link>http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5k92smvqbb8v-en</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Towards green growth in Denmark: improving energy and climate change policies]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Denmark’s green growth strategy focuses on moving the energy system away from fossil fuels and investing in green technologies, while limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.]]></description>
<link>http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5k962hjpwwvj-en</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OECD/INFE High-level Principles on National Strategies for Financial Education]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Approved at the G20 Los Cabos Summit, these principles offer non-binding international guidance and policy options in order to develop efficient national strategies for financial education.
At the request of the APEC Russian Presidency, these Principles were also transmitted to APEC Ministers of Finance whom welcomed their endorsement by APEC leaders at their meeting on 30 August 2012. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/financial-education/OECD_INFE_High_Level_Principles_National_Strategies_Financial_Education_APEC.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OECD Pensions Outlook 2012]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This book examines pension reform during the crisis and beyond, the design of automatic adjustment mechanisms, reversals of systemic pension reforms in Central and Eastern Europe, coverage of private pension systems and guarantees in defined contribution pension systems. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/private-pensions/oecdpensionsoutlook2012.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[FINANCE: Solving Europe's banking and debt crisis]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Europe's sovereign debt crisis has exposed structural weaknesses in economic governance that now threaten the entire euro region. Efforts to reinforce public finances and preserve the currency union must go further than solutions proposed to date.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/financesolvingeuropesbankinganddebtcrisis.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Highlights from the OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook N°4]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[OECD governments are facing unprecedented challenges in the markets for government securities as a result of continued strong borrowing amid a highly uncertain environment with growing concerns about the pace of recovery, surging borrowing costs, sovereign risk and contagion pressures. 
The fourth OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook provides estimates for 2011 and projections for 2012. Higher than anticipated gross borrowing needs of]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/financial-markets/49243051.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[G20 Leaders Summit: Financial Regulation Session]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[At this Financial Regulation Session of the G20 Leaders Summit, M. Gurría spoke of 'a comprehensive reform of the international financial architecture that should include financial inclusion, protection and education'.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/financial-education/g20leaderssummitfinancialregulationsession.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[G20 finance ministers agree new principles to boost financial consumer protection]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[G20 finance ministers have agreed new principles on financial consumer protection developed by the OECD. “Without consumer trust and confidence we could jeopardise the basis for global economic recovery and growth,” said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría.]]></description>
<link>http://www.oecd.org/finance/g20financeministersagreenewprinciplestoboostfinancialconsumerprotection.htm</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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