Capacity building seminar: Strategic approaches to demographic change in Russia, Eastern Europe and OECD countries (Trento, Italy)

The seminar was targeted at national, regional and local practitioners who dealt with anticipating and managing demographic changes in Russia and Eastern European countries and wanted to interchange experiences and approaches with other experts from OECD countries.

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Capacity building seminar: Financing business start-up by under-represented groups (Trento, Italy)

This seminar was part of a three-year programme of cooperation between the European Commission and the OECD LEED Programme to monitor and report on entrepreneurial activity in Europe and related public policies and actions.

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Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2012: An OECD Scoreboard

Access to finance represents one of the most significant challenges for entrepreneurs and for the creation, survival and growth of small businesses. As governments address this challenge, they are running up against a major and longstanding obstacle to policy making: insufficient evidence and da

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Intellectual Assets and Innovation: The SME Dimension

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OECD Tourism Trends & Policies 2010

This book defines the major trends and challenges facing tourism in the next decade – from globalisation to environmental issues. Tourism data from 42 countries are presented and analysed including all OECD countries, and fast-growing tourism centres such as Brazil, Chile, China and India.

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‘forumpartnerships2009’, Country Fact Sheets

Twice before, Country Fact Sheets have been published by the OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance providing valuable up-to-date information about area-based partnerships. “forumpartnerships2009” – Country Fact Sheets provides an update on what has changed.

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Downloadable case study by Slovak Republic for the OECD publication "The Impact of Culture on Tourism".

Le tourisme dans les pays de l’OCDE 2008 :Tendances et Politiques

Il s’agit de la première édition d’une publication biennale qui analyse les meilleures pratiques dans les pays de l’OCDE et quelques économies non membres. Ce rapport enquête sur un certain nombre d’initiatives prises par les gouvernements et les entreprises dans le domaine du tourisme.

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Clusters of firms and related organisations in a range of industry specialisations are a striking feature of the economic landscape in all countries. Their growth and survival depends on internal processes of specialisation, co-operation and rivalry, and knowledge flows that underpin the competitiveness of the firms within them. Cluster building is now among the most important economic development activities in OECD countries and

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This book demonstrates that the success of local development strategies depends on the capacity of the government and its partners to accelerate change within the policy and governance aspects of economic and social development.

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