Joint OECD-FAO High-Level Meeting on Global Food Security, remarks by OECD Secretary-General

The combined effect of the global credit crunch, falling international trade and investment flows, lower remittances and the effect of budgetary pressures in donor countries’ aid plans, are reversing the progress we had made in combating global poverty and are pushing more people into hunger, according to the OECD Secretary-General. Important emergency measures need to be taken to ensure that more people have access to food

Synthèses : L'emploi informel dans les pays en développement: une normalité indépassable?

La crise financière et économique qui a débuté en 2008 a de profondes répercussions sur l’emploi partout dans le monde. On peut s’attendre à ce que le ralentissement de l’activité économique provoque une hausse du chômage, et fasse augmenter l’emploi informel.

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Synthèses : Gestion axée sur les résultats en matière de développement

En période de ralentissement de l’activité économique mondiale, les gouvernements recherchent de plus en plus activement des moyens de garantir une utilisation efficace de leurs ressources.

Statement by OECD Secretary-General and DAC Chair to the World Bank-IMF Development Committee

This statement outlines OECD's response to the crisis and OECD perspectives on the Development Committee agenda. It was presented at the joint World Bank-IMF Development Committee meeting in Washington on 26 April 2009 by Mr. Angel Gurria, OECD Secretary-General, and Mr. Eckhard Deutscher, Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC).

Tax haven crackdown will benefit developing countries, says OECD’s Gurría

A crackdown on tax havens and cross-border tax evasion will help developing countries to raise more revenues to pay for much-needed schools, roads and hospitals, according to OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría. In an article published on the OECD’s website ahead of the 2009 spring meetings in Washington of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, Mr. Gurría said improving the effectiveness of developing countries’

Improve tax fairness and help the developing world

As policy makers and central bankers gather in Washington for this year’s Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, growing intolerance of tax evasion is good news for developing countries desperate to raise tax revenues to pay for schools, roads and hospitals. Poor people in these countries mostly don’t pay much in taxes. But they are most in need of the improvements in infrastructures and services

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Post-Conflict Development

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Investment policies and economic crises: lessons from the past

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