Publications & Documents

Presentation of the 2017 OECD SME Finance Scoreboard

It is a pleasure to be here today to launch the 2017 OECD Scoreboard on Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs. It is an honour to welcome Minister Padoan, an old friend of the OECD, here at our Washington Centre. And it is a very timely moment to take a closer look at the issue of SME finance.

G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting: remarks on the global economy and framework for growth

Latest indicators of rising business confidence and industrial production are welcome. However, we have been here before over the past five years and left “Waiting for Godot” – for the recovery that never comes. There are reasons to be more optimistic this time around. But we have not yet decisively escaped the low-growth trap. Growth in productivity and wages remains lackluster. Inequality and political tensions are high.

Presentation to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies

Thank you for your warm welcome. It’s a great honour to be at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, an organisation that shares history, values and objectives with the OECD. I’d like to thank the Centre’s President and CEO, Dr. John Hamré, for his invitation.

Friends of the OECD Reception - welcoming remarks

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the OECD’s Washington Centre. We are here to celebrate the longstanding and fruitful relationship between the OECD and the United States. But, more precisely, we are here to celebrate you, our friends in the US! This is a great opportunity to get to know each other better and strengthen our ties.

Mr. Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD, in New York, 24 April 2017

The Secretary-General was in New York on 24 April to deliver remarks at the event “Prioritising Water on the Global Agenda”, hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD, in Washington on 20-22 April 2017

The Secretary-General was in Washington on 20-22 April 2017 to attend the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings as well as the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meetings. While in Washington, the Secretary-General presented the 2017 OECD Scoreboard on Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs with Italy’s Minister of Economy and Finance, Mr. Pier Carlo Padoan.

Mr. Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD, in Minneapolis on 19 April 2017

The Secretary-General was in Minneapolis on 19 April 2017 to receive the 2017 Bill Frenzel Champion of Free Trade Award.

Fair and Inclusive Education Systems

Les efforts entrepris par les États-Unis pour renforcer l’efficacité de leur aide au développement portent leurs fruits

Les États-Unis ont maintenu au même niveau le volume de leur aide étrangère depuis la crise économique mondiale et ils ont manifestement amélioré la concentration et l’efficacité de leur aide au développement. Ces tendances devraient se poursuivre et les réformes relatives à USAID (US Agency for International Development) devraient être consolidées, selon le dernier examen de l’OCDE.

OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: United States 2016