Untying Aid to the Least Developed Countries

The DAC High Level Meeting in April 2001 adopted a Recommendation on untying aid to the least developed countries. This Policy Brief sets out the background to this agreement. Since its creation in 1961, the OECD Development Assistance Committee ...

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Annuities

On annuities, the work will be developed over the second half of 2001, proceeding along with an overview of the individual and group annuities market in member countries and their regulatory and supervisory framework. This market is likely to bec...

Taxonomy

The Working Party has launched a comprehensive data collection project covering the regulatory and supervisory practices in all its Member countries. The first stage of this project is the development of a common methodology for collecting this i...

Pension Regulation

Private schemes and operators are playing a growing role in pension systems. This trend is likely to intensify in future years as governments come to face the consequences of ageing populations on their public pension systems. Already in most OEC...

Investment by pension funds and insurance companies

The OECD principles for the regulation of investments by insurance companies and pension funds, approved in 1999 by the Insurance Committee, are one of the first steps in the direction of setting guidelines and standards for the private pension i...

Personal Pension Plans

Private schemes and operators are playing a growing role in pension systems. This trend is likely to intensify in future years as governments come to face the consequences of ageing populations on their public pension systems. Already in most O...

OECD Conference on Private Pensions in Brazil

12-14 March 2001, Rio de Janeiro. This conference focused on promoting high-level policy dialogue on private pension reform in Brazil with a view to strengthening the private pension system through an efficient regulatory and supervisory system, as well as ...

Fifteen Principles for the Regulation of Private Occupational Pension Schemes

The International Network of Pensions Regulators and Supervisors, grouping 100 regulatory and supervisory institutions from more than 60 countries, has approved a set of principles for the regulation of private occupational pension plans designed...

Portfolio Regulation of Life Insurance Companies and Pension Funds

This document is Book 2, Part 1, 3)a of the Insurance and Private Pensions Compendium for Emerging Economies.

Prix des logements et activité économique, EO68 ch.6

Chapitre 6 des Perspectives économiques de l'OCDE No. 68. Ce chapitre examine dans quelle mesure les prix des logements influencent la consommation privée et l’investissement résidentiel dans les pays de l’OCDE.