Publications & Documents

Business Responsibilities and Investment Treaties

Paris, 16 March 2020 - The 6th annual Treaty Conference will explore how governments are integrating policies relating to business responsibilities into their trade and investment treaties, and potential policy options.

Access to Green Finance for SMEs in Georgia

Sustainable Infrastructure for Low-Carbon Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus - Hotspot Analysis and Needs Assessment

2019 OECD Consultation on Fighting Foreign Bribery

This Working Group on Bribery consultation with the private sector and civil society will focus on topics suggested by the stakeholders themselves.

Monitoring the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in the Netherlands: Call for contributions

The OECD has launched a call for contributions to the fourth phase of monitoring the implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in the Netherlands by the OECD Working Group on Bribery. The deadline for response is 9 December 2019.

Measuring Business Impacts on People’s Well-being and Sustainability

‌What is the contribution of business to people’s and communities’ well-being? How do businesses impact their environment and how sustainable are their practices? The OECD Statistics Directorate is expanding its work on measuring well-being at the country level to include the business community.

Freedom of investment at the OECD

International investment spurs prosperity and economic development in home and recipient countries. Policy coordination helps governments resist protectionist pressures and develop effective policies. The OECD's Freedom of Investment process brings together some 56 governments from around the world to exchange information and experiences on investment policies at regular roundtables.

Monitoring investment and trade measures

G20 Leaders are firmly committed to open trade and investment and to resisting protectionism in all its forms. They have mandated WTO, OECD and UNCTAD – the leading international organisations in the area of international trade and investment policies – to monitor policy developments and report publicly on these commitments.

Brazil must immediately end threats to independence and capacity of law enforcement to fight corruption

The OECD Working Group on Bribery urges Brazil, one of the founding Parties to the Anti-Bribery Convention since 1997, to preserve the full capacity and independence of law enforcement authorities to investigate and prosecute foreign bribery and corruption.

Ending child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains

This report presents research findings and recommendations on child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains. Jointly authored by the ILO, OECD, IOM and UNICEF under the aegis of Alliance 8.7, the report also represents the first ever attempt to measure child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains.