Gender : Encouraging gender equality in the Middle East and North Africa

Governments in the Middle East and North Africa increasingly recognise that gender equality - encouraging the talents, skills, education and productivity of all their citizens, including women - will make their countries stronger.

Entrepreneurship and Migrants

A new report reviews the factors influencing entrepreneurship among immigrants and how different migration policies may help or hinder.

National Contact Points for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

The Guidelines are supported by a unique implementation mechanism of National Contact Points which assists enterprises and their stakeholders to take appropriate measures to further the objectives of the Guidelines

Peru - National Contact Point Launch Event

On 16 April 2010, Peru’s Minister of Economy and Finance Mercedes Araoz officially launched Peru´s National Contact Point which is located in Peru's Private Investment Promotion Agency (ProInversíon).

Industry and services: Key tables from OECD

The key tables on industry and services initially includes statistics on total employment and hours worked in manufacturing. Additional industry and service data will be included progressively. Historical data refer to the latest eight time periods.

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South-East Europe - Investment Reform Index 2010: Monitoring Policies and Institutions for Direct Investment

The 2010 Investment Reform Index for South-East Europe provides an independent and rigorous assessment of investment-related policy settings and reform against international good practice.

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Inventory of investment measures taken between 1 September 2009 and 14 February 2010

This report covers investment measures taken between 1 September 2009 and 14 February 2010. Information presented in this report has also been used for a joint report by WTO, OECD and UNCTAD, released on 8 March 2010, in response to the G20 Leaders' request for public reporting on their adherence to their trade and investment policy commitments.

12th OECD Roundtable on Freedom of Investment: Summary of discussions

Organised in Paris on 26 March 2010, discussions at this roundtable focused on a review of recent investment policy developments in participating countries, the identification of investors and responsible investment in agriculture.

The OECD ORBIS database: responding to the need for firm-level micro-data in the OECD

Statistics Working Paper N. 30 - 2010/1 - Firm-level micro-data have become increasingly important in OECD activities not only for econometric analysis that captures heterogeneity across enterprises but also in order to conduct different and more detailed types of data aggregation (e.g. by geographical unit, firm size, industry). This paper describes the development of the OECD ORBIS micro database. This database includes more than

Investment Newsletter, March 2010, Issue 12

Investment Newsletter No.12 focuses on global investment activity, including latest figures for China and India, renewed calls to G20 to resist protectionism, capital controls and the OECD Codes of Liberalisation, business and the Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the investment policy review of India.