Western Balkans Sector Competitiveness Project

This project aims to define and strengthen sector specific sources of competitiveness in the Western Balkans, focusing on sector evaluation in the region to determine the most competitive sectors at the regional level and to identify sector specific barriers.

Western Balkans: Conference on access to finance

The Western Balkans: Conference on access to finance was held in skopje on 8 June 2010. Participants at this conference discussed improving new investment finance options in the Western Balkans, focusing in particular on apparel manufacturing firms and SMEs.

South-East Europe Investment Reform Index

The Investment Reform Index for South-East Europe is a practical tool providing a qualitative assessment of policies and institutions that critically affect the environment for direct investment in 10 economies in South East Europe.

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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• South East Europe Investment Reform Index

Eastern Europe and South Caucasus Competitiveness Initiative

The Eastern European and South Caucasus initiative aims to create a sound business climate for investment, enhance productivity, support entrepreneurship, develop the private sector, and build knowledge-based economies.

South East Europe - Investment Reform Index 2010 - Key findings and recommendations

The Investment Reform Index monitors investment-related policy reforms in the economies of South-East Europe and compares these to best practices in the OECD area. This brochure reproduces key findings and recommendations from the 2010 edition to be published on 7 April 2010.

Financial sector reform in transition economies, and policies for SME growth

Following the launch of the SCU Initiative on 1 April 2009, the first meeting of the Working Group on Financial Markets Development and Impact of Central Banks will be held on 17 November 2009 in Warsaw, Poland.

South East Europe: business climate reform beyond the crisis, and the evolution of the OECD Investment Compact

On 16 November 2009 at the OECD Paris headquarters, the South East Europe Investment Committee brought together SEE and OECD representatives and experts, including the donor community, to address enhancing regional ownership of investment policy processes and opportunities for further co-operation.

Promoting better business regulation in South East Europe through more parliamentary involvement

Policy makers and experts from South East Europe and OECD gathered in Sarajevo to assess ways to streamline co-operation between parliaments and legislative branches to develop a more attractive and competitive business environment in SEE.

Exploring links between an enlarged Europe and its Black Sea neighbours

The OECD Eurasia Competitiveness Programme was invited to participate in a conference co-organised by the Austro-French Centre for Rapprocehement in Europe, the French Institute for International Relations, and the European Institute of Romania, in Bucharest on 15-16 October 2009.