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Meeting of the OECD Council at Ministerial Level - Key Information (pdf, 1.36MB)
This brochure sets out the programme of the ministerial meeting, the context and issues for discussions for the following items: Strategic Orientations by the Secretary-General; Fiscal Consolidation and Employment; Global Economic Co-operation; Propriety, Integrity and Transparency; Sources of Growth: Innovation, Green Growth and Trade.

Fiscal consolidation and Employment

• Preparing fiscal consolidation
• OECD work on tax evasion
• Taxing Wages
• OECD and the Pittsburgh G20 Summit - boosting jobs, reshaping the global economy 
• Governments must tackle rising youth unemployment urgently, says OECD's Gurría 
• Key employment statistics
• Beating the jobs crisis, by Richard Trumka, President, AFL-CIO, ©OECD Observer No 279 May 2010
• Financial literacy and silver rights, by John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE, ©OECD Observer No 279 May 2010
   

Global Economic Co-operation

• OECD Economic Outlook No. 87, May 2010 
• OECD Factbook 2010 focuses on causes and consequences of crisis
• Smoothing economic cycles and avoiding crisis
• Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth 2010
• How to correct global imbalances, by Pier Carlo Padoan, Chief Economist, OECD, ©OECD Observer No 279 May 2010

Propriety, Integrity and Transparency

• Why a Global Standard for a stronger, cleaner, fairer economy?
• Why sound institutions and smart regulation matter
• From crisis to recovery

Sources of Growth

• Innovation and green growth for a job-rich recovery

Innovation

• OECD's Innovation Strategy
• Measuring Innovation: A New Perspective - online version
• Charting innovation
• What a lasting recovery needs: A fundamental driver demanding a big push is innovation by Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD, ©OECD Observer No 279 May 2010
• Innovation: Sensible strategies for sustainable recoveries, by Dirk Pilat and Andrew Wyckoff,
  Director, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Directorate, ©OECD Observer No 279 May 2010
• Taxes for innovation, by Jeffrey Owens, Director, and Michael Ash, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, ©OECD Observer No. 279, May 2010

Green Growth

• Interim Report of the Green Growth Strategy: Overview
• OECD work on Green Growth
• OECD Urban Roundtable for Mayors and Ministers: Cities and Green Growth 
• The Water Challenge: OECD's Response
• Carbon Markets
• Growing local, by Andrew Seidl, Head, Economics and the Environment Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), ©OECD Observer No. 279, May 2010

Trade

• How imports improve productivity and competitiveness
• Trade and the economic recovery: why open markets matter
• Trade, policy and the economic crisis
• Trade and employment
• OECD Work on Ais for Trade
• OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2009-2018 (2009)
• Keeping markets open at time of economic crisis (2009)
• Insights - International Trade: Free, Fair and Open (2009)

General Information about the OECD

• OECD Secretary-General's Report to Ministers 2010 (PDF, 3.38MB)
  In this 2010 report to Ministers, the OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría shares his vision of the OECD's main accomplishments since the last Ministerial Council Meeting, the main emerging challenges and the strategy to move ahead.
  OECD enlargement and engagement with non-members & Enhanced Engagement
• Previous meetings of the OECD Council at Ministerial Level: 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004.