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24-Jun-2005
This new DAC publication illustrates how SSR is fundamentally important to effective conflict prevention and peace-building. An accountable and efficient security system, operating under civilian control within a democratic context, helps ensure and sustain the stability that is necessary for development to occur. The publication suggests ways to engage with partner countries to make assistance to security sector reform more effective. It is accompanied by a Policy Brief .
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16-Jan-2006
What factors govern growth and sustainability? The remarkable recent development of several East Asian countries had brought this question to the fore. This volume looks at the impact of OECD country policies on the region in a variety of areas, including trade, investment, environment, agriculture, finance and aid. It examines the coherence lessons of these OECD country policies in the light of future challenges in East Asia and other developing regions. Lastly, it contributes answers to the world-wide quest for ways to reduce poverty and promote growth with equity.
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28-Sep-2005
Food aid in kind could respond to partner country needs in terms of poverty and food security if this was provided when international prices are high and stock are low. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Furthermore, the study calculates that tied food aid costs, on average, 50 per cent more than purchasing the same food locally and 30 per cent more than buying from third countries. The study suggests that there is scope for considerable efficiency gains in switching to less restricted sourcing, which could benefit agricultural development in many low income countries.
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27-Sep-2005
This statement to the WB/IMF Development Committee focuses on the commitments of the developed countries represented in the OECD Development Assistance Committee.
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Making Poverty Reduction Work: OECD’s Role in Development Partnership
21-Sep-2005
Contributing to global development is a key objective of the OECD as an intergovernmental agency and through its collective membership. What does the OECD bring to the international effort to achieve the international goals? Read the executive summary or the full report transmitted to the UN General Assembly Summit of 2005, as well as other international meetings related to development.
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13-Jun-2005
This publication outlines key issues faced when designing Environmental Fiscal Reform (EFR). EFR refers to a range of taxation and pricing measures which can raise fiscal revenues while furthering environmental goals.
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22-Dec-2004
From the UN Secretary-General’s 2003 Report on Implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration.
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22-Dec-2004
This paper is premised on the notion that awareness-raising and communications about the MDGs in the industrialised countries are crucial in order to remind and hold national governments accountable to their aid, trade and debt commitments, which are found in the MDGs.
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22-Dec-2004
Trade and investment, coupled with transfers of knowledge and technology and an appropriate institutional framework, have been major engines of global economic growth in developed and developing countries over the past 50 years.
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Address by the Honourable Donald J.Johnston to UNCTAD XI, Sao Paulo, 16 June 2004
22-Dec-2004
Address by the Honourable Donald J. Johnston to the Eleventh Session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 13-18 June 2004.
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