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23-Jun-2008
This roundtable focused on how competition authorities can provide businesses with effective guidance on monopolization and abuse of dominance. While some uncertainty over the reach of rules prohibiting anticompetitive unilateral conduct is inevitable, authorities responsible for the enforcement of antitrust laws must strive to provide as much transparency as possible as to their enforcement policies so that businesses can plan and invest with some predictability.
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11-Jun-2008
Good boardroom practice requires more than law and regulation: judgement, diplomacy and integrity. This book provides practical help for boards that navigate their way from principles to practice. It aims to describe how boards can practice good corporate governance in reality. This initiative reflects the importance that the OECD attaches to the private sector as a force in implementing good corporate governance.
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10-Jun-2008
As ongoing corporate bribery investigations and scandals make headlines around the world, Transparency International (TI) has published a working paper on the OECD’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, a set of social, labour, environmental and anti-corruption standards for transnational companies. This working paper explains the Guidelines and their relevance in fighting corruption in the private sector. Case studies illustrate recent instances when civil society has filed complaints in different countries related to bribery and other violations.
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10-Jun-2008
The Working Group on Bribery held an informal consultation with representatives of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD, the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD, the International Chamber of Commerce, Transparency International and other civil society organisations to discuss implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention.
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05-Jun-2008
On the occasion of the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting in Paris on 4-5 June 2008, Ministers adopted the OECD Declaration on Sovereign Wealth Funds and Recipient Country Policies.
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30-May-2008
A fourth edition of the OECD Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment has just been completed. This manual provides operational guidelines on how foreign direct investment (FDI) activity should be measured and sets the world standard for direct investment statistics.
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22-May-2008
On 16 April 2008, the OECD Steering Group on Corporate Governance invited representatives from the activist hedge fund industry and other activist investors to discuss potential policy issues including their use of shareholders rights (such as board nomination), the impact of their activism on market abuses prevention, the scope for shareholder cooperation into the light of “acting in concert” regulations, as well as the use of derivatives instruments to boost investors’ voting power.
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16-May-2008
This roundtable addressed the recurring synergies that mergers sometimes create. These synergies, or “efficiencies,” can have very potent beneficial effects but are devilishly difficult to identify and measure. The Committee focused on dynamic efficiencies that facilitate or encourage innovation.
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05-May-2008
OECD countries and the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS) have agreed new guidelines to help pensions regulators and supervisors improve the way private work-related pension entities, such as pension fund management companies or pension trustees, are managed in order to boost their financial security and performance.
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29-Apr-2008
Many people have a poor understanding of the financial issues that affect their lives, according to OECD analysis. To help them, OECD countries have agreed new good practices on financial education relating to private pensions and insurance that call on governments and business to work together to improve financial literacy in order to give people the tools they need to secure their future.
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Events
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from 11-Oct-2006 to 12-Oct-2006
This year’s Roundtable focused on: Capital Market Reforms in Asia: Issues, Progress and Challenges; Financial Policy Landscape; Competition and Integration of Exchanges and its Implications for Regulators; Corporate Governance: Methodology for Assessment of the Implementation of the OECD Principles and Discussion of Progress; International Convergence of Accounting Standards.
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from 16-Feb-2006 to 17-Feb-2006
On 16 and 17 February 2006 the Indian Ministry of Company Affairs together with the OECD organised the 2006 Policy Dialogue on Corporate Governance in India.
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from 21-Sep-2006 to 22-Sep-2006
Organised in New Delhi on 21-22 September 2006, this conference addressed a wide range of issues related to the development of education programmes for specific financial topics – including financial markets, private pensions and insurance - and also covered policy issues related to the public awareness campaigns and the disclosure of information.
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from 15-Feb-2006 to 16-Feb-2006
The Sixth Eurasia Corporate Governance Roundtable Meeting took place in Istanbul, Turkey, on 15 February, back to back with the South East Europe Corporate Governance Roundtable and the joint meeting of both Roundtables on 16 February. The meeting focused on corporate governance reform and enforcement in the region.
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from 29-Mar-2006 to 30-Mar-2006
The focus was an evaluation of the private pension system in Chile and the lessons that can be drawn from Chile’s experience, for other countries. The following topics were discussed: the challenge of coverage, constraints in payout phase of pension systems, risk management in defined contribution schemes, risk based supervision, the challenge of investment choice and pension fund cost management. The conference also provided an opportunity to present the OECD best principles and practices.
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from 20-Sep-2005 to 21-Sep-2005
The Sixth Meeting of the Latin American Corporate Governance Roundtable took place in Lima, Peru, on 20 - 21 September, 2005. The Roundtable reviewed progress in implementing the recommendations of the Latin American White Paper on Corporate Governance, considered emerging practices in strengthening enforcement, and experience in improving board effectiveness. Participants also exchanged experience regarding the relevance of the new OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises in the Latin American context.
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from 14-Sep-2005 to 15-Sep-2005
The OECD-MENA Working Group 5 on Improving Corporate Governance Principles held a plenary session on September 14-15 in Rabat, Morocco to discuss corporate governance of state-owned enterprises and progress in implementation of working group objectives.
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from 14-Nov-2005 to 15-Nov-2005
Organised by the OECD Investment Committee in co-operation with APEC, this seminar took place on 14-15 November 2005 in Busan, Korea. Discussions focused on defining investment for development and how to encourage greater investment mobility.
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from 08-Dec-2005 to 09-Dec-2005
This Symposium, which took place in Beijing, China, focused on specific aspects of policies towards cross-border mergers and acquisitions, namely: ownership restrictions and strategic sectors; streamlining the approval process for cross-border M&As; and, strengthening corporate transparency and disclosure for more effective due diligence.
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on 12-Dec-2005
This Symposium, organised jointly by ICSID, OECD and UNCTAD, enabled non-governmental actors to share their perspectives on emerging investment arbitration issues identified by governments and their international organisations; to explore and advance the agenda which developed and developing country parties to investment agreements have in common; and to consider ways for the three organisations and other interested institutions to best work together and respond to the needs of their members and the investment community.
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