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10-Sep-2010
The various existing methods for calculating short-term borrowing requirements can result in distorted estimates. This article proposes a new method that yields economically meaningful results that can also be used to make cross-country comparisons.
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05-Aug-2011
This statistical yearbook provides comprehensive and consistent information on African central government debt instruments. It includes individual country data but also comparative statistics to facilitate pan-African (cross-country) analysis.
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06-Sep-2010
International Accounting Standard No. 19 (IAS 19) is the current standard for the financial reporting of company pension obligations that stem from defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Following publication of proposed changes to IAS 19, the OECD has made comments on the IASB's exposure draft.
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13-Aug-2010
This working paper summarises the recently completed EU stress test for banks and, using new data on bank exposures to sovereign debt, appraises the way the tests have treated the sovereign debt crisis. It comments on market concerns about banking sector exposure to sovereign debt during and beyond the period of the stress test.
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10-Aug-2010
Volume 11 features articles on energy security and competition policy, competition policy for vertical relations in gasoline retailing, the interface between competition and consumer policies, and competition policy in Peru.
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22-Jul-2010
This working paper discusses the impact of the crisis on defined benefit (DB) pension schemes and proposes suggestions for making funding regulations more counter-cyclical in nature. Such measures could strengthen the security of DB benefits and help to maintain DB plans for future workers.
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16-Jul-2010
Government-guaranteed bank bonds have been an effective tool in avoiding the worst during the financial crisis. However, the pricing of the guarantees has created competitive distortions and the continued availability of such guarantees into 2010 may have reduced the pressure on some banks to address their weaknesses.
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13-Jul-2010
While pension funds have strengthened with the financial market rebound, OECD data show that pension fund assets in most countries have yet to recover to pre-crisis levels. Public pension reserve funds, however, have now fully made up for their crisis-related losses due to more conservative investment strategies, according to the July 2010 edition of Pension Markets in Focus.
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05-Jul-2010
OECD and IOPS invite public comment on these draft good practices which aim to outline the main features of risk management systems employed by pension funds. The deadline for comment is 3 September 2010.
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30-Jun-2010
The 2010 scores for the OECD FDI Index, now available for 48 countries, including all G-20 members, and 22 sectors, show that many non-OECD countries have become as open as OECD countries and, in a few cases, even more so.
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Events
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from 29-Mar-2010 to 31-Mar-2010
Organised in Paris, these meetings included the 8th Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan meeting, the 9th Steering Group meeting and an expert seminar on asset declarations for public officials.
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from 05-May-2010 to 07-May-2010
This workshop, which took place on 5-7 May 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa, provided an opportunity for African countries to discuss practical market-infrastructure issues which are of major concern for debt managers in the African debt markets.
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from 02-Mar-2010 to 03-Mar-2010
This second Global Network meeting brought together participants from more than 45 countries, and focused on Governance Reforms, namely SOE board nomination, functioning and evaluation; and establishing, organising and reforming SOE ownership entities.
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on 19-Jan-2010
OECD Deputy Secretary-General Richard Boucher and the United Kingdom’s Secretary of Justice the Rt Hon Jack Straw MP and UK Permanent Representative to the OECD Dominic Martin talked about the challenges of tackling bribery at a Chatham House conference in London, United Kingdom.
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on 09-Dec-2009
Thirty-eight countries agree to new measures to reinforce their efforts to prevent, detect and investigate foreign bribery with the adoption of the OECD Recommendation for Further Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions.
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from 22-Mar-2010 to 23-Mar-2010
This workshop, which took place in Bangalore, India, aimed to advance and elevate the policy dialogue on financial education and literacy in the international arena and particularly in India and Southeast Asian Nations.
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Too few realise that the bribery of foreign public officials carries a price. The OECD's Initiative to Raise Global Awareness of Foreign Bribery focuses on the impact of foreign bribery and how governments, businesses, civil society, and individuals can fight back.
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from 01-Dec-2009 to 02-Dec-2009
Taking into account corporate governance lessons from the global financial crisis, the Latin American Roundtable on Corporate Governance concluded its 10th annual meeting by agreeing in principle to a revised set of recommendations aimed at encouraging institutional investors to exercise their ownership rights responsibly and promote better corporate governance of companies in the region.
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on 07-Dec-2009
Solange Berstein, Superintendent of Pensions in Chile, talks about what other countries can learn from Chile's pensions reforms of the past 12 months.
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on 17-Nov-2009
Following the April launch of the South Caucasus and Ukraine initiative, the first meeting of the Working Group on Financial Markets Development and Impact of Central Banks was held on 17 November 2009 in Warsaw, Poland.
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