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20-Dec-2007
Findings of the report were presented to the Dutch Minister for Development Co-operation, Mr. Bert Koenders. The report was also introduced to German Technical Co-operation (GTZ), in the framework of a conference on “Mobility for Local and Regional Labour Markets”.
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19-Dec-2007
The European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, Joaquín Almunia, welcomed OECD’s growing attention to Latin America at the seminar presenting the Latin American Economic Outlook in Brussels. Representatives from the Commission, the Council, the Parliament, and other European institutions also shared their views on the region’s development challenges analysed in the report.
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18-Dec-2007
International Migrants Days, marking the anniversary of the adoption of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families in 1990, reminds the international community of the importance of guaranteeing human rights and fundamental freedoms to migrants. As highlighted by the work of the OECD Development Centre, migrants are becoming an increasingly central aspect of globalisation, with important effects on the development processes in sending countries.
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05-Dec-2007
OECD Secretary General, Angel Gurría, presented the Latin American Economic Outlook 2008 to a distinguished audience of experts and policy makers in Washington DC on Thursday 6 December. Watch the Videos of the Presentation. This event, hosted by the Organisation of American States, followed presentations at the US Department of State and Capitol Hill. The report has already travelled through Santiago de Chile, Madrid, Lisbon and Paris.
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28-Nov-2007
Our second newsletter on Financing Development covers the Development Centre's latest work on developing-country ownership, debt sustainability, communication about aid effectiveness and more.
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21-Nov-2007
Better and more coherent migration policies can contribute to the fight against global poverty. This is the main conclusion of "Migration and Developing Countries", a new report by the OECD Development Centre that was presented today at the German Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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14-Nov-2007
In a new G24 Policy Brief, Development Centre counsellor Helmut Reisen argues that China is actually improving debt ratios in Africa by stimulating exports, infrastructure investment and growth. He sees no evidence of China “free riding” on debt relief by OECD donors, as the bulk of its lending goes to resource-rich countries that did not benefit from debt relief.
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07-Nov-2007
Latin American countries need to invest more public funds in health, education services, infrastructure and innovation, but to afford this they will have to make major changes in the way their tax systems operate, according to the OECD's newly published Latin American Economic Outlook.
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26-Oct-2007
Co-operation between the private sector and government in designing policy is worth both the effort and the risks involved, says Public-Private Dialogue in Developing Countries, a new Development Centre Study by Nicolas Pinaud. Indeed, while more efficient and effective policies can result from dialogue between business and government, the danger of clientelism, corruption and rent seeking are ever-present; particularly in the poorest countries, which are those that stand to benefit the most from such dialogue.
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