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OECD tracks gender inequality in developing countries

03-Mar-2009

The OECD's Development Centre measures discrimintation that restricts women's ability to access resources in 102 developing countries. The centre will present this new measure on 5 March 2009 at the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations.

Getting More from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

17-Feb-2009

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has directed attention to a sector that has traditionally been veiled in secrecy. However, it has not been effective in producing change. This article—by PGD researchers Dilan Ölcer and Helmut Reisen—analyses why so many resource-rich countries have failed to lower perceived corruption.

Poverty Reduction and Social Development - Newsletter Winter 2008/2009

03-Feb-2009

In this edition: launch of Wikigender 2.0; preparing International Women's Day 2009; informal employment and the economic crisis.

Informal Employment and the Economic Crisis

29-Jan-2009

The current economic crisis has deep implications for employment across the planet. It brings to an end a period of relatively strong and sustained growth, which was accompanied by the creation of many new jobs. World employment in 2007 was almost one third higher compared with 1990.

Kick-off for the Perspectives on Global Development

28-Jan-2009

In the past decade, the combination of high raw material costs and low capital costs has underpinned strong growth performance and rising foreign exchange reserves in most developing countries. But growth was also accompanied by increasing concerns over resource scarcity, increasing inequality and sharply rising food and fuel prices. On both a political and economic level, tensions heightened between Western governments and some of the new emergent powers.

Key Events in 2009

05-Jan-2009

As the new year unfolds, the Poverty Reduction and Social Development team is preparing several exciting events for 2009, including the release of the updated GID Database and the launch of the flagship report on "Informal is Normal - Towards More and Better Jobs in Developing Countries".

Paris Forum to address Latin America's key economic challenges

22-Dec-2008

As the global financial crisis hits Latin American and Caribbean economies, leading policymakers and business leaders will gather in Paris on 26 January to discuss the region's economic outlook, the impact of fiscal policy on development and the role the private sector can play in fostering progress in the continent. Register now!

International Migrants Day

18-Dec-2008

To celebrate the adoption of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families in 1990, the UN General Assembly proclaimed the 18th of December as International Migrants Day. As shown by the work of the Development Centre, migrants continue to be an important factor to promote development in their countries' of origin.

The Poor Must Not Pay for the Crisis

05-Dec-2008

Renewed ODA commitments by the aid community –in line with the OECD’s call for an aid pledge–, greater regulatory independence in the governance of the international financial system, and higher quotas for emerging economies in regional development banks: these are some of the proposals that came to light at the OECD Global Forum on Development on the implications of the crisis for development finance.

Presentation of the Latin American Economic Outlook 2009 in Chile

01-Dec-2008

The Latin American Economic Outlook 2009 was presented in Santiago de Chile on 28 November 2008. Two presentations of the report took place at the Chilean capital. The first one hosted by the Ministry of Finance and the second by the Universidad Católica de Chile.

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