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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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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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15-Oct-2007
How can the results and effectiveness of development cooperation be better communicated by donors? The participants of the 19th Annual Meeting of the DevCom Network will deal with different dimensions of this question on 6 and 7 November 2007 in Lisbon (Portugal). In the lead-up to this event, the Development Centre is pleased to present revamped web pages with public opinion data and analysis and information about the DevCom network's activities.
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Events
Experts' Meeting on Policy Coherence, Paris, France ( by invitation only)
from 03-Nov-2005 to 04-Nov-2005
Jointly organised with the German Marshall Fund. Contact: Jeff.Dayton-Johnson@oecd.org .
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from 24-Oct-2005 to 25-Oct-2005
The logic of analysing "governance-investment interactions" is to identify and explain which governance institutions and practises have an important influence on the behaviour of investors, and how those institutions and practises exercise that influence in the country
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Workshop on Policy Coherence for Development, Paris, France
on 09-May-2005
OECD -country policies regarding aid, trade, migration and foreign investment have complicated interactions in their effects on developing countries. Nevertheless, policy-makers and researchers have tended to formulate and analyse these policies separately. The OECD Development Centre is co-ordinating new research on the joint impact upon developing economies of rich-country policies in these four domains.
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on 07-Oct-2004
On 7 October 2004, experts and policy makers debated a central aspect of this deficit in the growth of southern Africa: the weakness of domestic and foreign investment. One of the main aims of the discussion was to explain the high cost of capital faced by both government and the private sector on the local capital markets, and to evaluate the economic impact of these costs.
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