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Now available: Wikigender Posters

10-Sep-2008

The Development Centre offers a free Wikigender poster to the first 250 people who contact us. Simply choose from the list of available colours and send us an email with all necessary shipping details.

Development Centre contributes to Accra High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness

10-Sep-2008

A year of work on the “ownership” principle of effective aid has taught us: the best development policies have buy-in from citizens, parliaments and other groups, not just from central government. Moreover, they are not just home-owned, but home-grown. Our publications and events on "ownership" have been core ingredients of last weeks discussions on the issue at the Accra High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (2-4 September).

How can Latin America benefit from the boom in commodity prices?

09-Sep-2008

Natural resources and development can go hand in hand. An OECD Development Centre Policy Brief and shorter Policy Insight analyse how countries like Chile and Norway offer lessons on how to use the bonanza from commodity exports to foster the economy and improve living conditions. The key policies: good governance, fiscal responsibility and future vision.

Presentation on the macro management of commodity booms, UNU-Wider project meeting, Johannesburg, 5-6 September

09-Sep-2008

OECD Development Centre researcher Rolando Avendaño made a presentation based on the Centre's resent work on the macro management of commodity booms in Africa and Latin America at the UNU-WIDER meeting on Southern engines of global growth that took place on 5-6 September in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The emerging force of Latin American multinationals

02-Sep-2008

In this article published by the CEPAL Review, OECD Development Centre Director Javier Santiso analyses how Latin American multinationals, or multilatinas, compete with the largest conglomerates from the developed world in terms of their manufacturing and financial strength.

Policy Coherence Newsletter: Summer 2008

30-Jul-2008

In this edition: Inclusive Globalisation; Creating More and Better Jobs; Can the Internet Make the World a Better Place?; Informal Employment in Romania

Colombia joins the OECD Development Centre

30-Jul-2008

Colombia is the 10th non-OECD member to join the Development Centre. Colombia's engagement in the Centre provides a great opportunity for the country and the OECD to learn from each other and strengthen collaboration (view the slideshow). Earlier this year, Poland, Egypt, Israel and Vietnam  took their seats at the Centre’s Governing Board as well.

Have your say on www.whoseownership.org

24-Jul-2008

The principle of “ownership” will be at the heart of intergovernmental talks on aid effectiveness in Accra this September. Ahead of the Forum, the governments of Colombia and Switzerland, together with the OECD Development Centre, would welcome your views on how to put the principle into practice. With just one month to go before the Forum, this may be your last chance to contribute to its preparations.

Addressing Romania’s informal sector requires nuanced approach

15-Jul-2008

Informal employment is a widespread phenomenon in Romania and a key challenge for the country’s development. A new OECD Development Centre report analyses this problem and highlights several policy options.

Work on Sovereign Debt Crises at World Congress of the International Economic Association

03-Jul-2008

OECD Development Centre Economist Sebastian Nieto presented  his work "Sovereign Debt Crises through the Prism of Primary Bond Market" at the 15th World Congress of the International Economic Association, in Istanbul on 28 June 2008




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