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OECD AfricanEconomicOutlook.org Wins Award for Best Website

23-Nov-2009

The Centre is pleased to announce that the African Economic Outlook, one of the OECD Development Centre’s flagship reports, won the Best in Class Interactive Media Award (IMA) for its website with an overall score of 500. This is the first perfect score in the history of IMA.

Social Equality workshop, 1-2 December 2009

29-Oct-2009

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and OECD Development Centre are holding a Workshop on 'Equality, Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development' in Helsinki, Finland on 1-2 December 2009. The workshop will provide a forum to discuss equality issues and to promote social and gender equality in development work.

Towards a new reserve currency system?

23-Oct-2009

The US dollar has been the dominant reserve currency for several decades, accounting for about two-thirds of global reserves, but change on international markets is under way. Are the Chinese reminbi or the Euro going to overtake the US Dollar as the world's currency of reference?

Old habits, new donors

22-Oct-2009

Over time, traditional donors of aid to developing countries have set standards and best practices for development cooperation through the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC). How should these established donors respond to the arrival of new non-DAC donors such as India and China, who may not play by the same rules? The OECD Development Centre’s Sebastian Paulo and Helmut Reisen argue we need to prepare a new set of shared rules that work for emerging economies and traditional donors alike.

African economies have not benefited as much as would be expected from the commodity price boom

22-Oct-2009

The Centre’s Andrew Mold and Annalisa Prizzon contributed a background paper to the European Report on Development (ERD) ‘Overcoming Fragility in Africa’. The paper looks at commodity booms and export performance in the context of sub-Saharan Africa, looking at the record from the perspective of export volumes rather than values.The authors argue that the average export performance during the period of high commodity prices was not as impressive as the previous period when African countries were confronted with very low prices.

Former Director of the Centre Louka T. Katseli appointed as head of Greek 'super-ministry'

07-Oct-2009

OECD Development Centre Director Javier Santiso congratulated his predecessor Prof. Louka T. Katseli on her party’s resounding victory in the Greek parliamentary elections and on her appointment as head of a newly-created ‘super-ministry’ of economy, competitiveness and shipping.

Promoting commercial agriculture in Africa

02-Oct-2009

Discover the latest edition of the "OECD Journal: General papers", edited by Kiichiro Fukasaku, that includes articles on commercial agriculture in Ghana, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zambia.

Lessons for Africa in new aid conditionality study

29-Sep-2009

The African Economic Outlook 2009 found Africa strengthening trade and development relations with emerging market economies including Brazil, China and India. A new Development Centre study, "Policy Ownership and Aid Conditionality in the Light of the Financial Crisis", discusses how all aid recipient countries should exploit the arrival of these and other new donors to demand fewer conditions on aid and adopt a more proactive approach to donors relations. For donors, the case is made that a more ‘arms-length’ relationship with recipient countries would be beneficial.

Aid conditionality: recipients can say 'no'

25-Sep-2009

Policy conditions placed on aid rarely improve its impact on growth and human development. However, donors continue to place significant conditions on their giving. A new study by Development Centre Senior Economist Andy Mold calls for more modesty from the donor community when defining “good” and “bad” practices, and concludes that the financial crisis should act as a catalyst for a thorough re-examination of aid conditionality. Recipient countries need to say ‘no’ more often to aid with excessive strings attached.

Workshop on Migration in Central America in Costa Rica

18-Jun-2009

In preparation of the next Latin American Economic Outlook 2010, the OECD Development Centre Poverty Reduction and Social Development Unit is co-organising with FLACSO a regional workshop on migration in Central America, taking place next 25 June in San José de Costa Rica.

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