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News & Events
News
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17-Jun-2008
The debate about how to achieve value for money in the delivery of government services is important and ongoing. Increasingly, public services are being produced, procured and delivered to citizens in a variety of ways. Public-private partnerships are one option. These contractual arrangements between the government and a private partner have been an established practice in some countries for many years and have attracted growing attention in others. This book highlights ten good practices, summarising what countries should consider before entering into public-private partnerships.
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07-Jul-2008
The dates of the upcoming meetings of the OECD Working Party of Senior Budget Officials and its networks, and related events, are now announced.
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28-May-2008
This review analyses the challenges of strengthening regulatory governance in Brazil to improve economic growth, with appropriate regulatory frameworks for core infrastructure sectors. The debate on a market-based economy has now entered a new phase in Brazil, addressing the broader context of quality regulation and the reduction of regulatory risk. The improved macroeconomic situation and the progress made by the sectoral regulatory agencies have paid off, and there is also wider social participation in the improvement of the regulatory framework with a stronger consumer engagement.
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15-Apr-2008
Tight budgets and demanding citizens put governments under increasing pressure to show that they are providing good value for money. Providing information about public sector performance can satisfy the public's need to know, and could also be a useful tool for governments to evaluate their performance. This Policy Brief looks at the challenges governments face in using performance information to make the budget process more efficient and offers some guidelines to assist in the process. The Policy Brief complements the OECD publication, Performance Budgeting in OECD Countries.
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04-Mar-2008
A new OECD Working Paper, "Towards Government at a Glance: Identification of Core Data and Issues related to Public Sector Efficiency", is the second of three papers being released in preparation for a new biennial publication to be launched next year. The series, Government at a Glance, will provide a set of key indicators of good government and efficient public services to help member countries to better assess, plan and measure their public sector reform agenda.
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05-Feb-2008
This document presents the new methodology for gathering comparable data on public employment and the resulting data. A further comparison is made between employment data in government and the costs of production of services of the public domain.
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01-Oct-2007
Information about public sector performance is always in demand, both by politicians and the general public. Should performance information be linked to resources? This is an ongoing debate in OECD countries. This book reviews the experiences of eight OECD countries which have developed and used performance information in the budget process over the past ten years: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Korea, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States. The book offers guidelines and recommendations on adapting budget systems to promote the use of performance information.
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Events
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from 11-Jun-2008 to 12-Jun-2008
A seminar on practical aspects of performance budgeting was organised by the OECD and the Mexican government in Mexico, 11-12 June 2008. Intended for Mexican officials in the Ministry of Finance and in line ministries, the seminar explored best practices and lessons learned with the implementation of performance budgeting in OECD countries. The seminar drew upon the OECD publication Performance Budgeting in OECD Countries and on the insights learned at an international conference on performance budgeting held in Mexico, 9-10 June 2008.
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from 09-Jun-2008 to 10-Jun-2008
An international conference on performance budgeting was held in Mexico City on 9-10 June 2008. The conference allowed an exchange of ideas on practical aspects of performance budgeting, on the role of information in the process of assigning budgets, and on economic policy issues behind the implementation of performance budgeting. The conference was organised by the Mexican Ministry of Finance, the Mexican Center for Research and Teaching in Social Sciences, the OECD, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the UK Department for International Development.
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from 06-Mar-2008 to 07-Mar-2008
The OECD and the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations organised this conference on the Future of E-Government, on 6-7 March 2008 in The Hague. The conference was chaired by Mr. William Perrin, director e-Government Unit, United Kingdom. The conference was opened with an address by Ms Ank Bijleveld-Schouten, State Secretary, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, the Netherlands. Participants included 68 delegates from member and non-member countries and others. Please visit the conference website for more information
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from 17-Apr-2008 to 19-Apr-2008
Should central government leave economic and employment development to local policy makers? Employment ministers from OECD countries, including Finland, Italy, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States, will address such questions at a conference in Venice, Italy, from 17-19 April 2008.
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on 12-Mar-2008
Eygpt's Minister of State for Administrative Development, Dr. Ahmed Darwish, will hold a press briefing at 5 p.m. on Wednesday 12 March, ahead of his address to the OECD Council on the state of Eygpt's economic and public sector reforms.
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from 21-Feb-2008 to 22-Feb-2008
A two-day seminar entitled "Public-private Partnerships: Affordability, Value for Money and the PPP Process" was held in Zürich, Switzerland, 21-22 February 2008. The overall focus was on sharing practical experience of how countries organise the PPP process and handle the often complex issues that governments face when using PPPs. Particular issues included affordability, risk sharing, value for money, budgeting and accounting for PPPs, and the institutional and regulatory aspects.
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from 10-Jan-2008 to 11-Jan-2008
The 5th Annual Meeting of OECD-Asian Senior Budget Officials, hosted by the Bureau of the Budget of Thailand, took place in Bangkok on 10-11 January 2008.
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from 30-Oct-2007 to 31-Oct-2007
This seminar discussed evaluation for budgeting of public policies that are performed under public-private collaboration. The seminar was jointly organised by the OECD and the Spanish Secretariat of State for Finance and Budgeting, the General Control of State Administration, the Secretariat General of Budget and Expenditure, and the Direction General of Budgets.
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on 10-Nov-2007
At an international roundtable meeting in Beijing, senior officials of the Chinese Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs and of Chongqing Municipality, as well as experts from the German GTZ exchanged views with the OECD Territorial Development Policy Committee. This third roundtable in China, which took place on 10 November 2007, dealt with the development strategy of Chongqing, one of China’s four provincial-level municipalities and an economic centre for the development of the country’s west. Participants also discussed an OECD paper on Chongqing's development strategy.
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