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News & Events
News
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11-May-2011
The state of public finances has worsened considerably in many OECD countries. This report provides an overview of fiscal consolidation strategies (either reducing expenditures or raising taxes) to put public finances on a sustainable path.
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09-Mar-2011
What goes into sound regulation? What are the tools, strategies and processes that will result in regulatory policy that truly contributes to economic growth and society’s well-being? Among many other topics, this brochure addresses these questions.
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07-Apr-2011
Growth, due to factor productivity and innovation in the Basque country, is on the rise again following significant increases in public and private investment in innovation. This review offers some policy and governance recommendations to achieve the region’s desired transition from a model of incremental innovation in manufacturing, to a model increasingly based on science and other forms of knowledge.
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23-Mar-2011
What is the state of world economy as we enter 2011? Have we made progress over the past 12 to 18 months in putting an end to the worst economic crisis in our lifetimes and laying the foundations for a stronger, cleaner and fairer world?
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18-Mar-2011
During 2011, the OECD will undertake a Review of Regulatory Reform in Indonesia. In February 2011, a Working Group was held in Jakarta to discuss the substantive policy areas proposed for examination.
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08-Mar-2011
The Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) and Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) requested the OECD to review its procurement procedures in line with OECD intruments and good practices across its members countries.
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02-Mar-2011
Who should manage the RIA process? Who should be in charge of administrative simplification initiatives? How should Regulatory Oversight Bodies be designed, and be monitored? This Working Paper is the first international comparative analysis of the institutional setting for regulatory management and reform. The analysis focuses on what the existing ROBs actually do, classifying them into core functions.
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02-Feb-2011
Administrative simplification in Viet Nam has reached a defining moment.This report details Project 30 and related initiatives. Using international comparisons and incorporating experience from similar reforms in other countries, it explores how Viet Nam can rapidly bring about the full potential of Project 30 and introduce a complete range of regulatory reform instruments in the near future.
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01-Feb-2011
As countries formulate and implement expenditure reduction initiatives, it is important to also reform the institutional framework for budgeting. Implementing such institutional reforms should help minimise the extent of any future fiscal crisis. This note highlights key institutional elements of a reformed budget process.
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01-Feb-2011
To date, Poland has adopted a complex administrative simplification programme, based on methods successfully used in other OECD countries. It has two main streams: one focused on simplifying licences and permits, the other on measuring and reducing regulatory burdens. This report reviews the programme with the aim of helping Poland to make it and its implementation more efficient.
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Events
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on 15-Sep-2010
The production of renewable energy represents a development opportunity for rural regions in today's context of globalisation, ageing, depopulation and climate change. This workshop was held in Montreal in co-operation with the government of Québec.
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from 03-Jun-2010 to 04-Jun-2010
The financial crisis and exit strategies were among the topics discussed by senior budget officials in Athens. The members of the OECD working party also explored the relationship between budgeting and regulations, and ways to improve value for money in government.
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from 21-Jun-2010 to 22-Jun-2010
Countries increasingly evaluate the performance of regulatory programmes and agencies. One important evaluation tool are surveys of those affected by the regulations: businesses and citizens. This conference, which took place in Istanbul, explored key strategic and methodological challenges in the design and use of perception surveys.
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on 28-Jun-2010
As part of an overall project on Growing Lagging Regions, this Workshop gathered experts to discuss the key factors that have been successful in helping lagging regions reach national standards.
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on 07-Jun-2010
Regional labour mobility and regional innovation networks discussed at a Workshop of the OECD Working Party on Territorial Indicators. Experts and academics debated on analytical and policy issues related to patterns and determinants of labour flows across regions, the location of immigrants within countries and impacts on regional development; and new facts and policies for regional innovation networks.
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on 25-May-2010
This meeting worked on identifying a common policy agenda for cities’ contribution to a global green growth agenda. Participants addressed how existing models can be fine-tuned to create synergy, rather than conflict, between national and localised urban growth, sustainable development, and climate change action plans.
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from 11-Oct-2010 to 12-Oct-2010
This high-level meeting brought together senior government officials responsible for e-government to discuss strategies on improving public sector performance; open and transparent government and achieving results through monitoring performance.
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from 29-Mar-2010 to 30-Mar-2010
The OECD is working on developing a basic set of e-government performance indicators. This Workshop gathered e-government policy officials to discuss and launch the implementation of a framework and methodology for these indicators.
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on 04-Dec-2009
A joint OECD-India seminar on good e-government practices took place in New Delhi. The aim of the seminar was to exchange experiences focusing on three areas: the impact of the financial and economic crisis on e-government, strengthening leadership and organisation for successful e-government, serving citizens – becoming user-focused in e-government.
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on 18-Nov-2009
Plan Avanza highlights Spain’s leading position in the information and knowledge society. As part of its review, the OECD and the Government of Spain hosted an international workshop with policy experts of other national Information Society (IS) strategies to discuss policy design and the common challenges and shared solutions for good governance in information society strategies.
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