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News & Events
News
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03-Jun-2010
Governments may find public-private partnerships (PPPs) especially tempting in the aftermath of a financial crisis, but how can hasty choices be avoided? View the OECD Observer article.
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03-Jun-2010
Denmark is at the forefront of efforts made by countries around the world to provide and use online services and to boost a more efficient and effective public sector, more responsive to the changing needs of people and business. To maintain these excellent results, Denmark should further strengthen the whole-of-government approach towards citizen and business engagement.
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28-May-2010
The Third Annual Meeting of the OECD Roundtable of Mayors and Ministers on 'Cities and Green Growth' concluded that national and city leaders must work together to increase cities’ ability to promote green growth.
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28-May-2010
The Brazilian public sector has played a crucial role in promoting stability and fostering economic and social development. However, there is still ample scope for efficiency gains in government operations. This review provides a detailed diagnosis of the management of government employees and suggests improvements.
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11-Mar-2010
Dedicated public-private partnership (PPP) units are organisations set up with full or partial aid of the government to ensure that the skills needed to handle third-party provision of goods and services are made available and clustered together within government. Although a relatively recent phenomenon, in 2009 more than half of all OECD countries reported the existence of a dedicated unit of some kind. This book provides an overview of dedicated PPP units in OECD countries and in South Africa, an OECD enhanced engagement country.
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04-May-2010
Italy has made significant progress in cutting regulatory costs, liberalising product markets and modernising its public administrations in recent years. But it must continue along the path of regulatory reform to make its economy more competitive and speed up its recovery from the economic crisis, according to a new OECD report.
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29-Apr-2010
On 28 April 2010, Rolf Alter, Director of the OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, presents the relationship between Germany’s future economic performance and regulatory governance, the scope and content of effective regulatory policy and the importance of political and institutional leverage if regulatory policy is to have the necessary impact on developments.
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21-Apr-2010
This on-line resource captures emerging good practices, which enhance corruption prevention and good management, in public procurement. The toolbox is of value to policy makers and procurement practitioners.
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15-Apr-2010
This section contains case studies which describe successful practices to advance regulatory quality and competitiveness at sub-national level drawing from the experiences of three Mexican states: Baja California, Jalisco, and Puebla, and the provinces of British Columbia (Canada), Catalonia (Spain), and Piemonte (Italy).
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14-Apr-2010
This publication presents recent OECD research and analysis on risk and regulatory policy. The chapters discuss core challenges and offer measures for developing, or improving, coherent risk governance policies.
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Events
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from 11-Jun-2009 to 12-Jun-2009
The OECD organised a joint workshop with the Las Palmas Municipality, Gran Canaria, Spain. The workshop explored practical tools city officials can use to fight climate change and catalyse their economies.
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on 31-Mar-2009
A Ministerial-level meeting entitled 'Investing for Growth: Building Innovative Regions' was held at the OECD Headquarters in Paris. The meeting was chaired by Ms. Mari Kiviniemi, Minister of Public Administration and Local Government, Finland.
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on 15-May-2009
This workshop was organised by the OECD, METREX, l'IAU Île-de-France and Région Île-de-France. It brought together strategic planning experts from more than 40 European metropolitan areas and they shared their experiences and discussed the challenges of sustainable development and planning.
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from 19-Nov-2008 to 20-Nov-2008
Building the business case for digital identity management and understanding its fundamental role in the deployment of e-government and innovation in service delivery was the main focus of a seminar on 19-20 November 2008, held at the OECD Headquarters in Paris, where experts met to exchange experiences and good practices.
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on 17-Nov-2008
The Territorial Review of Poland highlights that while Poland has maintained high growth levels since the mid-1990s, territorial disparities are persistent and rising. This publication also explores challenges for Polish regional development policy and provides recommendations to best implement the policy mix.
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Building the Public Services of Tomorrow With, For and Around Customers
from 20-Oct-2008 to 22-Oct-2008
In his speech at the 5th Quality Conference for Public Administration in the EU, Secretary-General Angel Gurría emphasised that is it important for governments to put citizens at the centre of public services and increase their confidence in the state, especially in times of turmoil.
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from 03-Jul-2008 to 04-Jul-2008
The OECD and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Finance jointly organised a symposium on the topic "International Comparison of the Budget Cycle in Research and Development and Innovation Policies" in Madrid, 3-4 July 2008. The primary objective was to provide systematic comparisons for a limited number of OECD countries of the usefulness of R&D and innovation evaluation systems for resource allocation purposes. The symposium focused on how evaluation techniques are applied for priority setting and how they influence the availability of financial resources for RDI activities.
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on 29-Sep-2008
Government leaders, policy makers and practitioners discussed the impact of regional policy, present and future perspectives, at an international conference on “Regional Policy around the World”, held in Porto, Portugal, 29 September 2008. This conference was organised by the Portuguese Ministry of Environment, Spatial Planning and Regional Development, in co-operation with the OECD. On this occasion the report “OECD Territorial Review of Portugal” was officially launched.
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from 09-Oct-2008 to 10-Oct-2008
This high-level event, was jointly organised by the OECD, the Milan City Council and the Province of Milan. It brought together ministers, mayors, eminent personalities from the Club of Madrid (former Heads of States and Governments), prominent experts, and representatives of international organisations and government networks, to examine one of the key global challenges facing cities today - climate change. The conference looked at the relationships between urbanisation and climate change, and the implications of urban policy making in relation to competitiveness objectives.
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