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News & Events
OECD attaches great importance to co-operation with business, labour, parliamentarians, civil society and the general public. They make an important contribution to the work of the OECD. This co-operation builds trust in public institutions and promotes understanding of economic and social change.
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26-Nov-2007
Chile remains a strong performer. Exemplary macroeconomic management continues to deliver robust public finances and low, albeit recently rising, inflation. Structural reform is ongoing, ranging from improvements in regulation to a strengthening of social protection, including through much-needed further pension reform. Growth is on the rise, contributing to further reducing Chile’s still sizeable income gap relative to the OECD area, reducing poverty and improving income distribution.
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23-Nov-2007
Innovation is a major factor of economic growth and performance in the globalised economy. Innovation brings new technologies and new products that help address global challenges such as health or the environment. New ways of producing goods and delivering services boost productivity, create jobs and can help improve citizens’ quality of life.
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27-Sep-2007
Over one thousand five hundred people came together at OECD Forum 2007 to discuss and debate the hottest issues on the international policy agenda. The full story of OECD Forum 2007 is told in the Highlights magazine - download an electronic copy or request a paper copy by sending a message to oecd.forum@oecd.org.
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29-Jun-2007
1. OECD Forum 2007 Innovation, Growth and Equity
2. New OECD Recommendation sets higher environmental standards in order to qualify for export credits backing
3. OECD Adopts OECD Principles for Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure
4. Calendar of recent or upcoming OECD events with Civil Society
5. OECD Publications
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15-Feb-2007
At the 52nd Annual session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Quebec, national parliamentarians from Europe and North America adopted four final Economic and Security Committee reports.
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09-Feb-2007
The OECD welcomed the opportunity to cooperate with the UK charity One World Trust in its preparation of its 2006 Global Accountability Report, an assessment of the overall accountability of 30 international organisations including intergovernmental organisations (IGOs), non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and transnational corporations (TNCs). The OECD is one of seven organisations with an overall score of over 50 percent in three of the four areas used as criteria for measuring accountability.
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04-Jan-2007
After several false starts, the economic recovery has taken hold. Activity was strong in 2006, firms and households are more confident about the future, business investment has picked up and unemployment has fallen below 8% for the first time since 2001.
How strong is the economic recovery? Is monetary union working well? Can it work better? How can monetary policy be improved? Is the fiscal situation improving? Have the changes to the SGP helped? What other fiscal reforms would help?
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29-Nov-2006
I. Can governments be trusted?
II. OECD Session at WTO Public Forum “What WTO For The 21st Century?”
III. The Africa Partnership Forum
IV. OECD Calendar of Recent and Upcoming Events with Civil Society
V. Publications
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18-Oct-2006
Substantial progress in macroeconomic stabilisation and institutional reform has laid a foundation for strong GDP growth. However, the recent inflation shock and turmoil in the financial markets highlight Turkey’s on-going vulnerabilities. A further comprehensive programme of structural reform would increase productivity growth, expand the formal sector of the economy and consolidate macroeconomic stability.
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13-Sep-2006
Some one thousand four hundred people came together at OECD Forum 2006 to discuss and debate the hottest issues on the international policy agenda. The full story of OECD Forum 2006 is told in the Highlights magazine - download an electronic copy or request a paper copy by sending a message to oecd.forum@oecd.org.
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Events
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on 23-Feb-2006
How to maintain pension levels when, by 2050, there might well be only one person in employment for every person in retirement? How to control costs of long-term care, make it available to the most needy, and roll back the onset of disability in old-age? This seminar was an opportunity for parliamentarians to share the conclusions of recent OECD work on ageing and discuss challenges facing all OECD countries as a result of their ageing populations.
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on 07-Dec-2005
The real estate bubble is the topic of a seminar jointly organised by the OECD and the CEPII Club (Centre d'études prospectives d'informations internationals) 7 December 2005 at the OECD. Participants will debate such questions as « Is the real estate bubble only temporary or is it a permanent phenomenon? How does it relate to the world of finance? Will the bubble burst, or will there be a soft landing?”
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on 16-Jun-2005
Parliamentarians have a key role to play in helping governments and societies maximise the benefits of globalisation and minimise the drawbacks. The service sector is the largest producer of jobs, and providing the best possible climate for services to continue to grow and prosper is an important factor in addressing the challenges of globalisation.
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on 23-Feb-2005
An OECD High Level Parliamentary Seminar on education took place at OECD headquarters in Paris on Wednesday 23 February 2005, featuring the latest results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), an internationally standardised assessment jointly developed by participating countries and administered to 15-year-olds. Other pertinent work of the OECD in the area of education was presented to Parliamentarians. See the presentation or more information on previous OECD activities with parliamentarians
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from 02-May-2005 to 03-May-2005
The Forum contributes to the openness of the OECD to civil society; enhances the visibility of the OECD's work; and constitutes a "multi-stakeholder consultation" for the annual meeting of OECD ministers.
Themes for the Forum included the world economy, trade and investment, energy, and development.
Keynote speakers included Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson.
More details of the OECD Forum 2005 programme may be found on the dedicated Web site .
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on 07-Oct-2004
Parliamentarians have a key role to play in helping governments and societies to improve corporate governance standards, and thereby improve the foundations for economic growth and development the world over. At this seminar, the OECD will present its work on corporate governance, including the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance. The Principles, first issued in 1999, provide a set of corporate governance standards to guide policy makers, parliamentarians, regulators, investors and other private sector actors.
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from 12-May-2004 to 13-May-2004
The OECD Forum 2004, Health of Nations, tackled some of the key issues on the international policy agenda, such as the health of the global economy, the health of multilateral co-operation and the health of our citizens. The Forum is a multi-stakeholder summit which brings together leaders from business, government, labour and civil society, and takes place at the same time as the annual OECD Ministerial summit. It involves the participation of an important number of OECD and non-OECD Ministers
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-- OECD Forum -- 3-4 June 2008 Paris
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