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News & Events
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02-Oct-2009
What are the regulatory management capacities of EU countries? How do they address the challenges of moving forward their policies, institutions, and processes to ensure that the regulatory framework contributes to achieving policy objectives? These reports – the first four of a series of 15 country reports - offer a comprehensive analysis of Better Regulation policies in Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
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11-Aug-2009
The lack of competitiveness is more often a symptom than the cause of one or more underlying economic weaknesses. What is called for, then, is a comprehensive policy response that addresses the sources of the competitiveness problem, rather than targeted interventions designed directly to remedy the growing trade deficit.
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08-Jul-2009
La gouvernance pluri-niveaux devient une priorité dans de nombreux pays de l’OCDE. Ce document de travail met en évidence les questions clés de gouvernance réglementaire pluri-niveaux et contribue au développement « d’un cadre d’analyse pluri-niveaux de la gouvernance réglementaire ». Il s’appuie sur le concept de réglementation de grande qualité, sur les Principes directeurs de l’OCDE pour la qualité et la performance de la réglementation, ainsi que sur d’autres études analytiques antérieures de la gouvernance réglementaire pluri-niveaux. (disponible uniquement en anglais)
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30-Jun-2009
The 38-country OECD Working Group on Bribery welcomed recent progress by Turkey in its efforts to comply with the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. The Working Group completed its Phase 2bis review of Turkey, to assess major areas of concern identified in Turkey’s Phase 2 evaluation.
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22-Jun-2009
The dates of the upcoming meetings of the OECD Working Party of Senior Budget Officials and its networks, and related events, are listed here.
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12-Jun-2009
Multi-level regulatory governance is becoming a priority in many OECD countries. This Working Paper identifies some of the key policy issues related to multi-level regulatory governance and contributes to a “Framework for Analysis of Multi-level Regulatory Governance”, taking as a basis the concept of high quality regulation and following the OECD Guiding Principles for Regulatory Quality and Performance and previous analytical work on multi-level regulatory governance.
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09-Jun-2009
This book commemorates the 30th anniversary of the OECD Working Party of Senior Budget Officials (SBO). It brings together documents, articles and extracts from publications written by Professor Allen Schick, who has been associated with the SBO since its inception. Over the years, Professor Schick has made fundamental contributions to the art of public sector budgeting, and his work continues to be an inspiration for budgeting reform around the world.
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Events
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from 09-Jun-2008 to 10-Jun-2008
This international conference allowed for 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.
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on 28-Apr-2008
The first ever OECD Public Management Review, “Ireland: Towards an integrated Public Service”, published on Monday 28 April 2008, asseses reforms over the past 10 years, and looks at how the Public Service can work together better as an integrated whole in response to societal demands and the need to maintain competitiveness.
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from 06-Mar-2008 to 07-Mar-2008
The 2008 E-Leaders Conference brought together senior government officials responsible for e-government from OECD countries to discuss the role of e-government in 2020, the impact of e-government on economic development and the creation of an agenda for e-government and public sector delivery. The event was organised in co-operation with The Netherlands's Ministry of the Interior and Kingdgom Relations.
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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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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 05-Sep-2007
Jordan’s Legislative Strengthening Program (SUNY) and the Parliamentary Budget Office jointly organised a study visit to the OECD of Members of the Jordanian Parliament. At this occasion, Mr. Barry Anderson, Head of the Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division, OECD made a presentation on the experiences with legislative budget offices.
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from 07-Jun-2007 to 08-Jun-2007
This event brought together for the first time at the international level senior experts from executive and legislative branches in charge of legislation and policy on lobbying. Participants reviewed approaches and options for regulating lobbying in different socio-political and administrative contexts and provided directions on developing principles on transparency and accountability in lobbying. By providing concrete options for regulating lobbying when it reaches the political agenda, these principles will become a critical instrument for policy-makers.
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from 05-Mar-2007 to 06-Mar-2007
The 7th annual OECD public sector accruals symposium was held in Paris on 5-6 March 2007.
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