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News & Events
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17-Nov-2010
“Too much ‘red tape’!” is one of the most common complaints from businesses and citizens in OECD countries. Administrative simplification is a regulatory quality tool to review and reduce administrative and regulatory procedures. It has remained high on the agenda in most OECD countries over the last decade and continues to be so.
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23-Mar-2011
How can governments restore public finances and promote sound economic growth at the same time? With budget deficits stretched and public debt at historical highs, it will not be easy. But the OECD believes that with the right mix of policies much progress can be made.
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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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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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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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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 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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on 09-Sep-2005
Eight Workshop of the APEC-OECD Co-operative Initiative on Regulatory Reform, Gyeongju, Korea.
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