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29-Nov-2007
Getting family-friendly policies right will help reduce poverty, promote child development, enhance equity between men and women and stem the fall in birth-rates, according to a new OECD report. Babies and Bosses, Reconciling Work and Family Life compares the different approaches that the 30 OECD countries take to help parents balance their work and family commitments.
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08-Nov-2007
Italy should cut red tape, improve the way new rules affecting citizens and business are drafted at a regional level and strengthen co-ordination between the State and the regions. This will boost innovation and competition and improve the economic performance of Italian regions, according to a new OECD report.
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25-Oct-2007
This second edition of the OECD Budget Practices and Procedures Database has been extensively revised and shortened. The data cover the entire budget cycle: preparation, approval, execution, accounting and audit, and performance information. The purpose is to provide budget practitioners and academics the opportunity to compare and contrast national budgeting and financial management practices with a view to share experiences and best practices.
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10-Oct-2007
Continuous growth in life expectancy, often at a more rapid rate than forecast, creates financial challenges for retirement-income systems. Most countries have responded with pension reforms to contain rising pension costs. Around two-thirds of reforms will automatically link future pensions to changes in life expectancy.
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02-Oct-2007
Across the OECD area, governments are placing emphasis on reforming and reviewing regulation. Their efforts are contributing to a transparent administration and a competitive business environment, one where the cost of doing business is low.
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02-Oct-2007
Administrative simplification is becoming a priority of OECD countries seeking
to improve public governance and regulatory quality. Cutting red tape will
improve the framework for doing business, thus stimulating competitiveness and growth. The Netherlands have been a main driver in the trend towards more
evidence-based programmes to reduce administrative burdens on companies
and was among the first to launch a 25% burden reduction programme.
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13-Aug-2007
Political involvement in administration is essential for the proper functioning of a democracy. Without this an incoming political administration would find itself unable to change policy direction. However public services need protection against being misused for partisan purposes, they need technical capacity which survives changes of government, and they need protection against being used to impair the capacity of future governments to govern.
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25-Sep-2007
The review of human resource management in government in Belgium is the first country review of its kind to be carried out by the OECD. It builds on the work of the OECD Public Employment and Management Working Party (PEMWP) under the leadership of the OECD Public Governance Committee. The overall framework for the review was agreed by the PEMWP at its annual meeting in 2006. The report on Belgium reviews the design and implementation of government HRM policies within the context of larger government values.
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04-Sep-2007
The 2007 edition of the OECD Employment Outlook has been released in June. It addresses labour markets in the BRICs; the impact of labour market policies on productivity; the vulnerability of workers in the global economy; the financing of social protection; anf the way countries activate the unemployed.
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Events
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from 18-Jul-2005 to 19-Jul-2005
The first meeting of Regional Working Group I brought together high-level participants from many Arab countries, as well as from UNDP, World Bank, EU, OECD and ARADO. Participants identified the following four specific focus areas for the policy dialogue of the working group: Integrity and prevention of corruption: tools, measures and instruments; HRM reform and reduction in wage bill costs; Fiscally affordable pay reform which creates incentives for performance; Simplification of administrative procedures and customer responsiveness.
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from 06-Mar-2006 to 07-Mar-2006
6th Meeting of the SBO Network on Fiscal Management held in Paris, 6-7 March 2006.
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from 16-Feb-2006 to 17-Feb-2006
The second meeting of the OECD-CESEE SBO Network took place 16-17 February 2006, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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from 15-Dec-2005 to 16-Dec-2005
OECD member countries and Asian countries met to discuss budgeting issues and reforms.
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on 28-Nov-2005
Ministers responsible for modernising government met in Rotterdam on 28 November to discuss ways to strengthen public trust.
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from 06-Feb-2005 to 07-Feb-2005
The Good Governance for Development in Arab Countries Programme (GfD) was launched at a Ministerial meeting hosted by his Excellency King Abdullah the II in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan at the Dead Sea on 6 and 7 February 2005. This Arab regional initiative in partnership with OECD and UNDP aims to support on-going public governance reform processes in the Arab region by creating a regional network for policy dialogue and enhancing capacity for policy reform. [more...]
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