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02-Jul-2010
Read the new OECD-WTO publication "Aid for Trade: Is It Working?" The policy brief can be downloaded from here .
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30-Jun-2010
The 2010 scores for the OECD FDI Index, now available for 48 countries, including all G-20 members, and 22 sectors, show that many non-OECD countries have become as open as OECD countries and, in a few cases, even more so.
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23-Jun-2010
The international community has continued to mobilise new aid-for-trade resources. In 2008 commitments totaled USD 41.7 billion, a 35% increase in real terms from 2007, and an increase of 62% from the 2002-05 baseline. The scale of the rise was such that aid for trade now reaches 37% of sector allocable ODA, up from 32% in 2007.
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16-Jun-2010
The economic and financial crisis is accelerating a longer-term structural transformation in the global economy, with the aggregate economic weight of developing and emerging economies on the verge of surpassing that of the countries that currently make up the advanced world, according to new analysis from the OECD Development Centre.
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16-Jun-2010
Forecasts in the newly-released Perspectives on Global Development: Shifting Wealth suggest that the aggregate economic weight of developing and emerging economies is about to surpass that of the countries that currently make up the advanced world. Longer-term forecasts suggest that today’s developing and emerging countries are likely to account for nearly 60% of world GDP by 2030. The report was launched on 16 June at the OECD HQ in Paris by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary General and Mario Pezzini, Director ad interim, OECD Development Centre.
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Joint meeting of the DAC and the Working Party of the Trade Committee on Aid for Trade held on 7 June
15-Jun-2010
Members of the DAC and the Working Party of the Trade Committee as well as representatives from the African Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, ILO, UNDP, UNIDO, the World Bank and WTO met in OECD on 7 June to discuss ongoing OECD work on improving the effectiveness of aid for trade. For the first time the joint meeting was joined by Ambassador Erwidodo of Indonesia, the Chair of the WTO Committee on Trade and Development.
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14-Jun-2010
Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary General, Mario Pezzini, Director OECD Development Centre and Pierre-Noël Giraud, Professor of Economy, Mines ParisTech will launch the first Perspectives on Global Development: Shifting Wealth at the OECD HQ in Paris on 16 June.
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28-May-2010
This report aims to help OECD DAC members and partners to improve their policies and modalities for providing rapid, flexible and predictable financing to situations emerging from conflict and fragility.
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24-May-2010
The 2010 African Economic Outlook was launched at the African Development Bank’s Annual Meetings in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. This year’s edition finds the continent reeling from the effects of the world’s deepest and most widespread recession in half a century. The good news is that the region has proved remarkably resilient to the downturn. Average growth is expected to rebound in 2010 and in 2011, although the recession will leave its mark.
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20-May-2010
The OECD Development Centre co-organised a workshop with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Corporation for Andean Development (CAF) on Financing Infrastructures in Latin America.
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Events
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from 07-Mar-2005 to 08-Mar-2005
Organised in the context of the OECD/NEPAD Investment Initiative, this conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 7-8 March 2005 focused on an emerging integrity framework for Africa and business perspectives on integrity and transparency in the African context.
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on 19-Nov-2004
This meeting, which took place in Paris, explored the complementary roles of the MENA-OECD Investment Programme and the G-8 Investment Task Force in promoting key reforms to improve the investment climate and fostering private sector development in the MENA region.
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from 19-Oct-2004 to 19-Nov-2004
Hosted by the Government of India and supported by the Confederation of Indian Industry, this Roundtable launched co-operation between the OECD and India on investment policy transparency and openness, corporate responsibility and experience with internation agreements.
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on 07-Oct-2004
On 7 October 2004, experts and policy makers debated a central aspect of this deficit in the growth of southern Africa: the weakness of domestic and foreign investment. One of the main aims of the discussion was to explain the high cost of capital faced by both government and the private sector on the local capital markets, and to evaluate the economic impact of these costs.
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from 19-Oct-2004 to 21-Oct-2004
New Delhi, India. Hosted by the Government of India and supported by the Confederation of Indian Industry, the conference advanced the role of international co-operation in enhancing the investment environment in developing countries.
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from 11-Feb-2004 to 12-Feb-2004
Istanbul, 11-12 February 2004. The primary purpose of this meeting was to better assess the needs of MENA countries, identify priorities in the field of investment, both domestic and foreign, and to develop an outline of what the OECD could offer in these areas in close co-operation with other international and regional partners.
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on 08-Sep-2003
8 September 2003, Geneva. Hosted by the government of Switzerland, the first inaugural meeting of the OECD-Africa Investment Advisory Board will discuss issues related to attracting and utilising investment as a vehicle for growth and development in Africa and guiding the design and implementation of the OECD-Africa Investment Initiative, as well as to achieving synergies with bilateral and multilateral organisations already working in Africa.
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