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News & Events
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16-Sep-2008
The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation will support the Development Centre’s Latin America and Africa desks with a grant worth €450,000. The signature of the Memorandum of Understanding pledging this voluntary contribution took place on the occasion of the visit by the Spanish Ambassador to the OECD, Cristina Narbona, to the Centre.
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10-Sep-2008
The Development Centre offers a free Wikigender poster to the first 250 people who contact us. Simply choose from the list of available colours and send us an email with all necessary shipping details.
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10-Sep-2008
A year of work on the “ownership” principle of effective aid has taught us: the best development policies have buy-in from citizens, parliaments and other groups, not just from central government. Moreover, they are not just home-owned, but home-grown. Our publications and events on "ownership" have been core ingredients of last weeks discussions on the issue at the Accra High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (2-4 September).
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09-Sep-2008
Natural resources and development can go hand in hand. An OECD Development Centre Policy Brief and shorter Policy Insight analyse how countries like Chile and Norway offer lessons on how to use the bonanza from commodity exports to foster the economy and improve living conditions. The key policies: good governance, fiscal responsibility and future vision.
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09-Sep-2008
OECD Development Centre researcher Rolando Avendaño made a presentation based on the Centre's resent work on the macro management of commodity booms in Africa and Latin America at the UNU-WIDER meeting on Southern engines of global growth that took place on 5-6 September in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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02-Sep-2008
In this article published by the CEPAL Review, OECD Development Centre Director Javier Santiso analyses how Latin American multinationals, or multilatinas, compete with the largest conglomerates from the developed world in terms of their manufacturing and financial strength.
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28-Aug-2008
The OECD-DAC “Principles for Good International Engagement in Fragile States and Situations” prioritise state building as the central objective of international partnerships in fragile situations. In 2007, the DAC’s Fragile States Group (FSG) initiated a workstream on state building to assist the international community arrive at a more consistent understanding of what state building means. This fact sheet summarises the FSG’s initial findings on the nature of state building in situations of fragility.
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06-Aug-2008
This report aims to fill a significant gap and bring greater clarity to the policy discussion about state building. It offers important insights into the causes and features of fragility, and how states can reach stability and resilience over time. The report highlights that state building needs to be seen in the context of state formation and state-society relations. It provides practical recommendations for donors that wish to support national state-building processes.
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01-Aug-2008
Mokoro and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) drafted a stocktake paper which identifies and analyses donor approaches to managing risks when using country systems, the range of benefits from using country systems recognized by donors and the different types of relationships between risks and benefits recognized by donors. The stocktake was commissioned by DFID to feed into the Joint Venture on Public Financial Management’s report on the Use of Country Systems in Public Financial Management. The Stocktake Report is available here.
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30-Jul-2008
In this edition: Inclusive Globalisation; Creating More and Better Jobs; Can the Internet Make the World a Better Place?; Informal Employment in Romania
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