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27-Apr-2005
Launched in support of the Monterrey Consensus, the OECD Initiative on Investment for Development supports developing countries' sustained efforts to attract and generate more and better investment. This progress report documents work to date on the Policy Framework for Investment, building policy capacity through peer learning and on using ODA more effectively to mobilise investment for development.
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08-Apr-2005
Development Ministers and Agency Heads agree to pilot draft at the March 2005 DAC High Level Ministerial meeting in Paris. To date, DAC members have offered to lead pilots as follows: Australia and New Zealand: the Solomon Islands; Belgium: the Democratic Republic of Congo; Canada: Haiti; Norway: Sudan; Portugal: Guinea Bissau; UK: Nepal and (in collaboration with the World Bank) Somalia; UNDP and UK: Yemen. Other DAC members have indicated their interest in participating in the piloting process.
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21-Mar-2005
The scope of this study is to assess the importance of incentive systems internal to aid agencies in their efforts to deliver on the commitments made in the Rome Declaration on Harmonisation. It looks at different factors which influence individual and collective behaviour in aid agencies, and discusses whether these work for or against the adoption of harmonised practices and of the new paradigm in development cooperation based on donor coordination and country ownership.
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01-Mar-2005
Launched in support of the Monterrey Consensus, the Policy Framework for Investment is intended as a non-prescriptive checklist of issues for consideration by any interested governments engaged in domestic reform, regional co-operation or international policy dialogue aimed at creating an environment that is attractive to domestic and foreign investors and that enhances the benefits of investment to society.
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09-Feb-2005
Senior representatives of the international community agreed to improve the effectiveness of their aid to fragile states following a two-day forum in London (13-14 January, 2005), aimed at preventing fragile states from becoming marginalized from the benefits of global development and poverty reduction.
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Middle East Regional Workshop
07-Feb-2005
The Middle East Regional Workshop on Harmonisation and Alignment for Development Effectiveness and Managing for Results will be held on 8-9 February 2005 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The concept note is available.
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04-Feb-2005
The DAC will be organizing a seminar for DAC delegates in order to present the findings of a major World Bank study on Food Safety and Agricultural Health Requirements: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Country Exports...
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22-Dec-2004
From the UN Secretary-General’s 2003 Report on Implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration.
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22-Dec-2004
This paper is premised on the notion that awareness-raising and communications about the MDGs in the industrialised countries are crucial in order to remind and hold national governments accountable to their aid, trade and debt commitments, which are found in the MDGs.
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22-Dec-2004
Trade and investment, coupled with transfers of knowledge and technology and an appropriate institutional framework, have been major engines of global economic growth in developed and developing countries over the past 50 years.
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