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News & Events
News
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09-Dec-2011
Greek official development assistance was USD 508 million, amounting to 0.17% of its national income, in 2010. By volume, this represents a 28% fall over the past 2 years. In its Review of the Development Co-operation Policies and Programmes of Greece, the DAC recognises the constraints the country is facing and makes recommendations that will help Greece build a modern aid system.
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08-Dec-2011
The 2011 annual report outlines the major improvements brought about by the 5th revision of the Guidelines since they were first adopted in 1976 and describes highlights from a multi-stakeholder brainstorming on how best to implement them.
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06-Dec-2011
New data show that the member countries of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) allocated up to USD 22.9 billion, or 15% of total official development assistance (ODA), to climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries in 2010.
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06-Dec-2011
During the opening speech of the 8th National Congress on Infrastructure in Cartagena, Colombia, President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia cited Mario Pezzini, Director of the OECD Development Centre, referring to the Colombian assessment prepared by the Development Centre presenting project costs and the final cost estimate on Colombian infrastructure projects (video in Spanish).
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29-Nov-2011
Growth for the six Southeast Asian economies, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam, will be 5.0% in 2011, and is projected to be 5.6% during 2012- 2016, 2% lower than in 2010.
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24-Nov-2011
According to OECD’s latest analysis, global greenhouse gas emissions are projected to double in the next 40 years. This would result in a 3-6 degree increase of the average global temperature by the end of the century unless governments take decisive action.
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21-Nov-2011
At the Fourth High Level Forum in Busan, Korea (29 November-1 December), world leaders will examine the opportunities and challenges presented by today’s development landscape. Their aim is to unite behind a wide consensus on a new framework to support global development.
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15-Nov-2011
Twenty-four of the developing countries that undertook the 2011 Paris Declaration Monitoring Survey chose to also pilot the survey’s gender equality module. Our report compiles the main findings.
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10-Nov-2011
Responding to global economic, social and political shifts, the Netherlands is revising its approach to development co-operation, supporting the economic self-reliance of developing countries. It is focussing on 4 priorities: security and the rule of law, water, food security, and sexual and reproductive health.
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10-Nov-2011
The "Latin American Economic Outlook (LEO) 2012: Transforming the State for Development" was presented at the Peruvian Central Bank in Lima on 9 November 2011 (program and presentation available in Spanish).
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Events
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on 13-Sep-2011
The OECD and the International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council are pleased to announce an international seminar on NTMs to take place at the OECD in Paris. The discussion among high-level experts from governments, international organizations, the private sector, academic institutions and civil society organizations will address, among others, the question of acheiving greater transparency and improved policy coherence for development on both existing and planned NTMs.
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on 11-Jul-2011
Nora Lustig (Tulane University, Center for Global Development and Inter-American Dialogue) presented her latest research on poverty, inequality and public policies in Latin America at a Seminar organised by the Development Centre on 11 July at the OECD Headquarters. Decreasing returns to education and targeted conditional cash transfers contribute to explain the bulk of the reduction of inequality in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Peru during the last decade. See the presentation.
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on 21-Jul-2011
Social cohesion is the topic of the upcoming edition of the Perspectives on Global Development report which every year, identifies analyses and provides workable policy solutions for a pressing global development challenge. Having focused on major macroeconomic changes occurring in the world economy – what we call “Shifting Wealth” - in 2010, the PGD report now turns to the challenge of how we can build more cohesive societies in the new global context.
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on 13-Jun-2011
The region’s macro-economic outlook and the role of the middle classes in Latin America’s development are discussed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson and Angel Melguizo at the the Central Bank of Peru on 13 June 2011, based on the Latin American Economic Outlook 2011. The report shows that, contrary to expectations, Latin America’s middle sectors are still economically vulnerable, few have university degrees and many work in informal employment.
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The OECD Development Centre, the Ibero-American Secretariat, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Government of Mexico co-organise a policy dialogue event to discuss fiscal policy in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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on 08-Jun-2011
To support Morocco in boosting jobs and investment, the OECD has assessed the country’s business climate and targeted key areas for reform. This report was launched in Rabat, Morocco, on 8 June by the Moroccan Minister of Economic and General Affairs, Nizar Baraka, and OECD Deputy Secretary-General Richard Boucher.
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The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, OECD and the World Bank co-hosted on 27 April an international conference to formulate practical recommendations for policy implementation and programming by international and national actors in conflict-affected and fragile situations. The meeting was also an occasion to present the recently released World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security and Development.
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on 29-Jun-2011
La table ronde de 2011 fournit la première occasion d'examiner les résultats de la mise à jour des Principes directeurs à l’intention des entreprises multinationales et de commencer le travail sur les moyens de renforcer leur rôle d'instrument international de premier plan dans la promotion d'un comportement responsable des entreprises.
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on 29-Jun-2011
The 2011 Roundtable provided the first occasion to discuss the results of the update of the Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and to start work on reinforcing their role as a leading international instrument for the promotion of responsible business conduct.
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from 30-May-2011 to 01-Jun-2011
The OECD is delighted to host the 2011 Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), in partnership with the World Bank and the Government of France.
As every year, the ABCDE will bring together leading development economists and policy makers. This year, participants will reflect on the challenge of Broadening Opportunities for Development. Speakers will discuss how inequalities of opportunity affect growth and development.
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