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News & Events
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28-Oct-2011
The Latin American Economic Outlook 2012: Transforming the State for Development was presented by OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría and ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena during the XXI Iberoamerican Summit in Asunción, Paraguay on 28 October 2011.
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28-Oct-2011
This paper studies the political economy aspects and the policy making process of reforms in what authors identify as the five critical steps through the “life cycle” of a policy reform: the Planning, Dialogue, Adoption, Implementation and Sustainability stages.
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27-Oct-2011
Latest figures show international M&A investment in 2011 at high levels despite the economic turmoil, including the unfolding sovereign debt crisis in Europe and persistent economic weakness in the United States.
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25-Oct-2011
The OECD is pleased to launch on 1 November its International Platform on Policy Coherence for Development. The Platform seeks to respond to demand for an online “one-stop-shop” on PCD resources and is open to all stakeholders – OECD members, partner countries, CSOs, the private sector and other organisations. It is intended to be an interactive tool that will be built up gradually with your help. Visit the Platform at: https://community.oecd.org/community/pcd
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21-Oct-2011
Economic reform must accompany political transition if the root causes of the Arab Spring are to be addressed and jobs created for the 2.8 million young people who enter the labour market every year, according to a joint report released today by the OECD and the World Economic Forum.
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10-Oct-2011
Asia’s growth will moderate in the coming months according to the latest Asian Business Cycle Indicators (ABCIs).
Global uncertainty casts a shadow over Asian economies with deterioration in business and consumer sentiments and a negative reaction in financial markets.
Asian countries need to be vigilant over macroeconomic management amid big uncertainty in the coming months.
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26-Sep-2011
The impact of democratic transitions on budgeting and public expenditures in Latin America was presented by Angel Melguizo at the 4th Annual Meeting of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Senior Budget Officials. The meeting was organised by the OECD Directorate of Public Governance and the Lebanese Finance Ministry in Beirut, September 21-22, 2011. Representants from 11 MENA countries and international experts from UNDP, IMF, WB, EC debated on recent developments and challenges for public budgeting in the MENA region. For more details, click here.
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22-Sep-2011
To help achieve higher, more inclusive, sustainable growth for the widest number of countries, the OECD is preparing a Strategy on Development. We are consulting with a broad range of stakeholders to identify how the OECD can strengthen knowledge sharing with developing countries, apply a comprehensive approach to development and enhance policy coherence for development. These consultations follow endorsement of the Framework for an OECD Strategy for Development at the 2011 OECD Ministerial Council Meeting in May 2011.
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24-Aug-2011
The International Economic Forum on Africa, organised by the OECD Development Centre with the African Development Bank, the UN Commission for Africa and the UNDP has grown to become the largest annual public event on Africa in Europe. This year, the Forum celebrated its 11th anniversary with hundreds of journalists, business people, development co-operation professionals, researchers, civil society representatives and students coming together to hear and engage with a panel of experts discussing the findings of the African Economic Outlook (AEO).
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Events
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Social cohesion will be the topic of the next 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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from 07-Apr-2011 to 08-Apr-2011
This roundtable looked at how investment policies can contribute to the recovery from the global crisis and improve the development prospects across Asia. It also considered how the G20 Seoul Development Consensus for Shared Growth can promote private sector involvement and innovation.
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from 06-Jul-2011 to 08-Jul-2011
This conference, which took place in Bogotá, Colombia, focused on investing in infrastructure for jobs and development in Latin Ameria, with a particular emphasis on the role of private investment and on how to have successful public-private partnerships.
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from 28-Mar-2011 to 29-Mar-2011
On 28-29 March 2011, an expert workshop will take place at the OECD Paris headquarters to focus on sequencing policy reform and making policies complementary to trade reform in order to help developing countries turn trade opportunities into trade flows, and trade flows into economic growth. Consult the draft agenda.
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on 15-Mar-2011
This seminar will look at the complex relationship between inequality and financial crises and the implications for social cohesion. Sir Tony Atkinson, Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College in Oxford will first examine the impact of the recent financial upheaval on inequality and social cohesion. In the second part of his presentation he will focus on the role of inequality in the origins of the crisis.
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from 26-Apr-2011 to 27-Apr-2011
African Ministers called on the G20 to accelerate development of infrastructure and boost agricultural investment for food security during the NEPAD-OECD Africa Investment Initiative ministerial conference in Dakar, Senegal.
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on 13-Dec-2010
Discussions at this special consultation with stakeholders focussed on human rights, employment and labour, due diligence, supply chains and procedural provisions, including those relating to the functioning of National Contact Points.
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on 03-Nov-2010
A forthcoming OECD report on sector competitiveness in Kazakhstan suggests that the country has a strong competitiveness and FDI potential in key non-energy sectors such as agri-business, fertilizers, logistics, business services and information technology.
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on 01-Nov-2010
The first OECD investment policy review of Indonesia highlights priority actions Indonesia can implement to improve the business environment and attract new foreign investors. Both this report and the latest economic survey of Indonesia were released by the OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría at a launch event in Jakarta on 1 November 2010.
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