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News & Events
News
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23-Jul-2009
The Sourcebook is a complement to the Principles and is intended to help practitioners navigate the universe of tools and methodologies available in this field. It will be maintained virtually as a living resource on the GOVNET site. It is a compilation of existing donor methodologies and includes links to other related sources.
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22-Jul-2009
Taxation is important for governance because it can stimulate a process of negotiation and bargaining between states and their citizens. Recent work by the OECD DAC GOVNET demonstrates how taxation can contribute to more effective and accountable states.
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21-Jul-2009
Aid donors need to pay more attention to the expanding role consultants are playing in public finance management reform. Sara Fyson, in her 16 June presentation at EuropeAid headquarters outlines the role of consultants in the development business.
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09-Jul-2009
Sweden spent USD 4.73 billion on overseas development assistance (ODA) in 2008. This amounted to 0.98% of its gross national income (GNI), making Sweden the most generous DAC donor countries as a proportion of its economy. This is particularly laudable in a time of global recession.
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06-Jul-2009
This report presents the results of the second monitoring exercise of the Aid-for-Trade Initiative and documents its successes so far. It examines recent developments, presents a comprehensive analysis of donor and partner country engagement, addresses the regional dimension of aid for trade, and includes country factsheets that help assess the outcomes and impacts of aid for trade.
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02-Jul-2009
All countries need to trade, with their neighbours and globally, to sustain long-term economic growth. Some low-income countries lack the instutitions, infrastructure and supply-side capacity to benefit from open markets and lift their people out of poverty.
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30-Jun-2009
Volume 2 of the 2008 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration includes a detailed analysis for each of the 55 countries that undertook the survey. Each of the survey was managed by the national coordinator, appointed by the government, in cooperation with the local donor community.
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30-Jun-2009
How effective is aid at helping countries meet their own development objectives? Some of the answers can be found in this survey report which presents the results from the second-, follow-up survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. It assesses progress in 54 developing countries and helps us understand the challenges in making aid more effective in order to advance development.
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03-Jan-2008
The documentation for the 2008 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration is available in English, French, and Spanish and can be downloaded from the dedicated website. Fifty-six countries participated in this survey. The survey was carried out between 2 January - 31 March 2008.
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18-Jun-2009
In preparation of the next Latin American Economic Outlook 2010, the OECD Development Centre Poverty Reduction and Social Development Unit is co-organising with FLACSO a regional workshop on migration in Central America, taking place next 25 June in San José de Costa Rica.
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Events
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on 07-Oct-2008
Participants in this Global Forum Workshop discussed their experiences with innovative financing mechanisms for development. Focusing on the health sector, and drawing more particularly on a case study on the International Finance Facility for Immunisation, the aim meeting allowed for a useful lessons sharing exercise aiming at the improvement and future design of financing mechanisms. Presentations and background documents are now online.
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OECD Development Centre staff will participate at sessions on Latin America's socioeconomic prospects and the quality of education spending in the region at the fourth Ibero-American Development Agenda seminar taking place in Barcelona.
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from 17-Sep-2008 to 19-Sep-2008
On 17-19 September, we participated in an international conference organised by the Böll Foundation (Germany). Our paper on "Migration Management: The Development Countries' Perspective" stimulated a lively debate on how to improve the development impact in migrant sending regions.
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on 26-Sep-2008
Latin America is the only region in the developing world where the majority of the population lives in urban areas. The OECD and the Inter-American Development Bank presented the results of a research project assessing efforts to improve the quality of life in Latin America's rapidly growing cities.
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from 02-Sep-2008 to 04-Sep-2008
International Conference Centre, Accra, Ghana (2-4 September 2008). The Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness will reform the way developed and developing countries work together, to ensure that development assistance is well-spent and that it helps build sustainable economies that lift people out of poverty. The Forum is open to media. Journalists are welcome in the Media Centre, which is equipped with wifi. They are also invited to join a field trip to a development project near Accra.
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Le Bureau de la Banque Africaine de Développement en Tanzanie, le Centre de Développement de l'OCDE et le gouvernement Italien ont rassemblé des représentants des décideurs politiques travaillant dans le secteur du développement enTanzanie, pour discuter de l'avenir de l'agriculture dans le pays et sur le continent en général. Le séminaire qui s’est tenu à Dar-es-Salam, a permis aux experts agricoles et aux économistes de discuter avec les invités sur les crises alimentaire et pétrolière actuelles entre autres, et sur les obstacles pour accroître la productivité agricole dans la région.
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The African Development Bank Tanzania Office, the OECD Development Centre and the Italian government gathered representatives from Tanzania's development policy making community to discuss the future of agriculture in the country and on the continent as a whole. Held in Dar es Salaam, the seminar's brought agriculture experts and economists to discuss with guests, among other issues, the current food and oil crises and obstacles to increasing agricultural productivity in the region.
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on 27-Jun-2008
"Migration and Development: Policy Coherence and Effective Partnerships", organised at the 12th General Conference of EADI, took stock of what we know about the effects of migration on development. Participants shared their specific country or regional experiences to illustrate the mechanisms that link migration and development, in particular related to labour-market effects, the brain drain, remittances, diaspora networks and return migration.
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from 10-Jul-2008 to 11-Jul-2008
This meeting generated critical feedback on ongoing work for the Development Centre’s agenda on migration, gathered new insights from both academia and field practitioners and provided a platform for dialogue on key issues surrounding migration and development.
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Federica Marzo, économiste au Centre de développement de l’OCDE, et Colm Foy, directeur de la publication et des relations avec les media se sont rendus à Jérusalem pour assister à la conférence «Israël et la révolution verte africaine» qui s’est tenue au sein du ministère des Affaires étrangères israélien.
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