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News & Events
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02-Apr-2008
Growth alone is not enough to meet MDG poverty reduction targets in Cambodia. Most poor people still live in rural areas and have not benefited sufficiently from the growth process driven by garment exports, tourism and construction. Expanding and maintaining infrastructure assets is central to making growth more pro poor. Priority areas where development partners can help Cambodia to increase the impact of infrastructure on pro-poor growth include supporting a country led implementation framework, aligning their programmes with it, and developing infrastructure maintenance systems.
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01-Apr-2008
Expert policymakers and academics discussed in Beijing OECD Development Centre's research on China's growing influence in Latin America. The event, chaired by OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría, was hosted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and its Institute for Latin American Studies.
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31-Mar-2008
This report with tables and charts summarizes statistics on aid focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment extended by each DAC member in 2005-2006.
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12-Feb-2008
This publication shows how family and kinship structures, traditions and social norms can be instrumental in improving development outcomes. It offers concrete examples from the areas of governance, gender equality and private sector development. The publication is based on the conclusions of an international seminar organised jointly by the Development Centre and the DAC’s Network on Governance (GOVNET).
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19-Mar-2008
The Canadian government launched the OECD Security System Reform Handbook on 25 February 2008 in Ottawa.
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12-Mar-2008
The DAC Evaluation Resource Centre now contains over 1700 development evaluation reports published by Evaluation Network members. The site is updated continuously.
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12-Mar-2008
The Latin American Economic Outlook was successfully presented in Brasilia, hosted by the Central Bank of Brazil, and in Rio de Janeiro, at the Spring annual meeting of the Institute of International Finance.
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12-Mar-2008
The Istituto Italo-Latino Americano hosted the presentation in Italy of the Latin American Economic Outlook, which gathered top representatives from the Italian government, Latin American embassies and companies with investments in the region.
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12-Mar-2008
The Latin American Economic Outlook was the object of interesting roundtable discussions in Bern. The Swiss Development Cooperation Agency made the report findings the object of its "Traverse" debate series on international cooperation topics.
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12-Mar-2008
OECD Secretary General, Angel Gurría, and new Development Centre Director, Javier Santiso, participated at various seminars and roundtable discussions on Latin America at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos. They shared the conclusions of the Latin American Economic Outlook with a selected audience of policy makers and business leaders.
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Events
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from 20-Jun-2007 to 21-Jun-2007
This Forum sought to build support for an agenda to radically improve the availability of medicines for neglected and emerging infectious diseases that primarily affect the developing world. Participants included OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría, high level policymakers from the aid, health and scientific communities from OECD Member countries and developing countries, as well as private sector representatives.
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from 14-Mar-2007 to 15-Mar-2007
Organised by the World Bank Institute, OECD, and the Belgian government, this two-day event centered on the challenges of creating good governance with the cooperation of the private sector. With more than 400 participants from countries around the world, this event integrated innovative use of technology with an interactive, results-oriented conference format with the hope of creating concrete recommendations for future work.
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La mise en œuvre successive des plans d'allègement de la dette PPTE et IADM ont permis de réduire considérablement la charge du service de la dette pour les pays africains qui en ont bénéficié. Dotés d'une solvabilité restaurée et par ailleurs confrontés à des besoins de financement importants, ces pays souhaitent désormais se ré-endetter. Ce Repère dont la publication fait suite à un séminaire d'experts consacré aux économies africaines et organisé conjointement le 8 juin 2006 par l'AFD et le Centre de Développement, évalue les conditions d'un tel processus de ré-endettement.
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from 23-Jan-2007 to 24-Jan-2007
Policymakers from Southeast Asian and OECD countries will meet in Jakarta on 23-24 January 2007 to discuss the role and utility of the ‘peer review’ mechanism which is at the heart of the OECD’s working methods, with a view to providing direction for policy reform and enhanced international co-operation.
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on 17-Jan-2007
Will China remain open to foreign investment? What sort of investor will China be abroad? Click here to read the questions and answers from this online debate with OECD economist Ken Davies about investment and China.
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from 12-Dec-2006 to 14-Dec-2006
The Government of Uganda hosted the Africa regional meeting on procurement capacity development in Kampala. This event was sponsored by the African Development Bank and the Africa Region of the World Bank in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the OECD-DAC Joint Venture for Procurement.
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from 29-Nov-2006 to 30-Nov-2006
The OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development, in cooperation with the World Bank and Agence Française de Développement, will discuss how governments in developing countries can work with local private water companies to provide affordable safe water and basic sanitation, and the role donors, the financial sector and international private water companies should play .
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from 11-Dec-2006 to 12-Dec-2006
The aim of this seminar, jointly organised by the OECD Development Centre & the DAC Network on Governance, was to take stock of the role of informal institutions in the development process; to assess their impact on development outcomes; to analyze the linkages and possible conflicts between informal and formal institutions; to derive policy lessons on how best to put informal institutions to the service of development; and, to identify areas for future work and collaboration.
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from 27-Nov-2007 to 28-Nov-2007
Organised in Lusaka, Zambia, this roundtable looked at developing policy capacity building tools that will help NEPAD countries improve the investment related content of Africa’s peer review process (APRM) and support implementation of investment climate reform policies, with a specific focus on the investment environment conditions conducive to attracting investment for development in the water and sanitation sector.
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from 06-Nov-2006 to 07-Nov-2006
Organised in Istanbul, Turkey, the 2006 Global Forum on International Investment focused on international investor participation in infrastructure and investment policy using the Policy Framework for Investment.
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