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News & Events
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14-Jan-2008
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría spoke at several key debates at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, from 23-27 January 2008. The subjects ranged from fighting corruption and managing financial risk to sustaining economic growth and ensuring safe water for the future.
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11-Jan-2008
In November 2007, the members of the Informal Network of DAC Development Communicators met in Lisbon for two days of brainstorming about the current state and future of development communication. The summary report gives an overview of the discussions and projects for the coming year.
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11-Jan-2008
After a slow start, public awareness about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is rising steadily in OECD countries, especially where publicity campaigns are run. Our study of three OECD countries shows that successful MDG campaigns are long-term, funded adequately, and involve local authorities, civil society organisations and the private sector.
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11-Jan-2008
The Joint Venture on Monitoring the Paris Declaration has requested that the Joint Venture for Procurement be responsible for the co-ordination and collection of Indicator 2b data as part of the 2008 monitoring exercise.
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03-Jan-2008
The documentation for the 2008 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration is now available in English and French, and Spanish and can be downloaded on the dedicated website . Fifty-six countries have confirmed that they will be undertaking this survey. The survey is to be carried out between 2 January - 31 March 2008.
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21-Dec-2007
All Tables from the 2007 Development Co-operation Report. See the latest OECD statistics that show how much aid donor country governments are giving, and to whom. How much goes to the poorest countries? How much to multilateral organisations like the United Nations? Which sectors get the most aid - economic infrastructure or social programmes?
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20-Dec-2007
Findings of the report were presented to the Dutch Minister for Development Co-operation, Mr. Bert Koenders. The report was also introduced to German Technical Co-operation (GTZ), in the framework of a conference on “Mobility for Local and Regional Labour Markets”.
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18-Dec-2007
International Migrants Days, marking the anniversary of the adoption of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families in 1990, reminds the international community of the importance of guaranteeing human rights and fundamental freedoms to migrants. As highlighted by the work of the OECD Development Centre, migrants are becoming an increasingly central aspect of globalisation, with important effects on the development processes in sending countries.
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12-Dec-2007
Ghana illustrates the powerful impact of economic incentives on private sector-led growth and poverty reduction. But this growth, largely driven by cocoa and gold exports, owes a lot to favourable circumstances and has failed to transform the structure of the economy. A POVNET workshop considered how to address the challenges to promoting more pro-poor growth in Ghana. Doing so will require urgent improvements in services, especially public services, in infrastructure (electricity, water and roads), education, health and agriculture.
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11-Dec-2007
Final data show that total official development assistance (ODA) from member countries of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) fell by 4.5% in 2006 to USD 104.4 billion. This represents 0.31% of these countries’ combined gross national income (GNI). In real terms this is the first fall in ODA since 1997, though the level is still the highest recorded with the exception of 2005.
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Events
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from 24-Oct-2005 to 25-Oct-2005
The logic of analysing "governance-investment interactions" is to identify and explain which governance institutions and practises have an important influence on the behaviour of investors, and how those institutions and practises exercise that influence in the country
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from 25-Oct-2005 to 27-Oct-2005
Hosted by the Government of Brazil with the support of the BNDES and organised under the auspices of the OECD Investment Committee in partnership with the World Bank, this conference aimed to draw lessons from Brazil’s experience with improving the enabling environment for investment and sustainable growth. It also focused on strengthening developing country perspectives on the Policy Framework for Investment.
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from 05-Jul-2005 to 06-Jul-2005
Hosted by the Government of Indonesia and organised under the auspices of the OECD Investment Committee in co-operation with UNESCAP and ADB, this conference focused on investment for development, improving the investment climate, ODA/investment synergies and the policy framework for investment.
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Workshop on Policy Coherence for Development, Paris, France
on 09-May-2005
OECD -country policies regarding aid, trade, migration and foreign investment have complicated interactions in their effects on developing countries. Nevertheless, policy-makers and researchers have tended to formulate and analyse these policies separately. The OECD Development Centre is co-ordinating new research on the joint impact upon developing economies of rich-country policies in these four domains.
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on 04-Apr-2005
Paris, France. The Steering Group meeting focused on reviewing progress to date and next steps in implementing the MENA-OECD Investment Programme. The key areas of focus were transparent and open investment policies, investment promotion, a tax framework for investment, policies for financial sector and enterprise development and corporate governance practices.
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from 25-May-2005 to 27-May-2005
Organised in the context of the NEPAD/OECD Africa Investment Initiative, this Roundtable held in Entebbe, Uganda, on 25-27 May 2005, focused on the regulatory environment for foreign direct investment in African countries and private participation in infrastructure and the utilities sectors.
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from 28-Feb-2005 to 02-Mar-2005
The High Level Forum on Joint Progress toward Enhanced Aid Effectiveness (Harmonisation, Alignment and Results) was held in Paris from 28 February - 2 March 2005.
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from 07-Mar-2005 to 08-Mar-2005
Organised in the context of the OECD/NEPAD Investment Initiative, this conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 7-8 March 2005 focused on an emerging integrity framework for Africa and business perspectives on integrity and transparency in the African context.
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from 13-Jan-2005 to 14-Jan-2005
The OECD DAC, the European Commission, the UNDP and the World Bank convened a Senior Level Forum on Development Effectiveness in Fragile States, which was hosted by DFID at the Lancaster House in London, on 13-14 January, 2005.
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from 09-Dec-2004 to 10-Dec-2004
This Forum was organised jointly by DAC and Transparency International and took take place at the Pierre Mendès Conference Centre at the French Ministry of Economy and Finance (Bercy) on 9-10 December. It brought together senior officials and leading actors in the field of anti-corruption from both member and partner countries.
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