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News & Events
News
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03-Mar-2009
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the OECD Development Centre presents a new index to track causes of gender inequality. Drawing on 12 innovative variables, the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) explains why women in many developing countries are deprived of social and economic development. In countries with high SIGI values, building more schools or giving micro-credit to women risk being ineffective when traditions and social norms prevent girls from leaving the house alone or accessing land, technology or information.
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03-Mar-2009
The OECD's Development Centre measures discrimintation that restricts women's ability to access resources in 102 developing countries. The centre will present this new measure on 5 March 2009 at the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations.
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24-Feb-2009
The international community today is hardly in a position to avoid another genocide, as witnessed in Rwanda in 1994, despite the significant evolution of early warning systems in recent years. Preventing Violence, War and State Collapse aims to support the efforts of OECD-DAC members and other organisations active in the field of conflict prevention and peacebuilding to better integrate conflict early warning analysis and response into their programming.
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24-Feb-2009
This publication is now also available in Spanish. Set against the background of the changes in aid delivery, this report examines practices and institutional approaches to gender equality and women’s empowerment in OECD DAC members’ development co-operation agencies. It presents the key findings and conclusions of a study conducted in 2006.
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18-Feb-2009
The 2009 Development Co-operation Report calls upon the international community to stand by its commitment to fight poverty and promote economic development in poor countries.
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17-Feb-2009
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has directed attention to a sector that has traditionally been veiled in secrecy. However, it has not been effective in producing change. This article—by GDO researchers Dilan Ölcer and Helmut Reisen—analyses why so many resource-rich countries have failed to lower perceived corruption.
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12-Feb-2009
Managing for Development Results (MfDR) has fundamental importance for achieving the Paris Declaration commitments. But judging by the Paris Declaration’s indicator for progress in managing for results, progress since 2005 has been modest.
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12-Feb-2009
The Report on the Use of Country Systems in Public Financial Management is part of the Joint Venture’s ongoing work on facilitating the implementation of the Paris Declaration (2005) as it relates to PFM. The report takes stock of progress on using country systems in PFM and outlines recommendations on how best to achieve the 2010 targets as set out in the Paris Declaration and as we move to the Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness and beyond.
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09-Feb-2009
New OECD DAC publication on gender and security system reform (SSR), entitled "Integrating Gender Awareness and Equality" will provide practical guidance on how to integrate a gender perspective in SSR processes and address programming gaps in this area.
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04-Feb-2009
Compendium of Country Examples and Lessons Learned from Applying the Methodology for Assessment of National Procurement Systems
Volume I – Sharing Experiences
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Events
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from 15-Jul-2006 to 17-Jul-2006
This year's G8 Summit took place in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The top priorities laid down by President Vladimir Putin were global energy security, education and fighting infectious diseases. Go here for OECD work on these and other issues discussed at the 2006 Summit.
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from 08-Feb-2006 to 10-Mar-2006
The summary, documents and presentations from this meeting are now available.
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from 27-Mar-2006 to 29-Mar-2006
This workshop will provide representatives from Central, North and West African countries and their partner donor institutions the opportunity to identify practical actions that can be taken with respect to implementing the Paris Declaration. This workshop will be held in Bamako, Mali.
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on 21-Feb-2006
The 14-member CFA Franc Zone in West and Central Africa predate the European Monetary Union by decades. With monetary unions planned for other parts of Africa in the near future, a new WIDER study focuses on some of the challenges facing the Franc Zone today.
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from 14-Nov-2005 to 15-Nov-2005
Organised by the OECD Investment Committee in co-operation with APEC, this seminar took place on 14-15 November 2005 in Busan, Korea. Discussions focused on defining investment for development and how to encourage greater investment mobility.
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from 08-Dec-2005 to 09-Dec-2005
This Symposium, which took place in Beijing, China, focused on specific aspects of policies towards cross-border mergers and acquisitions, namely: ownership restrictions and strategic sectors; streamlining the approval process for cross-border M&As; and, strengthening corporate transparency and disclosure for more effective due diligence.
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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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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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