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News & Events
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07-Feb-2011
Ten years ago, corporate governance was a nascent concept in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This article charts the evolution of corporate governance across the MENA region over this time and proposes potential avenues for future work in this area.
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02-Feb-2011
Administrative simplification in Viet Nam has reached a defining moment.This report details Project 30 and related initiatives. Using international comparisons and incorporating experience from similar reforms in other countries, it explores how Viet Nam can rapidly bring about the full potential of Project 30 and introduce a complete range of regulatory reform instruments in the near future.
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01-Feb-2011
To date, Poland has adopted a complex administrative simplification programme, based on methods successfully used in other OECD countries. It has two main streams: one focused on simplifying licences and permits, the other on measuring and reducing regulatory burdens. This report reviews the programme with the aim of helping Poland to make it and its implementation more efficient.
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28-Jan-2011
This Guide was presented by Angel Gurria, OECD Secretary-General, at a conference in Mexico. It provides concrete recommendations of high-impact reforms to improve the processes to start-up a business, obtain construction permits, register property, procurement, and upgrade regulatory transparency and efficiency in the management of formalities.
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06-Dec-2010
This peer review sets out recommendations to improve Panama’s competition regime such as increasing efforts to fight cartels and strengthening public understanding of the importance of competition. Produced in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank, this report is available in English and Spanish .
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03-Dec-2010
Denmark is a leader in using ICT to improve the delivery of public services and to boost a more efficient and effective public sector. To maintain these excellent results, Denmark should further strengthen the whole-of-government approach towards citizen and business engagement, says OECD report.
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19-Nov-2010
Export restrictions on raw materials can have a negative impact on allocation of resources, international trade and the competitiveness and development of industries in both importing and exporting countries. This collection of papers looks at the economic effects of these restrictions, including case studies of specific materials and countries.
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27-May-2011
The OECD has released revised Guidelines on Insurer Governance following a comprehensive review and public consultations. The Guidelines are intended to provide guidance and serve as a reference point for insurers, governmental authorities, and other relevant stakeholders in OECD and non-OECD countries.
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12-Oct-2010
The OECD convened the 2010 E-Leaders Meeting on 11-12 October in Brussels, Belgium as part of continuing efforts to help member countries plan and implement their e-government strategies.
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Events
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from 29-Mar-2010 to 30-Mar-2010
The OECD is working on developing a basic set of e-government performance indicators. This Workshop gathered e-government policy officials to discuss and launch the implementation of a framework and methodology for these indicators.
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from 25-May-2010 to 26-May-2010
How have things progressed in Asia and what are the remaining obstacles to sound corporate governance? The Task Force met in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to agree new challenges and priorities.
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on 04-Dec-2009
A joint OECD-India seminar on good e-government practices took place in New Delhi. The aim of the seminar was to exchange experiences focusing on three areas: the impact of the financial and economic crisis on e-government, strengthening leadership and organisation for successful e-government, serving citizens – becoming user-focused in e-government.
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from 02-Mar-2010 to 03-Mar-2010
This second Global Network meeting brought together participants from more than 45 countries, and focused on Governance Reforms, namely SOE board nomination, functioning and evaluation; and establishing, organising and reforming SOE ownership entities.
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from 01-Dec-2009 to 02-Dec-2009
Taking into account corporate governance lessons from the global financial crisis, the Latin American Roundtable on Corporate Governance concluded its 10th annual meeting by agreeing in principle to a revised set of recommendations aimed at encouraging institutional investors to exercise their ownership rights responsibly and promote better corporate governance of companies in the region.
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from 29-Jan-2010 to 30-Jan-2010
The OECD Economics Department, the department of International Institutional Comparisons of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, and CESifo will organize a joint workshop in Munich on market regulations, with a special focus on product market regulations. The conference is intended to encourage further research in the area of market regulations, and to stimulate interaction and co-operation in these fields.
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on 18-Nov-2009
Plan Avanza highlights Spain’s leading position in the information and knowledge society. As part of its review, the OECD and the Government of Spain hosted an international workshop with policy experts of other national Information Society (IS) strategies to discuss policy design and the common challenges and shared solutions for good governance in information society strategies.
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from 16-Feb-2012 to 17-Feb-2012
Taking place in Paris, discussions at this event will address price volatility in commodities, international co-operation in cartel investigations and state-owned enterprises and competitive neutrality.
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on 06-Nov-2009
This Symposium discussed strategic directions for the future of regulatory reform. Current and emerging regulatory policy challenges are truly global and the Regulatory Policy Committee will help to move this agenda forward.
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from 11-Jun-2009 to 12-Jun-2009
This workshop brought together European and national officials involved in the implementation of Directive 2006/123 EC on services in the internal market. The workshop took place on 11-12 June 2009 at the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht (NL).
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