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02-Apr-2009
Les Ministres responsables du développement régional se sont réunis à l’OCDE pour débattre des conséquences de la crise financière sur les régions urbaines et rurales et proposer des moyens de relancer l’économie.
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OECD Ministers call for Regional Responses to Global Crisis
31-Mar-2009
Ministers responsible for regional development met at OECD to discuss the serious impact of the financial crisis on urban and rural regions and suggest ways to stimulate the economy.
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26-Mar-2009
The OECD has launched this new publication which aims to learn how indicator systems can be used as a governance tool in a regional policy context, with a particular focus on the role of monitoring.
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OECD Regions at a Glance: measures of national and regional competitiveness
24-Mar-2009
There is wide economic disparity between regions within OECD countries, with some leading national economies and others falling behind. As governments work to grow their economies, they should examine the role that boosting all regions can play in this effort.
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Economic crisis threatens China’s rural strategy, says OECD
24-Mar-2009
China should speed up investment in rural services and infrastructure and create jobs in non-agricultural sectors for returning migrants. This will help offset the fast-rising impact of the economic slowdown on the rural economy.
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23-Mar-2009
OECD launches 'Regions at a Glance 2009' the one-stop guide for understanding regional competitiveness and performance. This third edition provides the latest comparable data and trends across regions in OECD countries, including a special focus on the spatial dimension for innovation.
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23-Mar-2009
The OECD will launch this publication in April 2009. The report analyses the key socio-economic forces at work in China's rural areas and discusses the current government strategy for rural development.
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23-Mar-2009
The OECD will hold a Ministerial-level meeting entitled 'Investing for Growth: Building Innovative Regions' on 31 March 2009. The meeting will be held at the OECD Headquarters in Paris and will be chaired by Ms. Mari Kiviniemi, Minister of Public Administration and Local Government, Finland.
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08-Dec-2008
L'OCDE est présente de plusieurs manières à la conférence UN sur le changement climatique, qui se tient du 1er au 12 décembre à Poznan, et à d'autres évènements associés en Pologne.
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Mayors, Ministers call for Joint Action on Climate Change at OECD Conference
10-Oct-2008
A major international conference on "Competitive Cities and Climate Change″ organised by OECD concluded today in Milan. It underlined the central and critical role to be played by cities in successfully addressing the major global challenge of climate change.
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Events
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on 17-Nov-2008
The Territorial Review of Poland highlights that while Poland has maintained high growth levels since the mid-1990s, territorial disparities are persistent and rising. This publication also explores challenges for Polish regional development policy and provides recommendations to best implement the policy mix.
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on 29-Sep-2008
Government leaders, policy makers and practitioners discussed the impact of regional policy, present and future perspectives, at an international conference on “Regional Policy around the World”, held in Porto, Portugal, 29 September 2008. This conference was organised by the Portuguese Ministry of Environment, Spatial Planning and Regional Development, in co-operation with the OECD. On this occasion the report “OECD Territorial Review of Portugal” was officially launched.
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from 09-Oct-2008 to 10-Oct-2008
This high-level event, was jointly organised by the OECD, the Milan City Council and the Province of Milan. It brought together ministers, mayors, eminent personalities from the Club of Madrid (former Heads of States and Governments), prominent experts, and representatives of international organisations and government networks, to examine one of the key global challenges facing cities today - climate change. The conference looked at the relationships between urbanisation and climate change, and the implications of urban policy making in relation to competitiveness objectives.
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from 03-Jun-2008 to 04-Jun-2008
On 4 June, Michael Oborne, Director of the IFP, chaired a session on "Financing Infrastructure" composed of Messrs. Agustín Carstens, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico; Andrew Hunter, Head, Macquarie Europe; Richard Lavergne, Secretary-General, Observatoire de l’énergie, France; Pierre Lortie, Senior Business Advisor, Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (Montreal), Canada; Hamish McRae, Associate Editor, The Independent, United Kingdom. Don't miss the speeches and the pictures of the session.
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on 15-May-2007
The OECD Forum 2007 "Innovation, Growth & Equity" took place in Paris on 14-15 May. Michael Oborne, Director of the IFP, chaired a session on "Infrastructure to 2030: Growth, Innovation and Finance" on 15 May. The press release is available here .
For more information about the Forum, visit the OECD Forum website.
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from 29-Mar-2007 to 30-Mar-2007
The international conference on "What Policies for Globalising Cities? Rethinking the Urban Policy Agenda", co-organised by the OECD and the Spanish authorities, will be held 29-30 March 2007 at the Municipal Congress Hall, in Campo de las Naciones, Madrid. It will bring together government leaders, policy makers and practitioners to examine urban policy in the context of globalisation and the growing challenges for cities.
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on 27-Nov-2006
The OECD hosted an international workshop on “Defining and Measuring Metropolitan Regions” on 27 November 2006 in Paris. The workshop brought together major international organisations, National Statistical Offices and researchers from this field.
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The one-day Experts’ Meeting on future Global Infrastructure Needs took place at OECD Headquarters on 1st October 2004. It was organised by the OECD’s International Futures Programme (IFP), and brought together 45 high-level government officials and business executives involved in various infrastructure-related activities.
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on 03-Jun-2005
The first meeting of the Steering Group on Future Global Infrastructure Needs took place at OECD Headquarters on 3rd June 2005. It was organised by the OECD’s International Futures Programme (IFP), and brought together 25 high-level government officials and business executives involved in various infrastructure-related activities.
For more information please contact Mr. Pierre-Alain Schieb at pierre-alain.schieb@oecd.org
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