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News & Events
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17-Jul-2007
The Action Statement provides guidelines for government to stimulate vertical and cross-sector co-ordination around local economic and employment development issues.
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03-Jul-2007
This study was carried out in 2007. An OECD publication will be released in June 2008 with a set of recommendations on how best to adapt the policy framework to enhance the entrepreneurship and cluster development in a given area. This review draws on an in-depth analysis of the Grenoble cluster in France and other six international clusters across the OECD.
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30-May-2007
OECD's biennial Regions at a Glance gives comparative statistics for OECD countries, and regions within each country, related to economic indicators such as concentration of population, GDP and employment rates as well as indicators of well-being such as the distance to a major centre, reported crimes, rate of homeownership and educational attainment.
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22-Jan-2007
This co-operative project between the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs and the OECD provides an opportunity for participants in East Germany to stand back and reflect on their overall options, needs and priorities and by facilitating an international exchange of information on innovations and best practices from a range of OECD Member countries.
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05-Dec-2006
Well-managed immigration flows offer benefits both for host countries and for migrants and their families. But the effective integration of immigrants into the societies of the countries where they settle is crucial, and this requires commitment and action at national and local level.
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30-Nov-2006
Cities are home to more than half the people living in OECD countries and almost 50 percent of the output and jobs of many nations is found in their largest city. Though most cities have higher economic growth, foreign investment and labour productivity than the rest of the country, they are also more polluted, crime-ridden and socially disparate.
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06-Nov-2006
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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Events
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on 10-Nov-2006
The seminar was organised by Unidea UniCredit Foundation in collaboration with the OECD LEED Programme, CoDe Joint European Master in Comparative Local Development (University of Trento), EUROREG – Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (Warsaw University). The event discussed regional diversity and local development in Central and Eastern Europe, the opportunities for both public and private actors to actively contribute to the improvement of local realities, and the regional and European context of such local strategies.
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from 26-Oct-2006 to 27-Oct-2006
This seminar was organised in cooperation with INAS CISL and Fondazione Giulio Pastore. The event presented and discussed the results of research addressing these issues undertaken in eight European countries: Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Belgium, Great Britain, Sweden and Poland.
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from 13-Nov-2006 to 15-Nov-2006
This conference was an attempt to provoke practical reflection and generate proposals that will help define local strategies for the growth of companies with projections for the future. It was promoted and organised by Barcelona Activa with the support of CIDEU, EBN, IASP and the OECD LEED Programme.
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on 13-Jun-2006
The objective of the roundtable was to present the main findings of the joint EC-OECD project carried out in 2004-2006 and to discuss the related policy recommendations with Ukrainian representatives. The meeting was co-hosted by the UNDP.
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from 31-Aug-2006 to 02-Sep-2006
The 6th IEF conference will address the theme “New Ventures and the Creative Trajectory: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity in Business”. This event is a collaborative venture between the Riga International School for Economics and Business Administration, the University of Essex Southend, and the OECD LEED Programme.
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from 28-Sep-2006 to 29-Sep-2006
The objective of this seminar was to disseminate and discuss recent regulatory policies that define new forms of social entrepreneurship and to assess their relevance and applicability potential in OECD member and non-member countries of Central East and South East Europe.
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on 04-Jul-2006
This event aimed at discovering and sharing the “good practices” on guiding the development of the social entrepreneurship in several OECD and Eastern-European countries. It was organised by the LEED Programme in partnership with Avise.
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from 23-Oct-2006 to 27-Oct-2006
This 5-day capacity building seminar will focus on the local development strategy design and implementation and more specifically it will emphasize the role of strategy in integrating different drivers, factors and enablers of local economic development. This event will bring together 60 experienced policy makers and practitioners from Central, East and South East Europe working in the area of regional and local development strategy building.
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Festival of Economics "Wealth and Poverty", Trento, Italy
from 01-Jun-2006 to 04-Jun-2006
This event was organised by the Autonomous Province of Trento in cooperation with its numerous partners. The festival broughttogether internationally renowned experts who sought to promote a better understanding of the global key issues such as poverty and inequality.
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