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18-Sep-2007
Adhering governments are committed to promoting the Guidelines and to making them influential among companies operating in or from their territories. This report describes what governments have done improve the effectiveness, transparency and timeliness of their implementation over the June 2006-June 2007 period and addresses considerations for future action.
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23-Jul-2007
On 11 July 2007, Egypt became the first Arab and first African country to sign the OECD Declaration on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises. This marks a new stage in Egypt's drive to attract more foreign direct investment (FDI). A series of policy reforms have helped to underpin a fifteen-fold increase in Egypt’s FDI between 2001 and 2006. FDI reached a record USD 9 billion in the first three quarters of its 2007 fiscal year. This compares with USD 6.1 billion for the whole of 2006.
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23-Jul-2007
The OECD Steering Group on Corporate Governance has released today the studies it requested on the role of alternative investors in corporate governance.
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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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12-Jun-2007
The G8 Summit Declaration of 7 June 2007 called for continuation of the OECD Investment Committee's project on Freedom of Investment, National Security and "Strategic" Industries, additional non-member adherences to the OECD Declaration on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises, active use of the Policy Framework for Investment in developing countries, effective implementation of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and wider dissemination of the OECD Risk Awareness Tool for Multinational Enterprises in Weak Governance Zones.
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05-Jun-2007
The OECD Steering Group has concluded that “activist” hedge funds and private equity firms can play a positive role in corporate governance of publicly held companies and that specific issues are best addressed within the framework of the existing OECD Principles of Corporate Governance.
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05-Jun-2007
OECD countries have agreed that the corporate governance practices of private equity firms and hedge funds are best addressed within the framework of the existing OECD Principles of Corporate Governance.
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07-May-2007
G8 Labour and Employment Ministers met in Dresden on 6-8 May 2007 to discuss the opportunities and challenges that globalisation brings with it for the working world. In referring to the contribution companies can make to shaping the social dimension of globalisation, the G8 Chair's conclusions strongly emphasised the role of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
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24-Apr-2007
This note gives an OECD perspective on alternative dispute resolution based on experiences with the specific instances procedure of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. It was prepared for a workshop on "Accountability and Dispute Resolution" organised by Harvard's Kennedy School in support of work in this area by the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Business & Human Rights.
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20-Mar-2007
OECD and the Latin American Roundtable on Corporate Governance were recognized as being among the five main institutional supporters of Bovespa's Novo Mercado in a ceremony on March 1, 2007 . Bovespa was celebrating the 100th company to join the special corporate governance listing segments of the trading board. OECD has been providing advice and support since the first Latin American Roundtable on Corporate Governance was held in Brazil in April 2000, the same year the Novo Mercado was launched.
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Events
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on 27-Nov-2007
The conference was part of the project "Strengthening Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in East Germany" that the OECD LEED Programme has undertaken since 2005 in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Housing, Land, Construction, Transport and Urban Affairs, with the participation of the 6 eastern Länder.
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on 17-May-2007
The Eurasian Corporate Governance Roundtable established a task force to develop a policy options paper (“policy brief”) addressing corporate governance challenges shared by commercial banks in Eurasia. Based on some existing norms developed by the OECD or the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the policy brief is to be developed through active discussion within the Task Force that includes experts from Eurasian countries, OECD member countries and international organisations. The Task Force has its meeting to discuss the draft policy brief in Tbilisi, Georgia, on 17 May 2007.
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on 18-Jun-2007
Organised in Paris, the 2007 Roundtable focused on current trends in corporate responsibility practices and instruments in the financial sector, as well as discussing how the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises can help support efforts to promote corporate responsibility in this sector.
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from 29-Mar-2007 to 30-Mar-2007
Chairmen of the boards of China’s largest listed companies met with OECD decision-makers to discuss boardroom challenges and how to make improvements, at a meeting hosted by the Shanghai Stock Exchange on 29-30 March, 2007.
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from 23-Jan-2007 to 24-Jan-2007
Policymakers from Southeast Asian and OECD countries will meet in Jakarta on 23-24 January 2007 to discuss the role and utility of the ‘peer review’ mechanism which is at the heart of the OECD’s working methods, with a view to providing direction for policy reform and enhanced international co-operation.
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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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from 15-May-2006 to 16-May-2006
A new Asia Network is developing into a high-level hub for a structured policy dialogue on corporate governance of State Owned Enterprises, using the OECD Guidelines as a framework for discussion.
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from 16-Feb-2006 to 17-Feb-2006
On 16 and 17 February 2006 the Indian Ministry of Company Affairs together with the OECD organised the 2006 Policy Dialogue on Corporate Governance in India.
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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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