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News & Events
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16-Oct-2009
Monetary and fiscal policies face huge challenges: the banking sector has collapsed; the economy is in the midst of a deep recession; the exchange rate has plunged; capital flows have been frozen; inflation is elevated; public debt has risen; source of revenues have disappeared; social needs have increased; and the unemployment insurance fund has been nearly depleted.
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14-Oct-2009
24-26 March 2010, Melbourne (Australia)
The second biennial Congress will explore international policy and local innovations to improve global perspectives on addressing unemployment. The Congress will be a forum for international thought leaders – to share experiences and strategies to broaden perspectives, challenge thinking and inspire innovative solutions – towards the goal of creating healthy, vibrant and sustainable working communities.
Organised by NESA, the peak body for providers of Australian employment services, in partnership with the OECD LEED Programme.
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09-Oct-2009
16-17 February 2010 Vienna (Austria)
Despite the first signs of economic recovery, unemployment will remain high for the years to come. The 6th Annual Meeting will bring together some 200 representatives of local partnerships, government officials, social entrepreneurs, business leaders, trade unions and academics to review how local development actors are adapting to this new reality and what are the innovations emerging on the ground to respond to these new challenges.
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25-Sep-2009
Welcoming the adoption of the Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth by G20 leaders gathered in Pittsburgh for the G20 summit, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría said new sources of jobs and growth needed for the global economy to effect a sustained recovery, will only emerge if the right structural policies are adopted by the world’s leading global economies.
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21-Sep-2009
This project supports local development organisations in strengthening their information systems. It provides guidance on data collection, analysis and use in policy making, customised to conditions in each participating area. It helps policy makers to build evidence on: What makes your local economy work? What drives it forward, what holds it back? Where and how policy should intervene? Is policy bringing results?
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17-Sep-2009
The current downturn is severely testing the adequacy of unemployment benefit systems as the primary safety net for job-losers and their families. This section of chapter 1 of OECD Employment Outlook 2009 considers the scope and generosity of existing income-support policies and asks whether, and how, support measures should be adapted to deal with the challenges occasioned by a severe recession.
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14-Sep-2009
The report is the result of a two-year work programme on the challenges and opportunities for entrepreneurship development in East Germany undertaken by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, through its Local Economic and Employment Development Programme (LEED), in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs (BMVBS), Angelegenheiten der Neuen Länder department.
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02-Sep-2009
The global financial crisis is like no other that we have experienced since the early 20th century. This free publication identifies some of the most interesting practices from 41 case studies in response to the financial crisis from a local economic development perspective.
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01-Sep-2009
Governments should invest more money on children in the first six years of their lives to reduce social inequality and help all children, especially the most vulnerable, have happier lives, according to the OECD.
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Events
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from 26-Oct-2009 to 28-Oct-2009
Ensuring a smooth and quick transition from education to employment and fighting education drop-out trends are key objectives of youth policies across OECD countries. The seminar was addressed to those already working in partnerships on youth policies, or in the process of establishing a partnership in one of the following areas: (i) promoting entrepreneurship; (ii) youth skills initiatives; and (iii) integrating youth with accumulated disadvantages.
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During the first-ever OECD High-Level Policy Forum on Migration (Paris, 29-30 June 2009), ministers and senior officials in charge of migration and integration issues discussed the impact of the current economic crisis on international migration, management of labour migration movements and labour market integration of immigrants and their children.
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from 10-Jun-2009 to 12-Jun-2009
The seminar began with a day session open to a wider audience of policymakers and practitioners involved in tackling the impact of the crisis on jobs and skills. Days 2 and 3 were structured around a mix of presentations by OECD experts followed by discussion and group work.
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from 11-Feb-2009 to 12-Feb-2009
On 11-12 February 2009, the Spanish city of Pamplona will host Agora Talentia, the first International Forum on Talent in the Knowledge Age. Talentia is organised by the Regional Government of Navarre, the Navarre Innovation Agency (ANAIN) and the Navarre Foundation for Diversification (FND), in collaboration with the OECD LEED Programme.
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on 10-Dec-2008
The seminar is intended to discuss the role, possible interaction and local implementation of the EU policy on Corporate Social Responsibility and policies and programs promoted by the UN Global Compact and the OECD on the same field.
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on 03-Dec-2008
The ILO and the OECD jointly organised an experts meeting on fostering employment and skills development strategies in Indonesia and the Philippines, as part of OECD LEED’s initiative on Employment and Skills Development in South East Asia (ESSSA), in Jakarta on 3 December 2008. The meeting addressed issues of decentralisation, partnerships, skills upgrading and integration of the disadvantaged in the labour market and learn the lessons from the OECD experience in these areas.
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on 17-Nov-2008
Joëlle Milquet, Belgium’s Minister for Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue, and Martine Durand and Thomas Liebig from OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, will present "Jobs for Immigrants: Belgium, France, The Netherlands and Portugal" at a news conference in Brussels at 13.00 PM on Monday 17 November.
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on 21-Oct-2008
This OECD report, analyzing long-term trends in income distribution and poverty in OECD countries, will be presented at the OECD Conference Centre on 21 October 2008, by Angel Gurría (OECD Secretary‐General), Martin Hirsch (Haut Commissaire aux Solidarités Actives contre la Pauvreté, France), and Professor Sir Anthony Atkinson (Research Professor, Nuffield College, Oxford University).
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from 22-Oct-2008 to 24-Oct-2008
The ILO in collaboration with the OECD LEED Programme is organising an inter-agency conference on local economic development, meant to take stock of practices around the world and develop a joint strategy for knowledge development and networking. The event will involve several agencies such as UN-HABITAT, UNIDO, UNCDF, SDC (LEDNA), GTZ and IADB.
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