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News & Events
News
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27-Nov-2007
Arab and OECD countries are launching new initiatives to promote investment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, including a women business leaders' forum and a landmark "MENA 500 Companies" publication presenting the region's leading commercial groups, as part of an ongoing drive to boost economic growth through their MENA-OECD Investment Programme.
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19-Nov-2007
The compendium is part of the project on "Strengthening Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in East Germany"carried out by the OECD and the Federal Ministry of Housing, Land, Construction, Transport and Urban Affairs. The compendium is built of several themes of relevance to local entrepreneurship development in East Germany. It brings together recommendations, International learning models and good practice in East Germany.
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25-Oct-2007
More and more OECD governments are giving firms tax breaks to drive innovation while cutting their direct spending on business research and development (R&D), and are also encouraging public research organisations to commercialise their inventions, according to a new OECD report.
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12-Oct-2007
This new STI working paper aims at designing simple but robust methods that would enable to forecast the present (or recent past) in order to improve the timeliness of patent indicators.
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12-Oct-2007
The Latin American Roundtable on Corporate Governance reviewed institutional investors’ experience and their influence on corporate governance when it met on 10-11 October, 2007 in Colombia. Finding some promising practice but significant shortcomings, they agreed to develop White Paper recommendations to encourage more engaged and informed ownership. The Roundtable also reviewed experience with voluntary corporate governance codes.
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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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29-Aug-2007
The Investment Committee has adopted the key findings of the OECD report on "The interaction between investment and services chapters in selected Regional Trade Agreements" which addresses the implications of this interaction for levels of investment protection and liberalisation.
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22-Aug-2007
This review series aims to assist policy makers to develop local strategies and programmes to promote competitiveness in the globalising knowledge economy through strengthening innovation and internationalisation. Cities and regions interested in participating in this series, are invited to contact the OECD Secretariat.
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27-Jul-2007
The OECD and the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS) are inviting public comment on draft guidelines to help pensions regulators and supervisory authorities improve the way occupational, private pension entities, such as pension fund management companies or pension trustees, are managed in order to boost their financial security and performance.
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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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Events
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from 13-Dec-2004 to 18-Dec-2004
This one-week seminar has been especially designed for local policy-makers and practitioners from South, Central, and Eastern Europe responsible for job creation and SME promotion. This training was organised by the LEED Programme through the LEED Trento Centre for Local Development. For further information, please contact Alessandra.Proto@oecd.org
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from 24-Nov-2004 to 26-Oct-2004
The Central European Initiative (CEI) opened its doors to the business and financial community, focusing on the needs of entrepreneurs investing in central and eastern Europe. The event was co-organised with the Slovenian CEI Presidency and sponsored by the Italian Government. The OECD LEED Trento Centre was an active partner of this important event. For more information, please contact Paola.Babos@oecd.org
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from 28-Oct-2004 to 29-Oct-2004
For technical reasons, this meeting has been postponed to a later date.
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from 19-Oct-2004 to 21-Oct-2004
New Delhi, India. Hosted by the Government of India and supported by the Confederation of Indian Industry, the conference advanced the role of international co-operation in enhancing the investment environment in developing countries.
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from 05-Oct-2004 to 06-Oct-2004
The European Day of the Entrepreneur (EDE) aims to built on the experiences of the cities that organise entrepreneurial events at local level. This event is organised by UMIS-SMEA and will be held in the city of Zagreb, Croatia, for the first time.
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from 04-Oct-2004 to 07-Oct-2004
Youth Employment Summit (YES) Mexico 2004 will be an important milestone for evaluating global progress on youth employment where national strategies will be shared within the context of YES Framework for Action. The LEED Programme has been invited to participate in this event and share its experience in the field of entrepreneurship promotion. For more information please contact Gabriela.Miranda-gallardo@oecd.org
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from 22-Sep-2004 to 24-Sep-2004
The 4th conference of the International Entrepreneurship Forum (IEF) is jointly organised by the OECD LEED Programme, the University of Essex and the University of Paris Dauphine, France. This event will provide for research based insights and a forum for the sharing of experience by policy makers and practitioners. This is an invitation and the call for papers.
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from 10-Jun-2004 to 11-Jun-2004
The Roundtable meeting included a workshop on transparency and disclosure and related issues in implementation and enforcement; a presentation of the revised 2004 edition of the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance; and reviews of corporate governance reform in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Romania.
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from 17-May-2004 to 18-May-2004
The OECD presented the draft of a new report on corporate governance in the region which provides a comprehensive overview of the legal framework, actual practice and reform priorities. The meeting discussed the 2004 OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and corporate governance reform in Ukraine.
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from 11-Feb-2004 to 12-Feb-2004
Istanbul, 11-12 February 2004. The primary purpose of this meeting was to better assess the needs of MENA countries, identify priorities in the field of investment, both domestic and foreign, and to develop an outline of what the OECD could offer in these areas in close co-operation with other international and regional partners.
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