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News & Events
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25-Jun-2008
Foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows from OECD countries in 2007 leapt to a record USD 1.82 trillion from USD 1.2 trillion in 2006 but are projected to fall sharply in 2008, according to estimates from the OECD.
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19-May-2008
Intellectual assets are central to value creation, economic growth and competitiveness in a modern economy. Building on previous OECD work on these issues, this brochure provides an integrated perspective on recent OECD work covering three dimensions: macro, regional and firm-level.
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11-Jun-2008
This book provides practical help for boards that navigate their way from principles to practice. Their reflections are frank and illuminating - and their conclusions are not simple or without challenge to conventional wisdom. Good boardroom practice requires more than law and regulation : judgement, diplomacy and integrity.The aim is to describe how they can practice good corporate governance in reality. The initiative reflects the importance that the OECD attaches to the private sector as a force in implementing good corporate governance.
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10-Jun-2008
As ongoing corporate bribery investigations and scandals make headlines around the world, Transparency International (TI) has published a working paper on the OECD’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, a set of social, labour, environmental and anti-corruption standards for transnational companies. This working paper explains the Guidelines and their relevance in fighting corruption in the private sector. Case studies illustrate recent instances when civil society has filed complaints in different countries related to bribery and other violations.
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06-Jun-2008
This database presents patent data linked to regions according to the addresses of the applicants and inventors. The data have been regionalised at a very detailed level so that over 2000 regions are covered across OECD countries. REGPAT allows patent data to be used in connection with other regional data, thus providing researchers with the means to develop a rich set of new indicators and undertake a broad range of analyses to address the regional dimension of innovation.
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05-Jun-2008
On the occasion of the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting in Paris on 4-5 June 2008, Ministers adopted the OECD Declaration on Sovereign Wealth Funds and Recipient Country Policies.
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Events
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from 03-Sep-2008 to 04-Sep-2008
Organised by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the OECD, the goal of this conference is to reflect recent advances in the area of analysis with patent statistics.
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from 19-Apr-2006 to 20-Apr-2006
The Asia Network on Corporate Governance of SOEs met on 19-20 April 2007 in Cebu, the Philippines. This second meeting focused on the role of the board and the relations with stakeholders (two chapters of the OECD guidelines on corporate governance of state owned enterprises, namely the responsibilities of the boards and relations with stakeholders in chapters VI and IV).
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from 18-Jun-2008 to 20-Jun-2008
This event took place in Seoul, Korea. It focused on the globalisation of capital markets and its impact on corporate governance. Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD, gave a keynote address on the progress of international corporate governance reform and next steps.
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from 25-Jun-2008 to 26-Jun-2008
Senior policy makers from Asia will meet in New Delhi, India, on 25-26 June 2008 to discuss challenges in the corporate governance of state-owned enterprises, particularly in the area of transparency and disclosure and the equitable treatment of shareholders.
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The OECD Steel Committee in Paris, La Défense, on 22-23 May 2008
from 22-May-2008 to 23-May-2008
The Steel Committee, a global platform where multilateral steel problems and policy solutions are discussed, held its 64th session in Paris, La Défense, on 22-23 May 2008. Governments, industry representatives and other stakeholders met to discuss issues including the outlook for steel and raw material markets, steel trade and trade policy developments, government support measures for steel, and environmental challenges.
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on 17-Jun-2008
This seminar presented and debated the result of work undertaken by the OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Programme on how best to support the design, implementation and evaluation of local development strategies in Latvia.
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on 08-May-2008
An OECD international workshop in Kansas City (USA) on innovation and the global impact of high-growth small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Twenty experts from around the world presented their recommendations on how policymakers can encourage entrepreneurship and the fast growth of innovative small firms.
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from 17-Apr-2008 to 19-Apr-2008
Should central government leave economic and employment development to local policy makers? Employment ministers from OECD countries, including Finland, Italy, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States, will address such questions at a conference in Venice, Italy, from 17-19 April 2008.
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from 23-Jun-2008 to 24-Jun-2008
Jointly organised by OECD and ILO, this conference was devoted to the theme of "Employment and Industrial Relations: Promoting Responsible Business Conduct in a Globalising Economy". Discussions focused on wider dissemination of good corporate labour practices and better understanding and use of the OECD and ILO instruments.
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