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News & Events
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21-Jun-2007
The impact of offshoring on the labour market has become one of the major issues of concern to policy makers and public opinion. This publication provides new insights into offshoring, which has become a fact of life for business, and describes the wide-ranging effects that offshoring can have on domestic employment--the positive, as well as the negative.
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21-Jun-2007
This publication brings together OECD data on the globalisation of value chains, including the rise of outsourcing/offshoring. After examining how OECD countries are affected by the globalisation of production, the report discusses costs and benefits of globalisation with an emphasis on employment and productivity. It then analyses how globalisation impacts the competitiveness of OECD countries, highlighting the need for an effective innovation strategy. Summary brochure also available.
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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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31-May-2007
The presentations from the 62nd Steel Committee meeting and the Roundtable on consolidation in the world steel market, held in Istanbul on 17-18 May 2007 are now available.
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21-May-2007
The services sector makes an important contribution to employment growth, productivity and innovation in OECD countries. This document looks specifically at business support services and their strong linkages with other sectors. It aims to identify factors, institutions and policies that affect the delivery of business support services and that could enhance growth prospects more broadly. It focuses mainly on issues related to productivity, standardisation and regulation, and trade.
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21-May-2007
Driven by buoyant steel-intensive economic activity including construction and infrastructure building in many developing economies, global apparent consumption of steel has increased at an average pace of more than 7% per annum since 2002 to reach a record level of 1.113 billion tonnes last year.
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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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03-May-2007
Organised in Paris on 30 March 2007, this Roundtable examined the challenge of identifying ultimate beneficiary ownership and control in the case of cross-border investment and procedural considerations for authorities when choosing their model of investment regulation. Download a summary of findings based on an Interim Report adopted by the Investment Committee.
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Events
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from 08-Dec-2005 to 09-Dec-2005
This Symposium, which took place in Beijing, China, focused on specific aspects of policies towards cross-border mergers and acquisitions, namely: ownership restrictions and strategic sectors; streamlining the approval process for cross-border M&As; and, strengthening corporate transparency and disclosure for more effective due diligence.
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on 12-Dec-2005
This Symposium, organised jointly by ICSID, OECD and UNCTAD, enabled non-governmental actors to share their perspectives on emerging investment arbitration issues identified by governments and their international organisations; to explore and advance the agenda which developed and developing country parties to investment agreements have in common; and to consider ways for the three organisations and other interested institutions to best work together and respond to the needs of their members and the investment community.
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OECD Entrepreneurship Indicators Project Expert Workshop - "Understanding Entrepreneurship: Issues and Numbers", Paris
from 26-Oct-2005 to 27-Oct-2005
This workshop convened experts in the field of entrepreneurship research, policy and statistics to discuss policy priorities and associated data requirements in order to inform the work of an internationally comparable system of indicators to be developed by the OECD. It was held at the OECD Headquarters.
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on 11-Oct-2005
This seminar was organised by the OECD Trento Centre for Local Development. It focused on disseminating information and tools for best practice evaluation approaches. The event was a part of the activities of the Evaluation Unit at the OECD LEED Trento Centre that aims to develop a culture of evaluation of local development strategies which promote entrepreneurship, local cohesion and good governance. For further information please contact Ivana.Studena@oecd.org.
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on 19-Oct-2005
This event was organised by the OECD LEED Trento Centre for Local Development in collaboration with Sub-department for Strategy and Economy in Government District Brčko and in co-operation with the Central European Initiative. It was a follow-up of the Trento Centre capacity building seminar on entrepreneurship and will further explore the theme of Promoting SME Innovation. For more information, please contact alessandra.proto@oecd.org
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from 25-Oct-2005 to 27-Oct-2005
Hosted by the Government of Brazil with the support of the BNDES and organised under the auspices of the OECD Investment Committee in partnership with the World Bank, this conference aimed to draw lessons from Brazil’s experience with improving the enabling environment for investment and sustainable growth. It also focused on strengthening developing country perspectives on the Policy Framework for Investment.
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from 06-Sep-2005 to 07-Sep-2005
This event was hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Korea (MCT). The conference aimed at learning more about the dynamics and new business models of the tourism enterprises and at increasing understanding of strategies that promote the participation of tourism SMEs in the supply and distribution value chains and networks. Papers and presentations from the conference are now availbable online.
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from 05-Jul-2005 to 06-Jul-2005
Hosted by the Government of Indonesia and organised under the auspices of the OECD Investment Committee in co-operation with UNESCAP and ADB, this conference focused on investment for development, improving the investment climate, ODA/investment synergies and the policy framework for investment.
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on 19-May-2005
The OECD and the Enterprise Research Institute of the Development Research Centre convened a high level meeting to exchange experience on corporate governance of state owned assets. The OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State Owned Enterprises were presented for the first time following their official adoption by the OECD in April 2005.
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