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News & Events
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30-May-2008
A fourth edition of the OECD Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment has just been completed. This manual provides operational guidelines on how foreign direct investment (FDI) activity should be measured and sets the world standard for direct investment statistics.
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26-May-2008
This electronic publication provides recent statistics on the resources devoted to R&D in OECD countries and in nine non-member economies.
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23-May-2008
The world steel market remains strong in spite of heightened risks to the global economy, according to industry and government officials at the OECD’s Steel Committee meeting in Paris on 22-23 May 2008.
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22-May-2008
On 16 April 2008, the OECD Steering Group on Corporate Governance invited representatives from the activist hedge fund industry and other activist investors to discuss potential policy issues including their use of shareholders rights (such as board nomination), the impact of their activism on market abuses prevention, the scope for shareholder cooperation into the light of “acting in concert” regulations, as well as the use of derivatives instruments to boost investors’ voting power.
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07-May-2008
The present edition constitutes the 2007-2008 update of the wide range of indicators which were published in 2006 but also includes new indicators and provides notes as to the measurement challenges and the data choices that were made.
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22-Apr-2008
What are the trends in the iron and steel industry for the world's major economies? The new 2008 edition of this publication is now available on SourceOECD, with data through February 2008.
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15-Apr-2008
The chemical industry and OECD governments test hundreds of chemicals every year, spending millions of euros to ensure the safety of chemical products. Now OECD has devised an innovative product, the (Q)SAR Application Toolbox, to estimate the hazardous properties of chemicals by analysing their molecular structure.
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09-Apr-2008
OECD countries are committed to keeping their investment frontiers open to sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) as long as these funds invest for commercial, not political ends. That is the message in a letter from OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría to G7 Finance Ministers detailing a common OECD position on policies towards sovereign wealth funds.
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04-Apr-2008
International investment agreements set ground rules for how host governments treat foreign investors. This publication provides an unparalleled source of information on four key issues: the definition of investor and investment; the interpretation of umbrella clauses in investment agreements; coverage of environmental, labour and anti-corruption issues; and the interaction between investment and services chapters in selected regional trade agreements.
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13-Mar-2008
For more information about the activities of the OECD's Council Working Party on Shipbuilding, click here.
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Events
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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 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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from 07-Sep-2005 to 09-Sep-2005
This 5th International Entrepreneurship Forum Conference was jointly organised by the OECD LEED Programme and the University of Essex, member of the LEED Partners Club. Representatives from academic institutions, policy makers and practitioners around the world took part in this event. For more information, please contact jmitra@essex.ac.uk
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on 10-May-2005
The Latin American Roundtable on Corporate Governance launched, on May 10th in Sao Paulo, Brazil, a new Companies Circle. This is an initiative led by companies who have adopted best practices of corporate governance. Its objectives are to bring together a group of Latin American companies who have adopted best corporate governance practices to provide private sector input into the work of the Roundtable; and to share with each other and the public their experiences putting the principles of good corporate governance into practice.
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