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News & Events
News
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29-Oct-2009
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and OECD Development Centre are holding a Workshop on 'Equality, Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development' in Helsinki, Finland on 1-2 December 2009. The workshop will provide a forum to discuss equality issues and to promote social and gender equality in development work.
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27-Oct-2009
This article discusses vulnerabilities in selected segments of the insurance sector and identifies specific issues related to the role of the insurance sector in the current financial crisis.
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23-Oct-2009
The US dollar has been the dominant reserve currency for several decades, accounting for about two-thirds of global reserves, but change on international markets is under way. Are the Chinese reminbi or the Euro going to overtake the US Dollar as the world's currency of reference?
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22-Oct-2009
Over time, traditional donors of aid to developing countries have set standards and best practices for development cooperation through the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC). How should these established donors respond to the arrival of new non-DAC donors such as India and China, who may not play by the same rules? The OECD Development Centre’s Sebastian Paulo and Helmut Reisen argue we need to prepare a new set of shared rules that work for emerging economies and traditional donors alike.
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22-Oct-2009
The Centre’s Andrew Mold and Annalisa Prizzon contributed a background paper to the European Report on Development (ERD) ‘Overcoming Fragility in Africa’. The paper looks at commodity booms and export performance in the context of sub-Saharan Africa, looking at the record from the perspective of export volumes rather than values.The authors argue that the average export performance during the period of high commodity prices was not as impressive as the previous period when African countries were confronted with very low prices.
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16-Oct-2009
The ongoing financial crisis has made euro adoption more attractive than ever and put it on the top of the country’s policy agenda. However, shocks affecting Estonia are only weakly synchronized with those of the euro area, and the structure of its economy also notably differs from the euro zone.
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16-Oct-2009
The global financial and economic crisis has struck Iceland with extreme force. Iceland’s three main banks, accounting for almost all of the banking system, failed in October 2008. They were unable to resist the deterioration in global financial markets following the failure of Lehman Brothers.
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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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06-Oct-2009
In contrast to the once prevailing norm of secrecy and opaqueness, transparency has now become one of the main features characterising the conduct of monetary policy. Detailed analysis of eleven OECD central banks shows that communication practices have converged markedly in the direction of ever greater transparency.
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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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Events
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on 15-Jun-2009
The conference focused on three key themes: the role of internal audit and audit committees, the role of external auditors, and disclosure and accounting standards.
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from 28-May-2009 to 29-May-2009
The conference focused primarily on corporate governance lessons emerging from the current financial crisis.
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from 26-May-2009 to 27-Jun-2009
The conference took place to advance the level of understanding of the insolvency systems in countries in the region.
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from 17-Jul-2009 to 18-Jul-2009
The theme for this event, which took place in Bangkok 17-18 July 2009, was 'Asian Insolvency Reforms following the Global Financial Crisis: Policy Responses and Opportunities'. Emphasis was on a review of progress made by Asian governments in reform implementation and in-depth discussion on the policy options for insolvency reform.
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on 25-Jun-2009
The OECD Development Centre and FLACSO co-hosted a workshop on June 25th, 2009 in San Jose, Costa Rica to discuss migration issues in Central America, focusing on the themes of governance of migration and the links between migration and labour markets.
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from 09-Sep-2009 to 10-Sep-2009
This meeting evaluated whether corporate governance standards and practices are working. What will the next decade of Corporate Governance in Asia be like?
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from 20-May-2009 to 21-May-2009
Taking place in Bangkok, this year's meeting focussed on implementation of the Policy Brief on priorities and recommendations for improving the corporate governance of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in Asia using case studies on good practice from around the Asia region.
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on 21-Apr-2009
This special meeting, to be held on 21 April 2009, will allow participants to discuss further on key implications of the crisis.
Please note that only members of the WPDM were invited to this special meeting.
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on 20-May-2009
This symposium focused on the role of financial education in the context of the financial crisis. High-level officials and decision-makers from around the world met in Paris to discuss and elevate the international policy dialogue on the importance of financial education on a global scale and as one of the long-term possible responses to the current financial crisis.
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from 24-Jun-2009 to 26-Jun-2009
The Third OECD Regional Workshop on African Debt Management and Bond Markets was held on 24-26 June 2009. The workshop provided another opportunity to African countries to discuss and debate practical market-infrastructure issues which are of major concern for debt managers in the African debt markets.
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