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News & Events
News
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25-Feb-2009
This new report analyses the impact of failures and weaknesses in corporate governance on the financial crisis, including risk management systems and executive salaries.
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17-Feb-2009
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has directed attention to a sector that has traditionally been veiled in secrecy. However, it has not been effective in producing change. This article—by GDO researchers Dilan Ölcer and Helmut Reisen—analyses why so many resource-rich countries have failed to lower perceived corruption.
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16-Feb-2009
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría has welcomed the decision by G7 Finance Ministers to work towards setting up a set of common principles on integrity, transparency and propriety in global financial and business transactions.
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13-Feb-2009
In a statement issued today (12 February 2009), the OECD, the IMF and the World Bank underscored the urgent need for measures to restore banks’ lending capacity and for fiscal stimulus to combat the economic crisis. They also warned against protectionist policies, which they said would slow down global recovery. The statement was issued following a joint seminar held at OECD headquarters on 4 February 2009 to discuss the response to the crisis.
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03-Feb-2009
This study of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in China examines trends in SOEs shares of the national economy, sectoral distribution, listing on stock exchanges and internationalisation.
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03-Feb-2009
This study of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in India examines trends in SOEs shares of the national economy, sectoral distribution, listing on stock exchanges and internationalisation.
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28-Jan-2009
In the past decade, the combination of high raw material costs and low capital costs has underpinned strong growth performance and rising foreign exchange reserves in most developing countries. But growth was also accompanied by increasing concerns over resource scarcity, increasing inequality and sharply rising food and fuel prices. On both a political and economic level, tensions heightened between Western governments and some of the new emergent powers.
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23-Jan-2009
The global economic crisis was partly caused by a failure of business ethics. In response, the OECD is developing a framework to help countries enhance transparency in areas like finance, competition, corporate governance, taxation and pensions, building on instruments such as its Principles of Corporate Governance and Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
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Events
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from 14-Oct-2008 to 15-Oct-2008
Discussions at the annual meeting of the Working Party focused on sovereign asset liability management, impact of international investors on domestic government bond markets and changes in the use of short-term government paper.
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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, which took place in Seoul, 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 21-Oct-2008 to 22-Oct-2008
This conference aimed to promote international discussion on financial education among key stakeholders, especially in the context of the rapid changes in Asian economies, resulting in a wider array of financial services (often credit products) now being offered to a large number of inexperienced consumers.
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from 25-Jun-2008 to 26-Jun-2008
Senior policy makers from Asia met 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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on 20-May-2008
This year’s Plenary of the Global Forum brought together senior policy makers and experts to discuss “ownership”, the first principle of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. Participants grappled with controversial issues like conditionality, called for more transparent and predictable aid, and agreed on the need to support Southern research institutions and think tanks.
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from 09-Jun-2008 to 11-Jun-2008
Organised in Johannesburg, South Africa, this workshop brought together debt managers from all over Africa 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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from 06-May-2008 to 07-May-2008
Organised in Cape Town, South Africa, this meeting addressed a number of high priority issues for the region, including the establishment and composition of effective boards, and the role and structure of state ownership entities. This meeting also provided an opportunity to discuss the OECD’s recent Global Network meeting on transparency and accountability, which was instrumental in the finalisation of the OECD’s Implementation Guide to Ensure Accountability and Transparency in State Ownership.
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from 13-May-2008 to 14-May-2008
Senior decision makers from OECD and Asian economies met on 13-14 May 2008 in Hong Kong, China, to discuss improving monitoring and disclosure of related party transactions as a key corporate governance enforcement challenge.
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on 05-Mar-2008
Policy makers, officials from ownership entities, SOE representatives and experts from around 25 non-member countries took part in the first meeting of the OECD Global Network on Privatisation and Corporate Governance of State-Owned Assets which was held in Paris on 5 March 2008. This meeting focused on a review of the draft Implementation Guide for Accountability and Transparency in State Ownership.
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