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News & Events
News
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02-Mar-2007
FAIR partner organisations and participants are in favour of intensifying information sharing and co-operation on capacity building through the establishment of a FAIR Network of public and private sector experts for on-going dialogue on insolvency.
The proposed regional Network is a key for ensuring sustainability of the outcomes of the FAIR meetings and the relevance of its future work.
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02-Mar-2007
This conference proceedings discusses progress with Asian insolvency reforms made since 1997-98 and presents summaries of the situation in each country.
Have Asian risk management systems helped in avoiding new non-performing loans? How much progress has been made in improving the law and the practice for addressing the existing stock of bad debts? What are the new initiatives underway? Some answers to these questions can be found in this volume.
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14-Feb-2007
Since the 1990s' crisis, Sweden has greatly improved its macroeconomic policies. All parts of society benefit from strong productivity growth, stable inflation expectations and public budget surpluses. Meanwhile, combating exclusion in the labour market is a key challenge, along with distortions in the housing market.
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23-Jan-2007
This chapter addresses the challenge that the adjustment to sustained high oil prices poses for macroeconomic management, particularly with respect to competitiveness and inflation. Economics Department Working Paper 537 by Christian Gianella.
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19-Jan-2007
La mise en œuvre successive des plans d'allègement de la dette PPTE et IADM ont permis de réduire considérablement la charge du service de la dette pour les pays africains qui en ont bénéficié. Dotés d'une solvabilité restaurée et par ailleurs confrontés à des besoins de financement importants, ces pays souhaitent désormais se ré-endetter. Ce Repère dont la publication fait suite à un séminaire d'experts consacré aux économies africaines et organisé conjointement le 8 juin 2006 par l'AFD et le Centre de Développement, évalue les conditions d'un tel processus de ré-endettement.
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10-Dec-2006
Companies can boost their stock market valuations and lower their cost of capital through improved reporting of intellectual assets and value creation strategies that overcome the limits of accounting standards, according to a report by the OECD. While there is an important role for governments and standard setters in underpinning such improvements, the OECD cautions against rigid standards in this complex and evolving area.
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04-Dec-2006
The OECD has taken an important step to reinforce the role of its Principles of Corporate Governance as a global standard by issuing guidance for users in assessing their implementation. The Principles, agreed by governments in 1999 and revised in 2004, are designed to maintain public trust in companies and stock markets.
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22-Nov-2006
"The Latin American Roundtable Companies Circle 2nd Edition", featuring the experience of 13 leading Latin American companies, was launched on the occasion of the 4th meeting of the Latin American Roundtable Companies Circle , held on November 22, 2006 in São Paulo, Brazil. The meeting also advanced work on the development of a Companies Circle practical guide to implementation of good corporate governance.
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17-Oct-2006
Corporate governance is improving in Turkey but some key issues, including the potential for unfair treatment of minority shareholders, need to be tackled if Turkish firms are to take full advantage of opportunities to grow in coming years, according to a new OECD report.
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Events
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from 14-Sep-2005 to 15-Sep-2005
The OECD-MENA Working Group 5 on Improving Corporate Governance Principles held a plenary session on September 14-15 in Rabat, Morocco to discuss corporate governance of state-owned enterprises and progress in implementation of working group objectives.
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from 15-Sep-2005 to 16-Sep-2005
Jointly organised with the Chinese Ministry of Finance and supported by the National Debt Association of China, this year's forum focused on the role and responsibility of the Ministry of Finance in the development of government debt markets and the regulation and supervision of public bond markets.
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from 27-Oct-2005 to 28-Oct-2005
Taking place in Tokyo, Japan, this year’s Roundtable focused on: Financial Policy Landscape; Integration of Capital Markets in the Asian Region; Investor Education; Developments in Venture Capital and Private Equity since the end of the “Tech Bubble”; Governance Issues Related to Securities Markets.
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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 02-Jun-2005 to 03-Jun-2005
The Russian Corporate Governance Roundtable met on 2-3 June in Moscow to define priorities for improving enforcement of corporate governance rules and corporate governance of state-owned assets. The synthesis note (English / Russian ) outlines the key impediments and reform options on enforcement and SOEs.
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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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Workshop on Policy Coherence for Development, Paris, France
on 09-May-2005
OECD -country policies regarding aid, trade, migration and foreign investment have complicated interactions in their effects on developing countries. Nevertheless, policy-makers and researchers have tended to formulate and analyse these policies separately. The OECD Development Centre is co-ordinating new research on the joint impact upon developing economies of rich-country policies in these four domains.
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from 27-Apr-2005 to 28-Apr-2005
This conference, jointly organised by OECD and IOPS, took place on 27-28 April 2005 in Bangkok, Thailand. It aimed to provide an international forum for the discussion on specific policy issues and challenges in the implementation of pension reforms in Asia, with a particular focus to be laid on the reform process in Thailand and on “best practice” regulatory mechanisms used in the OECD countries to ensure efficient and appropriate pension provision under diversified approaches in the design of the retirement schemes.
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on 12-Oct-2004
A Consultative meeting was held at the IEA in Paris with representatives from Ministries and State-owned institutions in key non-member countries in order to have their input in the drafting of the Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Assets.
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on 13-Oct-2004
A consultative meeting was held at the IEA in Paris with key representatives from Ministries and state-owned enterprises in member countries. This meeting came directly after the non-member consultation to once again provide valuable input in the drafting of the Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Assets.
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