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28-Jun-2005
In the global financial marketplace, creating, sharing and using information and knowledge are of vital importance for public debt managers. This joint initiative by OECD and the Italian Treasury, constitutes a new, complimentary feature in the multilateral framework for co-operation in the area of public debt management by providing an electronic platform for continuous information exchange that supports an intensive and comprehensive electronic policy dialogue.
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08-Jun-2005
The initiatives of the European Commission on corporate law and corporate governance are presented in an Action Plan on "Modernising Company Law and Enhancing Corporate Governance in the EU". The Action Plan is based on a comprehensive set of proposals, grouped under six important chapters: corporate governance, capital maintenance and alteration, groups and pyramids, corporate restructuring and mobility, the European Private Company, cooperatives and other forms of enterprises.
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07-Jun-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 after their official adoption by the OECD in April 2005.
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25-May-2005
With the emergence of China and India in the world economy ever more manifest, Africa’s economy and polity will be affected in various, complex ways. The interactions between the Asian giants and Africa are bound to intensify even if the recent period of supercharged growth in the former countries is unlikely to be sustained.
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20-May-2005
Charles Oman and Daniel Blume
Article published in the E-journal USA 2/2005.
Developing countries face the challenge of transforming political and economic governance arrangements from relationship-based systems into rules-based systems. Many must enhance their ability to address corporate insiders' abusive use of schemes to expropriate or divert resources from other stakeholders. With enforcement at the heart of the challenge, the appropriate balance between regulatory and voluntary initiatives remains an open question.
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20-May-2005
Limited access to finance is a major obstacle to development of SMEs in Africa as their inherent higher perceived risk makes financial institutions reluctant to lend to them and adequate financial instruments lack.
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28-Apr-2005
OECD has approved new Guidelines on Corporate Governance on State-Owned Enterprises to give concrete advice to countries on how to manage more effectively their responsabilities as company owners.
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14-Apr-2005
OECD Secretary General Donald J. Johnston will meet with Ira Millstein and other corporate governance leaders in New York on Friday 15 April 2005 to launch a Business Sector Group to give practical guidance to board members trying to improve corporate governance.
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31-Mar-2005
Collective Investment Schemes (CIS) have been one of the most significant developments in financial intermediation during the past few decades. OECD data indicate that CIS assets have been rising sharply as a share of national income and a share of financial assets in most Member countries. Published in Financial Market Trends, this White Paper is being made public in order to contribute to the current debate on improving governance of CIS.
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17-Mar-2005
This article is based on a new OECD study that provides an in-depth overview and analysis of risk management practices of OECD debt managers. Risk management has become an increasingly important tool for achieving strategic debt targets, and is now an integral part of a wider strategic debt management framework based on benchmarks in most jurisdictions.
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