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Agricultural Policies in Emerging Economies: Monitoring and Evaluation 2009

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17-Mar-2009

The years 2006-08 were marked by a significant increase in world prices for most, but not all, agricultural commodities. This report analyses policy developments during this period in seven emerging economies: Brazil, Chile, China, India, Russia, South Africa and Ukraine.

Asian Policy Centre - health and social policy

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30-Jan-2009

The OECD/Korea Policy Centre fosters the exchange of technical information and policy experiences relating to the Asia Pacific region in areas such as health statistics, pension reforms and social policy and expenditure.

Is Informal Normal? Towards More and Better Jobs in Developing Countries

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21-Jan-2009

Shoe shine workers in Cairo, street vendors in Calcutta, badly-paid public officials driving their taxis at night in Moscow–this is informal employment. A new Development Centre study, "Is Informal Normal?", examines policy options to respond to the challenge of creating more and better job

Asian countries should reform their pension systems, says OECD

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07-Jan-2009

Many Asian countries will need to reform their pension systems in order to deliver sustainable and adequate retirement incomes for today’s workers, according to a new OECD report.

Enhanced Engagement

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13-Nov-2008

Enhanced Engagement is a fundamental proposal by the OECD member countries to forge a more structured and coherent partnership, based on mutual interest, with five major economies: Brazil, the People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia and South Africa.

India’s growth pattern and obstacles to higher growth

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05-Aug-2008

Sean M. Dougherty, Richard Herd, Thomas Chalaux and Abdul Azeez Erumban

India’s growth performance has improved significantly over the past 20 years, but has been uneven across industries and states. The need for further institutional reforms is urgent, focusing on product and labour market regulations at the central and state levels.

Enhanced Engagement: Towards a stronger partnership between major emerging economies and the OECD

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25-Jul-2008

OECD countries believe that Enhanced Engagement should incorporate certain core elements that would be common with all partner countries.

Third meeting of the Asia Network on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Assets

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25-Jun-2008

Senior policy makers from Asia met in New Delhi on 25-26 June 2008 to discuss challenges in the corporate governance of SOEs, particularly in the area of transparency and disclosure and the equitable treatment ...

FDI from OECD countries jumps 50% in 2007 but set to fall in 2008

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24-Jun-2008

Foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows from OECD countries in 2007 leapt to a record USD 1.82 trillion from USD 1.2 trillion in 2006 but are projected to fall sharply in 2008, according to estimates from the OECD.

Improving Product Market Regulation in India: An International and Cross-State comparison

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01-Apr-2008

Paul Conway and Richard Herd

This paper uses the OECD’s indicators of product market regulation (PMR) to assess the extent to which India’s regulatory environment is supportive of competition in markets for goods and services. Economics Department Working Paper No. 599.