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Long-term growth and policy challenges in the large emerging economies

19-Mar-2010

Paul Conway, Sean Dougherty and Artur Radziwill

This paper uses the OECD’s Going for Growth framework, as well as other available evidence linking policies to economic performance, to identify key structural policy challenges in the BIICS for the years ahead.

Dedicated Public-Private Partnership Units: A Survey of Institutional and Governance Structures

11-Mar-2010

Dedicated public-private partnership (PPP) units are set up with full or partial aid of the government to ensure that the skills needed to handle third-party provision of goods and services are made available and clustered together. This book provides an overview of dedicated PPP units

Trends in South African Income Distribution and Poverty since the Fall of Apartheid (Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper No. 101)

20-Jan-2010

Murray Leibbrandt, Ingrid Woolard, Arden Finn, Jonathan Argent

This report presents a detailed analysis of changes in poverty and inequality since the fall of Apartheid, and the potential drivers of such developments. National survey data used show that South Africa’s high aggregate level of income inequality increased between 1993 and 2008...

2009 NEPAD-OECD High-Level Meeting and Expert Roundtable

11-Nov-2009

The 2009 NEPAD-OECD meetings focused on mobilising financial resources in Africa against the crisis and on boosting private investment in African energy infrastructure, drawing on country experiences and ...

Mobilising financial resources - Boosting energy investment and carbon finance in Africa

04-Nov-2009

NEPAD-OECD Ministerial Meeting & Expert Roundtable, 11-12 November 2009, Johannesburg, South Africa. Mobilising Financial Resources - Boosting Energy Investment & Carbon Finance in Africa.

Seminar: Growth performance and sustainability in the enhanced engagement countries

05-Oct-2009

The Economics Department organised a seminar on 24 September 2009 to bridge this gap in the policy debate by identifying potential sources of growth in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa, ...

South Africa's Trade and Growth

21-Aug-2009

Przemyslaw Kowalski, Ralph Lattimore and Novella Bottini

This paper examines key trade and trade related issues facing South Africa and describes South Africa’s re-entry into the global trade architecture and its economic growth in the context of its trade performance.

South Africa: Transition to Democracy Offers Opportunity for Whole System Reform

10-Aug-2009

This case study considers the substantial reforms to the South African public expenditure management system undertaken since the mid-1990s. The key aspects of the reform process have been: establishing ...

Improving regulatory management in South Africa

29-May-2009

Two workshops were organised in South Africa in 2009 to discuss the issue of regulatory governance.

African Economic Outlook 2009

11-May-2009

OECD Development Centre

The 2009 African Economic Outlook focuses on Innovations in Information and Communication technologies. It also presents a comprehensive analysis of the economic, social and political developments on the continent.