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OECD invites five countries to membership talks, offers enhanced engagement to other big players

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16-May-2007

OECD countries agreed to invite Chile, Estonia, Israel, Russia and Slovenia to open discussions for membership of the Organisation and offered enhanced engagement, with a view to possible membership, to Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa.

OECD enlargement and engagement with non-members

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15-May-2007

An explanation of the Organisation's work with non-OECD economies and the process involved in joining the OECD.

African Economic Outlook 2007 - South Africa country study

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11-May-2007

OECD Development Centre

By South African standards, the country experienced high real GDP growth in
2005 and 2006 at around 5 %. But gold mining and agriculture are largely underperforming owing to structural bottlenecks and diminishing prospects.

2006 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration - Country Chapters

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09-May-2007

How effective is aid at helping developing countries eradicate poverty? In March 2005, more than 100 countries made a firm commitment in the Paris Declaration to measure their success, or failure, in making aid more effective.

Podcast : Politiques agricoles des pays non membres de l'OCDE

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20-Mar-2007

Morvarid Bagherzadeh, analyste des politiques agricoles auprès de l'OCDE, présente les faits marquants du rapport portant sur l'Afrique du Sud, le Brésil, la Bulgarie, la Chine, l'Inde, la Roumanie, la Russie et l'Ukraine.

Agricultural Policies in Non-OECD Countries: Monitoring and Evaluation 2007

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20-Mar-2007

These highlights contain extracts from the 2007 edition of the report, Agricultural Policies in Non OECD Countries: Monitoring and Evaluation 2007.

South Africa's experiences of monetary policy within an inflation targeting policy framework

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19-Mar-2007

Monde Mnyande

Background document for the seminar on monetary policy in emerging markets organised by the Economics Department jointly with the Bank of England’s Centre for Central Bank Studies on 28 February 2007.

Seminar: Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets

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19-Mar-2007

The Economics Department organized jointly with the Bank of England’s Centre for Central Bank Studies on 28 February 2007 a seminar on challenges for monetary policymaking in emerging-market economies.

Farm support low in major emerging markets but protectionist pressure rising - OECD report

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15-Mar-2007

Government support to agriculture is far lower in the major emerging economies than on average in the developed countries of the OECD. But it is nevertheless rising as pressure mounts to protect farmers in an increasingly competitive global marketplace, says a new OECD report.

Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative (CABRI) – Special issue of the OECD Journal on Budgeting

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10-Jan-2007

This issue of the OECD Journal on Budgeting (Vol.6 No.2) contains selected case studies and papers based on presentations at the annual CABRI budget reform seminars in 2004 and 2005.