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Entrepreneurship and innovation are engines of economic growth, OECD workshop concludes

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08-May-2008

A three-day international workshop on innovation and the global impact of high-growth small and medium-sized firms (SMEs), organized by OECD with the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, hailed entrepreneurship and the fast growth of innovative small firms as the engines of economic growth.

More Than Just Jobs: Workforce Development in a Skills-Based Economy

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27-Mar-2008

This report provides valuable insights into how labour policies can be expanded to meet economic development and social cohesion goals, while also reconciling national and local concerns.

Competitive Regional Clusters: National Policy Approaches

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07-Dec-2006

"Competitive Regional Clusters: National Policy Approaches" analyses the objectives, targeting, instruments and inter-governmental role sharing used by 26 programmes in 14 OECD countries.

OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance: United States

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02-Aug-2006

This site contains a list of key references on the United States. The documentary database includes documents on partnership and local governance that have been published by governments, universities and other organisations.

Skills Upgrading: New Policy Perspectives

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05-Apr-2006

Skills are key to a better job and a better life. Yet acquiring them is often most difficult for the people who need them most: those trapped in low-paid jobs with hard working conditions. The result is ...

Local Governance for Promoting Employment —Comparing the Performance of Japan and Seven Countries—

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28-Oct-2005

This publication has just been released following the workshop on "Local Employment Development" organised in Tokyo, Japan, on February 9-10, 2005. This was a joint event of the LEED Programme and the ...

Conference on From Immigration to Integration: Lessons Drawn from Local Responses, New York City, 15 December 2005

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28-Oct-2005

This event was jointly organised by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the OECD LEED Programme. This conference focused on what is being done in the United States and in different OECD countries ...

Regional concergence and divergence in the US, 1969-98

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28-Jun-2002

The renewed interest in convergence/divergence raises issues about a particular type of disparity, that between rural and urban areas. One purpose of this paper is to examine rural-urban differences within ...

Local Partnerships for Better Governance

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02-Apr-2001

Sylvain Giguère

Partnerships are being established throughout OECD countries to tackle issues of economic development, employment, social cohesion and the quality of life. This book proposes a strategy that governments can implement to improve governance through partnerships.