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  • 9-April-2020

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    Joint Statement by the OECD Development Assistance Committee on the Covid-19 crisis

    Members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) today issued a statement expressing their support for the response by UN agencies, multilateral development banks and civil society to the global Covid-19 crisis, and welcoming calls by G20 and G7 leaders to focus on the impact on developing countries.

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  • 14-February-2020

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    Violence in North and West Africa increasingly targeting civilian and border areas – OECD/SWAC

    Violence in North and West Africa is increasingly targeting civilian and border regions as today’s conflicts involve non-state actors with diverging agendas, according to a new report by the OECD’s Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC).

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  • 27-November-2019

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    Donors must do more to align development finance with climate goals

    Donor countries must do more to bring development finance in line with climate goals, raising the share used for climate action and reducing to zero the amount that supports new fossil fuel activities, according to a new OECD report.

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  • 19-November-2019

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    Africa: Urgent action needed to mobilise domestic resources as tax revenues plateau

    The average tax-to-GDP ratio for the 26 countries participating in the new edition of Revenue Statistics in Africa was unchanged at 17.2% for the third consecutive year in 2017. This was lower than the averages for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at 22.8% and for the OECD at 34.2%, underlining the need for urgent action to enhance domestic revenue mobilisation in Africa.

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  • 5-November-2019

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    Africa's Development Dynamics 2019 - Competitive firms and committed governments are the catalysts of the continent’s economic transformation

    African firms are the key to the economic transformation of the continent, but they need governments to create better conditions for them to thrive, according to the second edition of the African Union Commission’s (AUC) economic report produced in collaboration with the OECD Development Centre.

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  • 2-November-2019

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    Digital education can boost growth in Emerging Asia, OECD Development Centre report finds

    Economic growth in Emerging Asia is expected to moderate in the near-term, according to the OECD’s Economic Outlook for Southeast Asia, China and India 2020. In the medium term, GDP growth in the region is projected to reach 5.7% in 2020-24, down from 6.7% in 2013-17.

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  • 13-September-2019

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    Climate finance for developing countries reached USD 71 billion in 2017

    Climate finance provided and mobilised by developed countries for climate action in developing countries reached USD 71.2 billion in 2017, up from USD 58.6 billion in 2016, according to new estimates from the OECD.

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  • 13-July-2019

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    Donor countries set international standard for preventing sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment in development sector

    Members of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) – 29 donor countries and the EU – agreed on a comprehensive set of recommendations aimed at preventing sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment in the aid sector.

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  • 5-July-2019

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    Bulgaria strengthens its co-operation with the OECD via an Action Plan

    As part of Bulgaria’s efforts to deepen and structure its co-operation with the OECD and contribute to the country’s public policy and reform agenda, Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has presented an Action Plan to OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría.

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  • 3-July-2019

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    Aid used for trade is helping developing countries diversify

    Using development aid to build trade capacity in poor countries is helping to improve economic diversification and to economically empower marginalised groups, yet progress remains geographically uneven, according to the latest OECD-WTO report on Aid for Trade.

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