This report was prepared by the Director’s Office of the OECD Global Relations and Co-operation Directorate (GRC), under the overall direction of Mr Andreas Schaal, Director and Mr Karim Dahou, Deputy Director of the OECD Global Relations and Co-operation Directorate. It was developed in close collaboration with the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE), Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTPA), Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs (DAF), and the Environment Directorate (ENV).
The report was co-ordinated by James Hermanson, Advisor, GRC Director’s Office. The principal authors of this report include James Hermanson, Advisor (with contributions from Audrey Verbist) (GRC); Benjamin Katz, Sector Lead, Luca Maiotti, Policy Analyst, and Konstantin Mann, Junior Policy Analyst (DAF); Katarina Svatikova, Environmental Policy Analyst, and Rose Mba Mébiame, Statistician (ENV); Andrew Viola, Senior Advisor, and Kalale Mambwe, Project Manager (CTPA); and, Andrés Sanabria, Policy Analyst/Economist, and Bridget Donovan, Policy Analyst (CFE). Angélique Dartagnan, Administrator, Sophie Elliott, Communications Officer, Julie Whitelock, Office Manager, and Magdalena Kaczmarczyk-Kozluk and Elma Lopes, Resource Management Advisors, provided essential administrative, logistical and editorial support throughout the project. Caterina Barucci, Javier Gonzalez, Vukan Jokic, and Leonardo Valent played integral roles developing visuals for the report.
The authors are grateful to Karim Dahou (GRC), Harry Tonino (CTPA), Benjamin Dickinson (CTPA), Allan Jorgensen (DAF), Hannah Koep-Andrieu (DAF), Louis Maréchal (DAF), Mathilde Mesnard (ENV), Shardul Agrawala (ENV), Peter Börkey (ENV), and Nadim Ahmad (CFE) for their valuable review and comments. They are also grateful to Juan Biset and Gabriela Gomez for their invaluable contributions to the project, as well as the site visits and stakeholder consultations in Argentina and Chile.
The project would not have been possible without sustained engagement and dialogue with representatives of government, the private sector, business and civil society associations, development partners and other stakeholders globally and, in particular, in Argentina, Chile, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Above all, the OECD would like to express deep appreciation for the financial support received from the Government of Japan for this work.