The OECD has been working with South East Europe (SEE) since 2000 to ensure peace, stability and prosperity in a region weakened by conflict, but endowed with rich resources and dynamism. Governments, business leaders and civil society have worked together under the leadership of the OECD to meet economic challenges, including weathering the global economic and financial crisis and preparing for European Union accession. The OECD has supported the region to design and implement reforms to foster private sector development and competitiveness, attract more and better investment and raise living standards.

This support has ranged from policy analysis and monitoring to policy design, capacity building and implementation support. The OECD has also been active in facilitating policy dialogue at technical and high political level and in transferring good policy practices across various policy areas from OECD member states to the SEE region. The OECD’s policy analysis and diagnosis is also widely leveraged by its international development partners and feeds into strategic documents such as the European Commission’s annual Progress Reports or international development agencies’ resource prioritisation.

• Consult the South East Europe programme's publications

* This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244/99 and the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on Kosovo’s declaration of independence.

• OECD and EU launch project to reinforce competitiveness and sustainability in the Western Balkans and Türkiye
• Western Balkan Summit of the Berlin Process 
• OECD holds collective action meetings in support of fair market conditions
  
• Launch of the SME Policy Index: Western Balkans and Turkey 2022  | Pocketbook
• Launch of Labour Migration in the Western Balkans: Mapping Patterns, Addressing Challenges and Reaping Benefits
• Economy-specific two-pagers of the 2021 Competitiveness Outlook: Albania | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Kosovo* | Montenegro | North Macedonia | Serbia 
• Launch of the 2021 Competitiveness Outlook | Pocketbook
• High-Level Conference on South East Europe: Human Capital Flight - Shaping the Future together
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Human Capital Flight - Shaping the Future together 
17 May 2022