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OECD work on development is carried out primarily by the Development Co-operation Directorate/DAC, the Development Centre, the Sahel & West Africa Club/SWAC and the Centre for Co-operation with Non-Members/CCNM. These four entities work toward contributing to the development of both OECD members and non-members. The large number of themes (listed on the left) reflects the variety and ever increasing areas of work of these OECD bodies as they seek to respond to the global policy concerns of the development world.
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20-Nov-2008
More than 150 high-level representatives from Africa, G8 and OECD countries met in Addis Ababa this week to discuss priority actions needed to keep Africa on a strong growth track despite an increasingly unstable international environment, weakened by the recent global financial crisis as well as severe food and fuel price shocks. Discussion centered around two key themes: governance issues in the context of the Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) and development finance in Africa.
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19-Nov-2008
On 21 November 2008, the European Parliament will discuss the budgetary aspects of a European Commission proposal to fund a €1 billion Food Facility to assist farmers in developing countries. In a statement, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría affirmed OECD’s support for the Commission proposal.
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30-Oct-2008
The Secretary-General of OECD, Angel Gurría, and the Chair of OECD’s Development Assistance Committee, Eckhard Deutscher, have issued a call to the world’s main aid donor countries to stand by their development pledges despite the economic slowdown. “Unless we act decisively now, we may not be able to prevent the financial crisis from generating an aid crisis,” Mr Gurría and Mr Deutscher warn.
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28-Oct-2008
Fiscal policy, says the latest Latin American Economic Outlook (LEO 2009) from the OECD’s Development Centre, can be a powerful tool for economic, political and social development in Latin America if taxes are raised efficiently and fairly and spending is directed to promoting growth and reducing poverty and inequality.
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14-Oct-2008
This SWAC publication reviews migration policies in the main OECD countries receiving West African migrants and analyses the recent discussions within Europe and West Africa.
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OECD fuels BBC World Debate on Africa and its partners
07-Oct-2008
Delegates to the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (Accra, 2-4 Sept) attended the recording of a special BBC World Debate on trade, investment and aid effectiveness in Africa. The debate, produced in association with the BBC World Service Trust, focused on the important issues being discussed at the Forum. Key personalities exchanged ideas and opinions during the hour-long programme. Investing in Africa: What works? which was broadcasted on 11 and 12 Oct 2008.
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24-Sep-2008
This special issue of DACnews reports on the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (Accra, Ghana, 2-4 September), where unprecedented consensus was reached on what is needed to significantly step up aid effectiveness. We explore what it took to make it happen, the important decisions and agreements made there, and one of the highlights of the event: the recording of a special BBC World Debate, live in Accra.
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19-Sep-2008
The OECD with the support of the European Commission and the German Marshall Fund of the United States organized a Policy Dialogue on Aid for Trade during 3-4 November 2008 in the OECD Conference Centre. This two-day event brought together policy makers, development practitioners and academics to discuss ways for these stakeholders to help developing countries to build trade capacity and address supply-side constraints in order to realize the full benefits of integration in the world economy.
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10-Sep-2008
Developed and developing countries agreed to take bold steps to reform the way aid is given and spent. After three days of intense negotiations during the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra, Ghana (2-4 September), they endorsed the Accra Agenda for Action. Developing countries are committing to take control of their own futures, donors to co-ordinating better amongst themselves, and both parties to the Agenda are pledging to account to each other and their citizens. Read more…
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27-Aug-2008
How effective is aid at helping countries meet their own development objectives? Some of the answers can be found in this report which presents the results from the second follow-up survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. It assesses progress in 54 developing countries and helps us understand the challenges in making development aid more effective. The findings are clear: donors and partner countries need to take stock and commit to doing whatever is needed to reach the agreed targets by 2010.
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