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Countries need competitive, dynamic regions to achieve their economic and social objectives at the national level. Regional development is an indispensable complement to national macroeconomic and structural policies. Globalisation poses new challenges to regions and to current regional development policies. The OECD provides policy analysis and exchange of information on regional development, regional competitiveness, regional innovation, urban development, rural development, multi-level governance and regional statistics and indicators. More...
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27-Oct-2008
OECD eXplorer is a leading edge tool for exploring and analysing regional statistics using a very interactive interface for the presentation of the regional differences and structures of OECD member countries. It combines maps with other visual presentations, using powerful mechanisms for selecting the groups of regions of interest to the user.
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from 13-Nov-2008 to 14-Nov-2008
The Territorial Review of Poland was launched in Warsaw on 13-14 November 2008. The review highlights that while Poland has maintained high growth levels since the mid-1990s, territorial disparities - among the greatest in terms of GDP per capita in the OECD - are persistent and rising. The report also explores challenges for Polish regional development policy and provides recommendations to best implement the policy mix.
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10-Oct-2008
A major international conference on "Competitive Cities and Climate Change″ organised by OECD concluded today in Milan. It underlined the central and critical role to be played by cities in successfully addressing the major global challenge of climate change.
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29-Sep-2008
The OECD Territorial Review of Portugal assesses the importance of regional policy for Portugal and discusses regional policy as a tool to enhance the country's competitiveness in a context of ambitious reforms and fiscal consolidation. It also offers suggestions for reforming the country's governance of regional policy.
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on 29-Sep-2008
Government leaders, policy makers and practitioners discussed the impact of regional policy, present and future perspectives, at an international conference on “Regional Policy around the World”, held in Porto, Portugal, 29 September 2008. This conference was organised by the Portuguese Ministry of Environment, Spatial Planning and Regional Development, in co-operation with the OECD. On this occasion the report “OECD Territorial Review of Portugal” was officially launched.
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from 09-Oct-2008 to 10-Oct-2008
This high-level event, jointly organised by the OECD, the Milan City Council and the Province of Milan, will bring together ministers, mayors, eminent personalities from the Club of Madrid (former Heads of States and Governments), prominent experts, and representatives of international organisations and government networks, to examine one of the key global challenges facing cities today - climate change. The conference will look at the relationships between urbanisation and climate change, and the implications of urban policy making in relation to competitiveness objectives.
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17-Jul-2008
At the conference on urban challenges hosted by "La Conférence Olivaint" in Paris, France, on 12 July 2008, Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, underscored the emerging challenges in economic development, social exclusion, and sustainable urbanism that confront cities in OECD Member countries.
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06-Dec-2007
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has successfully undertaken an in-depth transformation of its economy in the space of a few decades but, in order to ensure its economic future, it needs to reconcile various imperatives in the fields of transport and the environment, according to a new OECD study.
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