The Poor Must Not Pay for the Crisis

05-Dec-2008

Renewed ODA commitments by the aid community –in line with the OECD’s call for an aid pledge–, greater regulatory independence in the governance of the international financial system, and higher quotas for emerging economies in regional development banks: these are some of the proposals that came to light at the OECD Global Forum on Development on the implications of the crisis for development finance.

The 2008 Annual Meeting of the Informal Network of DAC Development Communicators

01-Dec-2008

For the first time the DevCom Annual Meeting was hosted by the United States. It brought together more than 65 communicators and experts, including new donors such as Israel and Thailand. The issues covered during the sessions were communicating results and aid effectiveness, new trends on the Internet, communication strategies of non-state actors, making development more media-friendly, polling for public opinion. The meeting also provided the opportunity for several members states to share best practices.

OECD Global Forum on Development: Strengthening Country Ownership

on 20-May-2008

This year’s Plenary of the Global Forum brought together senior policy makers and experts to discuss “ownership”, the first principle of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. Participants grappled with controversial issues like conditionality, called for more transparent and predictable aid, and agreed on the need to support Southern research institutions and think tanks.

Quelle politique de réendettement pour les pays africains après une decennie de remise de dette ? (Repère n° 36)

La mise en œuvre successive des plans d'allègement de la dette PPTE et IADM ont permis de réduire considérablement la charge du service de la dette pour les pays africains qui en ont bénéficié. Dotés d'une solvabilité restaurée et par ailleurs confrontés à des besoins de financement importants, ces pays souhaitent désormais se ré-endetter. Ce Repère dont la publication fait suite à un séminaire d'experts consacré aux économies africaines et organisé conjointement le 8 juin 2006 par l'AFD et le Centre de Développement, évalue les conditions d'un tel processus de ré-endettement.

Macroeconomic Policy in the Franc Zone: What can the European Central Bank Learn from Africa? Room 4, OECD, Paris

on 21-Feb-2006

The 14-member CFA Franc Zone in West and Central Africa predate the European Monetary Union by decades. With monetary unions planned for other parts of Africa in the near future, a new WIDER study focuses on some of the challenges facing the Franc Zone today.

Workshop on Policy Coherence for Development, Paris, France

on 09-May-2005

OECD -country policies regarding aid, trade, migration and foreign investment have complicated interactions in their effects on developing countries. Nevertheless, policy-makers and researchers have tended to formulate and analyse these policies separately. The OECD Development Centre is co-ordinating new research on the joint impact upon developing economies of rich-country policies in these four domains.

Cheaper Money for Southern Africa - Unlocking Growth, 7 October 2004 at OECD Headquarters, Paris

on 07-Oct-2004

On 7 October 2004, experts and policy makers debated a central aspect of this deficit in the growth of southern Africa: the weakness of domestic and foreign investment. One of the main aims of the discussion was to explain the high cost of capital faced by both government and the private sector on the local capital markets, and to evaluate the economic impact of these costs.