22-May-2008 - Washington Event!
OECD Breakfast Series: African Economic Outlook 2008
Presentation made by the OECD Development Center and the African Development Bank. Event will be chaired by Congressman Charles B. Rangel and co-chaired by Congressman Donald M. Payne.
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20-May-2008 - Washington Event!
OECD Breakfast Series: Web 2.0 and Statistics - A great opportunity or a serious threat?
Presentation by OECD Chief Economist, Enrico Giovannini. Jonathan Palmer, IMF Chief information Officer, will provide comments.
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OECD Breakfast Series: Financial Education - Helping Households Shoulder Financial Responsibility
07-May-2008 - Presentation by Ambassador Christopher Egan, US Mission to the OECD, and Carolyn Ervin, OECD Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs. Jason Alderman, Director of Financial Education at Visa, will provide comments.
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OECD Breakfast Series: OECD Developing Global Strategies for Combating Identity Theft
05-May-2008 - Presentation by Peter Avery, OECD Principal Administrator for Consumer Policy. Michael Jenkin of Industry Canada and Betsy Broder, FTC, will provide comments.
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OECD DAC Aid Statistics Training Session
01-May-2008 - Yasmin Ahmad and Marc Tocatlian of the OECD's Development Cooperation Directorate will provide a training session on OECD Aid Statistics, including a live demonstration of OECD.STAT as well as the Statistical Annex of the Development Co-operation Report 2007 on SourceOECD.
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OECD Breakfast Series: Tax Expenditures in OECD Countries
16-April-2008 - Introduction by Barry Anderson, Head of OECD Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division. Presentation by Joseph J. Minarik, Committee for Economic Development. Diane Lim Rogers, Chief Economist at the House Budget Committee, will provide comments.
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OECD Breakfast Series: New Policy Guidance for Investments by Sovereign Wealth Funds
11-April-2008 - Presentation by Carolyn Ervin, OECD Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs. David Marchick, Global Head of Regulatory Affairs at The Carlyle Group, will provide comments.
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OECD Breakfast Series: Economic Survey of Japan
11-April-2008 - Presentation by Randall Jones, OECD Economics Department. Edward J. Lincoln, Center for Japan-US Economic and Business Studies at NYU, will moderate and provide comments.
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OECD Breakfast Series: Current Issues in International Taxation - The OECD's Role
08-April-2008 - Presentation by Pascal Saint-Aman and Mary Bennett, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. Edward Kleinbard, Joint Committee on Taxation, will moderate and provide comments.
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OECD Breakfast Series: Re-Regulating Financial Markets - The View of Labor in the OECD
20-March-2008 - Presentation by John Evans, Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD. Discussants David A. Smith, House Financial Services Committee, and Russell L. Smith, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, will provide comments.
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OECD Breakfast Series: Going for Growth 2008
05-March-2008 - Presentation by Jørgen Elmeskov, OECD Acting Chief Economist. Discussant Peter Orszag, Congressional Budget Office Director, will provide comments.
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OECD Breakfast Series: Pension Reform and Longer Life Expectancy
28-February-2008 - Presentation by Edward Whitehouse, OECD Social Policy Division. Discussant Sandy Mackenzie, AARP, will provide comments.
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OECD Breakfast Series: Going Dutch - A way to build sustainable support for disabled workers
21-February-2008 - Presentation by OECD Deputy Secretary-General Aart de Geus. Discussant Richard V. Burkhauser will provide comments.
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OECD Lunch Briefing: IEA Review of US Energy Policies
15-February-2008 - Presentation by Andreas Biermann, IEA Country Studies Division. Jeff Skeer, US Department of Energy, will provide comments.
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OECD Breakfast Series: Lessons from PISA
08-February-2008 - Presentation by Andreas Schleicher, OECD Directorate for Education. Discussant Grover J. Whitehurst, Institute of Education Sciences, will provide comments.
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OECD Breakfast Series with the Migration Policy Institute : Policies to Manage Migration
07-February-2008 - Presentation by Georges Lemaitre, OECD International Migration Specialist. Discussant Demetrios G. Papademetriou, President, Migration Policy Institute, will provide comments.
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OECD Breakfast Series: Broadband: What works around the world?
31-January-2008 - Presentation by Taylor Reynolds, OECD Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy. Discussants Eric T. Werner, NTIA, and Dennis Weller, Verizon, will provide comments.
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OECD Breakfast Series: Tax Reform in a Globalized Economy - An OECD Perspective
14-December-2007 - Presentation by Jeffrey Owens, Director, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. Michael P. Reilly of Johnson & Johnson will moderate, and Edward Kleinbard, Joint Committee on Taxation, will provide comments.
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OECD Lunch Briefing: The World Energy Outlook 2007 - Insights on China and India
10-December-2007 - Presentation Fatih Birol, Chief Economist and Head of the Economic Analysis Division, International Energy Agency. David L. Goldwyn, President of Goldwyn International Strategies, will provide comments.
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Biofuels for Transport: Policies and Possibilities
07-December-2007 - Bioenergy and biofuels are of growing public and private interest at a time of rapidly rising world energy demand and high oil prices. Amid concerns over climate change, they are also increasingly under the spotlight as a “cleaner” alternative to fossil fuels. Full OECD Policy Brief available for download.

OECD welcomes new US Ambassador
Ambassador Christopher F. Egan was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as United States Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France and was confirmed by the Senate on October 26, 2007.
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OECD Breakfast Series: The US Health System - How does it compare?
06-December-2007 - Presentation by John Martin, OECD Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. Discussant Michael J. O'Grady, National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, will provide comments.
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OECD Breakfast Series: Economic Survey of India
05-December-2007 - Presentation by Sean Dougherty, OECD Senior Economist.
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Washington release of PISA 2006, hosted by the Alliance for Excellence in Education.
04-December-2007- Presentation by Andreas Schleicher, Head of Indicators and Analysis Division, OECD Directorate for Education.
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OECD Breakfast Series: Sovereign Wealth Funds and State-Owned Enterprises: Evolving Capital Markets
07-November-2007 - Presentation by Grant Kirkpatrick, Senior Economist, OECD Corporate Affairs. Congressman Peter Roskam will moderate and discussant David A. Smith, Chief Economist, House Financial Services Committee, will provide comments.
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OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria receives Globalist of the Year Award
25-October-2007 - OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría received the first ever “Globalist of the Year” award from the Canadian International Council for his contribution to innovation in global governance and international affairs. More...

OECD Breakfast Series: OECD Analysis of Agricultural Policies
23-October-2007 - Presentation by OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria and Deputy-Director of the Trade and Agriculture Directorate Ken Ash. More...

OECD Breakfast Series: Efforts to Improve Corporate Governance in Asia
11-October-2007 - Presentation by Fianna Jesover, OECD Corporate Affairs Division. More...

OECD Breakfast Series: Employment Outlook 2007
03-October-2007 - Presentation by Martine Durand, OECD Deputy-Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. Discussant David A. Smith, Chief Economist, House Financial Services Committee, will provide comments. More...

Launch of the Partnership for Democratic Governance
01-October-2007 - Kemal Dervis, UNDP Administrator and Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General jointly organized the launch of the Partnership for Democratic Governance at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Ministers from the Founding Member Countries, including US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Chilean Foreign Minister Alejandro Foxley, were in attendance. More...

OECD Breakfast Series: Balancing Open Investment and National Security Concerns
28-September-2007 - Presentation by Carolyn Ervin, Director, Financial and Enterprise Affairs at the OECD. Discussants Stuart E. Eizanstat, Covington & Burling and Wes Scholz, Office of Investment Affairs at the US Department of State, will provide comments. More...

OECD Breakfast Series: Gender Equality and Development
19-September-2007 - Presentation by Johannes Jütting, Senior Economist, OECD Development Centre. More...

OECD Breakfast Series: Education at a Glance 2007
18-September-2007 - Presentation by Barbara Ischinger, Director, OECD Education Directorate and Grover Whitehurst, Director, Institute of Education Sciences, US Department of Education. More...

Just released - OECD Health Data 2007
18-July-2007 - OECD Health Data offers the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries. More...

Just released - Economic Survey of the United States
29-May-2007 - The OECD assessment and recommendations on the main economic challenges faced by the United States. More...

OECD invites five countries to membership talks, offers enhanced engagement to other big players
16-May-2007 - OECD countries agreed to invite Chile, Estonia, Israel, Russia and Slovenia to open discussions for membership of the Organisation and offered enhanced engagement, with a view to possible membership, to Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa. More...

Cities: A Challenge for National and Global Economies
Cities are home to more than half the people living in OECD countries and almost 50 percent of the output and jobs of many nations is found in their largest city. Though most cities have higher economic growth, foreign investment and labour productivity than the rest of the country, they are also more polluted, crime-ridden and socially disparate. More...

SourceOECD - the service that delivers OECD reports and data online
The OECD maintains an online library, SourceOECD, to allow full access to OECD publications and databases. Download a brochure for SourceOECD (PDF - 412kb) and get a copy of the Terms and Conditions. See also the Getting Started Quick Reference Guide to SourceOECD (PDF 398kb). More...