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Accelerating Progress towards the MDGs through Pro-Poor Growth

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Good progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is being made in many countries, but major efforts are needed to meet unmet targets. The landscape in which donors operate to achieve the MDGs is changing rapidly. The situation in developing countries is becoming much more heterogeneous, new donors and other providers of development finance have entered the scene (e.g. China, India and private foundations), and policy coherence for development and global public goods will more...

Added by Zunia on July 02, 2010

Evaluation of the UNHCR Joint Organization Strategy 2007-2009

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This evaluation assesses the relevance, efficiency, and effectiveness of the Joint Organization Strategy (JOS) based on key issues identified in the Terms of Reference (ToR) and refined in an Evaluation Matrix, compares the JOS with other relevant organizational frameworks, and identifies lessons learned. As the decision has been taken to develop a follow-on collective agreement, the evaluation’s conclusions and recommendations have been framed as a starting point for a more detailed more...

Added by Zunia to Monitoring and Evaluation on June 24, 2010

ICTs and Gender

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"This report provides an overview of the gender distribution of ICT and ICT-related employment in OECD countries, and ICT employment patterns are contrasted with overall employment to highlight differences. The authors discuss participation in ICT-related education and training, and differences in ICT access and use by gender. In ICT-related employment, women have low shares of ICT-specialist employment and these shares rarely show an increase. Among ICT-using occupations women tend to have more...

Added by Zunia on June 24, 2010

Thinking beyond Basel III: Necessary Solutions for Capital and Liquidity

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This article looks at how the “Strengthening the Resilience of the Banking Sector” (Basel III) proposals address these issues, helping to reduce the chance of another crisis like the current one. The Basel III capital proposals have some very useful elements, notably a leverage ratio, a capital buffer and the proposal to deal with pro-cyclicality through dynamic provisioning based on expected losses. However, this report also identifies some major concerns. For example, Basel III does not more...

Added by Zunia on June 24, 2010

Peer Review of the Evaluation Function at the Belgian Federal Public Service of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation

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The purpose of this Peer Review is to provide the senior management of the Federal Public Service of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation and the Special Evaluation Office and the Quality Control and Evaluation Office of this Service with an independent assessment of the functioning of both offices and the quality of their work. The report is intended to inform future discussions and decisions on the evaluation function in the Federal Public Service of Foreign Affairs, more...

Added by Zunia on June 20, 2010

Evaluation of CIDA’s Americas Branch Trade Program

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This report communicates the findings and recommendations of an evaluation that was conducted by a team of three consultants, working on behalf of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). The evaluation focused on trade-related technical assistance and capacity building (TRTA/CB) activities entailed in the Trade Program funded by CIDA.’s Americas Branch, more specifically the subset of activities handled by the Inter-American Program more...

Added by Zunia to Monitoring and Evaluation on June 20, 2010

Mutual Accountability

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Mutual accountability is a concept designed to bring about trust and partnership, whilst achieving development results. The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005) includes a commitment to orient the aid relationship towards a more mature partnership aiming at substantially improving development outcomes. Mutual accountability is a process by which partners hold one another responsible for the commitments that they have voluntarily made to each other. A partnership between developing more...

Added by Zunia to Aid Effectiveness on June 17, 2010

Development Co-operation Report (Summary) 2010

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With only five years left to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), much remains to be done. The task has become even more challenging given the economic, food and climate change crises of recent years. This summary report describes how the DAC has responded swiftly, putting the development dimension of these crises firmly on the political agenda and keeping the development community focused on providing more aid, and delivering it more effectively.

Added by Zunia on June 17, 2010

African Economic Outlook 2010

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The African Economic Outlook 2010 investigates how public resource mobilization can help Africa reduce its dependence on aid and other external financial flows to finance its own development agenda; it reviews best practices in tax administration and multilateral agreements as well as policy options for meeting future challenges.

Added by Zunia on June 16, 2010

Does Trade Stimulate Innovation? Evidence from Firm-Product Data

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This paper investigates whether increased import competition leads firms to engage in incremental innovation reflected in product quality upgrading. The econometric analysis relies on a rich dataset of Chilean manufacturing firms and their products. Product quality is measured with unit values (prices) and imports’ transport costs are used as an exogenous proxy for import competition. The estimates show a negative effect of transport costs on product quality. The paper provides explicit more...

Added by Zunia on June 16, 2010

OECD Economic Surveys: Korea, June 2010

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Korea has achieved one of the fasted recoveries in the OECD area fro the global recession. Korea’s trade-dependent economy had initially been hard hit by severe global financial distress in late 2008, leading to exceptionally sharp declines in exports and output. The recession was accompanied by financial turbulence that widened risk premia and tightened bank lending attitudes. Large capital outflows pushed down equity prices but the resulting depreciation of the won –by 25% in effective terms more...

Added by Zunia on June 16, 2010

Third Report on G20 Investment Measures

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At the London and Pittsburgh Summits, G20 Leaders have committed to forego protectionism and have requested public reports on their adherence to this commitment. The present document is the third report on investment and investment-related measures in response to this mandate. It has been prepared jointly by the OECD and UNCTAD Secretariats and covers investment and investment-related measures taken between November 2009 and May 2010.

Added by Zunia on June 15, 2010

Report on G20 Trade and Investment Measures

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Despite the severity of the global financial crisis and its widespread impact on economies around the world, G20 governments have largely resisted pressures to erect trade and investment restrictions. During the period covered by the reports on G20 trade and investment measures, protectionist policy responses have been limited, although there are still instances of restrictive measures taken. In the area of trade policy, there continues to be few instances of new import restrictions and a more...

Added by Zunia on June 15, 2010

OECD Working Group on Bribery: Annual Report 2009

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The OECD has been at the forefront of international efforts to combat corruption in business, taking a multi-disciplinary approach, via its Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, as well as through its work in the areas of taxation, development aid, and governance.The year 2009 marked the completion of ten years of monitoring Parties’ implementation and enforcement of the Anti-Bribery Convention. This milestone in the Convention’s more...

Added by Zunia on June 15, 2010

Agricultural Policy Reform in Israel

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The “Review of Agricultural Policies: Israel” assesses the performance of Israeli agriculture over the last two decades, evaluates Israeli agricultural policy reforms and provides recommendations for continuing the reform process in the future. The evaluation is based on the operational criteria of decoupling, transparency, targeting, tailoring, flexibility and equity for good policy design as agreed by OECD Agriculture Ministers in 1998. These criteria, if implemented, would contribute to an more...

Added by Zunia on June 14, 2010

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