24-October-2019
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Latin America has made significant progress in recent decades. It has consolidated a middle class, strengthened its institutions, and implemented structural reforms in key areas. It is now crucial to refocus its economic policy, and all other public policies, on the well-being of its people.
24-October-2019
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It is a pleasure to be in Bogota to present the fourth OECD Economic Survey of Colombia. This is a special edition. It is the first since Colombia was invited to join the OECD in May last year. The accession process will soon be completed, and the OECD will then prepare an Economic Survey of Colombia every two years.
23-October-2019
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Welcome to the 2nd OECD Roundtable on Investment and Sustainable Development. We are particularly happy to be launching the first ‘FDI Qualities Indicators: Measuring the sustainable development impacts of investment’ and would like to thank the Netherlands and Switzerland for their support.
19-October-2019
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2019 IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings - Written Statement to the Development Committee
19-October-2019
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2019 IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings - Written Statement to the IMFC
18-October-2019
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I am glad to report progress in addressing the tax challenges of digitalisation. It is now time to finish the job, keeping in mind that when the G20 works collectively on tax issues it delivers big.
18-October-2019
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According to our latest outlook, global growth will be 2.9% this year and barely 3% in 2020, the slowest projected growth rates since the financial crisis. In May, our forecasts were 0.3-0.4% higher. Among the G20, the economic outlook has been deteriorating fast for almost all economies in the group, both advanced and emerging.
15-October-2019
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Clouds have been gathering over the global economy and the horizon is only getting darker. In our latest Interim Economic Outlook, we revised down our forecasts for nearly all major economies and now project global growth to be at 2.9% this year and barely reach 3% in 2020. These would be the weakest growth rates since the global financial crisis.
11-October-2019
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The world economy has been weakening and, like other international organisations, we have revised downwards this year's macroeconomic forecasts. For 2019, the OECD expects global GDP growth of just 2.9%, six-tenths of a percentage point lower than in 2018 (3.5%).
10-October-2019
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The current global economic landscape is cause for concern. Our latest interim Economic Outlook projects that the global economy will grow by 2.9% in 2019 and 3% in 2020 – the weakest annual rates since the financial crisis. This is in large part due to the ongoing trade disputes, and the negative impact they have caused.