Ministerial Meeting 2011: Background reading

 

New Paradigms for Development

Getting it right in 2011, by Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD

Tax

• Restoring public finances
• Fighting tax evasion
• Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes
• OECD work on tax

Bribery and Corruption

• OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions
• OECD work on bribery and corruption

Public governance

• Strengthening governance, restoring trust
• Integrity in Public Procurement
• OECD Recommendation on Principles for Transparency and Integrity in Lobbying
• OECD work on public governance

Food security

• Agriculture and Trade
• OECD work on agriculture 

Development

• Aid increases, but with worrying trends
• Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness: The promise of Busan
• OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC): 50 years, 50 highlights 
• Tax and development
• OECD work on Development

Investment

• Updating the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
• OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas
• The Policy Framework for Investment (PFI)
• Trade restrictions increasing but global investment remains open, says OECD-UNCTAD-WTO report 
• OECD work on investment

Gender

• Aid in Support of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
• Women’s economic empowerment
• Investing in women and girls
• OECD work on gender
  

New Sources of Growth and Jobs

• New sources of growth
• OECD-World Bank Conference: Challenges and Policies for Promoting Inclusive Growth
• OECD work on economy
• New sources of growth: intangible assets
• New Building Blocks for Jobs and Economic Growth (conference, Washington, DC, 16-17 May)
• OECD work on employment

Green Growth

• OECD work on OECD work on Green Growth
• Resource Productivity in the G8 and the OECD - A Report in the Framework of the Kobe 3R Action Plan
• Fossil fuel subsidies
• Cities, Climate Change and Green Growth 
• The Water Challenge: OECD's Response
• OECD work on environment

Innovation and skills

• OECD Innovation Strategy
• OECD work on innovation
• Boosting jobs and skills

Trade

• Trade restrictions increasing but global investment remains open, says OECD-UNCTAD-WTO report 
• Trade and employment
• OECD work on trade

General Information about the OECD

• Better policies for better lives: The OECD at 50 and beyond (PDF, 2.91MB)
  The OECD’s 50th Anniversary is an opportunity to reaffirm what we stand for and what we are about. After 50 years, our objective is and remains to help member and partner country’s governments to formulate and implement better policies for better lives.
• OECD Yearbook 2011
  As the OECD marks its 50th anniversary, world leaders and top representatives from business, labour and civil society join OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría and OECD experts to examine today’s pressing issues in this inaugural OECD Yearbook 2011.
• Secretary-General's Report to Ministers 2011
  The OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría shares, in this annual report to ministers, his Strategic Orientations for 2011 and beyond: framing priorities for the next 50 years.
• OECD enlargement and engagement with non-members & Enhanced Engagement
• Previous meetings of the OECD Council at Ministerial Level: 2010, 2009, , , , and .