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OECD Insights Sustainable Development Linking Economy, Society, Environment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 146

OECD Insights Sustainable Development Linking Economy, Society, Environment

A succinct examination of the concept of sustainable development: what it means; how it is impacted by globalisation, production and consumption; how it can be measured; and what can be done to promote it.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-05-08
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is one of the least written about and least understood of our major global institutions. This new book builds a well-rounded understanding of this crucial, though often neglected, institution, with a range of clearly written chapters that: outline its origins and evolution, bringing its story fully up-to-date present a clear framework for understanding the OECD set the institution within the broader context of global governance outline key criticisms and debates evaluate its future prospects. Given the immense challenges facing humanity at the start of the 21st century, the need for the OECD as a venue where the world’s lead...

Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters, Second Edition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters, Second Edition

This publication contains the following four parts: A model Competent Authority Agreement (CAA) for the automatic exchange of CRS information; the Common Reporting Standard; the Commentaries on the CAA and the CRS; and the CRS XML Schema User Guide.

Development Co-operation Report 2021 Shaping a Just Digital Transformation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 503

Development Co-operation Report 2021 Shaping a Just Digital Transformation

Digital transformation is revolutionising economies and societies with rapid technological advances in AI, robotics and the Internet of Things. Low and middle-income countries are struggling to gain a foothold in the global digital economy in the face of limited digital capacity, skills, and fragmented global and regional rules.

International Regulatory Co-operation and International Organisations The Cases of the OECD and the IMO
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 138

International Regulatory Co-operation and International Organisations The Cases of the OECD and the IMO

This publication presents findings and two case studies from an April 2014 meeting on the roles of the OECD and the IMO in international international regulatory co-operation as well as a contribution from K. W. Abbott on the links between the two.

The OECD
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

The OECD

The book reveals, for the first time, the origins, growth and complex role of the OECD as it celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, showing how it has adapted for the most part successfully to the changing needs of its members, both large and small. Peter Carroll and Aynsley Kellow provide a comprehensive account and analysis of the origins, development and, most intriguingly, the recent reforms that characterise the OECD. They argue that this increasingly complex organisation has fulfilled its design to be an adaptive, learning organisation and explore how the OECD has spread its wings beyond its European and North American roots to become an increasingly influential body in global governance...

Development Co-operation Report 2020 Learning from Crises, Building Resilience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Development Co-operation Report 2020 Learning from Crises, Building Resilience

The devastating impacts of coronavirus (COVID-19) on developing countries have tested the limits, ingenuity and flexibility of development co-operation while also uncovering best practices. This 58th edition of the Development Co-operation Report draws out early insights from leaders, OECD members, experts and civil society on the implications of coronavirus (COVID-19) for global solidarity and international co-operation for development in 2021 and beyond.

The End of Poverty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 465

The End of Poverty

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-02-28
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  • Publisher: Penguin

"Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient . . . Outstanding." —The Economist The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists Hailed by Time as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work around the globe advising economies in crisis. Now a classic of its genre, The End of Poverty distills more than thirty years of experience to offer a uniquely informed vision of the steps that can transform impoverished countries into prosperous ones. Marrying vivid storytelling with rigorous analysis,...

The G20
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 247

The G20

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-01-24
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This revised and updated edition presents detailed analysis of the history and current state of the G20, and the challenges it faces. The emergence of the G20 was the result of calls for full inclusion of major developing and other systemically important countries and to reflect new global economic and political realities. The growth of Chinese power, growing significance of other major developing countries and new concerns concerning anti-globalization and rising protectionism in the West have all resulted in important changes to the dynamics of the institution. The suspension of Russia’s membership in the G8 has also necessitated a change in G7/G20 dynamics and the G20’s processes, age...

Giving Well
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 317

Giving Well

So long as large segments of humanity are suffering chronic poverty and are dying from treatable diseases, organized giving can save or enhance millions of lives. With the law providing little guidance, ethics has a crucial role to play in ensuring that the philanthropic practices of individuals, foundations, NGOs, governments, and international agencies are morally sound and effective. In Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy, an accomplished trio of editors bring together an international group of distinguished philosophers, social scientists, lawyers and practitioners to identify and address the most urgent moral questions arising today in the practice of philanthropy. The topics discus...