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GRC NOR DOM MAR TUN + the European ISL PRT ECU PAN URY Union Contact us Telephone: + 33 (0)1 45 24 82 00 Email: [email protected] IRL SVK EU EGY PRY VNM Media contact: + 33 (0)1 45 24 82 96 Email: [email protected] Visiting address: 46, quai Alphonse le Gallo, 92100 Boulogne Billancourt, France BETTER POLICIES FOR BETTER LIVES 26 OECD MEMBERS Mailing address: 2, rue André-Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France EVERYWHERE We engaged with the European Commission and UN ECLAC BETTER POLICIES FOR BETTER LIVES 2018-2019 in a new EU Regional Facility FINDING POLICY SOLUTIONS to apply the approach of EVERYWHERE KEY ACHIEVEMENTS Development in Transition TOGETHER in Latin America and the Caribbean. Policy makers in developing countries are facing increasingly complex We live in difficult times, where the values of openness, multilateralism and decisions, balancing their economic, social and environmental agendas. co-operation are being questioned. Yet I know for a fact that international dialogue and co-operation deliver. And I am profoundly convinced they are more necessary than ever. The OECD Development Centre’s mission is to help them in this Burkina Faso drew from The African Union Commission The OECD Development Centre offers a unique platform where countries at all levels of endeavour, and turn their country’s growth potential into social the findings of ourSocial made us their partner in their development can advance a common understanding on what policies work in different progress and well‑being for all. Institutions and Gender Index Africa’s Development Dynamics contexts, and on how to reshape international co-operation in support of these policies. Mario Pezzini, Director of the OECD Development Centre, to reform its law on Violence report. We are also invited to Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General on Development Against Women, which support an African Observatory Ambassador Manuel Escudero, Chair of the Governing Board of the OECD Development Centre, criminalised marital rape. for Migration and Development. Permanent Representative of Spain to the OECD

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DEVELOPMENT: A PERMANENT TRANSITION strategy. Peru (Metropolitan Transport President John F. Kennedy established the OECD Development Development is more complex than moving from the “developing country” category to “developed”: N SKIL TIO LS EDUCA KYRGYZSTAN MDCR Authorities). Centre on 17 May 1961: in an address to the Canadian Parliament, it is a continuous and reversible process. It follows a diversity of pathways, depending on a country’s he proposed a forum where countries, rich and poor, could “study geography and history. It has multiple economic, social and environmental dimensions, in common the problems of economic development”. which income levels do not fully capture. Through dedicated networks, we engage with about Today, Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals Our 2019 Economic Outlook Improving lives in developing countries cannot be left to economic growth alone, nor can policy solutions to 100 companies (EMnet), demand that all countries work together as equals to find for Southeast Asia, China and structural challenges be reproduced from past experience. Governments have to co-create those solutions 50 foundations (netFWD) solutions to global challenges, giving our mission a new relevance. India report contributed to the with a wide array of public and private actors at international, sub-regional and local levels. and dozens of sustainable ASEAN Smart Cities Initiative. development advocates The Centre’s ability to provide a unique, inclusive platform for FROM RESEARCH AND DIALOGUE TO 2019 (DevCom). knowledge sharing and evidence-based policy dialogue hinges ACTION around its membership: its Governing Board is open to both OECD The Development Centre helps policy makers in OECD and non-OECD countries design better policies, and non-OECD countries, at various stages of development.

OURC RES E FU AL N practices and partnerships both at home and internationally. It identifies policy solutions for growth, Colombia has been R DS TU A N We helped natural resource- poverty alleviation and the reduction of inequality, relevant to each country’s context by: implementing the Those countries jointly define and fund the Centre’s Programme of

G rich developing countries and R N Work and Budget, and interact on an equal footing on its various E I recommendations of its V D E N N E U P E S multinational companies | • Producing multidisciplinary analysis on key development issues. M D platforms: High-level Meetings of the Governing Board Mutual Production Transformation A N A N A G E M E N T jointly craft Guiding Principles • Providing a platform for policy dialogue and learning between OECD and non-OECD countries. Policy Review, integrating Learning Group of the multi-dimensional reviews | Policy dialogues for Durable Extractive • Influencing the international debate on sustainable development. its digital and economic on natural resources, global value chains and productive Contracts. transformation, and women’s economic empowerment | Exchanges

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