Governing Board

Meeting

Friday 3 July 2009

OECD Development Centre

3 July 2009

OECD Development CentreGOVERNING BOARD MEETING

44 Implementation IssuesImplementation Issues

Approval of the Draft Summary of the 13 May MeetingApproval of the Draft Summary of the 13 May Meeting22

33 Briefing by the Chair and Report by DirectorBriefing by the Chair and Report by Director

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55 Policy Tank DialoguePolicy Tank Dialogue

OECD Development CentreGOVERNING BOARD MEETING

11 Adoption of the AgendaAdoption of the Agenda

44 Implementation IssuesImplementation Issues

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55 Policy Tank DialoguePolicy Tank Dialogue

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11 Adoption of the AgendaAdoption of the Agenda

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Policy Impact: Stepping Stones May- July 2009 (a)Africa & Middle East Presentation of the 2009 African Economic Outlook at Sciences Po 22 May,

Paris

Presentation of the 2009 African Economic Outlook to the European Commission 25 May, Brussels

DSG Padoan’s presentation to the Italian Presidency in Rome on the occasion of the 2009 Africa Day includes substantial references to the 2009 African Economic Outlook.High-level attendance, including the Italian President and the Minister of Economy; the President of IFAD; the Director General for Development of the European Commission.

28 May, Rome

Presentation of 2009 African Economic Outlook at Casa Africa in Spain 28 May, Las Palmas

Presentation of the African Economic Outlook at UNCTAD in cooperation with the African Union and the ITU

3 June, Geneva

9th annual International Forum on Africa at French Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Employment

5 June, Paris

Presentation of the 2009 African Economic Outlook at the Italian Instituto Affari Internazionali

11 June, Rome

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Policy Impact: Stepping Stones May- July 2009 (b)Africa & Middle East Presentation of the 2009 African Economic Outlook to the Intergovernmental

Committee of Experts of the UN Economic Commission for Africa 12 June, Rabat

Presentation of the 2009 African Economic Outlook at the United Nations, US State Department, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, US Capitol Hill, Institute for Policy Studies, World Bank, IMF

16-19 June, New York, Washington

Presentation of the 2009 African Economic Outlook - Organised with UN Economic Commission for Africa

25 June, Addis Abeba

Presentation of the 2009 African Economic Outlook – Organised with the Portuguese Embassy

27 June, Luanda

Presentation of the 2009 African Economic Outlook to the Institut Catalunya Africa, Patronat CatalunyaMon, Cambra de Comerço de Barcelona

30 June, Barcelona

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Policy Impact: Stepping Stones May- July 2009 (c)

Global Development Outlook

New industries from new places: the emergence of hardware and software industries in China and India – seminar co-organised with the International Finance Corporation

20 May, Paris

Development Centre invited to present research on the future of the global currency reserve system and suggestion to extend the reach of the DSRs at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum: High-level attendance, including Arkady Dvorkovych, Special Aide to the Russian President; John Lipsky, Deputy Managing Director at the IMF; Roland Nash, Head of Research at Renaissance Capital; Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, Former Board Member at the ECB

6 June, St. Petersburg

InWent Aid Efficiency Meeting. Attended with DAC Chair E Deutscher, on “Aid Effectiveness” (15 – 16 June)

16 June, Berlin

Development Centre invited to speak about the multilateral donor non-system to the Development Committee of the Deutscher Bundestag at a panel on UN Reform

17 June, Berlin

Global Development Outlook & Latin America

Migration in Central America: Governance and Links to Labour Markets – Experts meeting and presentation of the Latin American Economic Outlook 2009 organised with the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO)

25 June, San José de Costa Rica

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Policy Impact: Stepping Stones May- July 2009 (d)Latin America & Caribbean Experts’ Meeting on Migration and Development in Latin America: Towards LEO 2010 18 May,

Paris

Latin America and the Global Economic Crisis: What Future Prospects? – Seminar co-organised with the Inter-American Development Bank and La Maison de l’Amerique latine

20 May, Paris

Democracy and Fiscal Legitimacy in Latin America – seminar co-organised with Latinobarometro and La Maison de l’Amerique latine

29 May, Paris

Development Centre invited by the new Spanish Secretary of State for Latin America for a closed-door, high-level brainstorming session on policies and priorities for the Spanish Government towards Latin America and the Caribbean, in light of the forthcoming Spanish Presidency of the EU and the next EU-LAC Summit

19 June, Madrid

DEV Special Lecture

Making Reform Happen in Brazil: A seminar led by Mr. Gilmar Ferreira Mendes, President of the Supreme Court of Brazil

18 May, Paris

Partnerships (DevCom)

Achieving the MDGs in Times of Crises and Change – Workshop by the Development Communications Network in cooperation with the UN Millennium Campaign and the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

4 June, Warsaw

Partnerships(EmNet) Quarterly Meeting of the Emerging Markets Network: Asia and Protectionism 26 June,

Paris

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11 Adoption of the AgendaAdoption of the Agenda

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Approval of the Draft Summary of the 30 March MeetingApproval of the Draft Summary of the 30 March Meeting22

33 Briefing by the Chair and Report by DirectorBriefing by the Chair and Report by Director

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55 Policy Tank DialoguePolicy Tank Dialogue

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FIRST SEMESTER REPORT ON THE

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE

CENTRE’S 2009-10 PROGRAMME OF WORK AND BUDGET

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Key achievements: Some examples

Institutional level

Regional level

Global level

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October 2008: WP on Sovereign Development Funds: “Should SWFs allocate 10% of their portfolio to other emerging and developing economies over the next decade, this could generate inflows of USD 1 400 billion: a yearly amount higher than all OECD countries development aid put together.”

December 2008: EmNet meeting on SWF attended by Central Bank of Nigeria, Dubai International Capital, SCIC (Vietnam), Bank of Uganda, Ministry of Finance (Chile), Caisse des Dépôts (France), Reserve Bank of India, NBIM (Norway)

May 2009: Temasek Holdings, the Singapore state investment company pulls out of its investment in Bank of America and announces its strategy to cut planned investments in developed economies and invest more in emerging markets .

Providing policy recommendations to SWFs

“This is an excellent analysis, well documented. I share its views entirely. Congratulations on this coup de maître!”

Jacques de LarosièreFormer Managing Director of the IMF

Institutional impact

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AEO in the Media: Milestones and firsts

Hits in major US, UK, French, German, Chinese, Italian, South African dailies

DEV-signed opinion letter in the International Herald Tribune

Over half of articles directly quote DEV economists

More even coverage across Europe than in 2008

50 % increase in TV and radio appearances compared to 2008

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African Economic Outloook 2009: A reference for world leaders

March 2009: AEO 2009 growth projections used in paper submitted to G-20 Sherpas by the Committee of African Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors ahead of the G-20 summit in April in London

June 2009: During Africa Day ceremony at the Italian Presidency in Rome, President of the African Union and Dean of African Ambassadors to Italy used AEO figures (rather than IMF figures) to illustrate their arguments

June 2009: Request by Italian G-8 Sherpa for briefing note on implications of ICT for development with recommendations on investment and regulations, for distribution to Ministers and Heads of States during the G-8 and for possible inclusion in the G-8 declaration

June 209: At the AEO launch in Addis Abeba, the head of the ICT division of the African Union requested inputs and data to be used at the next African Union Heads of State Meeting, the focus of which will be on ICT

Global impact

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Over 20 presentations since the launch of the African Economic Outlook 2009 at international conferences and seminars all over the world: Berlin, Brussels, Dakar, Abuja, Addis Abeba, Yaoundé, Madrid, Frankfurt, Geneva, Kigali, Las Palmas, Lisbon, Luanda, New York, Paris, Pretoria, Rabat, Rome, Washington D.C.

Increasing visibility and demand in African countries Increasing leadership and ownership by the African Development Bank in the dissemination process

Increasing African ownership for the AEO through the AfDB

Regional impact

AfDB-led events (planned and occurred)DEV-led events

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Top visitors (May - June 2009)

AfricanEconomicOutlook.orgA new one-stop web platform for monitoring Africa’s economic performance

Regional impact

Puts rigorous and independent data on performance of African economies at fingertips of African citizens, for FREE Tailored to browsers in Africa: accessible through low bandwidth connections (created with Open Source, uses HTML

codes, no flash animations); Content available for easy downloading and printing in PDF and Excel files The only place where African countries are examined through a common analytical framework, allowing you to compare

economic prospects at the regional, sub-regional and country levels

1 Europe (43%)

2 Africa (32%)

3 Americas (16%)

4 Asia (8%)

5 Oceania (1%)

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Launch of AEO.ORG: Furthering governance in Africa

Regional impact

http://www.youtube.com/v/hLQ8MXW_IvM&hl=en&fs=1&

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Building bridges: 9th International Economic Forum on Africa

The only meeting hosted by the OECD that is free and open to the public

More than 600 participants have a rare opportunity to exchange with high-level business and government representatives.

Panelists included: – Soulé Mana Lawani, Minister of Economy and Finance, Benin– Samuel Poghisio, Minister of Information and Communications, Kenya– Abdourahim Agne, Minister of Information and Telecommunication, Senegal– Marc Rennard, Executive Vice President for Africa, ME and Asia, France Telecom– Gordon G. Graylish, Deputy General Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa, INTEL

Regional impact

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Building bridges: 9th International Economic Forum on Africa

“It was a stimulating event. I liked the format and the ability of the audience to interact. ”

- Gordon G. Graylish, Deputy General Manager for EMEA, INTEL Corporation

“The interactivity between the speakers and the audience has been a positive surprise, with a lot of constructive ideas.”

- Vincenzo Nesci, President, Africa & Middle East, Alcatel Lucent

“ My congratulations on the International Economic Forum on Africa, a very efficient, high profile and professional forum which focused on some of the most important issues which Africa currently faces.”

- Chris Derksen, Head of Africa Private Equity, Investec Asset Management (South Africa)

“Unilever is serious about its commitment to Africa, and the conference was an excellent forum to exchange views with key stakeholders.”

- Harish Manwani, President for Asia, Africa, Central & Eastern Europe, Unilever

Regional impact

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Column1Wednesday 8 April

Thursday 9 April Mean Wednesdays Mean Thursdays

Visits 998 (+38%) 1189 (+67%) 722 711

Visitors 886 (+36%) 1077 (+66%) 651 646

Page views 3862 (+64%) 3248 (+44%) 2346 2242

Web Impact - April 2009

Is Informal Normal?

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• BBC News (UK): “Job insecurity ‘is increasing’” • The Economic Times: “Half of global labour force works with no contract: OECD”• The Times (UK): “Informal economy a force in its own right”• Libération (France): “L’économie souterraine en passe de devenir la norme”• Courrier International (France): “L’economie informelle amortit les effets de la récession”• Les Échos (France): “Les deux-tiers de la population active mondiale travaillera au noir en 2020, selon l’OCDE”• Los Angeles Times (USA): “OECD study says informal employment at record levels, urges help for under-the-table employers”

Media Impact - April 2009

Is Informal Normal?

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• La Jornada (Mexico): “OCDE: mil 800 millones de personas en el mundo laboran sin contrato”• Le Devoir (Canada): “La moitié de la population active mondiale travaille au noir”• Médiapart (France): “Avec la crise, le tavail informel se normalise”• La Tribuna (Honduras): “Empleo informal llega a 58.2% en Honduras”• El País (Spain): “EL 60% de los trabajadores del mundo carece de contrato”• Il Sole 24 Ore (Italy): “Allarme dell’Osce: lavoro nero in aumento”• Deutsche Welle (Germany): “ Fast zwei Milliarden ohne soziale Absicherung”• Financial Times (Germany): “Jeder Zweite arbeitet weltweit ohne Festvertrag”• Diário do Nordeste (Brazil): “1,8 bi trabalha sem contrato”

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An ability to influence global development policiesDevelopment Finance and the G-20 Summit

February 2008: The Centre finds the claim that China is “free riding” on Western debt relief efforts to be unfounded and suggests a more flexible debt sustainability framework.

March 2009: The Centre argues that the crisis will affect developing countries through unexpected channels and suggests strengthening South-South linkages.

April 2009: The London G20 Summit Communiqué states that participants had “agreed to review the flexibility of the Debt Sustainability Framework”.

Global impact

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Output funding needs to datefor 2009-2010

OECD Development CentreGOVERNING BOARD MEETING

11 Adoption of the AgendaAdoption of the Agenda

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RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGES RAISED BY THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS

Presentation by

Mr. Juan Montás, Minister of Economic Affairs, Planning and Development, Dominican Republic.

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RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGES RAISED BY THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS

Presentation by

Dr. Rama Sithanen,Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Mauritius.

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OECD Development CentreGOVERNING BOARD MEETING

• Monday 5 October (pm)

• Monday 2 November (pm)

• Monday 14 December (pm)

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