Innovation is crucial to long-term economic growth, even more so in the aftermath of the financial and economic crisis. In this volume, the OECD and the World Bank jointly take stock of how globalisation is posing new challenges for innovation and growth in both developed and developing...

More than one-third of Official Development Assistance is spent annually on fragile and conflict-affected countries. Nonetheless, aid does not always flow promptly and effectively to where it is most needed, especially in countries recovering from conflict. The Accra Agenda for Action, recent...

These proceedings of the OECD Global Forum on Agriculture brought together experts from both developing and developed countries and from both the agriculture and development communities. The papers presented explore why policy coherence is important, how it affects global agricultural trade, and...

For OECD and non-OECD countries alike, the global fisheries situation poses topical questions of coherence between development and fisheries in a number of policy areas. This publication examines these questions and proposes a framework for in-depth analysis of coherence issues in five main...

En s’appuyant notamment sur l’expérience de la France, cet ouvrage examine si la bonne gouvernance d’entreprises génère la croissance. Il en ressort que c’est l’ensemble des institutions de gouvernance de la société dans leur interaction – gouvernance d’entreprise et...

This second volume of the Partnership for Democratic Governance Series investigates whether ‘contracting out’ core government functions and services has been conducive to capacity development. Each case study discusses the evidence and emerging lessons of contracting out in fragile and...

Partnership Forums are the means by which the OECD Development Assistance Committee provides a venue for non-governmental actors to express their points of view and to offer their own contributions to development policy and strategy. In December 2000, the DAC and the Development Centre held a...

The prospect of further trade liberalisation sometimes attracts a noisy public discourse, particularly with respect to the possible implications for developing countries. This volume considers trade and development from an economic perspective, aiming to examine these emotive issues using...

Ce rapport de l’OCDE s’appuie sur une vingtaine d'études de cas portant sur des exportations en provenance de pays en développement soumises à des prescriptions environnementales. Il analyse comment ces réglementations environnementales peuvent être des obstacles pour les pays en...

Le commerce électronique est-il synonyme de nouvelles possibilités pour les entrepreneurs des pays en développement ? Ou va-t-il se traduire pour eux par des obstacles nouveaux et difficiles à surmonter ? Dans cette série d'articles, des auteurs issus de différentes disciplines partent de...