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Forum 2013: Economic Outlook Debate: Growth and jobs

Give growth a chance -- OECD Week 2013

"Give growth a chance" was the refrain from the economic outlook session at OECD Forum 2013. Read more...
Forum 2013: 21st Century Production Revolution

Global value chains at OECD Week 2013

Global value chains provide many economic benefits, but should be managed with more responsibility, according to panel discussions at OECD Week 2013. Read more...
Forum 2013 : Forum Opening Session

OECD calls for a new deal

"It's time for a new deal", cried Angel Gurria, OECD Secretary-General, at the opening of the OECD Forum 2013. Read more...
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Small business finance in Asia

Small business has a big problem, and that is access to finance. This is a problem everywhere, but especially in emerging and developing economies in Asia and elsewhere. Read more...
OECD Week 2013

OECD Week 2013

Financial and economic crisis have mutated into a political, social and philosophical crisis in America and Europe. This will be at the heart of discussions at OECD Week 2013. Read more...
Financial development in Asia

Financial development in Asia

A country's financial development is one key determinant of its economic growth. How do Asia's economies measure up in terms of financial development, and especially for access to financial services Read more...
Remembering the Asian Financial Crisis

Remembering the Asian Financial Crisis

The 1997-98 Asian Financial Crisis was the defining event of Asia's modern economic history. Has the region learnt the harsh lessons, and made the necessary reforms? Read more...
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Asia needs better developed bond markets

Asia has not yet made sufficient progress in developing bond markets, one of the lessons of the 1997/98 Asian Financial Crisis. Read more...
ASEAN Senior Officials (02813292)

Asian economic surveillance, and AMRO

AMRO -- the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office -- was established in Singapore in April 2011. It is slowly moving into action -- but too slowly. Read more...
Eye on China

Chiang Mai Initiative: an Asian IMF?

Asian countries have deployed great efforts to establish regional financial safety nets like the Chiang Mai Initiative. But the CMI has many limitations and is perhaps unusable. Read more...
Hillary Clinton Visit 011

Hillary's last words ... for the moment

Asia was at the centre of Hillary Clinton's last major speech as US Secretary of State. Read more...
Colombia joins the OECD Development Centre

How trade is changing the world

International trade by developing countries is fundamentally changing the shape of the world economy. Have the developed OECD countries created a monster for themselves? Read more...
Former ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda

Asia's challenges

The forces driving Asia’s rapid growth–new technology, globalisation, and market-oriented reform–are also fuelling rising inequality, argued ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda. Read more...
No sustainable development without sustainable water

Water Quality: An Ignored Global Crisis

Why has the critical problem of water pollution disappeared from the global agenda, and what does it mean for our future, ask Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K. Biswas. Read more...
New trends in foreign aid

New trends in foreign aid

As the wealthy OECD countries cut back on their foreign aid, emerging donors like China, India, Brazil and South Africa are expanding their aid programs -- and expanding their influence too. Read more...
Learning Commons @ Scott Library - York University

Development Aid and the Rise of New Donors

New donors are challenging the dominant aid discourse of the ‘West’, according to researchers at the York Centre for Asian Research in Toronto. Read more...
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Celebrating Australia's immigration history

On a recent trip to Melbourne, we visited the Immigration Museum, a celebration of Australia's rich immigration history. It is also an excellent public education tool on this complex issue. Read more...
Flooded urban poor area in Manila

Urbanization and slums in Asia

Economic theory paints a nice picture of urbanization as a driver of economic development. Unfortunately, too many Asian people who migrate from the country to the city end up in squalid slums. Read more...
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Measuring Asia's globalization

Asia's emerging economies have benefited greatly from the global economy. However, the KOF Index of Globalization suggests that Asia is still "under-globalized". Read more...
Singapore Flyer

Singapore is Asia's most innovative city

Singapore is Asia's most innovative city, closely followed by Sydney and Melbourne, according to a recent report by Solidiance. Read more...
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