OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews OECD Development Co‐operation Peer Reviews: Korea 2024

OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews OECD Development Co‐operation Peer Reviews: Korea 2024

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2024-05-21

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9264456279

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The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) conducts peer reviews of individual members once every five to six years. Reviews seek to improve the quality and effectiveness of members’ development co-operation, highlighting good practices and recommending improvements. Fourteen years after joining the DAC in 2010, Korea is at a pivotal juncture as it rapidly scales up official development assistance (ODA) and assumes more global responsibility. The 2020 revision of the Framework Act signals a more coherent, cross-government approach to implement a larger budget. There is potential to bring greater coherence between domestic and international policies supported by legislation on sustainable development. This peer review provides a set of recommendations for Korea to strengthen strategic partnerships and dialogue with partners, and use the cross-government capacity review and evaluations to prioritise larger ODA volumes to implementers. It recommends that Korea increase the number of qualified staff working in development across government, delegate more authority to partner country offices, and increase its risk appetite to expand private sector operations.


OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Italy 2019

OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Italy 2019

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2019-11-18

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9264398732

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Italy is strongly committed to multilateralism, and it uses its convening power as well as expertise in co-operation to make the country a leading voice on issues such as agriculture and cultural heritage. The country’s commitment to leaving no one behind is particularly apparent through the focus on gender and disability. However, the country would benefit from reversing the recent decline in official development assistance (ODA), building a stronger and better-skilled workforce, forming a coherent, whole-of-government approach to migration and development, and creating a system to manage for results.


OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Japan 2020

OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Japan 2020

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2020-10-12

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 926433128X

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Japan combines diplomatic, peace and development efforts to achieve sustainable development and implements the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through a whole-of-society approach. It values self-reliant development, country ownership and the mutual benefits of development co-operation for Japan and its partner countries.


OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Ireland 2020

OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Ireland 2020

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2020-05-20

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 9264663940

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Ireland is a strong voice for sustainable development. Quality partnerships with civil society, staunch support for multilateralism and good humanitarian donorship are hallmarks of its development co-operation.


The End of Poverty

The End of Poverty

Author: Jeffrey D. Sachs

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-02-28

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0143036580

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"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, Sachs lays out a clear conceptual map of the world economy. Explaining his own work in Bolivia, Russia, India, China, and Africa, he offers an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that challenge the world's poorest countries. Ten years after its initial publication, The End of Poverty remains an indispensible and influential work. In this 10th anniversary edition, Sachs presents an extensive new foreword assessing the progress of the past decade, the work that remains to be done, and how each of us can help. He also looks ahead across the next fifteen years to 2030, the United Nations' target date for ending extreme poverty, offering new insights and recommendations.


OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Slovenia 2024

OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Slovenia 2024

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2024-10-14

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9264368655

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The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) conducts peer reviews of individual members once every five to six years. Reviews seek to improve the quality and effectiveness of members’ development co-operation, highlighting good practices and recommending improvements. Slovenia's official development assistance to Gross National Income ratio increased from 0.16% in 2017 to 0.19% in 2021, with a temporary uptick to 0.29% in 2022. This increase was mainly due to in-donor refugee costs related to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. Slovenia punches above its weight as it influences decision-making in multilateral organisations in line with its priorities, notably on water and gender. Partners value its strong support to the Western Balkans, anchored in its European Union accession experience, as well as its support to demining efforts around the world. This peer review provides a set of recommendations to focus its approach, ensure cross-government co-ordination, match financial and human resources to ambitions, and build stronger relationships with partners.


OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews OECD Development Co‐operation Peer Reviews: France 2024

OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews OECD Development Co‐operation Peer Reviews: France 2024

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2024-07-09

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13: 9264552324

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The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) conducts peer reviews of individual members once every five to six years. Reviews seek to improve the quality and effectiveness of members’ development co-operation, highlighting good practices and recommending improvements. France has embarked on an ambitious reform of its development co-operation in institutional, strategic and financial terms. In addition to a substantial increase in the resources devoted to official development assistance and a strengthening of its crisis response instruments, France has championed the linkages between the green and social agendas and the mobilisation of the private sector for sustainable development. The review discusses the difficult balance between the objectives of visibility and development impact, particularly in fragile contexts. It makes recommendations on combining political impetus, steering by objectives and flexibility; deepening the cross-benefits between the social, environmental, and economic dimensions of sustainable development; and, strengthening the contribution of local private sector to poverty reduction by optimising available resources and instruments.


OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Iceland 2023

OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Iceland 2023

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2023-06-05

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9264415750

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The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) conducts peer reviews of individual members once every five to six years. This peer review provides a set of recommendations for Iceland to remain focused in its 2024-28 development co-operation policy and forthcoming environment and climate strategy, build on recent official development assistance (ODA) volume increases to develop a concrete roadmap towards 0.7% GNI as ODA, and adopt a strategic workforce plan to address human resource constraints.


The OECD and the International Political Economy Since 1948

The OECD and the International Political Economy Since 1948

Author: Matthieu Leimgruber

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-12-11

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 3319602438

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This book explores the history of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and its place within capitalist development. Since 1948, the OECD and its forerunner, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) worked on almost every subject of interest to national governments ranging from economic growth to education (PISA rankings), statistics, to the environment. With varying success the OEEC/OECD thus played a key role as a warden of the West and of capitalist development. However, it has remained one of the least understood international organizations. Bringing together a number of case studies by scholars from around the world, this first source-based volume on the history of the OEEC/OECD in global governance offers not only a new understanding of the Organization’s key areas of activities, but also its multiple relations to member states, other international organizations, and private networks. The volume thus critically re-examines postwar international history, most importantly decolonization and the Cold War, through the prism of one international organization in its various contexts.