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  • 5-December-2022

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    Denmark’s Carsten Staur appointed new DAC Chair

    Carsten Staur, currently Denmark’s Permanent Representative and Ambassador to the OECD and UNESCO, was today appointed as the new Chair of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC), the leading international forum for bilateral providers of development aid.

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  • 16-November-2022

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    Lithuania joins the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)

    Lithuania has become the 31st member of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), the leading international forum for bilateral providers of development co-operation.

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  • 7-November-2022

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    Latin America and the Caribbean: The green transition can be an economic and social game changer, says new report

    Climate change could significantly worsen long-term economic prospects and exacerbate inequalities in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC). It is urgent to advance towards an ambitious and comprehensive green agenda to address its consequences and improve well-being for all. An effective green transition in LAC could potentially add 10.5% more new jobs by 2030, says the Latin American Economic Outlook (LEO) 2022

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  • 29-July-2022

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  • 10-June-2022

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    The African Union Commission (AUC) and the OECD discuss potential partnership for responding to global challenges

    Meeting today in Paris, the Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Dr. Monique Nsanzabaganwa, and the Secretary-General of the OECD, Mathias Cormann, announced that the two institutions intend to scale-up their collaboration to address the most pressing global challenges through a strong and equal partnership based on trust and mutual understanding.

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  • 27-April-2022

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    OECD countries advancing slowly on sustainable development targets by 2030

    Despite progress made since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Goals (SDGs), OECD countries have met or are close to meeting only a quarter of the targets for which performance can be gauged, according to a new OECD report.

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  • 12-April-2022

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    COVID-19 assistance to developing countries lifts foreign aid in 2021 - OECD

    Foreign aid from official donors rose to an all-time high of USD 179 billion in 2021, up 4.4% in real terms from 2020 as developed countries stepped up their help for developing countries grappling with the COVID-19 crisis, according to preliminary data collected by the OECD.

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  • 19-January-2022

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    New OECD hub to boost transparency on the tax treatment of foreign aid

    The OECD today launched a new digital hub to improve transparency around the taxation of development aid by presenting approaches taken by participating donor countries to claiming tax exemptions on goods and services funded by official development assistance (ODA).

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  • 5-November-2021

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    OECD and Viet Nam sign MoU to deepen co-operation and support reforms

    The OECD and the Government of Viet Nam today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen co-operation over the next five years.

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  • 27-October-2021

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    OECD Development Assistance Committee commits to align development co-operation with the goals of the Paris Agreement

    Members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) today issued a joint Declaration ahead of COP26 committing to align official development assistance (ODA), which totalled USD 161 billion in 2020, with the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

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