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Our mission
The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that
will improve the economic and social well-being of
people around the world.
The OECD provides a forum in which governments can
work together to share experiences and seek solutions
to common problems. We work with governments to understand
what drives economic, social and environmental change.
We measure productivity and global flows of trade
and investment. We analyse and compare data to predict
future trends. We set international standards on a
wide range of things, from agriculture and tax
to the safety of chemicals.
We look, too, at issues that directly affect the
lives of ordinary people, like how much they pay in
taxes and social security, and how much leisure time
they can take. We compare how different countries’
school systems are readying their young people for
modern life, and how different countries’ pension
systems will look after their citizens in old age.
Drawing on facts and real-life experience, we recommend
policies designed to make the lives of ordinary people
better. We work with business, through the Business
and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD, and with
labour, through the Trade Union Advisory Committee.
We have active contacts as well with other civil society
organisations. The common thread of our work is a
shared commitment to market economies backed by democratic
institutions and focused on the wellbeing of all citizens.
Along the way, we also set out to make life harder
for the terrorists, tax dodgers, crooked businessmen
and others whose actions undermine a fair and open
society.
OECD at 50 and beyond
As the OECD turns 50, we are focusing on helping governments
in our member countries and elsewhere in four main areas:
- First and foremost, governments need to restore
confidence in markets and the institutions and companies
that make them function. That will require improved
regulation and more effective governance at all
levels of political and business life.
- Secondly, governments must re-establish healthy
public finances as a basis for future sustainable
economic growth.
- In parallel, we are looking for ways to foster
and support new sources of growth through innovation,
environmentally friendly ‘green growth’ strategies
and the development of emerging economies.
- Finally, to underpin innovation and growth, we
need to ensure that people of all ages can develop
the skills to work productively and satisfyingly
in the jobs of tomorrow.
Secretary-General’s
Report to Ministers 2013 (PDF)
Secretary-General’s
Strategic Orientations for 2013 and Beyond
(PDF)
OECD
50th Anniversary Vision Statement (PDF)
The OECD’s core values
- Objective: Our analyses and recommendations
are independent and evidence-based.
- Open: We encourage debate and
a shared understanding of critical global issues.
- Bold: We dare to challenge conventional
wisdom starting with our own.
- Pioneering: We identify and address
emerging and long term challenges.
- Ethical: Our credibility
is built on trust, integrity and transparency.
Aid Statistics, Recipient
Aid at a glance
31-May-2012
The charts show for each of the following countries
and territories, and for the years 2008-2010: net
ODA receipts, top ten donors of gross ODA, population
and GNI per capita and bilateral ODA by sector.
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OECD defines EPR as an environmental
policy approach in which a producer’s responsibility
for a product is extended to the post-consumer stage
of a product’s life cycle. An EPR policy is
characterised by: (1) the shifting of responsibility
(physically and/or economically; fully or partially)
upstream toward the producer and away from municipalities;
and (2) the provision of incentives to producers to
take into account environmental considerations when
designing their products. While other policy instruments
tend to target a single point in the chain, EPR seeks
to integrate signals related to the environmental
characteristics of products and production processes
throughout the product chain.
To help governments make more informed
decisions about EPR implementation and assess the
social costs of such policy, an OECD report proposes
a framework for analysing the costs and benefits of
such programmes: "Analytical Framework for Evaluating
the Costs and Benefits of Extended Producer Responsibility
Programmes".
By placing responsibility for a product’s
end-of-life environmental impacts on producers, EPR
policies are also expected to push them to redesign
their products for environment. Such change, while
reducing waste management costs, should as well reduce
materials use and enhance product reusability and
recyclability. A recent OECD report , “EPR Policies
and Product Design: Economic Theory and Selected Case
Studies”, discusses the potential Design for
Environment impacts of EPR policies and provides practical
examples of the extent to which some EPR programmes
are contributing to ‘Design for the Environment’.
Global example : Thane
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