OECDOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Organisation and Content Overview

Fast facts

• Established 1961• Headquarters: Paris• OECD Centres: Berlin, Mexico City,

Tokyo, Washington• Members: 34• Secretary-General: Angel Gurría• Secretariat staff: 2 500• Publications 250 new titles/year• Annual budget: 350 € million (5 € million for

Publishing)

• Nearly 300 expert committees and working groups

Current Members

Key Partners

Brazil

China

India

Indonesia

South Africa

Russia

More than just numbers

Setting global standards, for example:

OECD Anti-bribery Convention

OECD Model Tax Convention

OECD Guidelines for:

Corporate Governance

Multi-national Enterprises

Consumer protection

CleanerStronger

Fairer

Competition

Trade

EducationEducation

Employment

HealthcareMigration

Finance

Taxevasion

Corruption

Fiscal policy

EnergyEnergy

Innovation

ClimateClimatechangechange

More than just the economy

DevelopmentDevelopmentassistanceassistance

PensionsPensions

EntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship

Agriculture

Governance

OECD: A Knowledge Organisation?

More than just “rich countries”

More than just “rich countries”

From 65% 80% of world GDPOECD34 OECD40

A very big community

New OECD members: Cile, Estonia, Israele e Slovenia Accession country : Russia

“Enhanced Engagement” with Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, e South Africa

34 OECD member countries1 Accessioncountries

Enhanced Engagement partners

OECD PUBLISHING

Teams and processes

• OECD• General Secretariat

– Executive directorate– Public Affairs and Communications Drectorate

• Departments– Directorate for Education– Economics Directorate– Development Co-operation Directorate– Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social affairs– Trade and Agriculture directorate– Environment Directorate, etc, etc

• Special bodies– Development centre– International Energy Agency, etc , etc

OECD Structure

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What does OECD publish?

Your resource to the world economy

www.oecd-ilibrary.org

• Launch July 2010

• Content back to 1998

• Data back to 1960

• 17 Thematic Collections

• 8,890 E-books and 32,630 Chapters

• 3,450 Journal Issues

• 4,020 Working Papers

• 2,240 Key Tables

• 290 Datasets

• 5 billion Data Points

OECD iLibrary facts & figures

OECD iLibrary who is for?

• Universities and research organisations

• Businesses

• Government and parliaments

• Non-governmental organisations

• Think tanks

• Libraries Worldwide

• ……anyone interested in today economic

and social issues

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