Name | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) |
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Linking name | the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
Symbol type | Logo |
Image symbol | OECD_50A_Logo.png |
Symbol width | 230px |
Map caption | |
Membership | 34 states, 20 founder states (1961) |
Admin center type | Secretariat |
Admin center | Paris, France |
Leader title1 | Secretary General |
Leader name1 | José Ángel Gurría |
Established event1 | as the OEEC |
Established date1 | 16 April 1948 |
Established event4 | reformed as the OECD |
Established date4 | 30 September 1961 |
Official website | www.oecd.org |
Footnote1 | Organisation for European Economic Co-operation. }} |
The OECD originated in 1948 as the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC), led by Robert Marjolin of France, to help administer the Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. Later, its membership was extended to non-European states. In 1961, it was reformed into the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development by the Convention on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Most OECD members are high-income economies with a high Human Development Index (HDI) and are regarded as developed countries.
The OECD's headquarters are at the Château de la Muette in Paris, France.
In the 1950s the OEEC provided the framework for negotiations aimed at determining conditions for setting up a European Free Trade Area, to bring the European Economic Community of the six and the other OEEC members together on a multilateral basis. In 1958, a European Nuclear Energy Agency was set up under the OEEC.
More than just increasing its internal structure, OECD progressively created agencies: the OECD Development Centre (1961), International Energy Agency (IEA, 1974), and Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering.
The OECD promotes policies designed:
Among other areas, the OECD has taken a role in co-ordinating international action on corruption and bribery, creating the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, which came into effect in February 1999. It has been ratified by thirty-eight countries.
The OECD has also constituted an anti-spam task force, which submitted a detailed report, with several background papers on spam problems in developing countries, best practices for ISPs, e-mail marketers, etc., appended. It works on the information economy and the future of the Internet economy.
The OECD publishes the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) which is an assessment that allows for a comparison of educational performances between countries.
Since 1998, the OECD has led a charge against harmful tax practices, principally targeting the activities of tax havens (while principally accepting the policies of its member countries which would tend to encourage tax competition). These efforts have been met with mixed reaction: the primary objection is the sanctity of tax policy as a matter of sovereign entitlement. The OECD maintains a 'blacklist' of countries it considers uncooperative in the drive for transparency of tax affairs and the effective exchange of information, officially called "The List of Uncooperative Tax Havens". In May 2009, all remaining countries were removed from the list.
On 22 October 2008, at an OECD meeting in Paris, 17 countries led by France and Germany decided to draw up a new blacklist of tax havens. The OECD has been asked to investigate around 40 new tax havens in the world where undeclared revenue is hidden and which host many of the non-regulated hedge funds that have come under fire during the 2008 financial crisis. Germany, France and other countries called on the OECD to specifically add Switzerland to a blacklist of countries which encourage tax fraud.
All OECD books are available on the iLibrary and the online bookshop.
OECD statistics are available in several forms:
It has published the OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030, which shows that tackling the key environmental problems we face today—including climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and the health impacts of pollution—is both achievable and affordable.
Noteworthy meetings include:
The secretariat is organised in Directorates:
The work of the secretariat is financed from the OECD's annual budget, currently around US$510 million or €342.9 million). The budget is funded by the member countries based on a formula related to the size of each member's gross national product. The largest contributor is the United States, which contributes about one quarter of the budget, followed by Japan with 16%, Germany with 9% and the U.K. and France with 7%. The OECD governing council sets the budget and scope of work on a two-yearly basis.
As an international organisation the terms of employment of the OECD Secretariat staff are not governed by the laws of the country in which their offices are located. Agreements with the host country safeguard the organisation's impartiality with regard to the host and member countries. Hiring and firing practices, working hours and environment, holiday time, pension plans, health insurance and life insurance, salaries, expatriation benefits and general conditions of employment are managed according to rules and regulations associated with the OECD. In order to maintain working conditions which are similar to similarly structured organisations, the OECD participates as an independent organisation in the system of co-ordinated European organisations, whose other members include NATO, the Western European Union and the European Patent Organisation.
Country | !! Geographic location !! Notes | |||
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align="left"> | <| | Europe | OEEC founding member. | |
align="left"> | <| | Europe | OEEC founding member. | |
align="left"> | <| | North America | ||
align="left"> | <| | South America | ||
align="left"> | <| | Europe | ||
align="left"> | <| | Europe | OEEC founding member. | |
align="left"> | <| | Europe | ||
align="left"> | <| | Europe | ||
align="left"> | <| | Europe | OEEC founding member. | |
align="left"> | <| | Europe | Joined OEEC in 1955 (West Germany). | |
align="left"> | <| | Europe | OEEC founding member. | |
align="left"> | <| | Europe | ||
align="left"> | <| | Europe | OEEC founding member. | |
align="left"> | <| | Europe | OEEC founding member. | |
align="left"> | <| | Asia | ||
align="left"> | <| | Europe | OEEC founding member. | |
align="left"> | <| | Asia | ||
align="left"> | <| | Asia | ||
align="left"> | <| | Europe | OEEC founding member. | |
align="left"> | <| | North America | ||
align="left"> | <| | Europe | OEEC founding member. | |
align="left"> | <| | Oceania | ||
align="left"> | <| | Europe | OEEC founding member. | |
align="left"> | <| | Europe | ||
align="left"> | <| | Europe | OEEC founding member. | |
align="left"> | <| | Europe | ||
align="left"> | <| | Europe | ||
align="left"> | <| | Europe | Joined OEEC in 1959. | |
align="left"> | <| | Europe | OEEC founding member. | |
align="left"> | <| | Europe | OEEC founding member. | |
align="left"> | <| | Eurasia | OEEC founding member. | |
align="left"> | <| | Europe | OEEC founding member. | |
align="left"> | | | North America |
The European Commission participates in the work of the OECD alongside the EU Member States.
On 16 May 2007, the OECD Ministerial Council decided to open accession discussions with the Russian Federation. The OECD Ministerial Council of 2007 also decided to strengthen OECD's co-operation with Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa, through a process of enhanced engagement.
The OECD explores the possibilities for enhanced co-operation with selected countries and regions of strategic interest to the OECD, giving priority to South East Asia with a view to identifying countries for possible membership.
+Land areas, populations, economic indicators and various indexes of member states | |||||||||||||
Country !! List of countries and outlying territories by total area | Area(km²) !! Population(thousands)2010 !! GDP (PPP)(millions, Intl. $)2010 !! GDP (PPP)per capita(Intl. $)2010 !! HDI2010 !! FSI2011 !! CPI2010 !! IEF2011 !! GPI2011 !! WPFI2010 !! DI2010 !! Incomeinequalitylate-2000s | ||||||||||||
7,741,220 | 21,472| | 901,509.0 | 41,985 | 0.937 | 28.1 | 8.7 | 82.5 | 1.455 | 5.38 | 9.22 | 0.336 | ||
style="text-align:left;" | 83,871 | | | 8,397 | 334,510.6 | 39,837 | 0.851 | 27.3 | 7.9 | 71.9 | 1.337 | 0.50 | 8.49 | 0.265 |
style="text-align:left;" | 30,528 | | | 10,566 | 405,159.7 | 38,346 | 0.867 | 34.1 | 7.1 | 70.2 | 1.413 | 4.00 | 8.05 | 0.269 |
style="text-align:left;" | style="background:#cfc;" | 9,984,670 || | 33,639 | 1,331,266.5 | 39,575 | 0.888 | 27.7 | 8.9 | 80.8 | 1.355 | 7.00 | 9.08 | 0.319 |
style="text-align:left;" | 756,102 | | | 17,135 | 253,788.6 | 14,811 | 0.783 | 40.7 | 7.2 | 77.4 | 1.710 | 10.50 | 7.67 | 0.503 |
style="text-align:left;" | 78,867 | | | 10,279 | 274,112.6 | 26,667 | 0.841 | 42.4 | 4.6 | 70.4 | 1.320 | 7.50 | 8.19 | 0.255 |
style="text-align:left;" | 43,094 | | | 5,485 | 215,455.4 | 39,281 | 0.866 | 23.8 | 9.3 | 78.6 | 1.289 | 2.50 | 9.52 | 0.248 |
style="text-align:left;" | 45,228 | | | 1,339 | 28,346.4 | 21,170 | 0.812 | 49.3 | 6.5 | 75.2 | 1.798 | 2.00 | 7.68 | 0.313 |
style="text-align:left;" | 338,145 | | | 5,347 | 196,673.3 | 36,782 | 0.871 | 19.7 | 9.2 | 74.0 | 1.352 | 0.00 | 9.19 | 0.263 |
style="text-align:left;" | 643,427 | | | 62,452 | 2,232,694.4 | 35,751 | 0.872 | 34.0 | 6.8 | 64.6 | 1.697 | 13.38 | 7.77 | 0.293 |
style="text-align:left;" | 357,022 | | | 82,834 | 3,108,389.0 | 37,526 | 0.885 | 33.9 | 7.9 | 71.8 | 1.416 | 4.25 | 8.38 | 0.295 |
style="text-align:left;" | 131,957 | | | 11,284 | 316,701.1 | 28,066 | 0.855 | 47.4 | 3.5 | 60.3 | 1.947 | 19.00 | 7.92 | 0.321 |
style="text-align:left;" | 93,028 | | | 10,007 | 210,364.0 | 21,022 | 0.805 | 48.7 | 4.7 | 66.6 | 1.495 | 7.50 | 7.21 | 0.272 |
style="text-align:left;" | 103,000 | | | 306 | 11,481.2 | 37,520 | 0.869 | 30.1 | 8.5 | 68.2 | 1.148 | 0.00 | 9.65 | 0.279 |
style="text-align:left;" | 70,273 | | | 4,347 | 175,104.5 | 40,282 | 0.895 | 25.3 | 8.0 | 78.7 | 1.370 | 2.00 | 8.79 | 0.299 |
style="text-align:left;" | 22,072 | | | 7,285 | 218,019.6 | 29,927 | 0.872 | a | 6.1 | 68.5 | 2.901 | 23.25 | 7.48 | 0.371 |
style="text-align:left;" | 301,340 | | | 59,004 | 1,995,233.4 | 33,815 | 0.854 | 45.8 | 3.9 | 60.3 | 1.775 | 15.00 | 7.83 | 0.337 |
style="text-align:left;" | 377,915 | | | 127,176 | 4,330,283.7 | 34,050 | 0.884 | 31.0 | 7.8 | 72.8 | 1.287 | 2.50 | 8.08 | 0.329 |
style="text-align:left;" | 99,720 | | | 48,875 | 1,423,703.8 | 29,129 | 0.877 | 38.8 | 5.4 | 69.8 | 1.829 | 13.33 | 8.11 | 0.315 |
style="text-align:left;" | style="background:#ffc;" | 2,586 || | 479 | 42,172.5c | 88,784c | 0.852 | 26.1 | 8.5 | 76.2 | 4.00 | 8.88 | 0.273 | |
style="text-align:left;" | 1,964,375 | | | 108,396 | 1,647,212.0 | 15,196 | 0.750 | 75.1 | 3.1 | 67.8 | 2.362 | 47.50 | 6.93 | 0.476 |
style="text-align:left;" | 41,543 | | | 16,448 | 693,319.3 | 42,152 | 0.890 | 28.3 | 8.8 | 74.7 | 1.628 | 0.00 | 8.99 | 0.294 |
style="text-align:left;" | 267,710 | | | 4,258 | 128,614.2 | 30,205 | 0.907 | 24.8 | 9.3 | 82.3 | 1.279 | 1.50 | 9.26 | 0.330 |
style="text-align:left;" | 323,802 | | | 4,762 | 274,469.1 | 57,637 | 0.938 | 20.4 | 8.6 | 70.3 | 1.356 | 0.00 | 9.80 | 0.250 |
style="text-align:left;" | 312,685 | | | 37,798 | 752,088.2 | 19,898 | 0.795 | 46.8 | 5.3 | 64.1 | 1.545 | 8.88 | 7.05 | 0.314 |
style="text-align:left;" | 92,090 | | | 10,626 | 272,467.9 | 25,642 | 0.795 | 32.3 | 6.0 | 64.0 | 1.453 | 12.36 | 8.02 | 0.361 |
style="text-align:left;" | 49,035 | | | 5,401 | 130,703.3 | 24,200 | 0.818 | 47.1 | 4.3 | 69.5 | 1.576 | 11.50 | 7.35 | 0.246 |
style="text-align:left;" | 20,273 | | | 2,025 | 57,600.5 | 28,445 | 0.828 | 35.5 | 6.4 | 64.6 | 1.358 | 13.44 | 7.69 | 0.236 |
style="text-align:left;" | 505,370 | | | 44,683 | 1,503,121.2 | 33,640 | 0.863 | 43.1 | 6.1 | 70.2 | 1.641 | 12.25 | 8.16 | 0.309 |
style="text-align:left;" | 450,295 | | | 9,237 | 368,979.8 | 39,946 | 0.885 | 22.8 | 9.2 | 71.9 | 1.401 | 0.00 | 9.50 | 0.259 |
style="text-align:left;" | 41,277 | | | 7,671 | 359,976.4 | 46,927 | 0.874 | 23.2 | 8.7 | 81.9 | 1.421 | 0.00 | 9.09 | 0.276 |
style="text-align:left;" | 783,562 | | | 76,505 | 1,118,839.0 | 14,624 | 0.679 | 74.9 | 4.4 | 64.2 | 2.411 | 49.25 | 5.73 | 0.409 |
style="text-align:left;" | 243,610 | | | 62,309 | 2,213,646.4 | 35,527 | 0.849 | 34.1 | 7.6 | 74.5 | 1.631 | 6.00 | 8.16 | 0.341 |
style="text-align:left;" | 9,826,675 | | | 310,233 | 14,582,400.0 | 47,005 | 0.902 | 34.8 | 7.1 | 77.8 | 2.063 | 6.75 | 8.18 | 0.378 |
! OECDb !! 36,226,367 !! 1,228,060 !! 42,108,407.0 !! 34,289 !! 0.853 !! 36.3 !! 6.9 !! 71.7 !! 1.607 !! 9.21 !! 8.27 !! 0.313 |
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