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"The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is one of the least written about and least understood of our major global institutions. This book builds a well-rounded understanding of this crucial, though often neglected, institution, with a range of clearly written chapters that: ◦outline its origins and evolution, bringing its story fully up-to-date ◦present a clear framework for understanding the OECD ◦set the institution within the broader context of global governance ◦outline key criticisms and debates ◦evaluate its future prospects. Given the immense challenges facing humanity at the start of the 21st century, the need for the OECD as a venue where the world’s leading states can discuss, on an informal and ongoing basis, the conundrums of globalization has never been greater. The clarity and rigour of these chapters cut through the layers of misunderstanding and misconception that surround the OECD, often dismissed as a ‘rich-man’s club’, ‘a think-tank’ and ‘a consultative forum’. This book dismantles these labels to provide a holistic understanding of the organization."
Conclusions and Recommendations for Policy Makers
2009
The OECD is a unique forum where the governments of 30 democracies work together to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalisation. The OECD is also at the forefront of efforts to understand and to help governments respond to new developments and concerns, such as corporate governance, the information economy and the challenges of an ageing population. The Organisation provides a setting where governments can compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and work to coordinate domestic and international policies.
Fifty More Years? Reform and Modernisation of the OECD
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From “Club of the Rich” to “Globalization à la Carte”? Evaluating Reform at the OECD
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2015
Recognising the declining weight of its members in the world economy, the OECD, formerly known as a 'club of rich, industrialised nations', is undergoing unprecedented organizational reform, including a more inclusive membership logic, engagement with new global players, and outreach to developing countries, all with a view to guaranteeing its continued relevance as a central actor in the task of global policy provision. Using the concepts of global public goods, clubs and models of multilateralism, this article critically evaluates the successes and limits of the OECD's reform, arguing it is adopting a cautious approach to expansion-globalization ' à la carte'. Meaningful reform towards greater inclusion is apparent in the way research on non-members has been mainstreamed, and in its increased work with both emerging powers and developing countries. Limits to reform are found in institutional rigidities including its over-representation of Europe and under-representation of Asia and other continents, reflected through staff profiles and membership. These biases may in turn reduce its attractiveness as a global forum to new players, particularly, China. Policy Implications • Shifts in the world economy towards the east and the south pose significant challenges to international organizations, which must ensure processes of global governance fully involve key actors, in the quest for functional and legitimate global policy. * * * '…the OECD is changing. It is becoming more inclusive, more sensitive to diversity and the many paths that have led to growth and development…the Organization's new global strategy is increasing its relevance and responsiveness to the needs of the international community.' (OECD, 2009a) 'Nor will anyone in the West have the courage to state another obvious truth: after having failed in its core mission, the OECD has clearly become a 'sunset' organisation. Its disappearance will have no impact on the developing world.'(Mahbubani, 2008: 69). The OECD has adopted a bold new mantra in recent years: to guarantee its global nature and relevance in the architecture of international organizations (OECD, 2006). Organizational changes toward this aim have accelerated. Enlargement to Chile, Israel and Slovenia in 2010, bringing membership to thirty-three countries, with planned imminent or short-term enlargement to Estonia and Russia, is rendering the organization's traditional bent towards Western countries more diverse in political and economic terms. Deeper cooperation with important emerging economies-Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa-has been formalised through its 'enhanced engagement' programme, with a view to their possible future membership (OECD, 2005a). No longer is OECD research and analysis of non-members conducted 'at the margins' by its development-related bodies, since this work has been mainstreamed throughout the organization. Regional programmes have been set up throughout the
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The Elgar Companion to the OECD, 2023
Leimgruber, Matthieu, und Matthias Schmelzer. „The Historical Transformations of the OECD“. In The Elgar Companion to the OECD, 9–22. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781800886872/book-part-9781800886872-8.xml. This chapter presents a framework for understanding the history of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and its predecessor, the Organization for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC), from 1948 to the present. We start by introducing the Organizations’ three key modes of governance. The main part of the chapter proposes a periodization linking mandates of successive Secretary-Generals with deeper transformations of the organization’s set up, tasks, and overall outlook. The conclusion discusses the OECD as a (geo)political platform, as an expert think tank, and as an identity-generating club.
Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance, 2007
Since 1961 the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has assisted states in managing intensified interdependence. The OECD spends the majority of its time engaged in prosaic, yet valuable, tasks including surveillance, providing a forum for policy dialogue, identifying and analysing emerging issues, and supporting government bureaucracies and other international organizations. However, the OECD and its predecessor, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC), have played a pivotal, if frequently unacknowledged, role at some of the critical junctures in post-war economic history. Initially the OEEC oversaw the implementation of the Marshall Plan while the OECD was a crucial intermediary in the resolution of the 1973 oil crisis. More recently, the OECD’s path breaking analytical work on agricultural subsidies was vital to the completion of the Uruguay Round (Cohn, 2002: 181–185) and it has played a major part in assisting the transition of the former communist countries of Eastern Europe from centrally planned to market oriented economies.
THE OECD AND THE G20: AN EVER CLOSER RELATIONSHIP?
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This contribution critically analyses the recent developments in the relationship between the G20 and the OECD. The OECD has been one of the key economic institutions ever since its establishment. Recently however, its limited membership and the engagement of other international organizations in its traditional issue fields increased the fear that the organization might become less relevant within the global economic architecture. In first instance, the emergence of the G20 reinforced this threat. However, thanks to the activism of its Secretary-General and the appealing pool of knowledge and expertise in its secretariat, the OECD was able to turn the latter threat into an opportunity to revive itself. The OECD increasingly performs operational, implementation and monitoring assignments for the G20, which itself lacks such capabilities. Recent G20 commmuniqués support the claim that both entities increasingly cooperate in order to solve their respective shortcomings. The increased cooperation allowed the OECD to regain its relevance within the global economic governance architecture, while the G20's functioning is strengthened thanks to the contributions of the OECD on a growing number of issues. However, the growing concresence of both organization raises some concerns about the role and functioning of both entities in the global economic governance architecture.