15-November-2021
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The OECD in collaboration with the European Commission is conducting a multi-year project to offer tailored policy advice to countries and regions on how to develop linkages between foreign direct investment (FDI) and local small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), and how to strengthen FDI-SME ecosystems that can create more opportunities of productivity and innovation spillovers.
8-February-2021
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Divestments are a frequent yet understudied corporate phenomenon. The authors outline key findings on the drivers of divestment by multinational enterprises using a large firm-level dataset and call for further research and a more explicit focus on divestments in data collection and policymaking in this article from Columbia FDI Perspectives.
29-January-2021
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Innovative approaches such as social impact investment - the provision of finance to organisations addressing social needs with the explicit expectation of a measurable social, as well as financial, return - can help to further drive economic development and improvement in achieving social outcomes.
18-September-2020
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OECD’s France Chain and Daisy Pelham look at the critical role corporate compliance plays in the fight against bribery and corruption in the run-up to the launch of a new OECD Study on Corporate Anti-Corruption Compliance Drivers, Mechanisms, and Ideas for Change.
23-June-2020
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Khadija Sharife, Africa editor at the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, underlines the importance of whistleblowers in the fight against corruption in Africa and elsewhere, highlighting the price paid by many of them and options for ensuring they are better protected
20-May-2020
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OECD’s Leah Ambler and Apostolos Zampounidis underline why whistleblower protection plays such a critical role in the fight against bribery and corruption in the run-up to an OECD webinar on “Emergency measures to protect whistleblowers and promote reporting during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond”.
11-May-2020
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11 May 2020 - This note reviews the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on international investment flows and government responses. It summarises the findings of the OECD IPA Network meeting on 9 April 2020 and outlines short-term and long-term responses.
4-May-2020
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4 May 2020 - FDI flows are expected to fall by more than 30% in 2020 even under the most optimistic scenario for the success of the public health and economic support policy measures taken by governments to address the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting recession.
20-June-2018
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On the occasion of the release of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance on Responsible Business Conduct, the OECD’s Tyler Gillard looks at how governments can encourage international standards of responsible business conduct in business activities and supply chains.
20-April-2018
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In a vigorous policy debate over investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), adjudicator selection has emerged as an important new subject. The OECD’s David Gaukrodger looks at why adjudicator selection is attracting attention.