Better Policies for Development
Recommendations for Policy Coherence
This report examines the ways in which wider policies can be use to support our common development objectives. It focuses on areas requiring collective action by the entire international community, and complements the OECD’s continuing work on aid effectiveness and monitoring aid flows.
It starts from two premises. First, policies ranging from trade and investment to tax and fiscal transparency, corporate governance, climate change, resource security and social policy have a profound impact on the prospects for achieving sustainable development. Second, whilst these require action by national governments and regional organisations in both developed and developing countries, in today’s interconnected world they also require collective action by the entire international community.
The report covers 18 development policy topics divided into four broad categories: sustainable economic growth, economic governance, the environment and natural resource security, and society. Together these reflect the OECD’s mission to promote better policies for better lives.
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Anti-corruption
Corruption undermines efforts to achieve economic development. It takes place at all levels of society and business – in international business in sectors such as natural resources (energy, minerals), defence, construction, and infrastructure, as well as the health and pharmaceutical industries. It is a devastating problem at the grassroots level, where it has a profound effect on the daily lives of poor people. But in today’s interconnected world, the effects of corruption also spread far beyond where corrupt acts are committed and throughout the global economy.
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