Living up to Policy Coherence for Development? The OECD's disciplines on tied aid financing

Tied aid credits are a way for donors to look to boost the international competitiveness of domestic enterprises while simultaneously contributing to development in recipient countries. Though regulated through the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits, tied aid credits claim a place among the instruments of development policy and are eligible as Official Development Assistance (ODA). This raises the question of whether the international regulatory framework is equipped to safeguard the presumed development goals. This article examines the internal coherence of the tied aid disciplines of the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD) with the development principles coined by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Thereby, the extent to which the OECD lives up to its own promise of Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) is scrutinized.     

政府核心功能重构:OECD国家的经验与启示

以经济与合作组织(OECD)成员国的政府核心功能重构为研究对象,从政府机构、预算体制、人事制度、控制体系四个方面展开论述,从政府自身改革的角度分析新公共管理运动和新公民参与运动发生的基础条件。政府核心功能重构的趋势是:逐步改造基于传统公共行政的组织设计、人事、预算和控制,政府内部管理要素与外部的市场化、民营化和公民参与相呼应,改革呈现出总体推进的特征。其经验对中国政府改革具有借鉴意义。     

简析《OECD钢铁补贴协定》对我国钢铁产业的影响

阐述了<OECD钢铁补贴协定>产生的背景及与WTO的关系,分析了<OECD钢铁补贴协定>对我国钢铁产业可能产生的影响,指出我国政府和企业对该协定应予高度重视,并提出了相关对策和建议.     

强势开端Ⅴ：内容、特点及启示

从幼儿园过渡到小学是所有儿童必须面临的一个巨大跨越。研究表明,如果幼儿教育与小学教育之间没有良好的衔接与过渡,这些“优势”将在小学第一年消失,或将不能在小学教育阶段保持。强势开端Ⅴ聚焦幼小衔接,从组织与管理、教师专业发展衔接、课程与教学衔接、儿童发展衔接方面的举措进行研究。通过对这些举措的介绍分析,提出了启动幼小衔接专项教师培训,强调学校为儿童入学做好准备,注重多方利益主体协同共育几点借鉴思路。     

OECD国家遗产税政策实践及其启示

财富分配不公已成为一个世界性难题,遗产税作为调节财富公平的一种政策工具,在全球得到了广泛引用。通过分析OECD国家的遗产税政策实践发现：首先,遗产税更多是一种促进财富公平的政策符号而不是财政融资的主要工具;其次,遗产税可以作为个人所得税和房产税的有益补充以促进公平分配;再次,征收遗产税需要一定的社会文化基础和完备的财产登记、评估制度;最后,面对日益拉大的贫富差距,我国可考虑在营改增顺利完成和新一轮个人所得税和房地产税改革后,在“十四五”期间考虑开征遗产税。     

Sickness and disability benefit programmes: What is driving policy convergence?

In this paper we explore the reasons for the apparent convergence in sickness and disability policies across the OECD, asking whether and to what extent policy convergence should be seen as a product of policy learning. We conclude that convergence is the result of policy imitation more than policy learning and that learning (from past mistakes) is more likely within countries than across borders. Given limited evidence on what really "works", when it comes to designing policies that both provide adequate income security and still encourage labour-force participation, governments look abroad or to bodies like the OECD for possible models and ideas to underlie a reform. However, translating those ideas into workable policies requires great sensitivity to the institutional and political-economic context — especially the role of the social partners and the nature of policies in existence. When it comes to policy implementation, such contextual learning may be crucial.     

In search of making a difference: Mexico in the OECD international development co‐operation architecture

A major challenge for Middle‐Income Countries is to ‘make a difference’ in global issues. The article examines Mexico's compromise in this regard within the OECD international development co‐operation architecture. It highlights some of the footprints of Mexican diplomacy since the OECD membership (1994), through the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness, up to the launch of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co‐operation (GPEDC), demonstrating how Mexico gradually increased its profile and responsibilities in specific international negotiation frameworks where its dual nature as donor/recipient is precisely contributing to ‘making a difference’. Suggesting that Mexico could expand its South‐South Co‐operation (SSC) even further, the authors argue that Mexico's quest is constrained by a certain consensus on the predominant development paradigm manifested in the GPEDC.     

Brexit and Global Wealth Chains

One vision of a post Brexit Britain is of a political economy sustained by highly flexible labour markets, light touch regulation, and a hyper competitive low-tax regime. This article focuses on the tax element, evaluating the prospects of this vision’s realization on the basis of the attributes of the British political economy, the substance of the Britain’s new found freedoms and the forces at play in the European and international regulatory environment. Britain is seeking a smooth transition via a strategy of upgrading and expanding national position in global wealth chains (GWCs). Occupying space in GWCs requires a series of careful balancing acts between making a tax offer attractive to mobile capital and maintaining revenue, designing a low-tax regime and staying within the boundaries of accepted practice established by multilateral rules and norms, and between multiple, often conflicting, goals that Britain must simultaneously pursue as it leaves the European Union. With hard Brexit, Britain will pursue this vision, but these balances are likely to prove illusive.     

Conceptions of Progress: How is Progress Perceived? Mainstream Versus Alternative Conceptions of Progress

Progress is a powerful political concept, encompassing different and sometimes contradictory conceptions. This paper examines the results of a survey on progress conducted at the OECD World Forum entitled “Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies” held in Istanbul in June 2007. First, a distinction is drawn between the two approaches to progress (skeptical and optimistic) and four theories of progress (Liberal, Social Liberal, Green, and Conservative). Second, the survey results are examined in order to find the prevailing conception among the participants. Findings show that while the literature regards the Liberal, economically based theory of progress as sitting at the heart of the mainstream conception of progress, it is notable that, in fact, there emerged among the participants a different mainstream conception of progress: one that is optimistic in approach, yet both Social Liberal and Green in its theory.