Traduction de «OCDE » (Français → Anglais) :

One of them is the secretariat of the OECD itself. As I point out in my submission, the secretariat itself has championed these negotiations very zealously, largely to create a greater credibility for the division in charge of investment issues and to strengthen the position of the OECD, which has been a target of some questioning in the post-Cold War period and the period of retrenchment, particularly in the case of the United States, which has arbitrarily cut its contribution to the budget of the OECD quite significantly.

54. Notes that, since the G20 Summit of 2 April 2009, offshore financial centres have committed to OECD standards on transparency and exchange of information; notes however that the harmful structures of tax havens still prevail; calls once more for action beyond the OECD framework to combat tax havens in view of their various shortcomings; in this respect, reiterates its concerns about the fact that the OECD international standards require exchange of information on request but that there is no automatic exchange of information along the lines of the Savings Tax Directive; likewise criticises the fact that the OECD allows governments to escape its blacklist merely by promising to adhere to the information exchange principles, without e ...[+++]nsuring that these principles are effectively put into practice; considers also that the requirement to conclude agreements with 12 other countries in order to be removed from the backlist is arbitrary as it does not refer to any qualitative indicators for an objective assessment of compliance with good governance practices;

– having regard to the 1996 OECD strategy document ‘Shaping the 21st Century: the Contributions of Development Cooperation and the 2002 OECD ministerial declaration ’Action for a Shared Development Agenda' and its 2008 report entitled ‘Building Blocks for Policy Coherence for Development’,

From 1989 to day, Canada, on an average of OECD donor countries, and it is the rich countries of the world that form OECD and give out dollars, gives a full third lower aid than the OECD average of .39% of GDP.

In one of the latest publications of the OECD, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, of which Canada is a member, one of 28 members, there is a table showing the percentage of low wage earners in all OECD countries.

In Canada, the legislation designed to combat the bribery of foreign officials is the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA).1 This statute came into force on 14 February 1999, in order to meet Canada’s obligations under the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions (OECD Convention).2 The OECD Convention is aimed at removing bribery as a non-tariff barrier to trade; it seeks to help produce a “level playing field” in international business.