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International technology agreements for climate change
N. Johnstone / OECD Development Centre, 2012
This paper examines the effect of multilateral energy technology initiatives, so called 'Implementing Agreements', on international research collaboration in seven important climate change mitigation ...
Low-Emission Development Strategies (LEDS): technical institutional and policy lessons
C. Clapp (ed);G. Briner (ed);K. Karousakis (ed) / OECD Development Centre, 2010
Mitigation and adaptation climate change policy cuts across all sectors of the economy and on the broader national priorities, such as poverty alleviation, sustainable development and economic growth....
Herding in aid allocation
E. Frot;J. Santiso / OECD Development Centre, 2009
This article attempts to measure herding behaviour in the allocation of foreign aid, proposing different indexes that try to capture the specific features of aid allocation. The author chose to use...
Improving human capital formation in India
M. Dougherty;R. Herd / OECD Development Centre, 2008
The paper examines the state of human capital in India. It looks at areas such as primary and secondary education, and their interrelationships with health care. It also looks at the private sector an...
A Paris declaration for international NGOs?
D.-J. Koch / OECD Development Centre, 2008
INGOs receive large shares of Overseas Development Aid and, added to their private funding, the largest among them now control budgets that surpass those of official donors. Greater attention is neede...
En route to Accra: The global development-finance non-system
H. Reisen / OECD Development Centre, 2008
This Policy Insight provides an alternative perspective on the new international aid architecture, or "non-system". The author argues that the solution must come from outside this architectu...
Home-owned and home-grown: development policies that can work
F. Zimmermann / OECD Development Centre, 2008
According to this Policy Insight, to put the "ownership" principle of aid effectiveness into practice, developing-country governments need to attack the barriers to local knowledge productio...
A farewell to policy conditionality?
A. Mold;F. Zimmermann / OECD Development Centre, 2008
This Policy Insight examines policy conditionality in the context of international discussions on aid effectiveness. It explains why policy conditionality has failed to bring about meaningful change a...
Asia: overview of corporate governance frameworks in 2007.
OECD Development Centre, 2007
This paper presents a comparative table containing a comparative overview of the corporate governance frameworks in 13 Asian economies. The table is primarily based on information provided by experts ...
Banking for development: private banks and aid donors in developing countries
J. Rodríguez;J. Santiso / OECD Development Centre, 2007
Over the past decade, aid donors have shown interest for the private financial sector while, at the same time, private banks have shown increasing concern for corporate social responsibility. Private ...

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