This paper explores the impact of competition on impoverished consumers in markets for essential goods and services. It was prepared as background material for a session on competition and poverty reductions held at the 2012 Latin American and Caribbean Competition Forum in the Dominican...

The report analyses the extent and quality of official development assistance (ODA) and other official flows (OOF) for refugee situations in low- and middle-income countries in 2020-2021, towards the burden- and responsibility-sharing rationale of the Global Compact on Refugees.

This paper employs the neo-Schumpeterian framework to examine innovation policy variations stemming from technological disparities among countries and regions. Focusing on less developed areas with limited institutional capacities, it highlights the challenges in crafting effective innovation...

This paper was prepared to support multilateral discussions of recipient country investment policies towards foreign government-controlled investors (FGCIs) at the eighth and ninth Freedom of Investment (FOI) Roundtables, convened under the auspices of the OECD Investment Committee.

Climate-related development finance to fragile contexts has increased from both members of the Development Assistance Committee and multilateral providers. However, fragile contexts – and extremely fragile contexts in particular – remain under-served by climate-related development finance...

Complementarity between multilateral and bilateral aid is essential to ensuring Official Development Assistance (ODA) has impact and is effective. This paper examines whether multilateral outflows and the “multi bi” (or earmarked) aid of Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members are...

Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) are critical in supporting sustainable development. To date, there has been a limited level of analysis focused on their funding models. Key messages from this paper: 1) DFI funding models have material implications, whether they be linked to the...

The OECD Global Forum on Competition debated Competition and Poverty Reduction in February 2013. This document includes an executive summary of that debate and the documents of the meeting: a background note by the Secretariat, written submissions by Benin, Brazil, Congo , Croatia, Czech...

This paper presents a preliminary overview of OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members’ policy frameworks and financing efforts to address the challenges at the intersection of climate change, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss and gender inequality. It reviews existing...

Six years after the private sector has been called upon to help deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the financing gap remains tremendously high and mobilisation figures – how much development actors mobilise from the private sector – remain stubbornly low. Mobilising commercial...