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Thu, 11/26/2009 - 17:30
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OECD TRYING TO SHED ELITE GROUP IMAGE
Paris, Nov 24 (ANTARA) - The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is trying to erase a perception that it is an elite group consisting only of rich countries such as the United States, Australia, France, the United Kingdom and Germany, an OECD official said.
OECD's Visual Communications and Brand Manager John Tarver made the remark here Thursday at a discussion with a number of journalists from developing countries including South Africa, Brazil, Indonesia, China and India, who perceived that OECD was a rich-country organization.
Tarver said the perception was wrong as not all of OECD's 30 members were developed countries. Some of them were developing countries like Mexico, Turkey and Korea.
According to Tarver, OECD had also involved developing countries in its different activities such as dialogs and seminars to discuss various issues related to global, regional and national economic developments like the environment, education, unemployment, health, transportation and communications,
In addition, developing countries were also invited as observers to OECD's official meetings, he said, adding that OECD is open to developing countries that wish to join or become members of the organization.
OECD had no special criteria or conditions for developing countries to become OECD members, he said in response to questions from the developing countries' journalists who were wondering whether their countries could become OECD members.
The journalists from the developing countries are in Paris from November 22 to 28 in the framework of an OECD fellowship program from which they were expected to provide insights on developments of various issues in relation to economic developments in their respective countries like corruption , education and health.
On the occasion, Tarver also hoped the journalists could help OECD improve the image of the organization which was so far perceived as an elite group which only consists of developed countries.
OECD's mission was to encourage governments both from developed and developing countries in the world to strengthen their commitments to democracy and market economy focusing on sustainable economic growth, boost employment, increase living standards, maintain financial stability, help developing countries in the respective economic developments and contribute to world trade growth.***
OECD's Visual Communications and Brand Manager John Tarver made the remark here Thursday at a discussion with a number of journalists from developing countries including South Africa, Brazil, Indonesia, China and India, who perceived that OECD was a rich-country organization.
Tarver said the perception was wrong as not all of OECD's 30 members were developed countries. Some of them were developing countries like Mexico, Turkey and Korea.
According to Tarver, OECD had also involved developing countries in its different activities such as dialogs and seminars to discuss various issues related to global, regional and national economic developments like the environment, education, unemployment, health, transportation and communications,
In addition, developing countries were also invited as observers to OECD's official meetings, he said, adding that OECD is open to developing countries that wish to join or become members of the organization.
OECD had no special criteria or conditions for developing countries to become OECD members, he said in response to questions from the developing countries' journalists who were wondering whether their countries could become OECD members.
The journalists from the developing countries are in Paris from November 22 to 28 in the framework of an OECD fellowship program from which they were expected to provide insights on developments of various issues in relation to economic developments in their respective countries like corruption , education and health.
On the occasion, Tarver also hoped the journalists could help OECD improve the image of the organization which was so far perceived as an elite group which only consists of developed countries.
OECD's mission was to encourage governments both from developed and developing countries in the world to strengthen their commitments to democracy and market economy focusing on sustainable economic growth, boost employment, increase living standards, maintain financial stability, help developing countries in the respective economic developments and contribute to world trade growth.***
