Better Policies for Development
Recommendations for Policy Coherence

This report examines the ways in which wider policies can be use to support our common development objectives. It focuses on areas requiring collective action by the entire international community, and complements the OECD’s continuing work on aid effectiveness and monitoring aid flows.
It starts from two premises. First, policies ranging from trade and investment to tax and fiscal transparency, corporate governance, climate change, resource security and social policy have a profound impact on the prospects for achieving sustainable development. Second, whilst these require action by national governments and regional organisations in both developed and developing countries, in today’s interconnected world they also require collective action by the entire international community.
The report covers 18 development policy topics divided into four broad categories: sustainable economic growth, economic governance, the environment and natural resource security, and society. Together these reflect the OECD’s mission to promote better policies for better lives.
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Climate change
Tackling climate change is one of the major environmental challenges of this century. It is likely to have a profound impact on natural and social systems and therefore the prospects for economic development and poverty reduction in developing countries which, although they have contributed least to the problem, are likely to be particularly vulnerable to its effects due to their greater dependence on climate-sensitive natural resources, their high growth in potentially vulnerable locations, and the limited resources they have to cope with adverse impacts.
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