Development Is Back

Achieving the economic development of poor countries remains a formidable challenge which increasingly preoccupies OECD countries. The Organization's Development Centre was founded in 1962 as one means to study and to confront the problems of comparative development and to relate them to experiences in the more advanced economies. This book provides a compendium of that experience and looks forward to future policies and strategies, which might provide some solutions to the problems facing developing countries. Some reflections are also included on how the Development Centre has evolved and been transformed better to synchronize with the OECD's overall efforts in favor of the poorer countries, regions, and peoples.

Jorge Braga de Macedo is president of the OECD Development Centre. He was Portugal's minister of finance from 1991 to 1993. Colm Foy is the head of communication for the OECD Development Centre. He is a specialist in the economics and politics of developing countries in Central America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Charles P. Oman is in charge of the OECD Development Centre's program on corporate governance. He previously led research on globalization and regionalization, and on new forms of investment in developing countries.