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[edit] Criteria for joining the OECD

Could anyone shed some light on what the conditions for joining the OECD are? I assume the country must first be a representative democracy and support free market economics? What other factors are there?

Well, I remebered that some critices said OECD is a community only for the rich courntries. If some country want to be a member of OECD, she must first be a representative democracy and support free market economics and in addition to that she must have relatively high score of GDP. Look at the present member countries, all 30 countries are the rich ones in the world.
That is false, look, Mexico and Turkey are members of OECD. representative democracy and support free market economics are the criteria. MaCRoEco 22:04, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Membership criteria are provided at the Noboru report. Beagel 09:35, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Long list

I took the liberty of creating a new page for the list of committees and subcommittees because, though very detailed and apparently accurate, it was unwieldy and created clutter, taking up most of the page space. Creationlaw 04:49, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] OECD institutions and bodies

Is the long section on "OECD institutions and bodies" really neccessary?

[edit] Prologue

The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC) should not just be lumped here. It was important in its time for early European integration and should be separate. Non? gren 12:52, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Why is French Guyana supposedly a part of the OECD on that map?? Asacarny 07:08, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Because French Guiana is, as the name hints, French. It is an overseas department, an integral part of the French Republic. Just as much as Alaska and Hawai'i are part of the US, or Northern Ireland is part of the UK. The whole of France (including French Guiana, French Polynesia and Reunion) is part of the OECD.

[edit] NPOV?

This (re-)write-up is rather glowing in its public relations styled descriptions of OECD activities. For example, it fails to mention that the OECD has served an active role in enforcing by coercion "taxation harmonization" so that all states worldwide share an approximately equal or greater level of taxation than the OECD deems "acceptable". The OECD also coerces nations into harmonizing their banking systems under the premise of "criminal money laundering", as opposed to people simply seeking tax-shelters -- which only those major world governments (as government organizations) oppose.

The OECD is hardly doing "all good". Read up on the back-catalog from Offshore Finance (still an external link, thankfully) for more information. See the writeup from before editing on September 12th 2005 by DGM for example.

The above edit was posted anonymously. This note by La la ohh Nov 2007.

Both statements are very inaccurate. Factually, the OECD doesn't have any way to coerce any country, member or not, to do whatever. However, this is a widespread opinion. I think the proper way to handle this is to create an OECD controversy page and take this off the main page. Jerjer 10:16, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

In tone, the article at present (except for one paragraph) reads as though it might have been written by the OECD itself. A little more penetrating analysis of the OECD's objectives and role in world politics would be nice. Not much history on this article at present. As to whether the OECD can 'officially' coerce any country, Jerjer, i don't know; but its influence on decisions as to where aid is sent, and other economic matters, gives it considerable clout; and governments of developing countries, many of whom are abjectly dependent on financial help from the wealthy nations, can not realistically afford to disregard "suggestions", etc made by agencies like OECD, World Bank, IMF. There is considerable criticism of the policies of the Western industrialised nations as regards how they impact on the Third World, and barely a hint of that in the present article. -- La la ooh November 2007
The material deleted 12 Sept 2005 read:
The primary activity of the OECD is to monitor international banking activity in an attempt to suppress money laundering, parallel banking, and tax avoidance. Thus, they have come to lay regulatory pressures on sovereignties practicing tax competition, such as numerous Caribbean nations. Many supporters of free markets and globalization view this regulation as a sort of international price-fixing. -- La la ooh November 2007.

[edit] Spelling of "Organisation"

I think we should defer to the organization's own spelling of organisation - per Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English -- undoubtedly in the spelling of the organization's name and preferably consistent throughout the article! Gary 13:59, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. I reverted because somebody changed only a single "z" that made the rest of the article look inconsistent. Even the template spells it with "s". I've gone through the article and found no other instances of "rogue" spelling, so it all should be alright now. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ 19:16, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

According to the OECD's language policy, they use officially British English in their papers. So, organisation with "s" is correct (as also co-operation with "-").

[edit] Spelling of “Co-operation”

The OECD has official language policy to use officialy British English. For this reaqson, the correct official name of this organization is Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It's different with the OSCE as there is no official language policy (probably, I'm not sure as I'm not specialist on the OSCE). For this reason please don't move and rename the OECD page using "Cooperation".Beagel 16:21, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

OK. That’s a good enough reason for me. As you said, the OSCE is a different situation. Where the decision would be arbitrary, we should opt the diaeretic spelling; however, the decision of which spelling to use would not be arbitrary in re the OECD. By the way, I was not advocating the bare spelling (“cooperation”), which is an inferior spelling to the hyphenated form (“co-operation”), but rather the diaeretic form (“coöperation”). Raifʻhār Doremítzwr 18:01, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] political inclinations

It would be nice to have a table for the political inclinations of the member states, as in Barroso Commission and Parties in the Council of the European Union. – Kaihsu 09:46, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OECD institutions and bodies

I think it could be necessary to add the list of OECD different institutions. When it's not so difficult with list of directorates and departments (or institutions od OECD Secretariate), it will be more difficult with bodies consisting member and non-member countires (committees, working parties, working groups schemes, agencies etc), because the structure of bdifferent bodies is different and at the same time it's very complex. Maybe it could be better to have different page for each OECD body (there are already separate pages for the International Energy Agency, Nuclear Energy Agency and Development Centre)? There is also problem with listing members of different bodies, as every committe, working party etc has different set of members and observes. In case of some committees even not OECD all member countries are members of particular committee (e.g. Steel Committee). Moreover, there are plans for OECD reform, which will change overall structure of the OECD after 2008. Any suggestion how to deal with this?Beagel 13:12, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Relations with non-members and OECD enlargement

Maybe it will be more practical to divide these issues into separate sections? Also, somebody mentioned that the Republic of China (Taiwan) has observer status on two OECD committees. Actually the correct figure is 3 committees and some more bodies (totally 5). But the question is, where to list the observeships of non-members - under this section or under each committe? There are more than 50 non-members involved in different committees and working groups.

Also, referring to Taiwan, the OECD itself uses officially Chinese Taipei as a reference to this country. I think that we should respect the OECD's policy?Beagel 13:12, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Metal umlauts

What's with the spelling "coöperation"? Rōnin 12:03, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Indeed ... if you go to www.oecd.org it is spelled "co-operation," which was the old name. The edit notes for the move indicate "reasons" but there are no reasons given on this page. Can User:Doremítzwr answer this question? Gary 12:21, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

See here for a discussion on that very issue, with reasons given be me for the move. Raifʻhār Doremítzwr 12:23, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greenland

Is Greenland part of this?

No, Greenland and Faroe Islands, as a Home Rule territories of Denmark, are not part of the OECD (they are also excluded from the EU).Beagel 12:51, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Whether the INDIAN firms are scaled over the TPP(Technological Product and Process)innovation by OECD

[edit] Added High income map

Incase no one noticed, I have added a map showing members and members with high income in seperate colours. --Giorgos 13:41, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Map - Fr. Guiana

Why is French Guiana pictured on the maps of member states if it isn't a member state?

The Talking Sock talk contribs 16:33, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Because French Guiana is a french territory, which belongs to France, thus being a part of France, just like Paris. OK?.Eliko 16:37, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CHILE was ACCEPTED

OECD was accepted Chile's incorporation.

News of BBC LONDON says that.

Load of rubbish --Nengscoz416 (talk) 22:24, 4 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] world map

can someone make a world map to show all the member countries? Jackzhp (talk) 04:30, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Republic of China (Taivan)

The OECD has 30 members. Also the EC participates in the work of the OECD according to the OECD Charter. In addition, several OECD's committees have some participants who are not the OECD members, observers etc. Usually they are these five countries invited to join the OECD or other major economies (Brazil; China), but all together there are 25 observers or regular members in the committees and around 50 countries participating in some way in the work of the OECD. The Republic of China (Taivan) doesn't have any special status in the OECD. It is an observer in the Trade Committee and participates in some minor bodies, but that's all. This is also incorrect to say that Taivan is an observer in the OECD because the OECD as whole doesn't have observers—the committees have.Beagel (talk) 05:56, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Once more, what is so specific about Chinese Taipei's observership? Chinese Taipei is an observer in 5 committees. At the same time, for example, Russia is an observer in 73, Chile in 60, Israel in 51, Slovenia in 47, Brazil in 43, South Africa in 40 committees, etc. (please see http://webnet3.oecd.org/OECDgroups/internet/ListByMemberObserver.asp?lng=E&Expand=1&type=2). Therefore, describing Chinese Taipei's observerships makes this article absolutely unbalanced. If you think that it is necessary to list all countries who are observers in different committees, I propose to add all 25 countries and number of their observerships.Beagel (talk) 17:23, 13 May 2008 (UTC)