OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation of countries. Member countries of OECD all have a democratic system of government. They also accept the principle of a free economy. A country has a free economy when its government does not control the economic activities of its citizens and companies.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | |
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![]() Founder States (1961) Other Member States | |
Secretariat | ![]() |
Official languages | English French |
Membership | 38 states
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Leaders | |
• Secretary-General | José Ángel Gurría[1] |
Establishment | |
• as the OEECa | 16 April 1948 |
• reformed as the OECD | 30 September 1961 |
Website www.OECD.org | |
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The OECD started 1948 as the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC). The Second World War had just ended three years before in 1945. Some countries of Europe came together to form OEEC to help each other re-build their industry and other things destroyed in the Second World War. Later on, some non-European countries also joined this organisation. In 1960, OEEC changed its name, and it became OECD: the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The OECD's headquarters are at the Château de la Muette in Paris.
OECD has thirty-six member countries[2], of which 19 became members in 1961. These countries are:
- Austria
- Belgium
- Canada
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Portugal
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- United States
17 countries joined OECD after 1961. The names of these countries (with the year they joined in brackets), are:
- Italy (1962)
- Japan (1964)
- Finland (1969)
- Australia (1971)
- New Zealand (1973)
- Mexico (1994)
- Czechia (1995)
- Hungary (1996)
- South Korea (1996)
- Poland(1996)
- Slovakia (2000)
- Chile (2010)
- Estonia (2010)
- Israel (2010)
- Slovenia (2010)
- Latvia (2016)
- Lithuania (2018)
- Jordan (2019)
Colombia is set to become the 38th member.
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-06-12. Retrieved 2015-06-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ http://www.oecd.org/about/members-and-partners/
Other websitesEdit
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- OECD iLibrary - OECD's portal for books, reports, statistics, working papers and journals
- International Futures Programme
- OECD Forum
- Text of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
- The OECD Observer
- OECD Statistical portal
- OECD-UNDP Partnership for Democratic Governance
- Statistics
- Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes