Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Introduction
What?
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The OECD is an international organization that works to build better policies for better lives. They work on establishing evidence-based international standards and finding solutions to range of social, economic and environmental challenges.
This International organization collects data, surveys and studies that allow us to analyze what happens in the members states and tries to improve them. The original organization was established with another name in 1948 by the US and Canada to run the US-financed Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of a continent ravaged by war. By making individual governments recognize the interdependence of their economies, it paved the way for a new era of cooperation that was to change the face of Europe. Encouraged by its success, Japan entered three years later, while more members signed the new OECD Convention in 1960, with the aim of having an impact on a global scale.
The OECD was officially born in 1961, when the Convention entered into force. Today, 38 OECD member countries worldwide regularly turn to one another to identify problems, discuss and analyse them, and promote policies to solve them.
Their goal is to shape policies that foster prosperity, equality, opportunity and wellbeing for all.
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Founders
The founders were the United States, Canada and Japan, which joined three years later.
Countries
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States.
Design by:
Alice Linussi, Ambra Parmesan (Liceo Classico e Linguistico "F. Petrarca", Trieste, Italy, 2020)
Alice Linussi, Ambra Parmesan (Liceo Classico e Linguistico "F. Petrarca", Trieste, Italy, 2020)