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The OECD Observer

 

April 2000, No. 220

• Letters: Food safety, On globalisation

• Editorial: Honesty is the best policy by Donald J. Johnston

• News brief

  ECONOMY

• The Spanish bull: how strong is it really?, Isabelle Joumard

• Decentralisation, Basque and Navarre style

• Poland’s successful transition, Patrick Lenain

• Polish health problems

• EMU, one year on, Vincent Koen

• Carlos Ghosn: cost controller or Keiretsu killer , Risaburo Nezu

• Global business: getting the frameworks right

  SPOTLIGHT - CORRUPTION

• What is corruption, Enery Quiñones

• Economics of corruption, Jean Cartier-Bresson

• Money laundering: staying ahead of the latest trends, Patrick Moulette

• Enforcing the Convention, Frédéric Wehrlé

• Transparent tables and corruption indices

• Trade rules for fair play, Evdokia Möisé

• Writing off tax deductibility, Martine Milliet-Einbinder

• Anti-corruption ring online

• Getting the public ethics right, Janos Bertok

• Sigma: the front line in transition countries

• Fighting corruption in the developing countries, Irène Hors

• Cleaner Hong Kong

• Joining the Convention

  SOCIETY AND TECHNOLOGY

• NGOs on GMOs: the reasons for resistance, Jean-Eric Aubert

• Trucks: the road to ruin or increased efficiency, Ceallach Levins and Anthony Ockwell

  DEVELOPMENT

• Halving poverty

• Basel II: a risky strategy, Helmut Reisen

  OECD.org

• Meeting place of the millennium, John West and Paul Paradis

• OECD, viewed from Davos, Nick Bray

• Empowering women, Francesca Cook

• Will this be Africa’s century?

• Cities and regions

• Sustainable development online