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 |  Paris, France |
| Official languages | English French |
| Membership | 38 states
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| Leaders | |
• Secretary-General | Mathias Cormann |
| 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.
Secretaries General
change| No. | Secretary-General | Time served | Country of origin | Notes |
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| 1 | Thorkil Kristensen | 30 September 1961 – 30 September 1969 |  Denmark
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| 2 | Emiel van Lennep | 1 October 1969 – 30 September 1984 |  Netherlands
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| 3 | Jean-Claude Paye | 1 October 1984 – 30 September 1994 | France
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| — | Staffan Sohlman (interim) | 1 October 1994 – November 1994 |  Sweden
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| 3 | Jean-Claude Paye | November 1994 – 31 May 1996 | France
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| 4 | Donald Johnston | 1 June 1996 – 31 May 2006 |  Canada
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| 5 | José Ángel Gurría | 1 June 2006 – 31 May 2021 |  Mexico
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| 6 | Mathias Cormann | 1 June 2021 – present |  Australia
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Members
changeOECD has thirty-eight member countries,[7] 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
19 countries joined OECD after 1961. The names of these countries (with the year they joined in brackets), are:
References
change- ↑ "List of OECD Secretaries-General and Deputies since 1961". oecd.org. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
- ↑ "After A Battle, Oecd Settles On Swede To Be Interim Leader". Joc.com. 22 February 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- ↑ Friedman, Alan (29 October 1994). "U.S. Rejects Extending Paye's Term : Rift Over OECD Leader". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- ↑ ; Richard Woodward, The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (2009, Routledge)
- ↑ "Members renew Angel Gurría's mandate at the helm of the OECD". OECD. oecd members.
- ↑ "Mathias Cormann elected next secretary-general of OECD". News.com.au. 13 March 2021.
- ↑ "OECD member countries and partners".
Other websites
change- 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 Archived 2015-07-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Text of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
- The OECD Observer
- OECD Statistical portal Archived 2015-12-30 at the Wayback Machine
- OECD-UNDP Partnership for Democratic Governance Archived 2015-12-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Statistics
- Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes