Definition
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental economic organization, founded in 1961, comprising 36 members, was established to foster economic prosperity and trade. It can be also referred as a statistical organization due to the fact that the entity releases regularly the statistics to reflect for its member states on various topics such as education, health, population, budgeting, and other topics related to economy.
Introduction
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) was established on September 30, 1961, with 17 countries (Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and West Germany). Other countries started to join later and today the organization comprises 36 members. It required its members to expand world trade “on a multilateral, nondiscriminatory basis” (Organization for Economic...
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Bieber, T., & Martens, K. (2011). The OECD PISA study as a soft power in education? Lessons from Switzerland and the US. European Journal of Education, 46(1), 101–116.
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Abdieva, Y. (2023). Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In: Romaniuk, S.N., Marton, P.N. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74319-6_352
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