OECD
Intergovernmental economic organization
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| 2024 | Thailand became a member of the OECD |
| 2024 | Indonesia became a member of the OECD |
| 2024 | Indonesia and Thailand were admitted as new member countries of the OECD. |
| 2024 | OECD established a Part I Budget totalling an estimated 229.9 million EUR, with contributions based on member countries' economic size and membership count. |
| September 2024 | English edition of Shigehara's memoirs titled 'The Bank of Japan, the OECD, and Beyond' published by Palgrave Macmillan. |
| July 2024 | OECD announced a transition to an open-access information model, adopting Creative Commons CC‑BY‑4.0 attribution licenses for all data and publications. |
| July 2024 | Roadmaps for Accession to the OECD were adopted for Thailand. |
| March 2024 | Roadmaps for Accession to the OECD were adopted for Argentina and Indonesia. |
| 2022 | Ukraine became a member of the OECD |
| 2022 | Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Peru, Kosovo, and Romania were admitted as new member countries of the OECD. |
| June 2022 | Roadmaps for Accession to the OECD Convention were adopted for Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Peru, and Romania during the annual OECD Ministerial Council Meeting. |
| March 2022 | OECD suspended the participation of Russia and Belarus due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| February 25 2022 | The OECD definitively terminated the accession process with Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 2021 | OECD reported annual revenues over 700 million EUR during the two-year budget period of 2021-2022. |
| July 1 2021 | Finance officials from 130 countries agreed on a global minimum corporate tax policy of 15%, aimed at ensuring multinationals pay at least 15% income tax in countries where they operate. |
| June 1 2021 | Mathias Cormann from Australia becomes the sixth OECD Secretary-General, serving from this date to the present. |
| May 25 2021 | Costa Rica joined as an OECD member. |
| January 2021 | OECD Observer website was closed in the first quarter, with the archive made available at www.oecd.org. |
| 2020 | The OECD received the inaugural University Press Redux Sustainability Award from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) and Cambridge University Press for developing the SDG Pathfinder, an open-access digital discovery tool for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) content and data. |
| June 10 2020 | OECD exceptionally published the 2020 Economic Outlook to adjust economic forecasts impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic, providing assessments and projections of economic impact including potential scenarios of a second outbreak. |
| May 15 2020 | OECD decided to extend a formal invitation to Costa Rica to join. |
| April 28 2020 | Colombia became an OECD member. |
| December 2019 | Kumiharu Shigehara published memoirs in Japanese titled 'the Bank of Japan and the OECD: Recollections and Reflections'. |
| October 2019 | Final issue of OECD Observer was published in the fourth quarter, featuring a double edition focusing on artificial intelligence and a humorous cover about statistical offices. |
| February 5 2019 | Donald Johnston, former OECD Secretary-General, wrote a letter acknowledging the importance of Shigehara's book for preserving OECD's institutional memory. |
| July 5 2018 | Lithuania became an OECD member. |
| May 30 2018 | Colombia signed the OECD accession agreement. |
| 2017 | The OECD Insights book series was discontinued after publishing books on topics like sustainable development, international trade, and international migration. |
| July 2017 | OECD updated Transfer Pricing Guidelines to incorporate Actions developed under the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project initiated by the G20. |
| July 1 2016 | Latvia became an OECD member. |
| 2015 | OECD opened membership talks with Costa Rica and Lithuania. |
| July 2014 | OECD publicly released its main statistical databases through the OECD Data Portal, an online platform enabling visitors to create custom charts based on official OECD indicators. |
| March 2014 | OECD halted membership talks with Russia in response to its role in the Annexation of Crimea. |
| 2013 | OECD decided to open membership talks with Colombia and Latvia. |
| April 2013 | OECD Observer Crossword was introduced in the second quarter of the year. |
| 2011 | OECD Yearbook was launched to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the organization, coinciding with the magazine's new quarterly format. |
| May 2011 | Kumiharu Shigehara co-authored OECD Working Papers No.860 titled 'Surveillance by International Institutions: Lessons from the Global Financial and Economic Crisis'. |
| 2010 | OECD Observer magazine reduced publishing frequency from six times to quarterly. |
| 2010 | Chile, Slovenia, Israel, and Estonia became OECD members. |
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