(MENAFN- Brazil-Arab News Agency (ANBA))
Brasília – Brazil will host from Tuesday (21) to next Friday (24) a series of meetings between Latin American countries and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ), a group of the most industrialized economies on the planet. The Brazil-OECD Week, held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil in Brasília, will include events on economic policies, education and productivity in Brazil and Latin America.
The meeting will be opened in the afternoon by president Jair Bolsonaro and OECD secretary-general Mathias Cormann (pictured). The morning will seee a closed meeting to discuss Brazil's accession plan to the OECD, approved on the 10th in Paris.
The first event of the marathon of meetings will be the Brazil-OECD Forum , which aims to discuss, from Tuesday through Wednesday, policies on Brazil's reform agenda. The Brazilian government will present the main results of ongoing projects for the country to meet the OECD membership criteria on the following topics, economic issues and trends, corporate governance, regulatory framework reviews, education healthcare, public governance, trade, and agriculture.
According to the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the forum will see the launch of a project financed by the European Union to support Brazil's recovery from the economic crisis, with a focus on the green growth agenda.
Furthermore, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the OECD Regional Program for Latin America and the Caribbean will hold a conference with Latin American ministers of Education. Thursday and Friday will see the 4th Ministerial Summit on Productivity. The Brazil-OECD Week will end on Friday afternoon with a meeting of the Regional Program Steering Group. The steering group meets twice a year, one in Paris, where the OECD is based, and one in Latin America or the Caribbean.
Translated by Guilherme Miranda
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