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7 April 1993
Paul Ackroyd Esq
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United Kingdom Delegation
to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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Denes Paul,
DEVELOPMENT CENTRE: ADVISORY BOARD: 2 APRIL: RELATIONS WITH DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Both the Ambassador and I attended the meeting of the OECD Development Centre's Advisory Board on 2 April.
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The discussion of the Centre's role in relation to dialogue with the developing countries was not quite as I had supposed in my letter to you of 29 March in that it did not focus on the resources the Centre could devote to assisting the OECD Secretariat in the latter's dialogue with Dynamic Non-Member Economies (a source of tension in the past with the Americans pressing for utilisation of such resources and with ourselves resisting in order to preserve the quality of the Centre's research programmes). Instead it focused on the Centre's longstanding separate dialogue with developing countries, largely at the research/academic level but with a sprinkling of policy makers, within the framework of its three year research programme and possible adjustments to it.
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No paper had been circulated in advance and the presentation was in French by Jean Bonvin, the Acting Head of the Centre. have summarised at Annex the principal sorts of contacts between the Development Centre and developing countries which he outlined. These are of course supplemented by a whole range of minor contacts as Centre researchers visit developing countries in pursuing their research enquiries (eg Jean Bonvin's visit to Peking which has inspired Chinese interest in translating into Chinese DC's Development Policy Briefs, Christian Morrison's many visits to Morocco in connection with the adjustment and equity study and the discussions between David Turnham (British) and his Vietnamese interlocutors which will lead to a seminar in Vietnam in August on environmental themes: (further details below).