OECD
type: Concept
alternative label: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
broader: regionalism
broader: international organizations
broader: organizations (business ethics)
broader: global economic issues
broader: political and economic organizations
broader: organizations (economics)
broader: international economic organizations
broader: economics of poverty
broader: international relations
definition: With headquarters in Paris, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) began in 1948 as the Organization for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC), to promote the Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. Membership of the OEEC was gradually extended to non-European states, and in 1961, 20 countries joined to reform the international organization into the OECD by authority of the Convention on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. In mid-2008, the OECD comprised 30 member states. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]

organizations
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: OECD

economics of poverty
type: Concept
narrower: OECD

global economic issues
type: Concept
narrower: OECD

international economic organizations
type: Concept
narrower: OECD

international organizations
type: Concept
narrower: OECD

international relations
type: Concept
narrower: OECD

organizations (business ethics)
type: Concept
narrower: OECD

organizations (economics)
type: Concept
narrower: OECD

political and economic organizations
type: Concept
narrower: OECD

regionalism
type: Concept
narrower: OECD