OECD REVIEW

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has launched a review of its guidelines on corporate governance, to assess how they might be reformed in the light of the accounting scandals that have dogged the US recently.International business, labour organisations, civic groups and representatives of non-OECD countries will be involved in the review along with OCED member governments, which should be completed in 2004. Experts will evaluate weaknesses in present systems of corporate oversight and identify areas for improvement, ...


Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.