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The Organisation for Economic Co- operation andDevelopment is a body that frequently feels ascumbersome as its name. It contains an eclecticmix of data collection, research and economicforecasting, and serves as a forum for internationalpolicy making. 经济合作与发展组织(OECD)

经常给人的感觉是，它就像自己的名称一样笨拙。它的职能繁多，包括数据收集、研究与经济预测，以及充当一个国际政策制定论坛。 Much of its work is valuable, some elements morethan others. Yet it requires renewed impetus. TheOECD needs not just to increase its impact but to bring more emerging market governmentsinto what was set up as — and still feels like — a club of rich countries.

经合组织的大部分工作是有价值的，有些工作比另一些更有价值。不过，该机构需要注入新动力。它需要的不仅仅是提升自身影响力，而是要接纳更多新兴市场政府——它在建立之初就像一个富国俱乐部，现在仍给人这种感觉。

Angel Gurría, the former Mexican finance minister and current OECD secretary-general, is in hissecond term of office, which expires next year. Although the institute has made someimportant progress recently, it needs new blood to speed up its development. The OECD needsa leader with both the intellectual firepower to lead policy debates and the political heft tobroker international deals over policy with sensitive implications for its members.

墨西哥前财长、经合组织现秘书长安赫尔?古里亚(Angel Gurría)目前处于第二任期，他的任期将于明年结束。尽管近年来该机构取得了一些重要进步，但它需要注入新鲜血液来加快自身发展。经合组织需要这样一位领导人：他不但要具有引导政策辩论的智慧，而且要有政治份量，能在对成员国产生敏感影响的政策方面促成国际协议。

Some of what the OECD does — in particular macroeconomic analysis and forecasting —duplicates work done elsewhere, such as the International Monetary Fund. Its researchcapability really adds value by collecting and analysing micro data on a host of different issues— health systems, development aid, labour market institutions and others.

经合组织的部分工作——尤其是宏观经济分析和预测——与国际货币基金组织(IMF)等其他机构的工作有所重合。经合组织的研究能力确实增加了价值——收集并分析有关大量不同问题（如卫生保健制度、发展援助、劳动力市场制度等）的微观数据。

These numbers and analysis can inform pivotal debate. For example, while the OECD cannotsupplant the IMF in setting conditions for bailouts, having a second opinion over the structuralreform demanded of countries such as Greece is a valuable role.

这些数据和分析可以为关键辩论提供有价值的信息。例如，尽管经合组织不能在设定纾困条件方面取代IMF，但在希腊等国必须实行什么结构性改革的问题上提出不同观点，也是在发挥有价值的作用。

In the case of development aid, OECD data collection and analysis also form the basis forimproving the quality of assistance, such as reforming damaging “tied aid” rules that compelrecipients to spend the money on exports from the donor country.

在开发援助方面，经合组织的数据收集与分析也为提高援助质量打下了基础，比如改革具有危害性的“限制性援助”规则——这些规则强迫援助接受方必须用援助款购买援助提供方的出口产品。