Finance Minister: Latvia must join OECD to prove it’s no ‘banana republic’

  • 2016-02-24
  • BNS/TBT Staff
Joining the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is a matter of prestige for Latvia so that it would not be perceived as some kind of a banana republic, Finance Minister Dana Reizniece-Ozola said on Feb. 24, during a morning news program on Latvian public television. “To a certain extent, it (Latvia’s accession to the OECD) is a matter of prestige. Some of the key questions asked by investors are about whether it is geopolitically safe here, whether we have reduced corruption, and the OECD membership would partly be an answer to the investors tha...
 
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