On November 22, Márton Ugrósdy, director of IFAT and Péter Goreczky, senior analyst participated in Warsaw in the conference titled ‘The 25th Anniversary of Poland’s Membership in the OECD’. Held in the building of the Warsaw Stock Exchange, the event was attended by several high-ranking diplomats, politicians and experts.
One of the panel discussions was focusing on the reform of the international taxation system. In this discussion, the Hungarian perspective was represented by Zoltán Cséfalvay, former ambassador to the OECD and head of the Centre for Next Technological Futures at Mathias Corvinus Collegium.
Péter Goreczky represented IFAT in the panel that evaluated the main economic and social challenges that Hungary, Poland and the Republic of Korea – the three countries that had ratified the convention on the OECD in 1996 – were facing. In the discussion he emphasised, that similarly to other developed and developing countries, one of the main challenges that Hungary had to address was how to get prepared for the era of a digital and more sustainable economy. In case of Hungary this is complemented by the need for moving up in global value chains at the same time. He underlined that Hungary could be a winner of the transition only if it succeeded in retaining talents and in training a workforce with a competitive skill set.