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by Isabelle Joumard and Christine de La Maisonneuve, Tunisia Desk, Economics Department Tunisia is firmly committed to a process of democratisation that needs underpinning by economic reforms in order to guarantee an improved standard of…

By Hidekatsu Asada, Head of South East Asia Desk, and Vincent Koen, Head of Division, Economics Department From a feudal trading hub connecting South with East Asia in the 18th and 19th centuries, Thailand has developed into a rapidly…

By Sebastian Nieto Parra, Head of Latin America and the Caribbean Unit, OECD Development Centre, Mario Pezzini, former Director of the OECD Development Centre and special Advisor to the OECD Secretary General on Development, and…

By Marieke Vandeweyer. Average wages can vary markedly between socio-economic groups. A well-known example is the difference in wages between male and female workers, the so-called gender wage gap. Other examples include the…

by Michelle Harding, Grace Perez-Navarro, and Hannah Simon, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTPA) Women are at the core of the fight against the COVID-19 crisis: they make up the vast majority of healthcare workers and…

By Isra Nadeem  The White House's Easter Egg Roll kickstarted the week with a heart-wrenching reminder of the dire humanitarian crisis that Palestinian children are facing due to food scarcity and disease…

By Sonia Araujo and Lisa Meehan, Costa Rica Desk, OECD Economics Department Costa Rica’s economy is strong and continues to converge towards OECD living standards (Figure 1). Although productivity has picked up recently, a wide gap…

By Jonathan Barr. Across the OECD, efforts are being taken to boost overall growth and investment. A skilled workforce represents a key marketing chip for local economies to attract investment and opportunity. However, efforts to…

By Guillermo Montt. Previous discussions on skills mismatch or the future of work highlight the importance of skill demand to develop skill policies and an efficient linkage between skill development and skill use. Skills demanded at…

By Zayda Manatta, Head of the Secretariat of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes One small change can make a big difference in the fight against illicit financial flows. Illicit financial…

By Pascal Saint-Amans, Director of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration This blog is part of a series on tackling COVID-19 in developing countries. Visit the OECD dedicated page to access the OECD’s data, analysis and…

By Katharine Mullock. With trends in technology, globalisation and population ageing triggering changing skill requirements in many occupations, countries need to be prepared.  As Stefano Scarpetta, the OECD Director for Employment…

My name is Anabelle Wilson.  I am sixteen years old. I live in the state of Maryland in the United States of America. I wrote this poem, A Story Untold, for the people of Gaza, and I hoped that it would help…

Overview The Platform for Collaboration on Tax (PCT) invites you to a webinar: Public Consultation Workshop for  The Draft Toolkit on  Tax Treaty Negotiations Wed, November 4 | 9:00-11:30 AM EDT | Webex Events…

By Glenda Quintini and Guillermo Montt. A range of OECD analysis (see the recent OECD Policy Brief on The Future of Work) has been exploring the relationship between digitalisation, jobs and skills, the magnitude of potential job…

by Antoine Goujard, Chile Desk, Economics Department Chile’s export growth has disappointed over the past two decades. In particular, exports of goods and services – in volume – have only grown at 1.1% annually over 2009-17 and at around…

By Fabio Manca. Measuring skills can be problematic as adequate proxies are, in many cases, not readily available. ‘Qualification levels’ are among the most commonly used proxies for skills as they can be found in large datasets…

The U.S. is now the only country in the industrialised world in which the generation entering the workforce does not have higher college attainment levels than the generation about to leave the workforce. In part, that is of course due…

By Adam Bogiatzis, Economist, South East Asia Desk, Economics Department. Thailand has made remarkable socio-economic progress over the past several decades. Poverty has plummeted and access to education and health services has become…

By Marieke Vandeweyer. Types of skills for the future Structural changes, such as technological progress and globalisation, are changing the skills needed in the labour market. The importance of assessing skills needs was already…

Álvaro S. Pereira, Economista Jefe interino, Departamento de Economía de la OCDE Después de un largo período de débil crecimiento, la economía mundial finalmente está creciendo alrededor del 4%, cercano al promedio histórico de las…

By Glenda Quintini. Today, the OECD publishes Skills Matter: Further Results from the Survey of Adult Skills, the Second International Report for the Survey of Adults Skills – an international assessment of the proficiency of adults…

By Glenda Quintini. Skills policies have tended to focus disproportionately on the supply side – the acquisition and adaptation of skills. In recent years, however, there has been an increasing awareness that demand-side issues – how…

By Paulina Granados Zambrano and Glenda Quintini   Human capital is key for economic growth. Not only is it linked to aggregate economic performance but also to each individual’s labour market outcomes. However, a skilled population…

Douglas Sutherland, Senior Economist, US Desk, Economics Department. The economic expansion in the United States is now one of the longest on record, although it has been sluggish in comparison with previous recoveries. While job growth…

By Paulina Granados Zambrano. The recently published Second International Report for the Survey of Adults Skills, Skills Matter: Further Results from the Survey of Adult Skills, looks in detail at the extent to which proficiency in…

By Naomitsu Yashiro,Structural Surveillance Division, OECD Economics Department The pace of structural reforms is slowing just when the world economy needs decisive policy actions to strengthen fundamentals and restore healthy growth…

by Makoto Kasai and Łukasz Rawdanowicz, OECD Economics Department As discussed in the latest OECD Economic Outlook, the prolonged undershooting of inflation targets, despite massive monetary policy stimulus and stronger economic growth…

On March 25, 2024, an event at UC Berkeley featuring Chancellor Carol Christ and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the topic of "Free Speech in Higher Education" was disrupted by members of the…

18F just completed a successful two-year partnership with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) .gov registry. Together with an excellent vendor team, we built a new way to request and manage…

by Donal Smith, OECD Trade Directorate and Economics Department The Netherlands is likely to be one of the European countries that is going to be significantly affected by the United Kingdom’s planned departure from the European Union…

By Isra Nadeem  This week, we learned of a 1.2 trillion bipartisan bill created to avoid a government shutdown. This Biden-backed bill would ban the aid for the United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA)…

By Fabio Manca. In Italy there is an interesting link between age, skills and labour market challenges. Italy is one of many developed countries where youth represent an increasingly smaller fraction of the overall population. This is…

By Orsetta Causa, OECD Economics department Income inequality has increased in most OECD countries over the past two decades. This has come about both because incomes before taxes and transfers have become more unequally distributed,…

By Alberto González Pandiella, Economist, SDD, OECD Economics Department Costa Rican well-being indicators are comparable or even above the OECD average in several dimensions (OECD, 2016a). Nevertheless, gaps with OECD countries are…

by Rory O’Farrell, Economics, OECD Economics DepartmentToday’s post is also being published by the OECD Insights Blog There is little new about the ‘gig economy’. The word ‘gig’ originates from 1920s jazz musicians who played a small…

By Marieke Vandeweyer South Africa has suffered from persistently high unemployment and low labour force participation rates. The resulting under-use of skills is a waste of valuable productive resources and is likely to lead to…

by Andrew Barker, Canada Desk, OECD Economics Department The current Canadian government has declared itself feminist and has taken a number of steps to improve labour market outcomes for women. This includes increased funding for early…

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This article by Almuth Ernsting, European Focal Point of the Global Forest Coalition and Co-director of Biofuelwatch is part of the Wikiprogress Environment Series. Climate change mitigation and sustainability are the key rationales…

By Jorge Moreira da Silva, Director of the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate and Pascal Saint-Amans, Director, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration Should projects financed by foreign aid be subject to…

by Ben Westmore, China Desk, OECD Economics Department The goal of the Chinese government to achieve a “moderately prosperous society in all respects” by 2020 is centred around improving social welfare throughout the population. One of…

by Nicola Brandt and Pierre Guérin, France Desk, Country Studies Branch, OECD Economics Department Economic growth is strengthening in France, supported by consumption and investment, and the labour market is gradually recovering, as…

5 minute read By Jonas Teusch (Jonas.TEUSCH@oecd.org), Konstantinos Theodoropoulos (Konstantinos.THEODOROPOULOS@oecd.org) and Astrid Tricaud (Astrid.TRICAUD@oecd.org), Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (OECD)…

By Mauro Pisu, Head of Italy Desk, Country Studies Branch, OECD Economics Department Italy is recovering after a deep and long recession. Structural reforms, accommodative monetary and fiscal conditions, and low commodity prices have…

by Rory O’Farrell, Slovenia Desk, OECD Economics Department While workers in many OECD countries are worried whether robots will take their jobs, the inhabitants of the Slovenian town of Kočevje are less concerned. In 2016 Japanese…

Wikiprogress ProgBlog: Quality Urban Life: How to make it a reality? Quality Urban Life: How to make it a reality?…

Wikiprogress ProgBlog: Fighting the tide Fighting the tide Preparing for the water-related impacts of climate change…

The Platform for Collaboration on Tax Releases New Report on Carbon Pricing Metrics Full Report Executive Summary Tax & Climate Page Washington, D.C. – September 8, 2023 – The Platform for Collaboration on Tax (PCT) – a joint…

By Orsetta Causa,  Mikkel Hermansen and Nicolas Ruiz, Structural Surveillance Division, OECD Economics Department Structural reforms are regularly assessed based on their ability to boost GDP per capita. This emphasis relies on the…