Shrinking Smartly and Sustainably, Reinforcing Rural Resilience and Place-Based Policies for the Future – will be presented at the 2025 Ministerial Meeting on Regional Development, taking place in ...

Children today are growing up in a highly digitalised world, with nearly all 15-year-olds in OECD countries having access to smartphones and other digital devices. While digital technologies offer ...

This paper systematically reviews ex-post empirical studies assessing the effects of climate change mitigation policies on emissions. It synthesises evidence from 187 studies covering five broad ...

Join the OECD Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC) on 21 May 2025 for a webinar exploring how better data and stronger evidence can inform food trade policies in the ECOWAS region. Experts and ...

With growing consumer interest in environmentally friendly products and an increasing number of goods and services with environmental claims, concerns about "greenwashing" – false or misleading ...

Ukraine has made significant strides in reforming its anti-corruption framework in the past decade. It has done so by enhancing transparency, accountability, and integrity through open data, ...

Non communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases are among the leading drivers of disability and death across OECD countries. NCDs frequently co-occur ...

Sweden has one of the largest and most active equity markets in the European Union. Small companies use public markets to a much larger extent than in comparable countries and the level of household ...

This report highlights the critical role of resilient communication networks in a world increasingly dependent on connectivity. It outlines the challenges policymakers face in protecting networks from ...

On 28 April 2025, a major power outage left millions across Spain and Portugal in the dark. Trains halted. Payment systems froze. Mobile networks were severely affected. And while people took the ...

Regulation is one of the most powerful tools governments have at their disposal to achieve environmental goals. While the need to address climate change is clear, governments face persistent ...

Continued reform progress will help lay the foundations for a sustained recovery and long-term growth, according to a new OECD report.