Reading Time: < 1 minute過去20年以上、日本では他地域から東京圏への転入者数を、転出者数が毎年平均10万人を上回ってきました。継続的な首都地域への国内純流入として、OECD諸国の中でも最大規模の例です。また、2000年以降、東京圏以外のほとんどの道府県で人口減少が進んでいます。そして、若者、特に若い女性が、より多くの機会を求めて地方都市から大都市圏へと移り住んでいます。
Category: Rural
Connecting communities in Alba lulia: why urban-rural linkages matter
Reading Time: 4 minutesThousands travel into Alba Iulia daily for work, school and services, while rural businesses supply food, goods and visitors that strengthen the city in return. The relationship runs both ways. What lessons can be drawn on building skills, mobility and collaboration between rural and urban communities?
Repensar las realidades rurales: cuáles son los desafíos y dónde se encuentran las oportunidades
Reading Time: 6 minutesEn el imaginario colectivo, las regiones rurales suelen evocar imágenes de abandono y decadencia. Sin embargo, esto está lejos de reflejar la realidad. Las zonas rurales albergan al 30% de la población de la OCDE y, en algunos casos, están creciendo más rápido que las ciudades en términos de desarrollo, productividad e innovación. Entonces, ¿por qué las narrativas obsoletas sobre el declive rural siguen eclipsando sus contribuciones? Ha llegado el momento de desmontar los mitos que frenan a estas regiones.
De la informalidad a la inclusión: Compartiendo los recursos rurales de América Latina
Reading Time: 4 minutesLas comunidades rurales de América Latina producen gran parte de los alimentos, energía y minerales de los que depende el mundo. Sin embargo, para la mayoría de los habitantes rurales, la promesa de una prosperidad duradera sigue siendo inalcanzable porque a: pesar de esta riqueza, el trabajo informal e inseguro sigue presente, debilitando los medios de vida, servicios y oportunidades a largo plazo.
COGITO Talks… What in the World is the Tropical Economy?
Reading Time: 11 minutesImagine a world where rural and tropical regions aren’t struggling backwaters, but breeding ground for fresh ideas, new jobs and sustainable growth.
In this episode of our #FromtheGroundUp series, Betty-Ann Bryce (OECD) sits down with Ingo Plöger (CEAL), for a conversation to explore how tropical regions, with abundant natural resources, rich biodiversity and favourable climate, can become engines of sustainable growth, innovation and resilient rural development.
COGITO Talks… Click, Vote, Grow: How India is “rural proofing” its future
Reading Time: 12 minutesIndia’s rural areas are developing at an extraordinary rate, posing both challenges and opportunities to rethink development at a large scale. Recorded live from the OECD Rural Development Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Shayne MacLachlan speaks with Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, Secretary to the Government in the Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, about how India’s fascinating track-record of rural transformation can offer practical lessons to policymakers everywhere.
COGITO Talks… Lean on Me: Three pillars for rural prosperity
Reading Time: 9 minutesIn Greece, nearly a third of the population lives in rural areas, well above the OECD average, yet rural and urban communities remain deeply interconnected. From local partnerships to place-based investment, new approaches are reshaping how these spaces work together. What Greece teach us about building stronger rural-urban connections through integrated policy?
COGITO Talks… Roots of Wisdom: Indigenous perspectives for policymakers
Reading Time: 10 minutesThe 2025 OECD Report Reinforcing Rural Resilience reveals that OECD regions have seen a significant loss of forests, with approximately 10% of their forest cover disappearing between 2000 and 2020. To discuss solution-based approaches to this issue, we do not need to necessarily turn to new innovations or technologies, but rather we can look to past wisdom of indigenous knowledge in how to care for nature in a long-sustaining manner.