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Renca’s regeneration: invigorating urban spaces to solve the housing crisis

The Chile housing crisis is national, but its effects are sharpest locally in cities like Renca. With a population of more than 160,000, it has a housing deficit of 5,000 homes. Renca is revisiting its housing plan –for the people and with the people.

Pressing the digital accelerator: Small firms racing to upgrade

12 April 2021 Hon Stuart Nash

As communities around the world once again retreat into confinement, for many it will no doubt feel like heading in reverse. However, if you peek beneath the bonnet – as the latest OECD report does – we can find much is changing. While the virus rages outside, our economic engine is being remade: with digital drive.

Entrepreneurship in Times of COVID-19

25 March 2021 Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Constantijn van Oranje and Hon Stuart Nash

Entrepreneurs have been hit hard by the crisis. Surveys show that since the start of the pandemic, globally, 70-80% of SMEs experienced a serious drop in revenues/sales, and over 40% stopped operations altogether in the first wave of the crisis.

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How can cities get transport and cycling right to ensure a sustainable COVID-19 recovery?

25 March 2021 Oscar Huerta Melchor

COVID-19 stigmatised public transport as unable to preserve physical distancing and therefore health. Although some studies suggest the probability of becoming infected while using public transport is lower than in other closed spaces, many people are still staying away from buses, trains and subways.

Water Security For All: How Can We Achieve It?

22 March 2021 Oriana Romano

OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría, Ministers, experts and other high-level speakers join us this week for OECD Water Days (22-26 March) where we will examine the implications for water security from a regional perspective, during sessions on water governance in Africa (24 March), Latin America and the Caribbean (25 March), and Asia-Pacific (26 March).

#AdoptACOVIDGraduate

25 February 2021 Lamia Kamal-Chaoui

Businesses, big and small, have to stand up for the COVID generation. Extend a hand to young graduates from the Class of Corona, offer them internships and first jobs, and bet on their future. This crisis has brought an entire generation to a halt. Students and young graduates have classes and exams cancelled…

After the Boom? COVID-19 and European City Labour Markets

18 February 2021 Pawel Adrjan and Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp

Berlin, London, Madrid and Paris are engines of productivity growth that have long been magnets for young and skilled workers. COVID-19 has brought this boom to a halt. Indeed job posting data offer an unparalleled view of how the pandemic has transformed labour markets in Europe’s four largest capitals at the start of 2021.

An imagined country

08 January 2021 Lamia Kamal-Chaoui and Peter Wostner

In the early stages of the pandemic, the focus was squarely on cities. Urban density and shared spaces contributed to surging case numbers and deaths: before June, the rise in excess deaths was more than three times higher in large metropolitan areas compared to remote regions. But rural areas still reeled from the economic impacts. Businesses closed to comply with containment measures, trade slowed, and tourism activity all but ceased.

Going local in a global crisis

07 January 2021 Anna Rubin

Going local in a global crisis – COVID-19 has unleashed the worst jobs crisis in a generation. The latest figures from the OECD’s Economic Outlook are striking. Compared to the last quarter of 2019, hours worked fell over 15% in the Euro Area, the United Kingdom and Canada in the second quarter of 2020, and by over 10% in the US.

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Buenos Aires’ big vision: A housing policy that goes beyond homes

Renca’s regeneration: invigorating urban spaces to solve the housing crisis

Backing Bristolians during the cost-of-living crisis

Cape Town: the crisis and the cure for housing affordability

A better balance for Barranquilla: How the city is tackling inequality

Back to basics in Braga: Making urban homes more affordable

The Chattanooga challenge: Bringing its people in from the cold

Greening Glasgow’s homes

When the Spring runs dry

A balancing act: What’s behind the uneven jobs recovery in regions after COVID-19?

An Olympic effort: How does sport support our communities?