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Les smart cities ne suffisent plus : les villes ont besoin de systèmes de résilience

18 August 2026 Stéphane Gervais - (ApexTransform)

Reading Time: 4 minutesDepuis des années, les villes investissent dans des capteurs intelligents, des tableaux de bord et des services numériques. Mais alors que les chocs se propagent en cascade à travers les systèmes d’eau, d’énergie, de transport et les systèmes sociaux, les villes intelligentes ne suffisent plus. Que faudra-t-il pour transformer les infrastructures intelligentes en une résilience réelle?

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Beyond Tokyo: Can Japan boost the appeal of its regions?

31 July 2026 Lamia Kamal-Chaoui (CFE Director, OECD)

Reading Time: 4 minutesRegions and cities are being reshaped by falling birth rates, ageing populations and the continued movement of young people to large metropolitan hubs. Japan knows this story well: for more than two decades, over 100,000 people a year have moved to the Tokyo metropolitan area from elsewhere in Japan. The question is no longer how to strengthen Tokyo, but how to strengthen everywhere else?

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When a giant restructures: what Volkswagen’s job cuts mean for local labour markets

27 July 2026 Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp - (OECD)

Reading Time: 3 minutesRecent reports suggest Volkswagen could close several German plants and cut up to 100,000 jobs globally, in what may be its largest-ever restructuring. Factories in Hanover, Zwickau, Emden and Neckarsulm would be hit hardest, as traditional automakers face pressure from Chinese competition, rising costs, and a slower-than-expected shift to EVs. Can Europe’s manufacturing heartlands adapt fast enough to survive the EV transition?

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Industrial Policy Needs to be Systematic, Not Just Ad Hoc

20 July 2026 Marc Fasteau - (the Coalition for a Prosperous America) and Ian Fletcher - (the Coalition for a Prosperous America)

Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter decades during which the very concept was taboo and the reality swept under the rug, the world has now rediscovered industrial policy. But too much of it is reactive, scattered, and driven by whichever crisis has the attention of the moment. How can we create a more systemic approach that recognizes the issues we face are interconnected and rooted in real places?

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Smart Cities Are Not Enough: Cities Need Resilience Systems

16 July 2026 Stéphane Gervais - (ApexTransform)

Reading Time: 3 minutesFor years, cities have invested in smart sensors, dashboards and digital services. But as shocks cascade across water, energy, transport and social systems, smart cities aren’t enough. What will it take to turn smart infrastructure into real resilience?

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When National Climate Averages Miss the Story

13 July 2026 Dr. Parag Khanna - (AlphaGeo) and Dr. Yusra Ghafoor - (AlphaGeo)

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen France recorded its hottest day in history last week, 41°C in Bordeaux, multiple deaths, half the country under red alert, the story got covered the way climate risk almost always is: one country, one number. But, how do we know which regions inside these countries are actually carrying the long-term economic cost?

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La Economía Social en España: Transformando los Valores en Cifras

10 July 2026 Amparo Merino

Reading Time: 3 minutesAlgunos modelos económicos funcionan en múltiples niveles. Son responsables de crear empleo, se mantienen estables en tiempos de crisis y proporcionan cuidados esenciales a las personas. La economía social es uno de ellos y, por primera vez en España, tenemos datos que lo demuestran.

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The Social Economy in Spain: Turning Values into Numbers

10 July 2026 Amparo Merino

Reading Time: 4 minutesSome economic models work on many levels. They create jobs, hold steady in a crisis, and provide essential care for people. The social economy is one of them. And for the first time in Spain, we now have data to prove it.

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Culture as Infrastructure: Policy Lessons from Abu Dhabi’s Creative Economy

07 July 2026 Dr. Elena Raevskikh and Dr. Giovanna Di Mauro

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn Abu Dhabi, investment in culture is helping to build the foundations of a diversified, future-facing economy. Between 2022 and 2025, Abu Dhabi’s cultural and creative industries recorded 13.4% growth, but how can culture become a new source of sustainable growth?

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From World Cup excitement to lasting local benefits: what can cities learn?

03 July 2026 Zhi Hui Lin (OECD Policy Analyst)

Reading Time: 4 minutesOn June 11, Mark Carney opened the 2026 men’s FIFA World Cup with a message of pride and ambition. Two weeks later, that ambition became history: how can countries turn global attention into lasting local benefits?

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東京の先へー仙台が築く、より強靱な観光経済

03 July 2026 郡和子

Reading Time: < 1 minute日本の観光ブームは衰える気配がありません。2025年には、外国人旅行者が初めて4,000万人を超え、過去最高を記録しました。さらに2026年初頭も、前年を上回る成長が続いています。

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Cutting red tape where it matters most: Why SMEs need simpler local rules

02 July 2026 Marie Tirilly - (Business at OECD)

Reading Time: 4 minutesPolicymakers are placing renewed emphasis on regulatory simplification, seeking to cut red tape and help firms grow. For SMEs, this is crucial: growth is shaped not by one law, but by permits and reporting requirements piling across levels of government. How can governments simplify this patchwork without losing its safeguards?

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Going local in a global crisis

07 January 2021 Anna Rubin - (OECD)

Reading Time: 4 minutesGoing 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.

Preparing the SME workforce for the fourth industrial revolution

19 September 2018 Iris Arbel - (SIT)

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe globalisation of the world’s economy, jointly with the digitisation and automation of traditional production, has become both an opportunity and a challenge for smaller companies and nations – a particularly “human” one. For small and medium enterprises (SMEs), current employees and work forces would have to learn to operate …

It is our responsibility to make the future inclusive and sustainable

16 September 2018 Nicolas Hazard - (European Commission)

Reading Time: 2 minutesWill all workers be displaced by machines? As history has shown, some jobs are destroyed and others are created. The future lies in closer collaboration between humans and machines. In this context, a new generation of entrepreneurs is ongoing, innovative and tied to strong values. Conscious by our planet’s situation, having grown up in a world punctuated by crisis, they have decided to act and create startups that have social and environmental positive impact.

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