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Water Security For All: How Can We Achieve It?

22 March 2021 Oriana Romano - (OECD)

Reading Time: 3 minutesOECD 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 (CFE Director, OECD)

Reading Time: 2 minutesBusinesses, 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 - (Indeed) and Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp - (OECD)

Reading Time: 6 minutesBerlin, 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 (CFE Director, OECD) and Peter Wostner - (Slovenian Government)

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn 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 - (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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