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The group on Poverty Reduction and Social Development seeks to promote coherence in policy making to ensure that development brings maximum equality and poverty reduction in societies overall. Of particular concern are employment and social protection, gender equality and migration. New and innovative tools in the areas of gender, development, and social institutions include Wikigender and the SIGI . Learn more.
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10-May-2012
Working Paper No. 312: South-South Migration in West Africa: Addressing the Challenge of Immigrant Integration reviews current best practices of integration around the world and explores the policy implications for countries in West Africa, including regional policies aimed at improving linkages between countries and their labour markets.
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on 10-May-2012
The OECD Development Centre and the United States Department of State are co-hosting the launch of the updated 2012 Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) in Washington on 10 May. The 2012 version of the SIGI reflects changes in laws or practices, an updated conceptual framework and improved data sources for over 100 countries.
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09-May-2012
Social and legal discrimination against women remains a major obstacle to economic development in emerging and developing countries, according to the latest edition of OECD’s Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI). Though women’s rights are improving in a number of countries, in others women are still barred from contributing to the social and economic well-being of their families.
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05-Jan-2012
Working Paper N° 307: Labour Market Changes, Labour Disputes and Social Cohesion in China describes basic situations of labour disputes and examines the determinants of labour disputes from macro and micro perspectives and finds that the advent of the Lewis Turning Point enlightens the awareness of workers striving for rights and interest in the labour market. Labour disputes have intensified in China in recent years, alongside the labour shortages and wage inflation, particularly since 2008 when several Chinese labour related laws were issued or updated.
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20-Dec-2011
Working Paper N° 306: Revisiting MDG Cost Estimates from a Domestic Resource Mobilisation Perspective, brings updated global estimates of the additional financial resources needed in developing countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It argues that the international community needs to broaden its notion of development co-operation beyond Official Development Assistance to reach the MDGs as the 2015 deadline approaches.
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The conference will gather experts and policy makers sharing research and experience, ranging from local to global initiatives, and marks the launch of a new book by the OECD Development Centre: "Tackling the Policy Challenges of Migration: Regulation, Integration, Development." The book is the result of a three-year project on Effective Partnerships for Better Migration Management and Development, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. It provides a contribution to the current debate on international migration, focusing on three elements in standard policy dialogue.
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on 11-Jul-2011
Nora Lustig (Tulane University, Center for Global Development and Inter-American Dialogue) presented her latest research on poverty, inequality and public policies in Latin America at a Seminar organised by the Development Centre on 11 July at the OECD Headquarters. Decreasing returns to education and targeted conditional cash transfers contribute to explain the bulk of the reduction of inequality in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Peru during the last decade. See the presentation.
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