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Occupational entry regulations and their effects on productivity in services
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COVID-19 and the global economy
Country Policy Tracker
The OECD’s COVID-19 Country Policy Tracker records containment measures as they have been introduced and eased, as well as major fiscal, monetary and structural policy response announcements. The links below provide access to both current and historical data for 51 countries including OECD members and key partners in accessible spreadsheet and CSV file formats.
Issues notes on macroeconomic and structural policy issues
- Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 containment measures on activity and spending
- Corporate sector vulnerabilities during the COVID-19 outbreak: Assessment and policy responses
- Assessment of government crisis programmes to support businesses
- Distributional risks associated with non-standard work: Stylised facts and policy considerations
- Flattening the unemployment curve? Policies to support workers’ income and promote a speedy labour market recovery
Blog Posts
- Reaching out to informal workers in Latin America: Lessons from COVID-19
- Global policy co-operation would strengthen the recovery from the pandemic
- Germany’s short-time work scheme: can its past success be replicated?
- Corporate sector vulnerabilities during the Covid-19 outbreak: assessment and policy responses
- After the lockdown, a tightrope walk toward recovery
- Eight priorities to strengthen international cooperation against Covid-19
- América Latina se enfrenta a una recesión como ninguna otra
- Après le confinement, une reprise sur la ligne de crête
- Después del confinamiento, caminando sobre la cuerda floja hacia la recuperación
- Policy responses to COVID-19 in Latin America: Big steps in a small space
- In Tax, Gender Blind is not Gender Neutral: why tax policy responses to COVID-19 must consider women
- Covid-19 as a wake-up call: Three considerations going forward
- The OECD COVID-19 Policy Tracker: What are governments doing to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic?
- The COVID-19 crisis creates an opportunity to step up digitalisation among subnational governments
- North Korea and the coronavirus pandemic
- Europe must act now to prepare the aftermath of the pandemic crisis
- Evaluating the initial impact of containment measures on activity
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Economic impacts and consequences of the pandemic
Global outlook: recent developments & perspectives
The global economic impacts of COVID-19
The European economy before & after the pandemic
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Public Finance Data Portal
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Global Forum on Productivity
The OECD Global Forum on Productivity (GFP) fosters international co-operation between public bodies promoting productivity-enhancing policies. Access the latest research and data on productivity trends and institutions, and follow upcoming events.
Indicators of Product Market Regulation
Pro-competition regulation in the markets for goods and services can help boost living standards, can raise output per capita by increasing investment and employment, and can encourage firms to be more innovative and efficient, thereby lifting productivity. To measure countries’ regulatory stance and to track reform progress over time, since 1998 the OECD has been producing a set of indicators of product market regulation (PMR). This set included an economy-wide indicator and a group of indicators that measures regulation at the sector level.