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The OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook provides regular updates on trends and developments associated with sovereign borrowing requirements, funding strategies, market infrastructure and debt levels from the perspective of public debt managers. The Outlook makes a policy distinction between funding strategy and borrowing requirements. The central government marketable gross borrowing needs, or requirements, are calculated on the basis of budget deficits and redemptions. The funding strategy entails decisions on how borrowing needs are going to be financed using different instruments and which distribution channels are being used. This edition provides data, information and background on sovereign borrowing needs and discusses funding strategies and debt management policies for the OECD area and country groupings. In particular, it examines: gross borrowing requirements; net borrowing requirements; central government marketable debt; interactions between fiscal policy, public debt management and monetary policy; funding strategies, procedures and instruments; liquidity in secondary markets; implications of a low interest environment for government debt; and the outlook of inflation linked bonds.

Growth in Colombia has been among the strongest in the region, reflecting the flexible exchange rate and inflation targeting monetary policy, and fiscal rules. The strong growth and welfare programmes to the most vulnerable groups have substantially reduced poverty. Lower taxes and fees on wages have brought more people to better quality formal jobs, thereby raising both productivity and inclusiveness. Productivity and job opportunities have also been enhanced by recent reforms facilitating the opening of business, obtaining construction permits, registering property and paying taxes. However, productivity growth is still low and the gap between rich and poor among the highest in Latin America. Informality and gender gaps remain high, and social mobility low. Years of armed conflict, stringent local regulations and distortions in the tax system have created disparities in productivity and access to basic services across regions. Further simplifying procedures for company registration and the affiliation of workers to social security, improving labour market programmes, expanding early childhood education, and raising education quality would boost inclusion, social mobility and living standards. Greater and more affordable child, elderly and disability care would open the job market to more women. Raising productivity will be fundamental to continued increases in living standards for all Colombians.

SPECIAL FEATURES: PRODUCTIVITY; INCLUSIVE GROWTH

This report provides an assessment of how governments can generate inclusive economic growth in the short term, while making progress towards climate goals to secure sustainable long-term growth. It describes the development pathways required to meet the Paris Agreement objectives and underlines the value of well-aligned policy packages in mobilising investment and social support for the transition while enhancing growth. The report also sets out the structural, financial and political changes needed to enable the transition.

Les Perspectives économiques en Afrique 2017 dressent l’état actuel du continent et livrent des prévisions économiques à deux ans. Ce rapport annuel examine la performance de l’Afrique dans des domaines essentiels : macroéconomie, flux financiers extérieurs et recettes fiscales, commerce et intégration régionale, développement humain et gouvernance. Pour cette 16e édition, les Perspectives économiques en Afrique passent au crible la question du rôle des entrepreneurs dans l’industrialisation du continent. Le rapport propose des solutions pratiques que les gouvernements africains peuvent adopter pour mettre en place des stratégies d’industrialisation efficaces. Des politiques favorisant les compétences, les regroupements d’entreprises (clusters) et le financement lèveraient des contraintes majeures rencontrées actuellement par les entreprises privées africaines.

Des notes pays offrent une synthèse des tendances récentes de l'économie, des prévisions de croissance du produit intérieur brut pour 2017 et 2018, et des principaux enjeux dans chacun des 54 pays africains. Une annexe statistique (disponible en ligne uniquement) permet de comparer les variables économiques, sociales et politiques propres à chaque pays.