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OECD Urban Policy Reviews: Mexico 2015 - Transforming Urban Policy and Housing Finance

In parallel to a sweeping structural reform agenda, Mexico announced in 2013 a new approach to housing and urban policy. Calling for a more explicit qualitative focus on housing and the urban environment, the policy shift is a welcome development. Mexico urbanised more rapidly than most OECD countries in the past half-century, in part as a result of the expansion of housing finance led by INFONAVIT and facilitated by policies

Social Media Use by Governments

This working paper takes a comparative snapshot of social media use in and by OECD governments. The focus is on government institutions, as opposed to personalities, and how they manage to capture the opportunities of new social media platforms to deliver better public services and to create more open policy processes.

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Kazakhstan: Review of the Central Administration

This review examines the functioning, structure and organisation of the central government and line ministries in Kazakhstan, as well as their capacities to implement national objectives and priorities, outlined in the Kazakhstan’s Vision 2050. It also focuses on tools, strategic management and accountability frameworks in the Government of Kazakhstan, in line with the strategic management principles outlined in the General

Panorama des administrations publiques 2013

Measuring the Digital Economy - A New Perspective

The growing role of the digital economy in daily life has heightened demand for new data and measurement tools. Internationally comparable and timely statistics combined with robust cross-country analyses are crucial to strengthen the evidence base for digital economy policy making, particularly in a context of rapid change. This report presents indicators traditionally used to monitor the information society and complements them

OECD Forum on Financing Democracy and Averting Policy Capture: Remarks by the OECD Secretary-General

Six years into the crisis, people’s faith in government is stagnating at record lows. The 2014 Edelman Trust Barometer shows a continuing decline of trust in government to 44%, down from 48% in 2013. Only 15% of respondents in the 27 countries surveyed this year said they trusted their government leaders to make ethical and moral decisions.

OECD Forum on Financing Democracy and Averting Policy Capture

OECD Forum on Financing Democracy and Averting Policy Capture

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• Financing Democracy
• Trust in Government

Rapport de l'OCDE sur la corruption transnationale - Une analyse de l'infraction de corruption d'agents publics étrangers

Ce rapport essaie de quantifier, et de décrire la corruption transnationale sur la base des informations révélées dans les 427 affaires de corruption transnationale terminées depuis l’entrée en vigueur de la Convention de l’OCDE sur la lutte contre la corruption en 1999.

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• Informe de la OCDE sobre el Soborno Internacional - Análisis del delito de cohecho de servidores públicos extranjeros
• OECD Foreign Bribery Report - An Analysis of the Crime of Bribery of Foreign Public Officials

Lobbying standards still not where they should be - EU Observer blog

Opinion piece on lobbying regulation by Rolf Alter, published in the EU Observer.

OECD Territorial Reviews: Colombia 2014

Regional development policy is a priority of Colombia’s government. The country has experienced sustained economic growth over the past decade; yet several territories still lack development opportunities. To promote growth in all regions the government has engaged in a series of reforms. For instance, it started allocating royalty payments generated by hydrocarbon resources to all departments and most municipalities, including