The OECD & Eurasia
For more than a quarter-century, the OECD has worked closely with the Eurasia region to encourage sustainable and inclusive growth in Eurasia, promoting structural reforms and capacity building, and facilitating policy dialogue.
Today, the OECD provides country-specific support for Kazakhstan and Ukraine, while other countries in the region benefit from different forms of engagement with the Organisation.
The OECD Eurasia Competitiveness Programme was created in 2008 to help the region address its economic challenges. The OECD Eurasia Competitiveness Roundtable was then launched in 2013 to provide a platform for peer review and knowledge sharing.
OECD Eurasia Week is a high-level annual event that fosters exchanges and mutually-beneficial linkages between the region and the global community. It serves as a platform for a discussion on a broad spectrum of thematic issues relevant to further improving the region’s competitiveness.
In Focus
Promoting Gender Equality in Eurasia
On 19 November 2018, H.E. Dr Abdullah Abdullah, Chief Executive of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, delivered the key note speech for a high-level thematic session at OECD Eurasia Week on Shaping the Future through Better Policies for Gender Equality. Participants from Eurasia countries and International Organisations discussed ways to overcome barriers to women’s participation in shaping the future of economies in Eurasia.
- Read the Background Note Promoting Gender Equality in Eurasia
- Read the Summary Record Shaping the Future through Better Policies for Gender Equality
OECD regional activities
Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ACN)
Providing a forum for exchanging on new developments and trends in the area of preventing and combatting corruption, international standards and practices.
GREEN Action Programme in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia (EaP GREEN)
Promoting the integration of environmental considerations into economic, social and political reforms of countries in the region.
OECD Eurasia Competitiveness Programme (ECP)
Carrying out country-specific projects and involving Eurasia countries in its regional work through peer reviews and the regular assessment of SME policies.
SIGMA (Support for Improvement in Governance and Management)
A joint OECD-EU initiative providing assistance in areas such as financial control, civil service legislation, public administration reform and public finance management.
Featured data
In Armenia, the overwhelming majority of firms are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): they comprise more than 99% of all enterprises in the business economy, account for 66% of the total business employment and 62% of total turnover and 60% of value added of the business sector.
For a snapshot of Armenia’s SME sector see the new report Compendium of Enterprise Statistics in Armenia 2018 English | Armenian
This report makes recommendations to Ukraine aimed at reducing corruption in state-owned enterprises, while ensuring a clear role for the state as owner and proper supervision to protect such enterprises from undue political interference.
This report offers an analysis of Kazakhstan’s recent efforts to improve the policy framework for the mining sector, with a focus on the new Code on Subsoil and Subsoil Use. It highlights recent improvements but also identifies gaps and challenges still to be addressed if Kazakhstan is to realise the potential of its hard mineral resource endowments.
This study offers an analysis of socio-economic trends and problems in Ukraine’s regions and its on-going decentralisation reform. It also provides a set of recommendations for action to modernise its approach to regional development and to advance decentralisation in such a way as to strengthen democratic accountability, reduce corruption and improve public service delivery.
This project aims to provide policy makers with evidence on the way migration influences specific sectors and, in turn, how sectoral policies affect migration.
The joint OECD-EU SIGMA initiative has completed a baseline assessment of the public administration in Ukraine against SIGMA’s Principles of Public Administration. The report finds that Ukraine has begun ambitious public administration reforms and that initial positive results are become visible, though many important challenges remain.