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06-Dec-2011
Huge regional variations in economic and social conditions within a country require a rethink of the way governments design policies to boost growth and jobs, says a new OECD report.
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25-Oct-2011
The OECD report "Water Governance in OECD Countries: A Multi-level Approach" explores multi-level governance challenges in water policy implementation and identifies good practices for coordinating water policy across ministries, between levels of government, and across local actors at sub-national level. It summarises the findings from an extensive survey on water governance accross 17 OECD countries and suggests preliminary guidelines for effective management of multi-level governance in water policy.
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07-Jul-2011
This publication provides a multidimensional and dynamic snapshot of how life is lived – and can be improved – from region to region in OECD countries and emerging economies.
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07-Apr-2011
Growth, due to factor productivity and innovation in the Basque country, is on the rise again following significant increases in public and private investment in innovation. This review offers some policy and governance recommendations to achieve the region’s desired transition from a model of incremental innovation in manufacturing, to a model increasingly based on science and other forms of knowledge.
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10-Nov-2010
NComVA and OECD proudly announce the release of Dynamic Histogram.This improved version of OECD Regional eXplorer (V3.7) contains new features, including: a dynamic histogram to plot regions and countries, focus on selected regions and follow trends over time; improved Table lens for negative and positive data values; improved high resolution image capture; and wider user control to customize the display, share the results and save documents.
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01-Sep-2010
The Netherlands is successfully transforming the way it manages specific areas of the country. Investments in infrastructure and housing are now better coordinated and focus on strong city-regions. These place-based policies strengthen regions in the Netherlands, complement other national initiatives, and fit with the growing importance of cities as economic drivers. However, accessibility and housing remain major challenges, according to OECD’s new National place-based policies in the Netherlands.
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02-Jul-2010
This review offers a comprehensive assessment of the city-region’s economy and the extent to which its land use, labour market and environmental policies embrace a metropolitan vision. The report also appraises the quality of metropolitan water governance and Venice’s potential to become a powerful reference for climate change adaptation.
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28-May-2010
The Third Annual Meeting of the OECD Roundtable of Mayors and Ministers on 'Cities and Green Growth' concluded that national and city leaders must work together to increase cities’ ability to promote green growth.
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12-Feb-2010
The OECD Territorial Review of Sweden was launched officially on 3 February 2010 in Stockholm. The review explores the potential for enhanced innovation and entrepreneurship and provides recommendations to strengthen Sweden’s regional development strategies through improved governance mechanisms, both regionally and across levels of government.
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06-Jan-2010
The Pan Yellow Sea Region (PYSR) has been one of the fastest growing economic zones in East Asia since China’s opening in the early 1990's. However, the PYSR has not fully utilised its assets nor reached its potential for growth. This new report looks at a wide range of policies to improve the PYSR’s competitiveness and integration.
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Events
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from 02-Dec-2011 to 06-Dec-2011
Huge regional variations in economic and social conditions within a country require a rethink of the way governments design policies to boost growth and jobs, says a new OECD report.
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on 14-Jun-2011
This workshop allowed participants to share experiences in the measurement of regional development, by presenting some issues in emerging economies and the role of regional development policies in addressing them.
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on 26-Oct-2010
This is the first time the OECD has undertaken a systematic collection of regional policy data. This report is a unique source of regional policy information and of special interest to policy makers, researchers, and others engaging with regional development.
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on 15-Sep-2010
The production of renewable energy represents a development opportunity for rural regions in today's context of globalisation, ageing, depopulation and climate change. This workshop was held in Montreal in co-operation with the government of Québec.
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on 28-Jun-2010
As part of an overall project on Growing Lagging Regions, this Workshop gathered experts to discuss the key factors that have been successful in helping lagging regions reach national standards.
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on 07-Jun-2010
Regional labour mobility and regional innovation networks discussed at a Workshop of the OECD Working Party on Territorial Indicators. Experts and academics debated on analytical and policy issues related to patterns and determinants of labour flows across regions, the location of immigrants within countries and impacts on regional development; and new facts and policies for regional innovation networks.
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on 25-May-2010
This meeting worked on identifying a common policy agenda for cities’ contribution to a global green growth agenda. Participants addressed how existing models can be fine-tuned to create synergy, rather than conflict, between national and localised urban growth, sustainable development, and climate change action plans.
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from 13-Oct-2009 to 15-Oct-2009
The Annual OECD Rural Development Conference was this year held in Quebec, Canada. Combining a series of workshops, exhibits and field visits, this broad ranging conference looked at rural policy in relation to a vast array of sectors including forestry, energy, climate change, tourism and more. It focused on responding to the financial crisis and recession in rural areas.
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