22-September-2020
English
Never before have our social protection systems faced such a test. Millions of workers have lost their jobs since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many more have fallen into inactivity or are working partial hours.
18-September-2020
English
The world is in the grip of the worst health, social and economic crisis of our lifetime. The 6% contraction in global GDP that we project for 2020 in our most recent Economic Outlook is the largest in the 60 years of the OECD’s existence.
18-September-2020
English
cross the world, the Gender Pay Gap remains at around 20%. The situation is marginally better in OECD countries, where the average gap is 13% at median earnings. But progress remains slow: over the past twenty years, we have only seen a reduction of 5 percentage points.
17-September-2020
English
The spread of the coronavirus has aggravated and multiplied issues of fragility across countries and regions. It has contributed to mass unemployment, increased poverty, heightened inequalities, political unrest and rising gender-based violence.
14-September-2020
English
While emissions are expected to drop by around 8% this year due to lockdown measures, the IPCC says that they would need to continue to drop at around the same rate every year from now until 2030 in order to stand the best chance of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. This gives you an idea of the sheer and urgent challenge we face.
10-September-2020
English
The pandemic is harming the health, social and material well-being of all children worldwide and the most vulnerable children are suffering the most. While saving lives is a priority during a pandemic, school closures, social distancing and confinement widen inequalities between children.
10-September-2020
English
Earlier this year, as the spread of Covid-19 turned rapidly into a global health emergency, countries across the G20 – and the world – were forced to implement deep and wide ranging measures to contain the pandemic. Large parts of the economy ground to a halt, triggering the deepest recession in peacetime.
9-September-2020
Spanish
Son tiempos muy difíciles para todos nuestros países miembros. La crisis del COVID-19 nos está planteando desafíos enormes en todas las áreas de las políticas públicas. También está poniendo en evidencia las enormes ventajas de la transformación digital y la gran importancia de la conectividad.
8-September-2020
English
Since then, a lot has changed. Europe has been thrown into a full-blown and unprecedented crisis, along with the rest of the world. Suddenly we are faced with a threat, which we do not fully comprehend, and the only way to tackle it has been to accept considerable restrictions to our daily lives and economic activity.
8-September-2020
English
People used to think that caring for our ocean was about saving some distant endangered species. But the speed and global reach of the COVID-19 pandemic reminds us that humans are not infallible. The ocean crisis risks harming our ecosystems, our food supply, our very existence.