Publications

Evidence from innovative start‑ups in the EU and the US

Will be released on 8 October 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 7

This policy brief examines why some innovative start-ups achieve scale while others do not, drawing on harmonised data for around 190 000 firms founded in the European Union and the United States between 2000 and 2025. It shows that scaling is a cumulative process shaped by financing, commercialisation, talent, market access and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Although EU firms that patent display invention intensity comparable to their US peers, they take longer to translate innovation into commercial scale. The financing gap also emerges mainly at later stages, when US firms can access substantially larger funding rounds. Experienced founders, professional management and acquisitions are associated with faster scaling, while successful scale-ups can stimulate local entrepreneurial activity. The findings call for policies that accelerate commercialisation, deepen late-stage finance, reduce barriers to market expansion, facilitate access to managerial talent and strengthen ecosystem linkages.

Will be released on 8 October 2026
Authors: Alexander C. Lembcke, Juergen Amann, Peter Horvát, Nikos Tsotros, Dylan West
Language: English
Number of pages: 69

This paper analyses the first comprehensive estimates of subnational Trade in Value Added (TiVA) indicators for the United Kingdom, developed by the OECD with support from the UK Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Based on harmonised Supply-Use and Input-Output tables and aligned with the OECD TiVA database, these estimates enable new insights into global value chain (GVC) integration across the 12 UK TL2 regions (equivalent to ITL1 regions). Using 2019 as a reference year, the paper shows that UK regions are deeply integrated into both domestic and global value chains. Only 58% of the value added embodied in exports is generated locally, with 22% sourced from other UK regions and 20% from abroad. Regions participate both directly and indirectly, with one-third of UK regions participating in GVCs indirectly by providing more intermediate inputs to other UK regions for subsequent exports. EU27 and North America are key partners for UK regions. EU27 suppliers are the main source of foreign inputs for export production across most regions. Outside the EU27, the United States is the leading input supplier, while the People’s Republic of China is the main downstream user of UK regional value added.

Will be released on 8 October 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 60

This paper outlines alternative approaches to constructing subnational Supply and Use Tables (SUTs) for the United Kingdom, combining microdata with publicly available national and regional statistics. It introduces an experimental framework to analyse how UK regions are directly and indirectly integrated into the global economy. Comprehensive regional SUTs and Input-Output Tables (IOTs) have so far been unavailable for the United Kingdom, limiting the analysis of regional economic linkages and global integration. Developing such tables is important for both policy and methodological purposes, as they support the assessment of regional production structures and inform targeted policy design. The resulting dataset covers 12 UK regions and an additional “extra-regio” aggregate, disaggregated into 50 industries and products over the period 2017–21. Estimates are derived by combining different official UK microdata, integrating subnational value added and consumption data with firm- and household-level information. The derived tables are incorporated into the OECD’s Inter-Country Input-Output (ICIO) framework, enabling the first set of subnational Trade in Value Added (TiVA) indicators for the 12 UK TL2 regions (equivalent to ITL1 regions).

Mehr als nur Lockdowns

Will be released on 8 October 2026
Author: OECD
Language: German
Number of pages: 57

Key findings and trends

Will be released on 8 October 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 33

This policy paper presents the main findings of the 2025 update of OECD FDI Regulatory Restrictiveness Index (FDIRRI), which benchmarks statutory restrictions on foreign direct investment (FDI) across more than 100 economies. It provides a comparative analysis of these restrictions by country, region, policy area and economic sector, based on measures in force as of end-December 2025. The paper further reviews recent policy developments, highlighting selected reforms adopted between 2024 and 2025 that have either eased or tightened conditions for foreign investment.

Comparative insights in the context of EU accession

Will be released on 8 October 2026
Authors: José Manuel Díaz Pulido, Nick Thijs
Language: English
Number of pages: 62

This report provides a regional perspective on the state of play of digital public services across public administrations in the Western Balkans. It offers an in‑depth analysis of the availability and quality of digital public services, benchmarked against relevant EU policy objectives and requirements. The report also examines the maturity of key enablers underpinning service digitalisation, including governance arrangements, interoperability and electronic identification. It is conceived as a comparative analytical reference paper to inform EU accession dialogue and reform design on the digitalisation of public administrative services in the Western Balkans.

Will be released on 8 October 2026 at 09:00 CET
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 282

Will be released on 12 October 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 47

Non-product related process and production method measures based on carbon-intensity metrics are increasingly used in trade-related contexts and introduce a systematic reliance on complex emissions data. Their implementation depends on regulatory and technical interoperability to ensure that information is generated, exchanged and verified efficiently. When these requirements are enforced at the border, they create new and multifaceted interactions with border processes, raising operational questions about data transmission, validation and use in clearance and control. Using a trade facilitation lens, this paper examines how carbon-intensity requirements shape the practical functioning of border procedures, drawing on a mapping of existing regulations and policy proposals and their technical interoperability features. The analysis shows that these requirements rely on an ecosystem of actors and a sequenced set of operational steps involving documents, data elements, and information exchange systems. It also identifies potential disruptions in trade facilitation areas and highlights practical entry points for enhanced technical interoperability and alignment.

Strengthening Civic Space and Participation

Will be released on 12 October 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 207

The Next Frontier of Government Transformation

Will be released on 12 October 2026
Author: OECD
Languages: French-English
Number of pages: 135

Progress and Challenges through the Lens of the OECD Trade Facilitation Indicators

Will be released on 12 October 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 126

Will be released on 12 October 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 227

A Practical Guide to Quantifying Morbidity Effects in Environmental Cost‑Benefit Analysis

Will be released on 12 October 2026 at 09:00 CET
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 107

A transfer pricing framework for copper

Will be released on 12 October 2026 at 11:00 CET
Authors: OECD, Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development
Language: English
Number of pages: 45

In the mining sector, government revenue depends on mineral products being priced and measured accurately. This can be especially challenging for minerals such as copper, which have economically relevant characteristics that may vary and significantly affect pricing. The schedule presented in this report applies the mineral pricing framework – outlined in the joint OECD/IGF work Determining the Price of Minerals: A transfer pricing framework – to identify the primary economic factors influencing the price of copper. It applies the Comparable Uncontrolled Price method and aims to ensure that developing countries are able to tax copper exports appropriately.

A microsimulation framework enhanced by machine learning

Will be released on 13 October 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 35

Timely and accurate distributional income data are essential for monitoring inequality, assessing the adequacy of tax-benefit systems, and designing policy responses during periods of rapid economic change. However, income and inequality statistics derived from EU-SILC are typically published with a lag of 12 to 18 months, limiting their usefulness during fast-moving shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 energy price shock, or a severe recession. This paper presents results from a new nowcasting framework designed to reduce this information gap for EU Member States. By combining machine-learning (ML) forecasts of market income with EUROMOD microsimulation under the latest available tax-benefit rules, the framework produces timely estimates and forecasts of income inequality.

L’importance de la pédagogie générale

Will be released on 13 October 2026
Author: OECD
Language: French
Number of pages: 152

L’Enquête de l’OCDE sur les connaissances pédagogiques des enseignants (TKS) est la première étude à grande échelle consacrée aux connaissances pédagogiques générales des enseignants, qui repose sur des données comparables à l’échelle internationale issues d’échantillons représentatifs d’enseignants. En 2024, plus de 20 000 enseignants du premier cycle du secondaire issus de huit pays ont participé à ce nouveau module facultatif de l’Enquête internationale sur l’enseignement et l’apprentissage (TALIS). Les enseignants ont répondu à une évaluation de leurs connaissances pédagogiques générales et ont rendu compte de leurs expériences, pratiques et perceptions professionnelles. Les résultats fournissent aux décideurs politiques et aux chercheurs des informations précieuses sur l’importance des connaissances pédagogiques, sur les sources où les trouver et sur la manière de favoriser leur développement.

New Evidence from the Updated Skills for Jobs Database

Will be released on 14 October 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 82

Although labour shortages have eased from their post-pandemic peak, employers continue to report difficulties hiring workers with the right skills. These skill imbalances are expected to intensify. Population ageing will shrink the workforce, while digitalisation, AI and the green transition are rapidly reshaping skill needs. Addressing the gap between the skills employers need and those workers possess requires timely and accurate data. The OECD Skills for Jobs database provides a harmonised and objective measure of skill imbalances in 38 countries. The results reveal persistent and widespread occupational imbalances across OECD labour markets. Shortages are particularly pronounced in high-skilled occupations, such as ICT specialists, science and engineering professionals, health professionals, and teachers. By contrast, lower-skilled occupations are more frequently characterised by labour surpluses. These patterns highlight the growing polarisation of labour market pressures and underline the urgency of policies aimed at improving skill matching and workforce adaptability.

Will be released on 14 October 2026 at 10:00 CET
Author: OECD
Language: French
Number of pages: 1

Il est essentiel de mobiliser des financements à l’échelle pour stopper et inverser la perte de biodiversité. Ce document fournit un état des lieux approfondi du financement global de la protection de la biodiversité – toutes sources confondues, à savoir publiques et privées, nationales et internationales. Ce panorama est établi sur la base des données actuellement disponibles. Il identifie également les manques de cohérence, de comparabilité internationale, de couverture et de transparence qui caractérisent les données rapportées par les pays en vertu de la Convention sur la diversité biologique. Enfin, il propose des moyens d’améliorer le rapportage, en appliquant les normes statistiques internationales, accroîssant la transparence méthodologique et renforçant la mesure des financements privés tout en réduisant les cumuls et en allégeant la charge de rapportage.

Will be released on 15 October 2026 at 14:00 CET
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 25

This report provides an update on developments in the OECD’s tax work since the last Secretary-General report in April, with a focus on the role tax policy can play in supporting business dynamism and economic growth. Highlighting ongoing research by the OECD, the report explores how corporate income tax (CIT) policies can support business dynamism – by examining the effects of tax rates, compliance costs, loss-offset provisions, financing frictions and competitive distortions – and provides an overview of how tax policy can support a more dynamic and competitive business environment. It links the work on CIT to a holistic approach towards dynamism and notes areas for further exploration. It was prepared by the OECD ahead of the third G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting under the United States G20 Presidency, held 15 October 2026 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Will be released on 15 October 2026 at 14:00 CET
Author: OECD
Languages: English-French
Number of pages: 60

This report provides an update on ongoing work examining the role of tax policy, and corporate income tax in particular, in supporting business dynamism, investment, and economic growth. Drawing on ongoing OECD research, it analyses how corporate taxation affects business dynamism through channels such as corporate tax design, compliance costs, loss-relief provisions, financing frictions, and competitive distortions. Finally, it situates the analysis within broader OECD work on the non-tax determinants of business dynamism, highlighting the importance of a coherent policy framework that also addresses wider structural barriers to business growth and dynamism.

Will be released on 19 October 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 70

Sharing data across organisations and jurisdictions generates economic and social value, increasingly so as progress in artificial intelligence (AI) depends on access to high-quality, domain-specific data. Data spaces promise trusted multi-party data sharing under federated governance, yet, despite significant public investment, few have reached operational and financial viability. Drawing on the analysis of more than 200 initiatives, including case studies of successes and failures, and an OECD Expert Workshop, the report examines where data spaces provide value that alternative data-sharing mechanisms cannot. They best suit settings with three or more parties, limited trust in any single intermediary, collective value creation, and ongoing governance needs. Governance design, interoperability, and trust-enhancing mechanisms underpin this value, but many face a bootstrapping problem, which eight policy considerations help address. The report supports OECD work on data free flow with trust (DFFT) and the OECD Recommendation on Enhancing Access to and Sharing of Data.

Will be released on 21 October 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 124

This report explores how public communication is evolving in an age where algorithms are reshaping the way institutions connect with citizens. Drawing on the 2025 OECD Survey of Government Communicators and comparative country experiences, it examines how public communication can adapt to the demands of a rapidly evolving information ecosystem and meet its potential as a lever for policy impact. The report takes stock of the digital disruption reshaping how societies connect, analyses the changing rules of institutions’ online presence, assesses the emerging applications of artificial intelligence in public communication, and sets out a roadmap for reform that strengthens both advanced capabilities and foundational practices.

Will be released on 22 October 2026
Author: OECD
Languages: Spanish-English
Number of pages: 100

This report explores the opportunities and challenges facing the Dominican Republic’s capital markets as the country seeks to finance more inclusive and sustainable development. While the Dominican economy has shown remarkable growth and stability, access to affordable and sufficient financing remains difficult. The financial sector has proved resilient, with a strong but concentrated banking sector, and high borrowing costs. In this context, underdeveloped capital markets offer limited options for local companies and investors. To address these gaps, the report provides options for supporting the long-term development of the public debt market, exploring innovative debt instruments and supporting corporate bond and equity markets – particularly for MSMEs and pension funds, whose participation remains limited. It also highlights the need to simplify regulations, expand investment products, diversify the investor base, improve cross-border access and tap the opportunities of deeper regional integration.

Will be released on 23 October 2026 at 09:00 CET
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 193

Advanced STEM skills are essential for the responsible use of technology. This report defines them as disciplinary, interdisciplinary, transversal and professional competence applied to complex scientific and technological problems and responsible innovation, with ethical, societal and environmental implications. Quantum technologies and artificial intelligence illustrate fields requiring advanced STEM skills, yet determining whether skills for these and other fields are in short supply is difficult. The report identifies five bottlenecks: entry into STEM higher education; persistence and completion; progression to advanced levels; career entry and effective skills use; and skills renewal across working life. Building on this framework, four policy priorities address entry, persistence and completion; progression and skills renewal; programme renewal; and career entry and the effective use and continued development of advanced STEM skills. Policy and practice examples were analysed through the OECD Mutual Learning Group on Advanced STEM Skills in Higher Education, involving researchers, policymakers and higher education practitioners from a wide range of countries. The report’s eight recommendations propose options to address constraints at individual, institutional, employer and system levels, highlighting that implementation requires collaboration across policy portfolios. The report offers a framework for strengthening the development and use of advanced STEM skills and supports implementation of the European Union’s STEM Education Strategic Plan: Skills for Competitiveness and Innovation.

Will be released on 26 October 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 150

The OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) is the world’s largest survey of teachers and principals. In 2024, 280 000 teachers across 55 education systems shared their views on the leadership of 17 000 principals, while principals themselves described their practices, working conditions, professional development and school organisation. This report explores why valued leadership matters, who valued principals are, where they work, what they do and how they can be supported. By bringing together the perspectives of teachers and principals, TALIS provides governments with evidence to strengthen teaching, leadership and learning conditions in schools.

From Streamlining to Structured Bargaining

Will be released on 27 October 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 102

Will be released on 30 October 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 70

Malaysia is currently reforming its corporate governance framework, including through the revision of the Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance. This report aims to support Malaysia in this process. It assesses Malaysia’s legal and regulatory framework against the G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance, focusing on shareholder rights and equitable treatment, market confidence and investor engagement, and board governance, oversight and effectiveness. The report also provides policy recommendations to inform Malaysia’s reform efforts.

Mapping Everyday Lives across Rural Regions

Will be released on 31 October 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 80

Will be released on 2 November 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 50

This edition of Global Insurance Market Trends provides comparable data on insurance markets in 2025 in over 50 OECD and non-OECD jurisdictions. It represents a comprehensive source of information for government authorities, regulators, finance ministries and central banks, the insurance sector, the research community and consumers. The report is based on inputs from national insurance authorities. It builds upon preliminary data released in June 2026 and presents the size of the insurance business, the growth rates in premiums collected and claims paid by insurers, the investment performance and the overall profitability of insurers in 2025.

Making Migration Management Work

Will be released on 2 November 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 180

Ensuring that labour migration pathways function effectively is a persistent policy challenge for OECD and EU countries. The decision on whom to admit as labour migrants, and under what conditions must balance labour market needs against broader social and political considerations. This report provides a comparative overview of how OECD and EU countries regulate the admission of foreign nationals for work, examining the tools used to verify recruitment need – labour market tests, shortage occupation lists, and numerical limits – alongside eligibility criteria, acceleration mechanisms such as priority processing and recognised employer schemes, and the platforms providing public information on labour migration pathways to employers and workers. It concludes with a review of the administrative factors that shape access to these pathways in practice: processing times, fees, and documentary requirements. By benchmarking how these tools are designed and applied across 220 labour migration pathways in 41 OECD and EU countries, the report supports policymakers in analysing the trade-offs of specific admission policy choices and designing more effective labour migration systems that can meet their objectives

Will be released on 3 November 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 190

This assessment report explores the innovative capacity of Estonia’s public sector. It looks at how innovation can be better supported to achieve the goals of the State Plan 2028–2034, particularly doubling productivity via the Eesti.ai programme and fortifying national resilience. It analyses the drivers and structural challenges within Estonia’s public sector innovation system, including fragmentation, funding constraints, and risk-averse procurement. Using the OECD Innovative Capacity Framework, the report examines Estonia’s performance across its administration and provides strategic policy recommendations to transition the public sector from an accidental innovator to a systemic accelerator.

Managing the Transition Beyond Aid

Will be released on 5 November 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 110

Lessons from OECD Countries

Will be released on 5 November 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 56

Will be released on 5 November 2026 at 06:00 CET
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 54

The information and communication technology (ICT) sector is a key driver of modern economies, yet official measures of ICT value added are published with multi-year lags, limiting their usefulness for real-time monitoring. This paper extends the OECD's machine learning nowcasting model for ICT sector growth by refining its Google Trends feature set, updating it using the latest OECD Structural Analysis (STAN) Database, and introducing a selective pooling strategy based on countries' structural positions within global ICT value chains, derived from Trade in Value Added (TiVA) data. Results show that pooling countries with similar value-chain linkages improves prediction accuracy relative to global pooling. The findings suggest that the pooling strategy should be treated as a model-selection problem informed by economic structure, offering an empirically grounded framework for tracking ICT sector growth.

Will be released on 5 November 2026 at 07:00 CET
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 350

From rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) compute that are reshaping the technology frontier to screen-time dynamics that are affecting the academic performance of children, digital transformation has evolved from a simple question of Internet access into a much more complex phenomenon. The OECD Digital Economy and Society Outlook 2026 helps chart the path ahead by providing evidence-based analysis on today’s key technological trends and their impacts. It examines new directions in digital priorities, policies and governance, and then explores key technologies that underpin digital transformation, as well as their economic and societal effects. A Statistical Annex completes the publication.

Will be released on 5 November 2026 at 09:00 CET
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 140

The ocean economy reached a record USD 3 trillion in 2025, generating expanding opportunities for economies and communities worldwide. Yet intensifying pressures on marine ecosystems and resources are threatening ocean health and testing the capacity of existing governance frameworks. Harnessing the ocean’s economic potential while safeguarding the natural systems on which it depends requires continuous evidence, more coherent policies and effective international co-operation. The Ocean Economy at a Glance provides an original integrated assessment of the ocean as an economic, environmental and governed space. Drawing on original OECD indicators, it examines the ocean’s contribution to food production, transport, energy, minerals, tourism, employment and innovation, alongside its essential roles in climate regulation, biodiversity and scientific discovery. The publication also assesses the policy and regulatory instruments available to governments, developments in ocean finance, and the benefits of closing regulatory and enforcement gaps. Using international data sources, it further sheds light on the “dark ocean economy”, including illicit activities at sea. The findings provide governments with a robust evidence base for building a more productive, innovative, sustainable, resilient and well-governed ocean economy.

Will be released on 9 November 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 90

The OECD series Making Integration Work summarises, in a non-technical way, the main issues surrounding the integration of immigrants and their children into their host countries. Each book presents concrete policy lessons for its theme, along with supporting examples of good practices and comparisons of the migrant integration policy frameworks in different OECD countries. This seventh volume takes stock of the experiences of OECD countries regarding integration governance, exploring key considerations for designing effective structures for integration policy.

A Policy Framework

Will be released on 19 November 2026
Author: OECD
Language: English
Number of pages: 100