Publications & Documents

20-January-2021

English

Good regulatory practices and co-operation in trade agreements - A historical perspective and stocktaking

This paper presents a stocktaking of standalone chapters in trade agreements dedicated to good regulatory practices and international regulatory co-operation. While standalone regulatory policy chapters in trade agreements remain a new development, they signal countries’ increasing interest in elevating the visibility and ambition of regulatory policy, in line with their commitments in the 2012 OECD Recommendation of the Council on Regulatory Policy and Governance and the 2005 APEC-OECD Integrated Checklist on Regulatory Reform. Still, the level of ambition of these chapters varies widely depending on the state of play of regulatory policy in trading partners. By comparing the main substantive and structural features of these chapters, this stocktaking aims to inform the development of similar chapters in future trade agreements.

15-January-2021

English

OECD Reviews of Health Systems: A series of country reports

Those in-depth studies of the health system of member countries focus on economic issues. They assess the performance of health systems in a comparative context, identify the main challenges faced by the country health system and put forward policy options to better meet them. Reviews are initiated at the request of the country to be examined and emphasis is placed on specific issues of key policy interest.

10-December-2020

English

Green growth in countries and territories

There are now 47 Adherents to the 2009 OECD Declaration on Green Growth. Romania has joined Costa Rica, Colombia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Morocco, Peru, Tunisia, as well as OECD members in having adhered to the Declaration.

9-December-2020

English

Corporate Governance in Latin America

Several regional initiatives provide a forum for the exchange of experiences between senior policy makers, regulators and market participants to promote good corporate governance practices in the Latin American region.

3-December-2020

English, PDF, 366kb

Revenue Statistics: Key findings for Mexico

The OECD’s annual Revenue Statistics report found that the tax-to-GDP ratio in Mexico increased by 0.3 percentage points from 16.2% in 2018 to 16.5% in 2019. Between 2018 and 2019 the OECD average decreased from 33.9% to 33.8%.

17-November-2020

English

The impact of COVID-19 on SME financing - A special edition of the OECD Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs Scoreboard

The COVID-19 crisis has had a profound impact on SME access to finance. In particular, the sudden drop in revenues created acute liquidity shortages, threatening the survival of many viable businesses. The report documents an increase in demand for bank lending in the first half of 2020, and a steady supply of credit thanks to government interventions. On the other hand, other sources of finance declined, in particular early-stage equity. This paper, a special edition of Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs, focuses on the impacts of COVID-19 on SME access to finance, along with government policy responses. It reveals that the pre-crisis financing environment was broadly favourable for SMEs and entrepreneurs, who benefited from low interest rates, loose credit standards and an increasingly diverse offer of financing instruments. It documents the unprecedented scope and scale of the policy responses undertaken by governments world-wide, and details their key characteristics, and outlines the principal issues and policy challenges for the next phases of the pandemic, such as the over-indebtedness of SMEs and the need to continue to foster a diverse range of financing instruments for SMEs.

16-November-2020

English

Global Teaching InSights - A Video Study of Teaching

What does teaching look like? What practices are most impactful? By directly observing teaching in the classroom, this study trialled new research methods to shed light on these key questions for raising student outcomes around the world. This report provides a detailed account of classroom management, social and emotional support, and instructional practices in the classrooms of eight countries and economies, drawing upon the observation of lesson videos and instructional materials, the analysis of teacher and student questionnaires, and the measurement of students’ cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes.

9-October-2020

English

International Summer School for community and local development in Latin America and the Caribbean

The School organises specialised courses on socio-economic development and creates an international platform to exchange experiences and knowledge between public officers and practitioners from Latin America and the Caribbean that deals with cooperation and local development issues.

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Summer School Internacional para la comunidad y el desarrollo local en América Latina y el Caribe

8-October-2020

English

Tijuana Innovadora 2020: Tijuana is the Future

The economic repercussions are stark. Global GDP will decline by 4.5% this year, and while we estimate that the global economy will pick up by an average rate of around 5% in 2021, many OECD countries will not return to their pre-crisis growth rates until the end of 2021 or in 2022.

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Tijuana Innovadora 2020: Tijuana es el Futuro

7-October-2020

English

Mr. Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD, participating in Tijuana Innovadora 2020: Tijuana is the Future, 7 October 2020

The Secretary-General took part in the panel on Economy with Ms. Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, and with Ms. Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of the SEGIB.

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