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30 Mar 2020 |
A framework to guide an education response to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020
This report aims at supporting education decision making to develop and implement effective education responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The report explains why the necessary social isolation measures will disrupt school-based education for several... |
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28 Apr 2020 |
A systemic resilience approach to dealing with Covid-19 and future shocks
Policymakers often have a linear view of the world, where pulling the right levers will get the economy and society back on track after shocks and crises. This paper argues that such an approach ignores how systems interact and how their systemic... |
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27 May 2020 |
A “debt standstill” for the poorest countries: How much is at stake?
Developing countries are already suffering from the health, social and economic consequences of the coronavirus. A looming debt crisis would be catastrophic. On 15 April 2020, G20 finance ministers agreed to a debt “standstill” for 2020. This policy... |
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18 Mar 2021 |
Access to COVID-19 vaccines: Global approaches in a global crisis
Following the extraordinarily rapid development of COVID‑19 vaccines, immunisation is underway in many OECD countries. However, demand will continue to outstrip supply for some time and currently, distribution is strongly skewed in favour of... |
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09 Sept 2020 |
Access to justice and the COVID-19 pandemic
This policy brief focuses on the immediate and medium term consequences of the COVID-19 crisis for justice systems and their users, and proposes steps that can be taken during this period to ensure access to justice for all. It draws nine key lessons... |
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25 Mar 2021 |
Adult Learning and COVID-19: How much informal and non-formal learning are workers missing?
This brief proposes estimates of the loss in on-the-job learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Participation in informal learning due to widespread shutdowns of economic activities is estimated to have decreased by 25%. In the case of non-formal... |
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23 Jun 2020 |
Africa’s Response to COVID-19: What roles for trade, manufacturing and intellectual property?
The note identifies five priority actions for Africa to respond effectively to COVID-19 and accelerate structural transformation and development across the continent. |
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09 Apr 2021 |
An assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on job and skills demand using online job vacancy data
This policy brief uses online job vacancy postings as a partial indicator of the impact of COVID-19 on skills demand in five OECD countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States) between January and November 2020.... |
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21 Apr 2022 |
Assessing environmental impact of measures in the OECD Green Recovery Database
This Policy Brief provides the key findings and policy insights from the April 2022 update of OECD Green Recovery Database, which tracks recovery measures with a clear environmental impact adopted by OECD member countries, the European Union and... |
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16 Apr 2020 |
Beyond containment: Health systems responses to COVID-19 in the OECD
Health systems are facing the most serious global pandemic crisis in a century. The main focus of this brief is on the policies aimed at providing effective care and managing the pressure on health systems. |
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28 Sept 2020 |
Biodiversity and the economic response to COVID-19: Ensuring a green and resilient recovery
This Policy Brief focuses on the vital role of biodiversity for human life and the importance of integrating biodiversity considerations into the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. |
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23 Nov 2020 |
Building a coherent response for a sustainable post-COVID-19 recovery
The world is facing an unprecedented multidimensional crisis that demands coherent policy responses. The COVID-19 crisis has further highlighted the vulnerability of several of our basic systems, including healthcare, social protection, education,... |
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05 Jun 2020 |
Building back better: A sustainable, resilient recovery after COVID-19
For the economic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis to be durable and resilient, a return to ‘business as usual’ and environmentally destructive investment patterns and activities must be avoided. Unchecked, global environmental emergencies such as... |
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08 Oct 2021 |
Building inclusive labour markets: Active labour market policies for the most vulnerable groups
The COVID-19 pandemic risks widening further the divide in labour market outcomes for the most vulnerable groups who face numerous employment obstacles, such as limited work experience, care obligations, low skills or health limitations. Not all... |
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01 Jun 2020 |
Building low-carbon resilient electricity infrastructures with nuclear energy in the post-COVID-19 era
During the COVID‑19 crisis, nuclear power has continued to generate electricity reliably and around the clock, ensuring the continuous resilient operation of critical services indispensable to cope with the global health crisis and maintain social... |
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02 Sept 2020 |
Building resilience to the Covid-19 pandemic: the role of centres of government
Centres of government (CoGs) have played an important role in tackling the crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This paper discusses the high-level institutional arrangements put in place by governments to manage policy responses to... |
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18 Feb 2021 |
Business dynamism during the COVID-19 pandemic: Which policies for an inclusive recovery?
Firm entry has rebounded after the drop experienced during the first COVID-19 lockdowns of early 2020, yet the recovery in entry rates is highly heterogeneous across countries, with possible long-term implications for employment and output growth.... |
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07 May 2020 |
COVID-19 and Africa: Socio-economic implications and policy responses
Although the number of COVID-19 cases and fatalities might still appear comparatively low in Africa than in other world regions, the looming health shock of COVID-19 could have disastrous impacts on the continent’s already strained health systems,... |
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22 Feb 2021 |
COVID-19 and a new resilient infrastructure landscape
With the pandemic as a backdrop, this note provides a selected, high-level picture of resilience in infrastructure. Dimensions of resilience are explored across the project life-cycle, from planning and designing, to construction, operations, and... |
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31 Jul 2020 |
COVID-19 and fiscal relations across levels of government
The focus of this brief is on the policy responses that governments can and are taking through the channel of inter-governmental relations to tackle the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. |
OECD Policy Responses to Coronavirus (COVID-19)
This series compiles data, analysis and recommendations on a range of topics to address the health, economic and societal crisis, facilitate co-ordination, and contribute to the necessary global action when confronting this enormous collective challenge. Bringing together policy responses spanning a large range of topics, from health to education and taxes, it provides guidance on the short-term measures in affected sectors and a specific focus on the vulnerable sectors of society and the economy. The content also aims to provide analysis on the longer-term consequences and impacts, steering the way towards a strong, resilient, green and inclusive recovery with co-ordinated policy responses across countries.
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- ISSN: 27080676 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/5b0fd8cd-en
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This report aims at supporting education decision making to develop and implement effective education responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The report explains why the necessary social isolation measures will disrupt school-based education for several...
Policymakers often have a linear view of the world, where pulling the right levers will get the economy and society back on track after shocks and crises. This paper argues that such an approach ignores how systems interact and how their systemic...
A “debt standstill” for the poorest countries: How much is at stake?
OECD
27 May 2020
Developing countries are already suffering from the health, social and economic consequences of the coronavirus. A looming debt crisis would be catastrophic. On 15 April 2020, G20 finance ministers agreed to a debt “standstill” for 2020. This policy...
Access to COVID-19 vaccines: Global approaches in a global crisis
OECD
18 Mar 2021
Following the extraordinarily rapid development of COVID‑19 vaccines, immunisation is underway in many OECD countries. However, demand will continue to outstrip supply for some time and currently, distribution is strongly skewed in favour of...
Access to justice and the COVID-19 pandemic
OECD
09 Sept 2020
This policy brief focuses on the immediate and medium term consequences of the COVID-19 crisis for justice systems and their users, and proposes steps that can be taken during this period to ensure access to justice for all. It draws nine key lessons...
Adult Learning and COVID-19: How much informal and non-formal learning are workers missing?
OECD
25 Mar 2021
This brief proposes estimates of the loss in on-the-job learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Participation in informal learning due to widespread shutdowns of economic activities is estimated to have decreased by 25%. In the case of non-formal...
Africa’s Response to COVID-19: What roles for trade, manufacturing and intellectual property?
OECD and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
23 Jun 2020
The note identifies five priority actions for Africa to respond effectively to COVID-19 and accelerate structural transformation and development across the continent.
An assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on job and skills demand using online job vacancy data
OECD
09 Apr 2021
This policy brief uses online job vacancy postings as a partial indicator of the impact of COVID-19 on skills demand in five OECD countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States) between January and November 2020....
This Policy Brief provides the key findings and policy insights from the April 2022 update of OECD Green Recovery Database, which tracks recovery measures with a clear environmental impact adopted by OECD member countries, the European Union and...
Beyond containment: Health systems responses to COVID-19 in the OECD
OECD
16 Apr 2020
Health systems are facing the most serious global pandemic crisis in a century. The main focus of this brief is on the policies aimed at providing effective care and managing the pressure on health systems.
Biodiversity and the economic response to COVID-19: Ensuring a green and resilient recovery
OECD
28 Sept 2020
This Policy Brief focuses on the vital role of biodiversity for human life and the importance of integrating biodiversity considerations into the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.
The world is facing an unprecedented multidimensional crisis that demands coherent policy responses. The COVID-19 crisis has further highlighted the vulnerability of several of our basic systems, including healthcare, social protection, education,...
For the economic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis to be durable and resilient, a return to ‘business as usual’ and environmentally destructive investment patterns and activities must be avoided. Unchecked, global environmental emergencies such as...
Building inclusive labour markets: Active labour market policies for the most vulnerable groups
OECD
08 Oct 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic risks widening further the divide in labour market outcomes for the most vulnerable groups who face numerous employment obstacles, such as limited work experience, care obligations, low skills or health limitations. Not all...
Building low-carbon resilient electricity infrastructures with nuclear energy in the post-COVID-19 era
OECD
01 Jun 2020
During the COVID‑19 crisis, nuclear power has continued to generate electricity reliably and around the clock, ensuring the continuous resilient operation of critical services indispensable to cope with the global health crisis and maintain social...
Centres of government (CoGs) have played an important role in tackling the crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This paper discusses the high-level institutional arrangements put in place by governments to manage policy responses to...
Business dynamism during the COVID-19 pandemic: Which policies for an inclusive recovery?
OECD
18 Feb 2021
Firm entry has rebounded after the drop experienced during the first COVID-19 lockdowns of early 2020, yet the recovery in entry rates is highly heterogeneous across countries, with possible long-term implications for employment and output growth....
Although the number of COVID-19 cases and fatalities might still appear comparatively low in Africa than in other world regions, the looming health shock of COVID-19 could have disastrous impacts on the continent’s already strained health systems,...
COVID-19 and a new resilient infrastructure landscape
OECD
22 Feb 2021
With the pandemic as a backdrop, this note provides a selected, high-level picture of resilience in infrastructure. Dimensions of resilience are explored across the project life-cycle, from planning and designing, to construction, operations, and...
COVID-19 and fiscal relations across levels of government
OECD
31 Jul 2020
The focus of this brief is on the policy responses that governments can and are taking through the channel of inter-governmental relations to tackle the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.