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OECD's Journal on financial markets. In addition to the usuual survery of recent developments, this issue includes chapters on shareholder value and the market in corporate control and on the new banking landscape in Central and Eastern Europe.

OECD's journal on international financial markets. In addition to it's assessment of recent developments, this issue includes article on ageing populations, trends in FDI, the development of securities markets in transition economies, and structural and regulatory developments.

OECD's journal on international financial markets. This issue includes articles on recent developments, structural and regulatory developments, financial market implications of ageing populations, financial security of private pension systems, development of capital markets in Asia, and FDI.

OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to the analysis of recent trends, this issue includes articles on challenges for the euro area, reforming the Korean banking system, shrinking a government bond market, and privatisation trends.

OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to the report on recent developments in financial markets, this issue includes articles on highly leveraged investors, corporate governance, interest rate swaps and debt management in Denmark, and more.

OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to its regular assessment of recent development, this issue includes articles on securitisation, fixed-income securities markets, international insurance operations, tax distortions to cross-border portfolio investment, and more.

OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to the analysis of recent developments, this issue includes a feature on government debt management and articles on trade in financial services, regulation of investments by insurance companies and pension funds, mergers and acquisitions and more.

OECD's journal on financial markets. This issue featues articles on recent trends in financial markets, privatisation trends, international financial contagion, and main changes in the financial structure of the Euro Zone. It also features institutional investors and insurance data.

OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to the usual assessment of recent trends, this issue includes a special focus on Offshore Financial Practices, Non-Co-operative Jurisdictions and Harmful Tax Practices as well as an article on FDI in China.

OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to reviewing recent trends, this issue includes articles on prospects for national capital markets, government systems for collective investment schemes, moral hazard, and new financial statistics.

OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to rerporting on recent trends, this issue includes articles on the contribution of the financial sector to sustainable development, private occupational pension schemes, investment in Russia, recent privatisation trends and insurance statistics.

OECD's journal on financial markets. This issue focuses on institutional investors but also has articles on pension systems and portfolio regulation of life insurance.

OECD governments pay out around USD 6 billion a year to support the fisheries sector. Some of this expenditure is provided to help ensure the effective management of fisheries through the provision of research, administrative and enforcement services. However, its effects on economic profitability and resource sustainability are open to debate. Such support has often been linked to over-fishing and over-capitalisation, and its reform may lead to improved economic, environmental and social outcomes. This report analyses the impacts of such transfers from a sustainable development perspective by addressing the economic, environmental and social dimensions of financial transfers. Through this innovative focus, this study will deepen policy makers’ understanding of the complex issues at play in the fisheries sector — a sector that is characterised by ongoing concerns regarding economic profitability, community resilience, and resource sustainability.

The European Commission and the OECD International Network on Financial Education (OECD-INFE) have released the joint EU/OECD-INFE financial competence framework for adults. The framework promotes a shared understanding of the financial competences adults need to make sound decisions on personal finance. It supports public policies, financial literacy programmes and educational materials to be developed by EU Member States, educational institutions, industry and individuals. It also supports the exchange of good practices by policy makers and stakeholders within the EU.

The framework provides a set of outcome-based competences in financial literacy that children and youth in the EU need in order to make sound decisions on personal finance. The joint framework covers competences into the four main content areas of financial literacy: money and transactions, planning and managing finances, risks and reward, and the financial landscape. Within these areas, the joint framework describes the types of knowledge that children and youth at different ages could benefit from, the behaviours that may help them to achieve financial well-being throughout their lives, as well as the attitudes that will support this process. Moreover, the framework integrates competences on the following cross-cutting dimensions: digital finance, sustainable finance, citizenship, entrepreneurship as well as competences relevant when becoming an adult.

This paper describes and provides guidance on policy and practice relating to financial education for MSMEs and potential entrepreneurs in Asia, with a particular focus on Indonesia.

The accelerating threat of climate change raises the urgency of commitment to climate transition, including the important role of global financial markets to align investment with net zero. Financial markets and climate transition focuses on the critical contribution financial markets must play towards achieving an orderly transition to low-carbon economies, and the policies needed to support this. It explores the key elements that could factor into market pricing of climate transition risks and opportunities, offers frameworks and case studies, reviews the growing range of market products and practices and puts forward policy options that can support this transition.

Technology and digitalisation have been transforming the way in which the financial sector is operating over the past years. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the development of digital technologies in all sectors, in particular in finance, as both households and firms have ncreasingly relied on digital as opposed to physical services. This publication contributes to the OECD Going Digital project, which provides policy makers with tools to help economies and societies prosper in an increasingly digital and data-driven world.

By 2050, the global population living in cities is projected to reach 5 billion, growing from 3.5 billion in 2015. Massive investment in infrastructure will be needed to accommodate this growth, and to adapt infrastructure to climate change and benefit from the digital transition. This report explores three ways to meet this challenge. Firstly, it outlines how new forms of urban planning can help to mobilise private finance for inclusive, resilient and sustainable urban investment. Secondly, it explores how leveraging private investment can help to strengthen cities capacity to support needed investment in a tighter fiscal environment. Finally, it considers the potential opportunities and challenges for mobilising sustainable finance – green, social and sustainable bonds and loans, sustainability-linked bonds and catastrophe bonds – for infrastructure investment by City Governments. The report also includes 17 short case studies from 12 countries that demonstrate innovative practices for creating the Cities of Tomorrow.