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The OECD Observer online archive takes you on a journey through half a century of public policy and world progress.
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Each edition of the OECD Observer reports on a core theme of the OECD’s on-going work, from economics and society through governance, finance, and the environment, and articles are bolstered by tables and graphs.
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Volume 2018
Towards sustained progress in global healthcare
Jeremy Hunt
03 Jan 2018
The PaRIS initiative: Helping healthcare policies to do better for patients
Stefano Scarpetta
03 Jan 2018
Can healthcare policy and technology heal rural-urban divides?
Rory Clarke and Claire MacDonald
03 Jan 2018
Halving road deaths by 2020: A global health priority
Michael of Kent
03 Jan 2018
Can more social spending curb emigration?
OECD
03 Jan 2018
The race for excellence in scientific publishing
OECD
03 Jan 2018
Addressing high costs of specialty drugs
OECD
03 Jan 2018
Our health systems must put people at the centre
Angel Gurría
03 Jan 2018
Healthcare: Pouring a little cold water on crowdfunding
Claire MacDonald
03 Jan 2018
Our patients have changed, our healthcare must now follow
OECD
03 Jan 2018
The healing power of information technology
OECD
03 Jan 2018
Why patient-centred approaches are important
OECD
03 Jan 2018
An agenda for robust healthcare
Xavier Prats-Monné
04 Jan 2018
Healthcare systems: Tackling waste to boost resources
Francesca Colombo
04 Jan 2018
Inequality: Can Sweden reconquer utopia?
Jon Pareliussen
04 Jan 2018
Driverless trucks: Taking hold of the wheel
OECD
05 Jan 2018
Priming up for primary school
Andreas Schleicher
05 Jan 2018
We must tackle the growing burden of obesity
Francesca Colombo
05 Jan 2018
International co-operation is more important than ever
Angel Gurría
05 Jan 2018
Governing data for better health and healthcare
Jillian Oderkirk and Elettra Ronchi
05 Jan 2018
Casting light on dementia’s shadow
Tim Muir
10 Jan 2018
Patient-centred policies must be centred on healthcare workers too
Jocelyne Cabanal
10 Jan 2018
Tax crimes: The fight goes digital
Melissa Dejong
18 Jan 2018
Opening a new chapter in the infrastructure of Latin America
Juan Pablo Bonilla
18 Jan 2018
Globalisation: Time to level the playing field
Adrian Blundell-Wignall
18 Jan 2018
Why it pays for cities to fight road deaths–and how they can get better at it
Alexandre Santacreu
18 Jan 2018
Will your job be automated?
OECD
18 Jan 2018
Africa’s school progress
OECD
18 Jan 2018
Is there still time to save our trust in government?
Bill Below
23 Jan 2018
Radical innovation in the electricity sector
Chris Pike
23 Jan 2018
Beer, conflict and compensation: Heineken-Congo agreement
Roel Nieuwenkamp
25 Jan 2018
Abolish modern slavery!
Gabriela Ramos
25 Jan 2018
Financial regulation after the crisis: Still liberal, but…
Oliver Denk and Gabriel Gomes
25 Jan 2018
Mexico telecom reform: Into the “last mile”
Verena Weber
26 Jan 2018
Tourism trends: Where to next?
OECD
28 Jan 2018
Taxing wages: How taxes affect the disposable income of workers and wage costs of employers in OECD countries
Dominique Paturot
29 Jan 2018
Rain or shine, Asia needs a better umbrella of social protection
Alastair Wood and Willem Adema
29 Jan 2018
Globalisation: Don’t patch it up, shake it up
Angel Gurría
29 Jan 2018
OECD Observer Roundtable on small and medium-sized enterprises
OECD
08 Feb 2018
SMEs are key for more inclusive growth
Angel Gurría
08 Feb 2018
Better policies for SMEs to scale up and go global
Lamia Kamal-Chaoui
08 Feb 2018
Improving life in France’s lower-income neighbourhoods
Nicola Brandt
19 Jun 2018
Migration: What we think we want
OECD
06 Mar 2018
HRH Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands: "An interactive dialogue with children: A new perspective on inclusive growth"
OECD
08 Mar 2018
Creative multilateralism: Stronger collaboration for all
OECD
28 Mar 2018
The cost of catastrophe: Why putting a price-tag on disaster is our best protection
Catherine Gamper
08 Apr 2018
Corruption on show
Balázs Gyimesi
08 Apr 2018
Tackling corruption through taxation: The power of co-operation
Anne-Lise Prigent
08 Apr 2018
What brings us together?
Angel Gurría
08 Apr 2018
Ian Goldin: “Renaissance 2.0: Globalisation, disruption and policy”
OECD
08 May 2018
Infrastructure: We must find alternatives to state funding
Ibrahim Mayaki
08 May 2018
Better prospects for indigenous students
OECD
28 May 2018
International co-operation is the surest means of building better policies for better lives
Angel Gurría
06 Jun 2018
Dealing with dementia
Balázs Gyimesi
08 Jun 2018
…And worst case trade scenario
Clara Young
08 Jun 2018
A best case trade scenario…
Clara Young
08 Jun 2018
Evidence, persuasion and power: Diplomats in international organisations
Aleksander Surdej
18 Jun 2018
People, trust and government: Getting the measure
Lara Fleischer
18 Jun 2018
Rising sea levels: Will we adapt or drown?
Lisa Danielson and Michael Mullan
18 Jun 2018
Paradise lost: The imminent fall of tax havens
Clara Young
19 Jun 2018
Can women win on the obstacle course of business finance?
Clara Young
19 Jun 2018
Who really pays for protectionism?
OECD
20 Jun 2018
“Oceanfills”: Yet another dumping ground
Dulika Rathnayake
21 Jun 2018
Men are from Mars; women are poorly paid
Clara Young
21 Jun 2018
Rice and risks in the Mekong Delta
Robert Akam and Guillaume Gruere
21 Jun 2018
Water and climate: From risk management to investment opportunity
Xavier Leflaive and Kathleen Dominique
21 Jun 2018
Eurasia: Investing for the future
Andreas Schaal
22 Jun 2018
Climate action: Time for implementation
Angel Gurría
22 Jun 2018
What is a systems approach?
Daniel Catalan
22 Jun 2018
OECD Observer Roundtable: Making our climate objectives work
OECD
22 Jun 2018
The annual Forum of the OECD Centre on Green Finance and Investment brings together leading actors in the green finance and investment community. This includes institutional investors, asset managers, ministries of finance and central banks,...
The policy challenge: Catalyse the private sector for stronger and more inclusive growth
Catherine L. Mann
22 Jun 2018
The long flight towards clean aviation
Vincent Benezech
25 Jun 2018
Development: Some facts Hans Rosling taught us
Charlotte Petri Gornitzka
25 Jun 2018
Carbon prices are still far too low to prevent climate change
Kurt van Dender
25 Jun 2018
Blending finance for climate and poverty
Naeeda Crishna Morgado and Jens Sedemund
25 Jun 2018
Ending poverty and combating climate change: two years after the adoption of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement, these interrelated challenges remain as daunting as ever, not least in developing countries. The...
Tracking climate finance: Progress and challenges
Nicolina Lamhauge and Raphaël Jachnik
25 Jun 2018
At the 2009 United Nations Framework Convention on climate Change (UNFCCC), developed countries committed to mobilising US$100 billion each year for climate action in developing countries by 2020. As negotiations on a new climate agreement...
Simpler, clearer, faster, easier: Lower trade costs by cutting red tape
Clara Young
08 Jul 2018
Sharing and caring for French
Anne-Lise Prigent
10 Jul 2018
Here to stay: ASEAN and the OECD
Noriaki Abe
10 Jul 2018
World Cups and Olympic Games: How to stop three weeks of fete from turning into 30 years of debt
Peter Berlin
10 Jul 2018
Sveikiname Lietuvą!
Balázs Gyimesi
10 Jul 2018
Building a new world for the 21st century... together
Anne-Lise Prigent
13 Jul 2018
Bringing many minds to challenges of the crisis: 10 years, 10 stories
OECD
08 Sept 2018
OECD Observer Roundtable on local firms and automation
OECD
08 Sept 2018
Bubbles in our future? Certainly!
Donald Johnston
08 Sept 2018
Small island, big threats
Balázs Gyimesi
08 Sept 2018
Nudging us forward
Gabriella Elanbeck
09 Sept 2018
What hope for peace in Mali?
Julia Wanjiru
10 Sept 2018
How responsible is H&M’s supply chain?
OECD
18 Sept 2018
Migration: old phenomenon, new policies
OECD
08 Oct 2018
Protecting our water
OECD
08 Oct 2018
OECD Observer Roundtable on regional integration in Africa
OECD
08 Oct 2018
OECD Observer Roundtable on culture and local development
OECD
08 Oct 2018
It’s time to foster Africa’s science revolution
Thierry Zomahoun
23 Oct 2018
No longer burning down the house
Lyndon Thompson
05 Nov 2018
No more "9 to 5"
Balázs Gyimesi
08 Nov 2018
A history of Egypt's social spring
Anne-Lise Prigent
21 Nov 2018
Will the inflation genie stay in the bottle?
Dan Andrews
03 Dec 2018
Cool generation
Rory Clarke
05 Dec 2018
Taxes for development
Balázs Gyimesi
08 Dec 2018
The EU and the OECD: How a closer relationship could be a winner
Philip Pierros
08 Dec 2018
Trappes: A visit to the heart of a community
Ileana Epsztajn
20 Dec 2018