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No. 11 | 08 Jan 2021 |
A comprehensive approach to understanding urban productivity effects of local governments
This paper advances our understanding of the spatial dimension of productivity by investigating the link between subnational governance arrangements and urban labour productivity. It presents a detailed study of the direct and indirect effects of... |
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No. 59 | 22 Nov 2023 |
A territorial approach to the Sustainable Development Goals in Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
The Autonomous Province of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, has embraced the 2030 Agenda through a sustainability pact including its sustainable development strategy "Everyday for Future". The strategy defines seven fields of action that were derived from the... |
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No. 16 | 29 Jun 2021 |
A territorial approach to the Sustainable Development Goals in Córdoba, Argentina
The province of Córdoba, Argentina, uses the SDGs as a framework to promote social inclusion and well-being. Providing affordable housing, addressing the gender gap in unemployment, reducing air pollution, and improving water quality are key... |
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No. 02 | 16 Nov 2020 |
A territorial approach to the Sustainable Development Goals in Flanders, Belgium
Global demographic, climate and digitalisation megatrends are transforming the policy environment in Flanders, Belgium. With strong economic performance, low unemployment and a well-educated population, Flanders is using the SDGs to respond to these... |
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No. 15 | 29 Jun 2021 |
A territorial approach to the Sustainable Development Goals in Kitakyushu, Japan
Over the past decades, the city Kitakyushu, located in the southwest of Japan, has transformed from a manufacturing hub into a city putting strong emphasis on sustainability. The city has developed an SDG-based vision, which outlines the city’s main... |
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No. 23 | 01 Dec 2021 |
A territorial approach to the Sustainable Development Goals in Moscow, Russian Federation
Although the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are not integrated explicitly into the main urban development plans of the city of Moscow, the local government has started using them as a checklist to assess the contribution of its sectoral... |
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No. 17 | 29 Jun 2021 |
A territorial approach to the Sustainable Development Goals in Paraná, Brazil
The state of Paraná, one of Brazil’s most populated and developed states, has been aligning its public policies with sustainable development since the 1990s. More recently, Paraná has used the SDGs as a tool and framework to reduce longstanding... |
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No. 40 | 23 Jan 2023 |
A territorial approach to the Sustainable Development Goals in Rhine-Neckar, Germany
To achieve its vision to become one of the most attractive and competitive regions in Europe by 2025, the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region put in place eleven fields of action that promote sustainability across policy areas, such as sustainable and... |
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No. 04 | 16 Nov 2020 |
A territorial approach to the Sustainable Development Goals in Southern Denmark, Denmark
The region of Southern Denmark shows strong performance towards attaining most of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and is expected to further increase its efforts through its regional development strategy Southern Denmark of the Future... |
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No. 03 | 16 Nov 2020 |
A territorial approach to the Sustainable Development Goals in Viken, Norway
Viken, Norway, was officially formed as a new county on 1 January 2020, merging the previous counties of Akershus, Buskerud and Østfold. The newly elected county government has endorsed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a holistic framework... |
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No. 63 | 08 Dec 2023 |
Advancing strategic priorities through the SDGs in Córdoba, Argentina
The Province of Córdoba in Argentina has adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a holistic framework to promote social inclusion and well-being, and to address its territorial development challenges in an integrated way. Building on the... |
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No. 25 | 02 Feb 2022 |
Allocation of competences in policy sectors key to migrant integration
A first step to implement effective migrant integration policies is to know who does what in policy sectors key to integration. Responding to this need, this paper offers policy makers a tool to understand the organisation of public action in key... |
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No. 47 | 04 May 2023 |
Assessing spatial disparities in Internet quality using speed tests
The quality of Internet connections is increasingly important for people’s daily lives as work and access to services move to the digital sphere. Likewise, businesses and public agencies need to rely more and more on the digital networks for service... |
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No. 10 | 15 Dec 2020 |
Asymmetric decentralisation
A growing number of countries in the OECD and beyond are moving toward asymmetric decentralisation, i.e. a differentiated assignment of competencies across subnational governments, for the same level of administration. While from the 1950s to the... |
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No. 56 | 30 Oct 2023 |
Building systemic climate resilience in cities
Climate shocks such as extreme floods and storms, droughts and heatwaves have complex, inter-connected and far-reaching consequences across multiple policy sectors and systems. Shocks in other systems, such as financial or health crises, can, in... |
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No. 14 | 11 Jun 2021 |
Building the STRING megaregion as a green hub in the wake of COVID-19
STRING is a political cross-border organisation spanning five cities (the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Copenhagen, Malmö, Gothenburg and Oslo) and eight regions (Schleswig-Holstein, Region of Southern Denmark, Region Zealand, Capital Region of... |
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No. 45 | 11 Apr 2023 |
Comparing access to urban parks across six OECD countries
This work leverages globally consistent data on parks from Google Maps, in combination with the computational power of Google Maps Directions API to quantify accessibility to parks across nearly 500 metropolitan areas in six countries: Estonia,... |
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No. 49 | 12 Jun 2023 |
Confronting the cost-of-living and housing crisis in cities
Cities across the world have been battling a housing crisis in recent decades, with many residents increasingly struggling to find affordable homes, and broader issues arising around tackling homelessness, improving housing quality, and harnessing... |
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No. 42 | 06 Apr 2023 |
Decarbonising homes in cities in the Netherlands
About 90% of homes in the Netherlands depending on natural gas for heating, the Netherlands has made a commitment to phase out natural gas by 2050. To achieve the goal, the Netherlands has rolled out a natural gas-free pilot programme in 66... |
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No. 46 | 20 Apr 2023 |
Decentralised development co-operation
Decentralised development cooperation (DDC), or partnerships for sustainable development between cities and regions in developed and developing countries, can help drive major global agendas forward. Achieving a sustainable, equitable and resilient... |
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A comprehensive approach to understanding urban productivity effects of local governments
Dylan Jong, Alexandra Tsvetkova, Alexander C. Lembcke and Rudiger Ahrend
08 Jan 2021
This paper advances our understanding of the spatial dimension of productivity by investigating the link between subnational governance arrangements and urban labour productivity. It presents a detailed study of the direct and indirect effects of...
A territorial approach to the Sustainable Development Goals in Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
OECD
22 Nov 2023
The Autonomous Province of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, has embraced the 2030 Agenda through a sustainability pact including its sustainable development strategy "Everyday for Future". The strategy defines seven fields of action that were derived from the...
The province of Córdoba, Argentina, uses the SDGs as a framework to promote social inclusion and well-being. Providing affordable housing, addressing the gender gap in unemployment, reducing air pollution, and improving water quality are key...
Global demographic, climate and digitalisation megatrends are transforming the policy environment in Flanders, Belgium. With strong economic performance, low unemployment and a well-educated population, Flanders is using the SDGs to respond to these...
Over the past decades, the city Kitakyushu, located in the southwest of Japan, has transformed from a manufacturing hub into a city putting strong emphasis on sustainability. The city has developed an SDG-based vision, which outlines the city’s main...
A territorial approach to the Sustainable Development Goals in Moscow, Russian Federation
OECD
01 Dec 2021
Although the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are not integrated explicitly into the main urban development plans of the city of Moscow, the local government has started using them as a checklist to assess the contribution of its sectoral...
The state of Paraná, one of Brazil’s most populated and developed states, has been aligning its public policies with sustainable development since the 1990s. More recently, Paraná has used the SDGs as a tool and framework to reduce longstanding...
A territorial approach to the Sustainable Development Goals in Rhine-Neckar, Germany
OECD
23 Jan 2023
To achieve its vision to become one of the most attractive and competitive regions in Europe by 2025, the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region put in place eleven fields of action that promote sustainability across policy areas, such as sustainable and...
A territorial approach to the Sustainable Development Goals in Southern Denmark, Denmark
OECD
16 Nov 2020
The region of Southern Denmark shows strong performance towards attaining most of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and is expected to further increase its efforts through its regional development strategy Southern Denmark of the Future...
Viken, Norway, was officially formed as a new county on 1 January 2020, merging the previous counties of Akershus, Buskerud and Østfold. The newly elected county government has endorsed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a holistic framework...
The Province of Córdoba in Argentina has adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a holistic framework to promote social inclusion and well-being, and to address its territorial development challenges in an integrated way. Building on the...
A first step to implement effective migrant integration policies is to know who does what in policy sectors key to integration. Responding to this need, this paper offers policy makers a tool to understand the organisation of public action in key...
Assessing spatial disparities in Internet quality using speed tests
Maria Paula Caldas, Paolo Veneri and Michelle Marshalian
04 May 2023
The quality of Internet connections is increasingly important for people’s daily lives as work and access to services move to the digital sphere. Likewise, businesses and public agencies need to rely more and more on the digital networks for service...
Asymmetric decentralisation
Dorothée Allain-Dupré, Isabelle Chatry and Antti Moisio
15 Dec 2020
A growing number of countries in the OECD and beyond are moving toward asymmetric decentralisation, i.e. a differentiated assignment of competencies across subnational governments, for the same level of administration. While from the 1950s to the...
Building systemic climate resilience in cities
Tadashi Matsumoto and Mateo Ledesma Bohorquez
30 Oct 2023
Climate shocks such as extreme floods and storms, droughts and heatwaves have complex, inter-connected and far-reaching consequences across multiple policy sectors and systems. Shocks in other systems, such as financial or health crises, can, in...
STRING is a political cross-border organisation spanning five cities (the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Copenhagen, Malmö, Gothenburg and Oslo) and eight regions (Schleswig-Holstein, Region of Southern Denmark, Region Zealand, Capital Region of...
Comparing access to urban parks across six OECD countries
Talia Kaufmann, Swapnil Vispute, Mansi Kansal, Daniel T. O'Brien, Tomer Shekel, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Gregory A. Wellenius, Lewis Dijkstra and Paolo Veneri
11 Apr 2023
This work leverages globally consistent data on parks from Google Maps, in combination with the computational power of Google Maps Directions API to quantify accessibility to parks across nearly 500 metropolitan areas in six countries: Estonia,...
Confronting the cost-of-living and housing crisis in cities
OECD
12 Jun 2023
Cities across the world have been battling a housing crisis in recent decades, with many residents increasingly struggling to find affordable homes, and broader issues arising around tackling homelessness, improving housing quality, and harnessing...
Decarbonising homes in cities in the Netherlands
OECD
06 Apr 2023
About 90% of homes in the Netherlands depending on natural gas for heating, the Netherlands has made a commitment to phase out natural gas by 2050. To achieve the goal, the Netherlands has rolled out a natural gas-free pilot programme in 66...
Decentralised development co-operation
OECD
20 Apr 2023
Decentralised development cooperation (DDC), or partnerships for sustainable development between cities and regions in developed and developing countries, can help drive major global agendas forward. Achieving a sustainable, equitable and resilient...