NEW BRIEFS PUBLISHED (from 22.03.-25.04.2021)
Business and key economic sectors
- One year of SME and entrepreneurship policy responses to COVID-19: Lessons learned to “build back better” : provides an analysis of the diverse range of SME and entrepreneurship policy measures implemented during the course of a year since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, with a view to identify lessons learned and implications for policy going forward, and assist governments build evidence-based policies to support SME recovery and resilience.
Environment and climate
- The OECD Green Recovery Database : Examining the environmental implications of COVID-19 recovery policies: the OECD has developed a Green Recovery Database that tracks COVID-19 recovery measures with likely environmental implications, positively or negatively, across 43 countries, this brief analyses these results and provides policy steps governments can take to ensure that recovery packages are better aligned with environmental goals.
Employment and labour markets
- Adult Learning and COVID-19: How much informal and non-formal learning are workers missing?: aims to quantify the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the ability of workers to participate in informal and non-formal learning activities, using different scenarios developed by the OECD to assess the impact of the coronavirus on economic activity. It also discusses the channels through which such reduction in on-the-job learning opportunities can negatively affect individuals and the economy in addition to the direct disruption they have on economic activity.
- An assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on job and skills demand using online job vacancy data: 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 showing an aggregate affect and that the crisis affected individuals with different levels of educational qualifications differently and that such effect differed across the countries analysed.
Fiscal and monetary policies
- Tax Administration: Digital Resilience in the COVID-19 Environment: provides a status and pulse check on the impact of the digitalisation of tax administration in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis, with a particular focus on taxpayer services, compliance risk management, remote working, IT systems and providing support for wider government.
Trade and supply chains
- Trade finance in the COVID era: Current and future challenges: uses OECD surveys and other related indicators to attempt to identify emerging trends, these indicators suggest that ST trade finance is facing access problems while MLT trade finance appears to be relatively resilient.
BRIEFS CURRENTLY UNDER PREPARATION
Governance
- Enhancing public trust in COVID-19 vaccination
- Risks that Matter 2020: The long reach of COVID-19
inequalities and social challenges
- Towards gender-inclusive recovery
WHAT’S NEXT?
- Building a Gender-Equal Recovery, Forum virtual event [28 April]
- A Systemic Recovery, virtual meeting [28 April]
- Fifty Years of Chemical Safety at the OECD [28 April]
- Taxing Wages 2021 [29 April]
- Environmental Review: Ireland 2021 [29 April]
- Preventing Harmful Alcohol Use [30 April]
- Economic Survey: Spain 2021 [30 April]