Education and skills
- Strengthening online learning when schools are closed: The role of families and teachers in supporting students during the COVID-19 crisis: examines the role of students’ attitudes towards learning in maximising the potential of online schooling when regular face-to-face instruction cannot take place.
Environment and climate
- Biodiversity and the economic response to COVID-19: Ensuring a green and resilient recovery: 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.
- Making the green recovery work for jobs, income and growth: focuses on how countries can create opportunities for a green and inclusive economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and undertakes a preliminary review of announced recovery and stimulus policies in OECD and Key Partner countries.
Employment and labour markets
- What have platforms done to protect workers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis?: examines the measures taken by platform companies to protect the health and the incomes of workers using their platforms during the pandemic, and captures the views of the platform workers regarding the adequacy of these measures.
Governance
- Removing administrative barriers, improving regulatory delivery: analyses how countries can achieve more effective, timely and sustainable responses to the COVID-19 crisis by taking into account regulatory barriers and compliance issues.
- Access to justice and the COVID-19 pandemic: 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.
Inequalities and social challenges
- Response, recovery and prevention in the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in developing countries: Women and girls on the frontlines: focuses on how to ensure that a gender lens is well-integrated through response, recovery, and prevention efforts to COVID-19 in development co-operation.
International co-operation and development
Impact of the COVID-19 and the global oil price shock on oil-exporting developing countries: describes the impact of COVID-19 and the oil price shock on oil-exporting developing countries and calls for a need of a timely and coherent response to create fiscal space to reduce the risks of unsustainable debt, corruption and illicit financial flows and catalyse a transition to a cleaner and more sustainable future.
BRIEFS CURRENTLY UNDER PREPARATION
Inequalities and social challenges
- How does COVID-19 impact on immigrants and their children?
- Towards gender-sensitive and inclusive recovery: Leveraging the role of the state
Business and key economic sectors
- Enterprise policy responses to COVID-19 in ASEAN: Measures to boost MSME resilience
- COVID-19 and the aviation industry
Governance
- The role of transparency in avoiding a COVID-19 induced food crisis
- Regulatory quality and COVID-19: The use of regulatory management tools in a time of crisis
Trade and supply chains
- E-Commerce in times of COVID-19
WHAT’S NEXT?
October
- Report: International Migration Outlook 2020 (date tbc)
- G20 Tourism Ministers meeting (7 October) & joint OECD-UNWTO op-ed
- Virtual Event: Forum on Green Finance and Investment (6-9 October)
- Virtual Event: NAEC Confronting Planetary Emergencies (9 October)
- Virtual Event: Skills Summit 2020: Skills Strategies for a World Recovery (9 October)
- Report to the G20 on new version of the two tax policy blueprints on Pillar I and Pillar II (12 October)
- Report: Global Deal Flagship report on social dialogue, skills and lifelong learning (20 October)
- Report: PISA VI: Are students ready to thrive in an interconnected world (22 October)
- MCM virtual event: “The Path to Recovery: Strong, Resilient, Green and Inclusive” (28-29 October)
November
- OECD Forum virtual event and GPN group on AI (tbc)
- Report: OECD Economic Surveys: Lithuania 2020 (16 November)
- Report: Science, Technology & Innovation Outlook 2020 (20 November)
- Report: Health at a Glance: Europe 2020 (24 November)
- OECD Forum virtual event: International co-operation & health (tbc)
Report: Digital Economy Outlook (27 November)
- Report: Health at a Glance: Asia Pacific (27 November)
December
- OECD Economic Outlook (tbc)
- Employment at a Glance (tbc)
- OECD Pensions Outlook 2020 (7 December)
- 60th anniversary of the signature of the OECD Convention (14 December)
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