NEW BRIEFS PUBLISHED:
Business and key economic sectors
- The impact of COVID-19 on agricultural markets and GHG emissions: describes how the economic shock from the pandemic could reverberate through the agriculture sector over the next decade.
- Insolvency and debt overhang following the COVID-19 outbreak: assessment of risks and policy responses: investigates the likelihood of corporate insolvency and the potential implications of debt overhang of non-financial corporations associated with the COVID-19 outbreak.
Digitalisation and innovation
- Innovation, development and COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities and ways forward: describes how the economic shock from the pandemic could reverberate through the agriculture sector over the next decade.
Education and skills
- The impact of COVID-19 on student equity and inclusion: supporting vulnerable students during school closures and school re-openings: discusses key digital security policy issues that have emerged during the COVID-19 crisis and distils lessons for organisations and policy makers.
Employment and labour markets
- COVID-19 and key workers: What role do migrants play in your region?: provides an assessment of the role of foreign-born workers in essential services (referred to as migrant key workers) at regional level for 31 European countries.
Fiscal and monetary policies
- Government financial management and reporting in times of crisis: provides an overview of how OECD countries’ financial management and reporting systems have coped and adapted to the demands and pressures brought about by the crisis.
- Guidance on the transfer pricing implications of the COVID-19 pandemic: clarifies and illustrates the practical application of the arm’s length principle as articulated in the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines to the unique fact patterns and specific challenges implied by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Governance
- Building a coherent response fora sustainable post-COVID-19 recovery: presents a policy coherence roadmap to support governments in ensuring a sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 crisis that does not come at the expense of progress towards the SDGs.
Resilient healthcare
- Testing for COVID-19: How to best use the various tests?: provides an update to an earlier OECD brief on such strategies in the light of recent developments in testing technologies, and examines the role of rapid antigen tests which can be combined with different technologies to offer a cheaper, simple-to-use and point-of-care complement to molecular tests.
Trade and supply chains
- Getting goods across borders in times of COVID-19:describes the insights into the evolution of new border protocols and trade facilitation measures impacting traders since COVID-19 and exploring what more can be done to prepare for the next stages of the pandemic as uncertainty persists.
BRIEFS CURRENTLY UNDER PREPARATION:
Inequalities and social challenges
- Securing the Recovery, Ambition, and Resilience for the Well-being of Children in the post-COVID-19 Decade
Trade and supply chains
- COVID-19, international mobility and trade in services: The road to recovery
- Global Value Chains: Efficiency and Risks in the Context of COVID-19
WHAT’S NEXT?
December
- Report: Development Co-operation Report 2020: Learning from Crises, Building Resilience (22 December)
January
- Data: Consumer price index (7 January)
- Report: Making Better Policies for Food Systems (11 January)
- Report: Science, Technology and Innovation Outlook 2021 (12 January)
- Data: Unemployment Rates (13 January)
- Report: OECD Economic Surveys: Turkey (TBC 14 January)
- Data: Composite leading indicators (14 January)
- Report: Perspectives on Global Development (TBC 15 January)
- Data: Employment statistics (18 January)
- Report: Africa’s Development Dynamics 2021 (19 January)
- Internal meeting: OECD Council on Communications (21 January)
- Virtual event: The role of Responsible Business Conduct in building resilience (21 January)
- Report: Southeast Asian Economic Outlook (25 January)
- Report: Global State of National Urban Policy (29 January)
Visit the OECD digital hub to discover new highlights and other useful resources on OECD’s response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis