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Media Advisory – Tax Inspectors Without Borders to release its 2021 Annual Report on Tuesday, 9 November during a high-level ministerial event

Media Advisory – Tax Inspectors Without Borders to release its 2021 Annual Report on Tuesday, 9 November during a high-level ministerial event

  02/11/2021 – Ensuring that multinational enterprises pay their fair share of tax is a growing concern worldwide.  Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB) – a joint initiative of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development…

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Governments need to address inevitable risks of losses and damages from climate change, says OECD

Governments need to address inevitable risks of losses and damages from climate change, says OECD

  01/11/2021 – As governments face the challenge of delivering on their net-zero by 2050 commitments, a new OECD report says they must focus in parallel on reducing and managing the inevitable risk of further…

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COVID hit to migration levels – Recovery efforts must address structural obstacles to migrant integration

COVID hit to migration levels – Recovery efforts must address structural obstacles to migrant integration

  28/10/2021 – Migration flows to OECD countries declined significantly, with much of the progress in migrant integration achieved over the past decade wiped out in just one year in the wake of the COVID-19…

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Well-being weakened in Latin America as pandemic hits, data show

Well-being weakened in Latin America as pandemic hits, data show

  28/10/2021 – The COVID-19 pandemic risks reversing many of the improvements in people’s well-being achieved over the past two decades in Latin America, as well as deepening existing challenges, according to a new OECD…

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OECD Development Assistance Committee commits to align development co-operation with the goals of the Paris Agreement

OECD Development Assistance Committee commits to align development co-operation with the goals of the Paris Agreement

  27/10/2021 – Members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) today issued a joint Declaration ahead of COP26 committing to align official development assistance (ODA), which totalled USD 161 billion in 2020, with the…

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Employment situation, OECD, second quarter 2021

Employment situation, OECD, second quarter 2021

  The employment rate in the OECD area rose to 67.4% in the second quarter of 2021    Download the entire news release (graphs and tables included PDF) 21 Oct 2021 – The employment rate,…

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Bulgaria should step up efforts to detect and enforce its foreign bribery offences, says OECD

Bulgaria should step up efforts to detect and enforce its foreign bribery offences, says OECD

  22/10/2021 – Detection, enforcement and awareness raising of foreign bribery are severely lacking in Bulgaria and need to be significantly improved. Extensive changes to the legislation concerning the liability of legal persons are also…

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Agreement reached at OECD to end export credit support for unabated coal-fired power plants

Agreement reached at OECD to end export credit support for unabated coal-fired power plants

  22/10/2021 – In support of efforts to address climate change and in the context of the approaching COP26, the Participants to the OECD Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits have agreed to end support…

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OECD appoints Yoshiki Takeuchi as new Deputy Secretary-General

OECD appoints Yoshiki Takeuchi as new Deputy Secretary-General

  15/09/2021 – Yoshiki Takeuchi has been appointed as a new Deputy Secretary-General at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development replacing outgoing Deputy Secretary-General Masamichi Kono. Mr Takeuchi, a Japanese national, is currently serving…

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Boost education investment to tackle inequality of opportunity, says OECD

Boost education investment to tackle inequality of opportunity, says OECD

  16/09/2021 – Governments should boost their investment in education in order to tackle the sources of inequality of opportunity. This would help create a more level playing field for people of all ages to…

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