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Global economy faces a tightrope walk to recovery
The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered the most severe recession in nearly a century and is causing enormous damage to people’s health, jobs and well-being,...
Tax and fiscal policies central to governments’ responses to Covid-19 crisis
With global economic activity facing a historic drop and government spending rising dramatically, the implications of the Covid-19 crisis on public finances and tax...
Global OECD welcomes Colombia as its 37th Member
Today Colombia has formally become an OECD Member, the 37th country to do so in the Organisation’s near 60-year history.
Colombia has now completed its...
Covid-19 crisis underscores need to address trade in fake pharmaceuticals
Recent seizures of fake medical supplies being marketed as protection against Covid-19 underscore the need to address a growing international trade in counterfeit pharmaceuticals...
OECD updates G20 summit on outlook for global economy
Efforts to contain virus and
save lives should be intensified, and governments should plan stronger, more
coordinated measures to absorb growing economic blow
Increasingly
stringent containment measures...
OECD Secretary-General: Coronavirus “war” demands joint action
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría called today for sweeping joint action
by governments to defeat the health, economic, and social threats of the
coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. In...
Global economy faces gravest threat since the crisis as coronavirus spreads
The coronavirus Covid-19 presents the global economy with its greatest danger since the financial crisis, according to the OECD’s latest Interim Economic Outlook.
Covid-19 is...
New systemic approach needed to tackle global challenges
The impacts of the coronavirus on people’s health and daily life, stock
markets, and businesses illustrate the increasingly interconnected nature of
the challenges facing governments around...
Ireland: Prepare now for rising fiscal pressures, external risks
Ireland needs to prepare itself to meet rising pressures on public
finances from an ageing population and significant external risks such as new
EU-UK trade barriers...
World Economic Forum and OECD Sign Strategic Partnership Framework
The World Economic Forum and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development signed today a Strategic Partnership Framework to deepen
institutional engagement and jointly accelerate inclusive...