Delivering Quality Education and Health Care to All
Preparing Regions for Demographic ChangeThis report examines the nuances specific to the delivery of education and health care to people everywhere, offering recommendations on how to better adapt provision to the realities of today and the emerging realities of tomorrow to face the challenges of distance, demographic change and fiscal belt-tightening. The report also examines digital connectivity issues in rural and remote regions, recognising the significant scope for digital delivery of services to mitigate challenges related to distance. Finally, the report looks at governance issues, including fiscal issues, through which the delivery of these critical services is administered and paid for.
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Effective Carbon Rates 2021
Pricing Carbon Emissions through Taxes and Emissions TradingThis report measures the pricing of CO2-emissions from energy use in 44 OECD and G20 countries, covering around 80% of world emissions. The analysis takes a comprehensive view of carbon prices, including fuel excise taxes, carbon taxes and tradable emission permit prices.
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OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Outlook 2021
Times of Crisis and OpportunityThe fully revamped and re-titled OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Outlook is a biennial publication that aims to inform policy makers and analysts on recent and future changes in global science, technology and innovation (STI) patterns and their potential implications on and for national and international STI policies. The report provides comparative analysis of new policies and instruments being used in OECD countries and in a number of major emerging economies (including Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, the Russian Federation and South Africa) to boost the contribution of science and innovation to growth and to global and social challenges.
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Measuring What Matters for Child Well-being and PoliciesMeasuring What Matters for Child Well-being and Policies lays the groundwork for improved child well-being measurement and better data to inform better child well-being policies. It outlines an "aspirational" framework for child well-being measurement, setting out which aspects of children's lives should be measured, and how, to better monitor child well-being. It also outlines priorities for child data development and identifies key data gaps, all with the aim of motivating improvements in child data infrastructures.
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OECD Digital Education Outlook 2021
Pushing the Frontiers with Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and RobotsHow might digital technology and notably smart technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI), learning analytics, robotics, and others transform education? This book explores such question. It focuses on how smart technologies currently change education in the classroom and the management of educational organisations and systems.
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Implications of Remote Working Adoption on Place Based Policies
A Focus on G7 CountriesThis report proposes a number of policy takeaways to guide short and long-term policy making to better prepare regions for what may be a 'new normal'. The report relies on real-time subnational data to analyse changes in people's mobility patterns and the determinants of remote working adoption across types of workers and regions.
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Assessing the Economic Impacts of Environmental Policies
Evidence from a Decade of OECD ResearchOver the past decades, governments have gradually adopted more rigorous environmental policies to tackle challenges associated with pressing environmental issues, such as climate change. The ambition of these policies is, however, often tempered by their perceived negative effects on the economy.
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Brick by Brick
Building Better Housing PoliciesThe report brings together evidence, international experience and policy insights for the design of housing policies. Emphasis is placed on three broad aspects: inclusiveness, efficiency and sustainability. Inclusive access to housing has become increasingly challenging in many OECD countries due to a large extent to rising housing costs, which reflects the failure of housing supply to meet demand, particularly in jobs-rich urban areas.
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