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Health systems continue to adapt to cope with the COVID‑19 pandemic. Much focus has been placed on the scaling-up of … hospital capacities. However, the pandemic is also deeply affecting the health of many people who are not infected by the virus …-designed incentives – helps deliver a successful health system response. The innovations introduced in response to the pandemic need to be …
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Health systems are facing the most serious global pandemic crisis in a century. The main focus of this brief is on the … policies aimed at providing effective care and managing the pressure on health systems. …
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Pandemic preparedness and response are quintessential “global public goods”: unless the new coronavirus is controlled … everywhere, the risk of pandemic resurgence remains. This paper presents the key role of development finance in helping … developing countries’ health systems prepare and respond to outbreaks. Yet, the global architecture is proving insufficient – and …
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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic highlights the need for a comprehensive and integrated approach to human health …. Enhancing environmental health through better air quality, water and sanitation, waste management, along with efforts to …
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This policy brief documents how bi- and tri-partite social dialogue at different levels, including collective bargaining, is shaping and implementing measures that support a job-rich recovery – both by assisting workers in moving from declining to expanding job sectors in response to...
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pre-pandemic levels, trade impacts across specific goods, services and trade partners are highly diverse, creating … pressures on specific sectors and supply chains. The changes in the trade structure caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in a single …
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While the COVID‑19 crisis had a disproportionate impact on immigrants during the first months of the pandemic, the … published after the first wave (OECD, 2020), this policy brief provides new evidence on the impact of the pandemic on immigrant … integration in terms of health, labour market outcomes and training, as OECD countries start to recover from the crisis. …
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The urgency of tackling COVID-19 has led governments in many countries to launch a number of short-notice and fast-tracked initiatives (e.g. calls for research proposals). Without proper co-ordination amongst ministries and agencies, they run the risk of duplicating efforts or missing...
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The Covid-19 emergency will affect the lives of many people around the globe. Its potential duration, combined with the impact on tax administration staff and taxpayers will bring unique challenges in managing the many different elements involved in ensuring continuity of critical activities and...
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pandemic and this situation continues in 2021. This note revisits the guidance issued by the OECD Secretariat in April 2020 on … the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tax treaties. The guidance represents the Secretariat’s views, supported by Working …
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