This document presents the final report of the OECD survey to collect information on member countries’ data requirements for persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic (PBT) pesticides and approaches to assessing such pesticides. The purpose of the survey was to provide a clear understanding of...

This study reviews the status of existing surveys that measure health professional skills, and identifies gaps where more attention and resources will be needed to generate policy-relevant evidence on skills requirements, skills use and skills mismatch in healthcare settings.

The report welcomes the governement’s engagement to increase the health budget until 2030, and the implementation of the National platform for health financing co-ordination. Increasing the health budget will not be possible without an extensive tax reform, to be implemented gradually, that...

The Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan reviews the legal and institutional frameworks for fighting corruption, makes recommendations and monitors progress in implementing the recommendations. This report contains the results of round 3 monitoring in Kyrgyzstan.

Georgia has achieved remarkable progress in fighting corruption over the past decade. This success was largely due to strong law-enforcement and administrative simplifications that eliminated petty corruption in the public administration. Now that these 'low-hanging' fruits have been picked,...

Today’s geopolitical landscape urgently requires new strategies to overcome the current polycrisis context and live up to the promise of attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The interconnected challenges of recent years – from the worsening impacts of climate change to ongoing...

This report analyses the emergence and potential of ICOs as a financing mechanism for start-ups and SMEs, examines the benefits and challenges of this mechanism for small businesses and investors, and discusses the policy implications of ICO activity for the inclusive financing of SMEs and the...

Financial literacy has become a key life skill for individuals as well as micro and small businesses. Today, 59 economies worldwide are implementing national strategies using guidance from the OECD/INFE High-level Principles on National Strategies for Financial Education. The Policy Handbook...

This report looks at the impact on the shadow economy of changes in ways of working and business models, the growth of the digital economy and the emergence of new technologies. While these are causing some new shadow economy activities to emerge and some existing ones to expand in scale or...

Viet Nam's competition law and policy underwent a peer review during the OECD Global Forum on Competition on 8 December 2017. This report is the result of this exercise and provides Viet Nam with a roadmap to help align its competition law and policy with international standards and best practices.