31 January 2016
Regulatory quality for whom and for what?
The OECD way of defining “good regulation” has traditionally been pro-business, pro-trade. But things could change. Hopefully. In October 2015 the OECD released the first edition of a new publication: the Regulatory Policy Outlook. The report develops at length the good practices that should ...
20 January 2016
A message for the world’s leaders at Davos: Mind deflation, (re)build stronger collective bargaining systems
The IMF released its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update yesterday pointing to persistently weak growth and another downward revision of its projected growth rates for 2016 and 2017 by 0.2 percentage points each year. Despite this, the IMF’s growth trajectory still sees the world economy ...
15 December 2015
2nd Joint OECD-DAC and Trade Union Forum, Paris, 14 December 2015
The 2nd Joint OECD-DAC and Trade Union Forum took place in Paris on Monday 14 December 2015, on the topic “Donors and labour movement strategies to implement the UN 2030 Agenda”. At the September 2015 UN General Assembly, Heads of State adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The ...
27 October 2015
Trade Union Statement to the OECD Public Governance Ministerial Meeting
The Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) and the Public Services International (PSI) issue a joint Trade Union Statement to the OECD Public Governance Ministerial in Helsinki on 28 October 2015. The Ministerial sets out to help strengthen public governance institutions and rules to ...
