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Economic policy

TUAC represents the voice of labour in the international economic policy debate. Through its engagement at the OECD, TUAC fights for economic policies that create full employment and that give working people a fair share of the wealth they create.

This is done through our engagement on fiscal and monetary policy at the Economic Policy Committee and its Working Party on Macroeconomic and Structural Policy Analysis.

This work is led by Filip Stefanovic and Adnan Habibija. For more information, please contact stefanovic@tuac.org and habibija@tuac.org.

31 May 2018

Release of the OECD Economic Outlook 2018

The engines of sustainable growth are still missing: Time to change the Reform Agenda The OECD Economic Outlook released on the occasion of the 2018 Ministerial Council meeting carries the key message that we need “a different way to grow”. As the recovery in investment is not strong enough and ...

21 March 2018

Going for Growth 2018: Between Structural Reforms and Inclusive Growth

In the Interim report on “Going for Growth”, released on 19 March, the OECD tries to reconcile its traditional policy of structural reforms and ‘creative destruction’ with an ‘inclusive growth” agenda, where the benefits of growth are shared much more broadly. Read TUAC Comments: ...

13 March 2018

OECD Interim Forecast shows recovery is far from inclusive

Main takeaways The scar of youth unemployment has not healed. The recovery has bypassed younger people. Employment rates of 15 to 24 year old still have to recover substantially in order to reach the pre-crisis level (see graph below). ...

12 January 2018

“Schumpeter meets Keynes again” : An OECD-IMF-BIS Conference on Financial Factors slowing down productivity

On the 10th and 11th of January, the OECD joined up with the IMF and the BIS to organise a conference discussing the role of financial policies in explaining the trend of productivity slowing down across the global economy. Several technical research papers, covering different datasets, countries ...