OECD Home › Social and welfare issues
With the recent crisis that started in 2007/08, social spending increased to 22% of GDP on average across the OECD in 2009 and it has not gone down since.
Gender gaps are pervasive in all walks of economic life and imply large losses in terms of foregone productivity and living standards to the individuals concerned and the economy.
OECD Forum 2013 is your chance to be part of the debate on how to craft better policies for better lives, focussed on three key themes for fostering sustainable growth: creating jobs, reducing inequality and rebuilding trust in the system.
www.oecd.org/gender includes important, recent and ongoing projects aimed at improving gender policy across a wide variety of areas in OECD countries and beyond.
It may be true that money can’t buy you happiness, but this only applies if you have enough money to meet your basic needs – a home, food, clothes for your family, education for your children. What happens when that basic equation breaks down and millions ...
Ministers discussed the following issues: Social policies for the recovery, Doing Better for Families and Future of intergenerational solidarity. Prior to the social ministerial meeting, a Policy Forum on Tackling Inequality was held on the morning of 2 ...
Focusing on people's well-being and societal progress, the OECD is looking at the functioning of the economic system but also at the diverse experiences and living conditions of people and households in its attempt to measure the well-being and progress ...
Follow us
E-mail Alerts Blogs