Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

1 month ago | oecd.org

Today's children are growing up in a rapidly evolving digital world, where digital media play an important role in their daily lives. Digital services offer opportunities for learning, entertainment, accessing information, discovering new things, and connecting with other peers and community members. However, they also pose risks, including problematic or excessive use of digital media, exposure to inappropriate content, harmful conducts, and other online safety concerns.The report How's Life for Children in the Digital Age? provides an overview of the current state of children's lives in the digital environment across OECD countries, based on the latest cross-national data. It explores the challenges of ensuring that children are both protected and empowered to use digital media in a beneficial way while managing potential risks. The report highlights the need for a whole-of-society, multi-sectoral policy approach, engaging digital service providers, health professionals, educators, experts, parents, and children to protect, empower, and support children, while also addressing offline vulnerabilities, with the ultimate aim of enhancing their well-being and future outcomes. Additionally, it calls for strengthening countries’ capacities to assess the impact of digital media on children's lives and to monitor rapidly evolving challenges.

Mar 9, 2025 | oecd.org

For far too long, we have lacked meaningful insights into people’s experiences of healthcare and their health outcomes. The Patient-Reported Indicator Surveys (PaRIS) is a groundbreaking OECD initiative that captures health outcomes and experiences from over 107 000 patients aged 45 years and older across more than 1 800 primary care practices in 19 countries. Traditionally, health system performance indicators have focused on inputs and processes as well as clinical indicators rather than on how healthcare delivers care from patients’ perspectives and how it influences their lives. PaRIS fills this gap. It offers a unique set of indicators revealing how people with chronic conditions experience healthcare and how it affects their lives. By highlighting what matters most to patients, PaRIS provides valuable insights into how healthcare models perform in delivering meaningful and people-centred care and what can be done to improve outcomes and experiences of care for people with chronic conditions.

Mar 4, 2025 | oecd.org

Czechia’s living standards have risen sharply over the three decades since joining the OECD, as a result of its openness to trade and investment, stable institutional framework and well-educated population.

Feb 28, 2025 | oecd.org

Economic growth has resumed, and inflation has returned close to target but risks to the outlook remain elevated. Fiscal policy should continue to build buffers and prepare for longer-term spending pressures, including by enhancing spending efficiency, fully implementing recent pension reforms and revising family benefits to reduce disincentives for mothers with young children to return to the workplace. Revitalising productivity growth and convergence requires boosting Czechia’s innovation capacity and business dynamism by better targeting business support for R&D to young and small firms, further developing capital markets and strengthening the eco-system for start-ups. To put the economy on a path to net-zero emissions, a more consistent pricing of carbon, accelerating the deployment of renewables, replacing coal, and reducing the energy and emission-intensity of the buildings sector are needed, while alleviating the impact on vulnerable communities. Addressing inequalities in education, increasing the quality and efficiency of schooling, and expanding possibilities to reskill and upskill workers throughout their careers are key to provide equal opportunities for all and tackle skill shortages. SPECIAL FEATURES: IMPROVING EDUCATION AND SKILLS; BOOSTING INNOVATION AND BUSINESS DYNAMISM; TRANSITIONING TO NET-ZERO

Feb 12, 2025 | oecd.org

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) launched today the first global framework for companies to report on their efforts to promote safe, secure, and trustworthy AI.