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International Organizations · Nov 2, 2026 · 6 min read
Government support to agriculture rose nearly 15% in two years to a record above $950 billion in 2025, with nearly half in potentially most distorting forms, the OECD said. For farm ministries and food importers,…
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Macro · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Employment across the OECD area reached a record 70.4 percent of people aged 15 to 64 in the second quarter of 2026,…
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Macro · Sep 23, 2026 · 4 min read
The OECD raised its forecast for global growth this year to 2.9 percent, 0.1 point above its June projection, and cut next…
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Macro · Sep 15, 2026 · 4 min read
Saudi Arabia's economy contracted 4.8 percent in the second quarter against the first, after a 1.4 percent contraction in the first quarter,…
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Macro · Sep 8, 2026 · 4 min read
The OECD published the first of three volumes of its 2025 student assessment on Tuesday, covering 91 countries and economies, more than…
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Macro · Aug 24, 2026 · 6 min read
Economic growth across the OECD area edged up to 0.5 percent in the second quarter of 2026 from 0.4 percent in the…
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OECD · Aug 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Consumer price inflation across the OECD area eased in June, the organisation reported in its Consumer Prices update published on 4 August…
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Macro · Jul 17, 2026 · 3 min read
The OECD projects that United Kingdom economic growth will slow temporarily to 0.9 percent in 2026, down from 1.4 percent in 2025,…
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Macro · Jul 8, 2026 · 3 min read
Labour markets across advanced economies remain robust but pay is failing to keep pace, the OECD said in its Employment Outlook 2026,…
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Macro · Jul 7, 2026 · 5 min read
Consumer price inflation across the OECD rose to 4.6 percent in the year to May, up from 4.4 percent in April, as…
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International Organizations · Jun 8, 2026 · 6 min read
Shrinkflation has become one of the most visible consumer price issues of the post-pandemic inflation cycle. The term refers to a commercial…
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Macro · Jun 3, 2026 · 6 min read
OECD Economic Outlook (3 June 2026) sees global growth slowing to 2.8% in 2026 under a time-limited disruption scenario, or 2.1% in…
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Government support to agriculture rose nearly 15% in two years to a record above $950 billion in 2025, with nearly half in potentially most distorting forms, the OECD said. For farm ministries and food importers, the Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2026 report, published on 2 November, shows support growing faster than the value of…
Employment across the OECD area reached a record 70.4 percent of people aged 15 to 64 in the second quarter of 2026, and the labour force participation rate set its own record at 74.2 percent, according to figures released on 15 October. The member-wide unemployment rate was 5.0 percent in August, up from 4.9 percent…
The OECD raised its forecast for global growth this year to 2.9 percent, 0.1 point above its June projection, and cut next year to 3.0 percent, 0.1 point below it, in the Interim Economic Outlook published on Wednesday under the title Weathering Successive Shocks. Global output grew 3.4 percent in 2025, so both projection years…
Saudi Arabia’s economy contracted 4.8 percent in the second quarter against the first, after a 1.4 percent contraction in the first quarter, and the OECD attributes the fall mainly to a sharp decrease in oil activities. The organisation published its G20 quarterly national accounts on Monday. G20 output as a whole grew 0.7 percent in…
The OECD published the first of three volumes of its 2025 student assessment on Tuesday, covering 91 countries and economies, more than 760,000 students and a population of about 33 million 15 year olds. Its average mathematics score fell from 485 points in 2015 to 463 in 2025 and reading from 489 to 461, which…
Economic growth across the OECD area edged up to 0.5 percent in the second quarter of 2026 from 0.4 percent in the first, according to provisional estimates published in Paris on 24 August by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The modest acceleration in the aggregate coincided with a pronounced rebound in Europe, even…
Consumer price inflation across the OECD area eased in June, the organisation reported in its Consumer Prices update published on 4 August 2026. The release stated that inflation in the OECD as measured by the Consumer Price Index declined to 4.2 percent in June 2026, from 4.6 percent in May. The 0.4 percentage point fall…
The OECD projects that United Kingdom economic growth will slow temporarily to 0.9 percent in 2026, down from 1.4 percent in 2025, before picking up to 1.1 percent in 2027, according to its latest Economic Survey of the United Kingdom published on 15 July. Even with that rebound, growth in 2027 would remain below the…
Labour markets across advanced economies remain robust but pay is failing to keep pace, the OECD said in its Employment Outlook 2026, published on 7 July under the theme Geographic Disparities in Jobs and Incomes. The organisation reported that unemployment across its member countries held at 4.9 percent in May, close to record lows, even…
Consumer price inflation across the OECD rose to 4.6 percent in the year to May, up from 4.4 percent in April, as a renewed climb in energy costs offset easing food prices, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development reported. The uptick came as the OECD launched its annual Employment Outlook, which warned that labour…