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In our latest OECD Podcast, Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy in the United States, explains to Robin Davis why ending racial inequality is vital for COVID-19 recovery. https://soundcloud.com/oecd/valerie-wilson

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Culture and art can be such powerful drivers of local development, particularly in today’s digital world. Or as Giorgia Abeltino of Google Arts and Culture puts it in our video, digital can help the local to be global, and connect the global with the local.

Ms Abeltino was speaking at our first-ever OECD Conference on Culture and Local Development in Venice, Italy, when people from every continent gathered to explore the cutting-edge cultural policies that can lift local economies, create jobs, and promote well-being and social cohesion.

For their insights, watch our inspiring 5-minute OECD Video set in Venice, and nearby Marghera and Mestre.

And listen out for an uplifting orchestral finale, the Intermezzo of Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni, which gives resonance to OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría's closing note: "This is why [culture and art] are called public goods, because they satisfy a need, a craving, a legitimate desire for something beyond our trials and tribulations of everyday, our natural need for beauty. "

Culture for local development Culture and art can be powerful drivers of local development, particularly in today’s digital world. At this first ever OECD Conference on Culture and Local ...

: Today 7 January, we remember as though it was yesterday the trauma of the terrible attack on satirical magazine , and subsequent attacks in 8-9 January, all of which left 17 innocent people dead. Our OECD Observer page of tributes from the time. http://m.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/4642/

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« C’est l’âme de Paris, c’est l’esprit et la mémoire de la chrétienté et du monde entier que le feu de Notre-Dame a blessés. [...] Cette grande brûlée sera sauvée, car le peuple de France et du monde sera uni pour lui rendre tout ce que le feu lui a pris », écrit Tahar Ben Jelloun:

Notre-Dame de Paris, l’âme blessée - Observateur OCDE C’est l’âme de Paris, c’est l’esprit et la mémoire de la chrétienté et du monde entier que le feu de Notre-Dame a...

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"Peace is in the OECD’s DNA: we are living proof that by working alongside each other we can accomplish great things, including a lasting peace."
Read more from OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría on how the organisation participated in the Paris Peace Forum, 11-13 November:

Paris Peace Forum The Paris Peace Forum, which takes place 11-13 November, marks the centenary of the end of a terrible war that cost some 20 million lives. It comes at a critical moment when we must all stand for peace and be reminded of the dangers of unilateralism.

The cost of catastrophe: Why putting a price-tag on disaster is our best protection https://bit.ly/2H46e0k

Some 79% of the population in Latin America and Caribbean countries think their government is corrupt, even if some countries have made advancements to promote transparency and fight corruption.

Corruption on show - OECD Observer One of the most popular Netflix series in Brazil right now is The Mechanism . Loosely based on real events, the show is about an ongoing investigation of...

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New edition of the OECD Observer is out. you can check it out here 🕵 >> https://goo.gl/u25XqS >> Our cover story this time is about France's poor neighborhoods. The impact of socio-economic background on learning outcomes in France is still among the highest in the OECD >> https://goo.gl/TEpUdc

If Paris manages to incorporate flood risk into its planning now, the 2024 Olympic Games will be high and dry >>

Flood watch on the river Seine: A return to 1910? Charles Baubion, OECD Directorate for Public Governance, and Clara Young, OECD Insights It has been a wet winter in Paris and the River Seine is rising fast: 2 cm, or about an inch, every hour. Thi…