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Report · 2026-02-26 · OECD
This report is a practical guide for national, regional and local policymakers to strengthen evidence-based decision-making for island regions.
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Report · 2025-11-25 · OECD
This OECD report shows how rural innovation, beyond science and technology, is redefining how societies adapt to global change.
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Report · 2025-06-16 · OECD
This report, along with individual regional profiles, provides guidance for policy makers and companies to strengthen mining regional ecosystems across five pillars:
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Report · 2025-05-19 · OECD
This OECD report provides a roadmap for strengthening rural resilience by promoting people-centred policies that respond to the diverse challenges and opportunities facing different types of rural regions.
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Report · 2025-05-19 · OECD
This report provides a comprehensive policy framework to support policy makers in responding to demographic change, helping them design and implement place-based strategies that foster resilience, inclusiveness and long-term sustainability.
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Report · 2024-06-27 · OECD
This report looks at the interaction between geography and access to services. It considers three main factors: (1) The size of settlements; (2) Accessibility – the travel time associated with accessing settlements via car and public transport modes; and (3) Services – public and private services that are available and accessible across a variety of domains including health, finance and education.
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Report · 2023-10-31 · OECD
The Future of Rural Manufacturing provides insights on the transformations that have occurred in manufacturing across rural regions in recent decades.
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Report · 2022-09-28 · OECD
As part of a series on supporting to help rural areas thrive, this thematic report provides the latest analysis and research on rural innovation, and proposes ways to overcome the growing gaps between rural and urban places that are contributing to the geographies of discontent.
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Report · 2021-06-30 · OECD
This report provides internationally comparable fine-grained present and future estimates of the cost and physical access to education (primary and secondary) and health services (cardiology, maternity and obstetrics) in European countries.
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Report · 2021-03-05 · OECD
This report examines the nuances specific to the delivery of education and health care to people everywhere, offering recommendations on how to better adapt provision to the realities of today and the emerging realities of tomorrow to face the challenges of distance, demographic change and fiscal belt-tightening.
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Report · 2020-10-05 · OECD
Rural Well-being: Geography of Opportunities presents the latest iteration on this policy framework, reflecting several important changes in rural development in recent years.
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Report · 2016-04-29 · OECD
This report highlights five case studies and the OECD New Rural Paradigm, presenting an effective framework for addressing food insecurity and malnutrition.
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Report · 2014-04-29 · OECD
This publication is a result of the discussions from the OECD 8th Rural Development Policy Conference: "Innovation and modernising the rural economy" which took place in Krasnoyarsk, Russia on 3-5 October 2012.
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Report · 2013-10-24 · OECD
This report provides a framework to understand the changing relationships between urban and rural areas.
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Report · 2010-03-09 · OECD
This book provides an overview of the underlying problems in delivering services to rural regions.
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Report · 2006-06-26 · OECD
In an era of reduced agricultural employment, this report highlights the important and diverse challenges facing rural areas, their unused potential, and the inability of sectoral policy to address this.
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Report · 2005-05-01 · OECD
Bu kitap, kırsal politika konusunda yenilikçi yaklaşımlara duyulan ihtiyacı tartışmak üzere Washington, DC yakınlarında (Airlie, Virginia) düzenlenen bir konferansın bildirilerini içermektedir.
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Report · 2003-06-10 · OECD
This book examines the major rural developments and the issues that policy makers have been dealing with across the OECD over the last two decades.
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