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Africa’s Response to COVID-19: What roles for trade, manufacturing and intellectual property?

OECD; United Nations Economic Commission for Africa - 2020

This note discusses how policies on trade, manufacturing and intellectual property can speed up Africa’s response, focusing on enabling access to medical devices and drugs in four critical areas: testing, protecting, treating and curing (TPTC). For each area, the note provides a snapshot of...

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An assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on job and skills demand using online job vacancy data

OECD - 2021

five OECD countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States) between January and November …

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Italian regional SME policy responses

OECD - 2020

The note provides a preliminary inventory of the policy responses adopted by the Italian regions to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Chapter 1 focuses on the repercussions on the Italian economy. Chapter 2 provides an overview of national...

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Coronavirus (COVID-19): SME policy responses

OECD - 2020

This note is developed by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE). It examines how SMEs are likely to be affected by the current coronavirus epidemic, reports on early evidence and estimates about the impact, and provides a preliminary inventory of country responses...

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COVID-19 crisis response in Eastern Partner countries

OECD - 2020

The impact of the Covid-19 crisis on public health in the six EU Eastern Partner (EaP) countries remains limited with 187 reported fatalities in the region as of 14 April. Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia (because of their proximity to Iran) saw the region’s first cases of Covid-19 in late...

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How will COVID-19 reshape science, technology and innovation?

OECD - 2021

innovation (STI) and its policies. Factors shaping the future of STI include the unequal effects of the crisis on research and …, inclusiveness and agility of research and innovation ecosystems. STI policy could see fundamental changes as resilience …

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Innovation, development and COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities and ways forward

OECD - 2020

This briefing paper focuses on innovation in development and humanitarian efforts in the context of the coronavirus … (COVID-19) pandemic. Following an exploration of the overall role of innovation in the COVID-19 response, it examines … innovation efforts underway in international development and humanitarian responses to the pandemic, how well these efforts are …

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Science, technology and innovation: How co-ordination at home can help the global fight against COVID-19

OECD - 2020

The urgency of tackling COVID-19 has led governments in many countries to launch a number of short-notice and fast-tracked initiatives (e.g. calls for research proposals). Without proper co-ordination amongst ministries and agencies, they run the risk of duplicating efforts or missing...

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