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OECD provides strong rationale for place-based rural policy to grow rural productivity

Today the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD published a thorough analysis of the trajectories of rural and urban economies within the 30 plus countries that make up its membership. It specifically looked at the reasons for productivity gaps between regions. This is important reading for our provincial and national policy makers and provides encouragement and evidence for those advocating coherent, long-term investment in effective rural regional development. Rural readers will be most interested in Part II Chapter 4 “Rural Policy 3.0” which argues that a key objective should be to increase rural competitiveness and productivity in order to enhance the social, economic and environmental well-being of rural areas and then provides examples and a prescription about how to best do that through partnerships and bottom-up capacity building approaches. 

OECD Regional Outlook 2016: Productive Regions for Inclusive Societies

Regions and cities are where the effects of policies to promote economic growth and social inclusion are felt in day-to-day life. The OECD Regional Outlook 2016 examines the widening productivity gap across regions within countries, and the implications of these trends for the well-being of people living in different places. It discusses how structural policies, public investment and multi-level governance reforms can help boost productivity and address inclusion. Drawing on a survey of OECD countries, the Outlook  highlights country practices in regional, urban, and rural development policy that guide public investment. The Special Focus Part II on rural areas looks at different types of rural area and their productivity performance trends, and suggests that countries move towards a “Rural Policy 3.0.”

The Policy Forum on Regions and Cities: Implementing Global Agendas includes chapters by many leading global organisations on how regions and cities can be instrumental in achieving the targets of agreements such as the Paris Accord and the Sustainable Development Goals. Individual country profiles provide an overview of regional, urban and rural development policies as well as performance in terms of productivity and well-being among different regions.

Source: ROI


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