As a contribution to the UN Marrakech Process on Sustainable Consumption and Production, the OECD identified effective government approaches for using various tools (regulations, taxes, labeling, education) to promote the sustainability of consumption in economic, environmental and social terms.

This new database provides comprehensive and comparative information on a broad range of demographic and labour market characteristics of immigrants living in OECD countries. The DIOC includes information on demographic characteristics (age and gender), duration of stay, labour market outcomes (labour market status, occupations, sectors of activity), fields of study, educational attainment and the place...

The OECD meeting "The Future of the Internet Economy" will be held in Seoul in June. In preparation the OECD has released a report analyzing the rapid depletion of Internet Protocol version 4 - IPv4 addresses. One of the major challenges for all stakeholders in thinking about the future of the Internet is its ability...

Users' bandwidth demands continue to increase over time and this is leading internet service providers and telecommunication operators to find ways to meet these growing network capacity requirements. Operators have spent 20 years extending fibre backbones out to local main distribution frames but now many are working on pushing fibre ever closer to end-users in...

What benefits would the Internet bring to the developing world? And what impact would the arrival of several billion new users have on the Internet as we know it today? OECD economist Sam Paltridge answers questions and answers from this online debate.