Trappes : Voyage au cœur d’une communauté

Ileana Epsztajn, pour le blog Insights de l’OCDE À 25 kilomètres de Paris, dans les Yvelines, la ville de Trappes comptabilise le plus grand nombre de départs pour la Syrie en Europe. Comment cette ville, lieu de naissance de nombreuses célébrités françaises comme Jamel Debbouze, Omar … Continue reading →

Steering urban sprawl

Gabriella Elanbeck and Rory Clarke, OECD Observer New York City has one of the highest average population densities in the world, and few other US cities share its concentrated hustle and bustle. In fact, most of them face an entirely different challenge: urban … Continue reading →

The dark side of the digital economy: Bad things come in small packages

Michael Morantz, OECD Public Governance Directorate In a small town just outside Montreal, Jake [not his real name] struggles with drug addiction. His dependence on numerous substances has brought him in and out of hospital and rehabilitation programmes many … Continue reading →

The rising cost of cyber attacks

Balázs Gyimesi, OECD Observer “Sorry, our website is temporarily unavailable.” While this message may cause you some inconvenience when surfing the web, it’s costly for companies. For over 50% of firms, the unavailability of their sites can cost as much as US$1,000 per minute. And … Continue reading →

Corruption vs integrity: The battle continues

Peter Berlin, OECD Observer writer-at-large Recently, a group of 15-year-old students from a girls’ secondary school in the Palestinian Authority audited the construction of a swimming pool in their town. Part of a competition organised by Integrity Action, a civil society organisation, … Continue reading →