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7-November-2023

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Health at a Glance 2023: Key findings for Portugal

Health at a Glance provides the latest comparable data and trends on population health and health system performance. This Country Note shows how Portugal compares to other OECD countries across indicators in the report.

14-September-2023

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Embracing a One Health Framework to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance in Portugal

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – the ability of microbes to resist antimicrobials - remains an alarming global health threat that jeopardises the effectiveness of many 20th century public health advances. In recent years, Portugal made important strides in tackling AMR. Yet, more progress is needed.

14-September-2023

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Adotar um quadro de “Uma Só Saúde" para combater a resistência antimicrobiana em Portugal

A resistência antimicrobiana (RAM) - a capacidade de micróbios resistirem aos agentes antimicrobianos - continua a ser uma ameaça alarmante para a saúde mundial que põe em causa a eficácia de muitos dos avanços do século XX no domínio da saúde pública. Nos últimos anos, Portugal registou avanços importantes na luta contra a RAM. No entanto, são necessários mais progressos.

15-June-2023

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Portugal needs greater spending efficiency and investment to strengthen public finances and growth

Portugal’s recovery has slowed in the face of high energy and living costs, as well as global uncertainty. Decisive policy action and structural reforms are needed to shore up public finances, uphold living standards and ensure that growth remains on a sustainable and resilient path, according to a new OECD report.

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Portugal necessita de uma maior eficiência na despesa e no investimento para reforçar as finanças públicas e o crescimento

25-April-2023

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Taxing Wages: Key findings for Portugal

The tax wedge for the average single worker in Portugal remained unchanged at 41.9% in 2021 and 2022. The OECD average tax wedge in 2022 was 34.6% (2021, 34.6%).

30-November-2022

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Revenue Statistics: Key findings for Portugal

The OECD’s annual Revenue Statistics report found that the tax-to-GDP ratio in Portugal increased by 0.5 percentage points from 35.3% in 2020 to 35.8% in 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, the OECD average increased from 33.6% to 34.1%.

8-November-2022

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Portugal needs to urgently step up its foreign bribery enforcement, says the OECD Working Group on Bribery

Since the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention entered into force over 20 years ago, Portugal has not had a single foreign bribery conviction. Detection remains low and Portuguese authorities prematurely closed foreign bribery cases without investigating relevant allegations thoroughly and proactively, with the number of cases terminated having increased significantly compared to Phase 3.

21-April-2022

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OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Portugal 2022

The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) conducts peer reviews of individual members once every five to six years. Reviews seek to improve the quality and effectiveness of members’ development co-operation, highlighting good practices and recommending improvements. Portugal mobilises its whole of government expertise with a strong focus on partner country ownership. Building on long-standing and close bilateral relations, it concentrates its funding on countries most in need. Through effective international advocacy, the country champions triangular co-operation and has fostered agreement amongst European Union (EU) members on issues such as strengthening Team Europe’s commitment to human development when it held the Presidency of the EU Council. However, Portugal can make more out of the wide participation of state and non-state actors in its development co-operation. This peer review provides a set of recommendations to improve co-ordination across government, pull bilateral efforts together, focus more on outcomes and take action to increase official development assistance (ODA).

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Exame pelos Pares da Cooperação para o Desenvolvimento da OCDE: Portugal 2022 (versão abreviada)

23-March-2022

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Review of Inclusive Education in Portugal

The Review of Inclusive Education in Portugal provides, from an international perspective, an independent analysis of major issues regarding diversity, equity and inclusion in education in Portugal, current policy initiatives, and possible future approaches. The report serves three purposes: i) to provide insights and advice to Portuguese education authorities; ii) to help other countries understand the Portuguese approach to inclusive education; and iii) to provide input for comparative analyses of the OECD Strength through Diversity project. The scope for the analysis in this report covers primary (including 1st and 2nd cycle of basic education) and secondary education (including 3rd cycle of basic education and upper secondary). The analysis in the report focuses on the following areas: i) governance and financing of inclusive education; ii) capacity building; iii) school-level interventions and iv) monitoring and evaluation. This report will be of interest in Portugal and other countries looking to improve the equity and inclusion in their education systems.

12-January-2022

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Strengthening FDI and SME Linkages in Portugal

This report assesses the enabling conditions for maximising the benefits of foreign direct investment (FDI) on SME productivity and innovation in Portugal. It looks at the quality of investment that Portugal attracts and the capacity of Portuguese SMEs to benefit from any knowledge and technology spillovers resulting from these investments. It studies the extent to which FDI-SME spillovers occur through value chain linkages, strategic partnerships, labour mobility, competition and imitation effects. The report provides an overview of Portuguese public institutions responsible for investment, SMEs, innovation and regional development policies, taking a close look at arrangements to ensure multi-level policy coordination, stakeholder consultation and evaluation of policy impacts. It then reviews the mix of government policies that are currently in place to support FDI-SME linkages and spillovers, noting areas for further policy reforms. The last chapter introduces a regional lens, focusing in particular on the regions of Norte and Alentejo. This report is part of a broader European Commission-OECD programme on strengthening FDI-SME linkages and serves as a pilot for future country assessments.

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