Ahead of the Forum on Gender Equality, the @OECD hosted a roundtable on masculinities and gender equality to discuss how addressing restrictive social norms can support women's empowerment and engage men and boys as part of the solution.
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OECD Forum on Gender Equality β Addressing restrictive masculinities and norms in online spaces
π 9 July 2026
π@OECD Conference Centre, Paris
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Drawing on evidence from CΓ΄te dβIvoire and Senegal, the @OECD Masculinity and Gender Equality report finds that in these contexts, restrictive masculine norms remain strongly associated with provision and authority.
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Drawing on insights from CΓ΄te dβIvoire and Senegal, the @OECD Masculinity and Gender Equality report examines how social expectations around men's roles continue to shape gender equality, womenβs economic empowerment and gender-based violence.
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Tax-to-GDP ratios have increased in 23 Asia-Pacific economies over the last decade and declined in 15.
The largest increases were recorded in Mongolia, the Cook Islands and Kiribati.
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Tax-to-GDP ratios varied widely across Asian and Pacific economies in 2024.
The regional average stood at 19.7%, while tax revenues ranged from 6.7% of GDP in Bangladesh to 33.7% in Japan (2023 figure).
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Join us for a high-level discussion on a new @OECD report examining masculinities, womenβs empowerment and gender-based violence in CΓ΄te dβIvoire and Senegal.
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Income taxes boosted tax revenues in Asia and the Pacific in 2024.
The regional average tax-to-GDP ratio rose to 19.7%, the fourth consecutive annual increase. Personal and corporate income taxes drove the increase.
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Multilateral official development assistance (ODA) could fall by 3.4% in 2026, breaking from a long-standing upward trend, while core funding to UN organisations could decline by around 31% between 2024 and 2026.
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Official development assistance (ODA) to least developed countries could fall by 10.9% in 2026, marking a third consecutive year of decline and its lowest level since the early 2000s.
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A new @OECD policy brief projects that bilateral official development assistance (ODA) to sub-Saharan Africa could fall by 11.6% in 2026, marking a third consecutive year of decline and its lowest level since the early 2000s. πExplore the data: oe.cd/6Cq#ODA2026
π Official development assistance for health could decline by up to 46% in 2026
A new @OECD policy brief projects that health will face the deepest cuts among major development sectors, falling below pre-pandemic levels. πExplore the data: oe.cd/6Cq#ODA2026
π A new @OECD policy brief projects that official development assistance (ODA) could fall by 6.9% in 2026, marking a third consecutive year of decline and bringing ODA to its lowest level since 2014.
π Explore the data: oe.cd/6Cq#ODA2026
Banking and financial services accounted for more than 1/3 of all mobilised private finance in 2024, while energy represented a further 23%.
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