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How can we all help shape better policies for better lives? OECD Podcasts bring you insightful interviews with experts and well-known personalities on such pressing challenges as inequality and inclusive growth, the economy, jobs, the digital transformation, climate change, the environment, education, healthcare, tax, trade, international co-operation, and more.

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THE PODIUM [26.05.2021] TALKS TO BLF PRESIDENT ANDILE MNGXITANA ABOUT INJUSTICES FACED BY AFRICAN PEOPLE DUE TO COLONIALISM AND ARPATHEID. HOW THAT CAN BE REVERSED.

THE PODIUM [26.05.2021] TALKS TO BLF PRESIDENT ANDILE MNGXITAMA

The social economy can help boost prospects for women… and men. One of the big problems in tackling gender equality is breaking down gender stereotypes that drive women into what have often been called “pink collar jobs”. These are jobs like childcare, education, personal and household services, plus social work. Nitya Nangalia from SEWA Bharat and Natalie Laechelt from the OECD unpack the role of the social economy in the quest to move beyond pink collar jobs.

Guests: Nitya Nangalia, SEWA Bharat; Natalie Laechelt, OECD Economist 
Host: Shayne Maclachlan

Pink collar jobs: new shades for the social economy

Retaining talent of all ages has become one of the most important issues facing employers today. How are people 55 to 64 faring in today’s labour market and how can we build an effective, multi-generational workforce? The OECD’s Shruti Singh and AARP’s Lona Choi-Allum explore what needs to be done to ensure that everyone's talents and skills are put to best use. 

Guests: Lona Choi-Allum, Senior Research Advisor, AARP
              Shruti Singh, Senior Economist, OECD
Host: Kate Lancaster
Producer: Robin Allison Davis

To learn more about the AARP's work on the aging workplace, go to: 
www.aarpinternational.org/globalemployersurvey
www.aarpinternational.org/globalemployeesurvey 
www.aarpinternational.org/llel

To read the OECD report, Retaining Talent at All Ages, go to:
https://doi.org/10.1787/00dbdd06-en

Retaining Talent of All Ages, with Shruti Singh and Lona Choi-Allum

Over the past few decades, as trade and investment barriers have lessened, and transport and communication costs have declined, multinational enterprises or MNEs have become an increasingly important fixture in the global economy. As these entities begin to represent a larger share of global economic activity, the importance of monitoring them and understanding their behaviour has never been greater. However, MNEs cross borders by definition, making them notably difficult to keep track of at the national level. The new OECD UNSD Multinational Enterprise Information Platform gathers together data on the world's largest multinationals from a range of public sources. These data cover the geographical and digital scope of individual multinationals and an array of indicators, complementing major recent reforms to the international tax system led by the OECD and in response to the challenges arising from digitalisation. But what new benefits does this initiative deliver? What does the data reveal? And how can it be used for economic analysis? And what does this say about where the global economy is heading? 

This OECD Podcast aims to address these questions and more in conversation with one of our own data experts.

Host: Ashley Ward
Guest: Graham Pilgrim, Head of Real-Time Data Analytics, OECD Statistics and Data Directorate
Producer: Anna Wahlgren, Ashley Ward, Robin Allison Davis

To learn more about the OECD's work with multinational enterprises, go to: https://www.oecd.org/sdd/its/mne-platform.htm

Multinational enterprises demystified using open-source data

According to the UN Refugee Agency, more than 100 million people were forcibly displaced in 2022. With Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, Europe has seen the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War with more than 6 million people fleeing Ukraine. This is a big challenge for refugee protection and reception systems. Clearly something public services cannot stem on their own. This is where the social and solidarity economy steps in and steps up to both support governments and fill gaps and public support. This podcast discusses how the social and solidarity economy can fast track the labour-market integration of refugees and migrants.

Guests: Anne Kjaer-Bathel: Co-founder and CEO of ReDI School of Digital Integration, Berlin
Thomas Liebig, Principal Administrator, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Host: Christine Langenbucher

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Can the social economy help refugees access jobs?

Young entrepreneurs have a huge role to play as slow productivity growth, climate change, demographic change and the digital transition come together in a perfect storm for many economies. The new OECD-EU “Missing Entrepreneurs” report finds that if youth (18-29 years old) participated in early-stage entrepreneurship at the same rate as “core age” men (30-49 years old), there would be an additional 3.6 million “missing youth entrepreneurs” in OECD countries. This accounts for about 11% of the total number of “missing entrepreneurs” in the OECD as young people face a range of barriers to success. David Halabisky from the OECD and Anita Tiessen, the CEO of Youth Business International, unwrap issues around money, mindset and motivation for young people in the world of business.

Guest: Anita Tiessen, CEO of Youth Business International
Host: David Halabisky

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Young entrepreneurs: Money, mindset and motivation

For Black Analysis 2, we bring you this recording of the Black First Land First's (BLF) #BlacksInDialogue series. The event took place on the February 28 and the topic of discussion was 'Why ABSA should pay back the stolen R3.2 billion.' Panelists were BLF National Convenor, Andile Mngxitama, author & Former Director of the South African Reserve Bank, Stephen Goodson, writer & columnist Pinky Khoabane, and lecturer & chartered accountant, Khaya Sithole.

Black Analysis 2 - #BlacksInDialogue 3

On the latest episode of the Talkhouse Film Podcast, comedian Tim Heidecker sits down with Adam Curtis, the BBC filmmaker whose sprawling, epic political documentaries about have in recent years made him a cult figure. In a highly engaged conversation, the two discuss Curtis' past making films about “talented animals,” tropes in current pop music (and how dull music in docs is), Donald Trump, how John Oliver and Jon Stewart contributed to Trump's success, the power of storytelling in politics, and much more. For more filmmakers talking film and TV, visit Talkhouse Film at talkhouse.com/film.

Tim Heidecker with Adam Curtis

One country that symbolised the crisis of the last 10 years was Greece. Its insolvency embarked the country on a long regime of bail-outs and austerity. This August, Greece officially emerged from the crisis, with the OECD forecasting GDP growth again. So, did the austerity work? The former Greek finance minister and co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM) remains unconvinced. Mr Varoufakis was a guest at the OECD’s “10 years after the crisis” conference.

For more information go to: 
www.oecd.org/economy/
www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics

Host: Clara Young
Producer: Robin Allison Davis and Borja Ortuzar 

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*Disclaimer: Our podcasters may express personal views and opinion, which do not necessarily reflect the official views of the OECD or its member countries.

Yanis Varoufakis on austerity and his political party, DiEM

Trade unions have been out of fashion in the past couple of decades. In 1985, 45% of workers were protected by collective agreements. In 2016, this number fell to 32%. While economies have more or less gone back to pre-crisis levels and unemployment is spectacularly low, wages remain stuck. Are we witnessing trade union revivalism now? Paul Nowak, UK Deputy General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, give us his take. 

For more information, read the OECD's 2019 Employment Outlook here: https://doi.org/10.1787/9ee00155-en

Host: Clara Young
Producer: Robin Allison Davis

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Disorganised labour: Paul Nowak on the urgency of Trade Union 2.0

[Note: Program originally aired in August 2016] 

In a speech delivered in 1971 in Cape Town, South Africa, Steve Bantu Biko proclaimed that the: “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”  

This time-less expression is currently fueling grassroots organizing and resistance efforts in South Africa.  We see the echoes of this axiom in movements across South Africa from the Rhodes Must Fall/Fees Must Fall uprisings to the organizational expressions of resistance through organizations such as Black First, Land First or Abahlali baseMjondolo [Shack Dwellers Movement] and Landless People’s Movement; and outside of SA, with the Homeless Workers’ Movement [Brazil]. 

Before we begin our conversation with Andile Mngxitama, it is important to hear and think with Steve Biko.  One of the Africana world’s foremost activist---thinkers, Steve Biko is mostly remembered through the work and ideas of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM).   

Although Steve Biko was not alone in forging the Black Consciousness Movement; he was nevertheless its most prominent leader, who with others guided the movement of student discontent into a political force unprecedented in the history of South Africa. As a consequence of his potent political mind and activity, he is inextricably linked the development and evolution of the Black Consciousness Movement, which spread across the African world, finding it’s lasting expression in Afro Brazilian communities.  To understand more about the life and contributions of Steve Biko, there is no other place to start than to read him, you can start by reading and thinking through I Write What I Like…but for now, we can listen to him #ThinkingBlackOutLoud. 

After thinking with Bantu Biko, we explore movement building in a ‘post’ Apartheid SA, with Andile Mngxitama, a leading black consciousness thinker and organizer. He co-edited Biko Lives! Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko, has published four essays in the New Frank Talk journals. He is frequent contributor to various multimedia outlets that explore Africa in general, South Africa specifically.  

Enjoy the program!
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Additional resources:
Africa is A Country [video]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksgrJyOrd7A 
Quartz Africa: https://qz.com/africa/1111666/feesmustfall-black-south-african-students-had-a-better-chance-at-graduating-during-apartheid/ 
Al Jazeera English [video]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOGkWCfcq-o 
Andile Mngxitama [Twitter]: https://twitter.com/mnxitama?lang=en 
South African History Online [https://www.sahistory.org.za/]: https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/stephen-bantu-biko 
South African History Online [https://www.sahistory.org.za/]: https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/quotes-steve-biko 
South African History Online [https://www.sahistory.org.za/]: https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/biko-lives-contesting-legacies-steve-biko-edited-andile-mngxitama-amanda-alexander-and 
All Africa [multimedia new source]: http://allafrica.com/stories/201507311433.html
More on Andile Mngxitama: http://mg.co.za/author/andile-mngxitama-comment-author
South African History Online [https://www.sahistory.org.za/]: http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/apartheid-legislation-1850s-1970s
Black Opinion [media  http://blackopinion.co.za/
Black First Land First: https://blf.org.za/
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/a-conversation-with-guilherme-boulos-leader-of-brazils-homeless-workers-movement/
South African History Online [https://www.sahistory.org.za/]: https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/landless-peoples-movement
Abahlali baseMjondolo: http://abahlali.org/

Image: https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2015.97.27.6

Thinking with Steve Biko & about South African w/ Andile Mngxitama

The Covid-19 pandemic has shocked our world. Our healthcare systems are under intense pressure, and the economy is suffering badly too, with stalling trade and investment, and massive job losses adding to human suffering. We talk to Frederic Jenny, Professor of Economics at ESSEC Business School in Paris and chair of the OECD Competition Committee. Why have our economies been so badly affected by the coronavirus crisis? What questions does the crisis raise about globalisation, and about markets? Can competition policy help? How can governments be better prepared in future? 

Host: Robin Allison Davis

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Covid-19 shock: What lessons can we learn for competition and global markets?

With the world economy on a tightrope, what can policymakers do to inch us forward to recovery? OECD Chief Economist Laurence Boone, explains the main messages of the Economic Outlook released on June 10th. 

Host: Rory Clarke
Producer: Robin Allison Davis 

To learn more about the Economic Outlook, go to: www.oecd.org/economic-outlook

To learn more about the OECD's work on Covid-19, go to: www.oecd.org/coronavirus

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On a tightrope: COVID-19 and the Economic Outlook, with OECD Chief Economist Laurence Boone

The global health crisis brought on by COVID-19 has triggered what is likely to become the worst economic recession in a century. And it has also brought huge uncertainty, about how long the crisis will last, how it will affect our jobs, our societies, and our thinking. Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, talked to Rory Clarke about the challenges and offers advice to policymakers, young economists and international organisations alike, as we all try to make sense of the coronavirus crisis. Food for thought as the OECD prepares to mark its 60th anniversary in 2021. Mr Wolf's views are his own, and do not necessarily reflect those of the OECD or its member countries.

Host: Rory Clarke
Producer: Robin Allison Davis

To learn more about the Economic Outlook, go to: www.oecd.org/economic-outlook

To learn more about the OECD's work on Covid-19, go to: www.oecd.org/coronavirus

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Covid-19: Making sense of the world economic crisis, with the FT's Martin Wolf

Trade tensions have been steadily ramping up. Brexit is rife with uncertainty and the COVID-19 pandemic has added new turbulence with lockdowns and radically changing consumer demand. But now is precisely the time when the world needs to come together on trade says Julia Nielson, deputy director of the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate.

To learn more about the OECD's work on Covid-19, go to: www.oecd.org/coronavirus

Host: Clara Young
Producer: Robin Allison Davis

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Keeping trade on track to fight COVID-19 with OECD’s Julia Nielson

How can we all help shape better policies for better lives? OECD Podcasts bring you insightful interviews with experts and well-known personalities on such pressing challenges as inequality and inclusive growth, the economy, jobs, the digital transformation, climate change, the environment, education, healthcare, tax, trade, international co-operation, and more.


NOTE: The opinions expressed and arguments employed in the content displayed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of the OECD, its Member countries, or any stakeholders who have contributed to or participated in any related work.