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Analysing Urban Development Strategies: the OECD Approach
by Adam Knelman Ostry
Counsellor, Regional Development Policyadam.OSTRY@oecd.org
Conference on Urban Development Strategies in the Mediterranean
Barcelona, March 14-15, 2011
The Mandate of the OECD
• Founded in 1961 to:
•Achieve sustainable growth and employment
•Contribute to sound economic expansion
•Contribute to world trade expansion
• 34 Member States
• Forum for debate/knowledge sharing
OECD Work on Regional Development• 1999: TDPC created to study regions’ contribution to aggregate growth/jobs
• Urban
• Rural
• Territorial Indicators
• 2003: Ministers endorse paradigm shift
• away from sector subsidies to reduce disparities
• toward multi-sector development model based on harnessing local strengths and assets to achieve growth
• 2009: Ministers focus on Green Growth as a new development model
TDPC’s Three-Pillared Programme of Work
• Regional Competitiveness Factors/Patterns
•Innovation strategies/networks
•Comparative advantages
•FDI attraction/retention/contribution
•Sustainable infrastructure development
• Governance• Multi-level coordination
•Horizontal collaboration
•Cross–border cooperation
• Statistics and Indicators
Place-Based Analysis: Territorial Reviews•National Reviews
•Metropolitan Reviews
•Rural Reviews
•Regional Reviews
•National Urban Policy Reviews
•National Rural Policy Reviews
•Cross-Sector Regional Programmes•Cities and Green Growth
•Green Energy and Rural Development
•Territorial Databases (Regions at a Glance; Metropolitan Regions Database)
Regional typology:
Europe TL3
Predominantly urban regions
Intermediate regions
Predominantly rural regions
Source: OECD Territorial Database
Regional typology: North America TL3
Predominantly urban regions Intermediate regions Predominantly rural regions
Source: OECD Territorial Database
Territorial Reviews of Metropolitan Regions
• Purpose
• Conceptual Framework
• Methodology
Metropolitan Reviews: Purpose
•Evaluate metropolitan competitiveness, attractiveness, sustainability
•Assess effectiveness, sustainability of policy approaches
•Assess governance efficiency and pertinence in sustaining growth
Metropolitan Reviews: Conceptual Framework
•Analysis of Trends, Growth Potential, Untapped Resources
•International Benchmarking
•Analysis of Policy Approaches (clusters; education/training; infrastructure; land-use; attractiveness; housing; FDI; social cohesion; climate change strategies; green growth strategies)
•Metropolitan Governance• Urban/inter-municipal and Multi-level
• Fiscal Arrangements for Sustainable Metropolitan Competitiveness
Metropolitan Reviews: Methodology• Letter of Commitment from Requesting Authority/ies
• Constitution of Local Team: Steering/operations committees of key public, academic, private actors
• Information Gathering: Background Report; literature Reviews; Study Missions (OECD officials, Peer Reviewers, Academic Experts)
•Report Production: Interim and Final Drafts
•Report Approval: TDPC
•Report Published under OECD Imprimatur
22 Metropolitan Reviews: Impact so far• Montréal (2004): Newly created metropolitan government developed a road-map for its strategic policy framework, based on Report’s advice
• Milan (2006): Central Government proposed a law to create supra-municipal tier of government, based on Report’s advice
• Stockholm (2006): Inter-municipal cooperation strategy for EU structural funds implemented, based on Report’s advice
• Randstad (2007): Central Government appointed Minister for Randstad, implemented a Randstad programme for accessibility and economic development and enhanced coordination between the four cities in the Randstad region, based on Report’s advice
• Toronto (2009): Thanks to the commissioning Mayor, debates on regional trranportation/infrastructure funding, immigrant settlement and green-economy R&D support revived, based on Report’s content
Metropolitan Reviews: Lessons Learned/Current Issues
1. Limited Availability of Data and Indicators• functional metropolitan region level
• Comparability challenges
2. Post-Crisis competitiveness strategies/green beyond climate change?• Green Growth, Green Development, Green Economy?
• Is greater efficiency resulting in cost savings enough?
• Growth that raises metropolitan well-being overall? i.e. Net Metropolitan AggregateGrowth AND Environmental Health?
• « Energy-based Economic Development » as the policy framework?
3. What About Equity?• Metropolitan Winners and Losers?
• Human Capital Integration into a Sustainable Metropolitan Economy?
Metropolitan Reviews: Knowledge Sharing
• TDPC and its Working Parties
• International Conferences
• Inter-agency Dialogue•UN Habitat
•EU Secretariat/Eurostat
•ICLEI and other NGOs
•World Bank
•OECD Roundtable of Mayors and Ministers•Give local leaders a « seat at the table » of OECD’s main players: central ministers of Finance, the Economy, the Environment
THANK YOU!OECD Main Contacts
• Lamia.KAMAL-CHAOUI@oecd.org
•Head, Urban Development Programme
• Adam.OSTRY@oecd.org
•Counsellor
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