OECD - How’s Life in the Province of Córdoba, Argentina?

This report was prepared by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director, as part of the Programme of Work and Budget of the Regional Development Policy Committee (RDPC). The report was co-ordinated and drafted by Antonio Canamas Catala, Policy Analyst, and Marcos Diaz Ramirez, Statistician, under the supervision of Aziza Akhmouch, Head of the Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development (CITY) Division, and Paolo Veneri, Head of the Statistics and Territorial Analysis Unit in the Economics, Statistics and Multi-level Governance (ESG) Section of CFE.

The OECD Secretariat is grateful for the high-level political impetus and commitment from the Governor of the province of Crdoba, Juan Schiaretti, and the Secretary General of the regional Government, Silvina Rivero. Special thanks are herein conveyed to the excellent local team directed by Juan Ferreiro, Secretary of Institutional Strengthening, and composed of Mariano Plencovich, Director of Open Government and Public Sector Strengthening; Hector Conti, Director of the Provincial Department of Statistics and Census; and Daniel Ortega, Director of Socio-demographic Statistics. Other members of the local team included Mauricio Caggia, Melisa Gorondy Novak, Lara Cerban, Regina Cavalln, Juan Tello, Cecilia Senmartin, Pablo vila, Florencia Bertolino, Martn Carola, Antonella Comello, Maximiliano Iglesias, Laura Mariani, Maria Ana Piva, and Pilar Trejo. They are warmly thanked for their excellent support and cooperation throughout the policy dialogue underlying the project.

The project benefitted from insights from several peer reviewers who contributed through their valuable expertise and country experience, participated in the missions and provided examples of best practices, namely: Alessandro Alasia, Chief of the Data Exploration and Integration Lab, Statistics Canada and Chair of the OECD Working Party on Territorial Indicators; Alexandra Stephanie Boyer, Head of Office for Survey Design at the National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI), and Paola Gadsen, former Chief of Staff of the Government of the State of Morelos (Mexico).

The draft report was shared for comments with 50+ stakeholders from the province, who were engaged throughout the policy dialogue via interviews, seminars, and workshops and who are thanked for their valuable feedback, notably: Miguel Civallero and Germn Bossa (Secretariat for Equity and Employment Promotion), Deborah Petrakovsky (Ministry of Social Development), Leandro Garca and Ivn Ambroggio (Ministry of Public Works and Investment), Gabriel Testagrossa, Mauro Peiretti, Aldo Bas and Cristian Tosco (Ministry of Water, Environment, and Public Services), Ana Segada (Ministry of Labour), Nicols de Mori (Ministry of Education), Diego Alonso and Alejandro Gauto (Ministry of Health), Gabriel Roberi (Secretariat of Communications and Connectivity), and Roberto Gonzlez (Ministry of Government).

An earlier version of this report was discussed at the 35th meeting of the Working Party on Territorial Indicators (WPTI) on 6 November 2018. The report was submitted for approval by written procedure to the Regional Development Policy Committee on 1 August 2019 under the cote CFE/RDPC/TI(2018)7/REV1. Marco Biagetti, Office of the Undersecretary to the European Affairs (Presidency of the Council of Ministers), is also thanked for his comments.

Special thanks are extended to Pilar Philip and Franois Iglesias in CFE for preparing the report for publication, and to Eric Gonnard in CFE for providing statistical support.