This looks like a potentially useful teaching resource for colleagues wanting to update on developments in international economics. The OECD Insights publications provide what the OECD says are reader-friendly books that uses OECD analysis and data to introduce some of today’s most pressing social and economic issues. Further details here:

The titles so far are

International Migration: The Human Face of Globalisation (2009) International Trade: Free, Fair and Open? (2009) Sustainable Development: Linking economy, society, environment (2008) Human Capital: How what you know shapes your life (2007)

There are two forthcoming publications From Crisis to Recovery Fisheries: While Stocks Last?