Regulatory Reform in China: Defining the Boundary Between the Market and the State

20-Mar-2009

This report covers the overall economic context for regulatory reform in China. It assesses the government’s capacity to manage regulatory reform, competition policy and enforcement, and market openness.  Included are specific chapters on the electricity and water sectors.

Barriers to competition measured in new product market regulation indicators

24-Feb-2009

The OECD has issued revised product market regulation indicators to measure how far rules and laws promote or inhibit competition. The indicators cover state control of businesses, legal and administrative barriers to entrepreneurship and obstacles to international trade and investment.

OECD’s Gurría welcomes G7 move to establish set of ethical principles on global business

16-Feb-2009

OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría has welcomed the decision by G7 Finance Ministers to work towards setting up a set of common principles on integrity, transparency and propriety in global financial and business transactions.

Overcoming Barriers to Administrative Simplification Strategies: Guidance for Policy Makers

04-Feb-2009

This guide draws on the experience of, and policy dialogue between, OECD member countries and Middle East and North African countries (MENA). It reviews common barriers to designing and implementing a strategy for administrative simplification and offers 22 approaches to overcome them.

Building an Institutional Framework for Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA): Guidance for Policy Makers

29-Jul-2008

This guide for policy makers with little knowledge about RIA coverd the main elements that constitute the RIA process, with a focus on basic institutional preconditions for successful implementation. The OECD framework highlights the benefits of RIA, to help practitioners better understand the elements needed to introduce and consulate a RIA system.

Public-Private Partnerships: In Pursuit of Risk Sharing and Value for Money (publication)

17-Jun-2008

The debate about how to achieve value for money in the delivery of government services is important and ongoing. Increasingly, public services are being delivered to citizens in a variety of ways. Public-private partnerships are one option. This book highlights ten good practices, summarising what countries should consider before entering into public-private partnerships.

Brazil: Strengthening governance for growth

28-May-2008

This review analyses the challenges of strengthening regulatory governance in Brazil to improve economic growth, with appropriate regulatory frameworks for core infrastructure sectors. The debate on a market-based economy has now entered a new phase in Brazil, addressing the broader context of quality regulation and the reduction of regulatory risk. The improved macroeconomic situation and the progress made by the sectoral regulatory agencies have paid off, and there is also wider social participation in the improvement of the regulatory framework with a stronger consumer engagement.

Korea: progress in implementing regulatory reform

19-Mar-2007

This publication assesses progress since 2000 and analyses many of the lessons of implementation of regulatory reform.

Examining the trade effect of certain customs and administrative procedures

30-Jan-2007

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 42.  Recent research at OECD provides new evidence that customs and administrative procedures have substantial effects on trade flows.

OECD Regional Forum on Trade Facilitation, 27-28 September 2006, Yaoundé (Cameroon)

19-Jan-2007

The OECD Development Co-operation and Trade Directorates, in collaboration with the Government of Cameroon, organised a Regional Forum on "Maximising the Developmental Benefits of Trade Facilitation". The Forum took place in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on 27-28 September 2006.