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07-Apr-2011
Access to international trade in intermediate inputs boosts innovation and productivity for domestic firms, according to this study. However, these dynamic gains from trade depend on complementary policies such as access to finance, access to skilled labour and macroeconomic stability.
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12-Nov-2009
Based on fears that the competitiveness of their domestic industries will be undermined by weak greenhouse gas emission reduction pledges from developing country trading partners, developed countries are calling for border taxes on carbon. But these fears are often exaggerated, and posturing over border taxes diverts attention away from the fundamental need for broad participation in a climate agreement, according to an article by the OECD Secretary-General published in the Financial Times.
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15-May-2009
This paper provides an in-depth examination of the trade effects of three regional trade agreements (RTAs) in the agricultural sector: the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Southern Cone Common Market (MERCOSUR).
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12-Feb-2009
How do border bottlenecks affect trade and investment flows? How might these bottlenecks be reduced and is the expense involved worth it? These questions and others are examined in this collection of six studies.
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04-Nov-2008
There is today a great interest in understanding how governments can promote innovation and the benefits it brings, as evidenced by the discussions at the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting in 2007. To gain a better understanding of how trade and investment patterns and policies affect innovation performance, and interact with other key policies influencing innovation capacity, the Trade Committee has undertaken a Trade and Innovation Project …
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04-Nov-2008
This paper provides an overview of work on trade and environment in the OECD since 1991 and summarises the main conclusions and policy recommendations arising from that work.
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04-Nov-2008
This document provides a checklist on environmental issues for negotiators of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) in order to provide guidance to countries wishing to include environmental provisions in RTAs.
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13-Oct-2008
This study explains expected trade-facilitating benefits and other characteristics of the use of Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity (SDOC) as a conformity assessment procedure and assesses the trade effect of the EU’s adoption of SDOC in three product sectors.
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08-Oct-2008
This paper uses firm-level data to identify FDI spillovers across countries and sectors. A positive interaction is found between trade liberalisation and productivity spillovers.
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30-Sep-2008
The benefits of an open multilateral trading system are increasingly being questioned. Despite strong growth in international trade and investment, multilateral liberalisation faces considerable challenges and is becoming ever more elusive.
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