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TRADE PARTNERS' EDITION, 15 JANUARY 2013
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OECD Factbook 2013: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics Webbook now available on OECD iLibrary! The OECD Factbook is one of the most-viewed titles on the OECD iLibrary! This new edition updates the data. The print edition will come out at the end of the month. View on OECD iLibrary | Book on OECD iLibrary Always a bestseller! Order a supply today!
Coal’s share of global energy mix to continue rising, with coal closing in on oil as world’s top energy source by 2017, says Medium-Term Coal Market Report: Press release | Book on Online Bookshop | Book on OECD iLibrary Medium-Term Reports for Natural Gas and Renewables did well. So should this one.
Grade Expectations: How Marks and Education Policies Shape Students' Ambitions: Blog post | Read and Share | Book on Online Bookshop | Book on OECD iLibrary An interesting analysis based on PISA data.
OECD Compendium of Productivity Indicators 2012 analyses the role of productivity as the main driver of economic growth and convergence and the contributions of labour, capital and Multi-Factor Productivity (MFP) in driving economic growth.: Read and Share | Book on Online Bookshop | Book on OECD iLibrary An important new compilation of productivity indicators. Timely, given all the talk these days about productivity.

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Downloads from the OECD iLibrary were up almost 50% in 2012, to more than 5 million! Most downloaded titles included the OECD Factbook 2011-2012 with 479,596 downloads, Health at a Glance 2011 with 231,817 downloads, Country Key Tables with190, 817 downloads, STI Scoreboard 2011 with 149,114 downloads, Government at a Glance 2011 with 118,664 downloads and Economics Key Tables with 107,198 downloads.
OECD iLibrary is now available at over 2000 institutions in more than 100 countries. See the list by country
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OECD iLibrary: Brochure
OECD publications will be on
exhibit at the following events in the coming months:
- American Library Association Midwinter Conference, 25-29 January 2013, Seatlle, WA, USA (OECD personnel attending but not exhibiting)
- INETBIB, 4-6 March 2013, Berlin, Germany
- Kongress Bibliothek & Information, Leipzig, Germany, 11-14 March 2013
- Computers in Libraries, Washington, DC, USA, 8-10 April 2013
- International Conference of Asian Special Libraries, 10-12 April 2013, Pasay City, Philippines
- London Book Fair, 15-17 April 2013, London, UK
- Special Libraries Association, 9-11 June 2013, San Diego, CA USA
- Hong Kong Book Fair 2013, 17-23 July 2013, Hong Kong

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News from the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, December 2012 includes articles on bribery, terrorist risk financing, dispute settlement in international investment agreements and financial consumer protection: Newsletter
OECD seriously concerned by absence of foreign bribery convictions in Spain: Press release | Report (PDF - 859 kb)
Netherlands must significantly step up its foreign bribery enforcement, says OECD: Press release | Report (PDF - 635 kb)
Austria’s enforcement of foreign bribery laws far too weak, but could pick up soon says OECD: Press release | Report (PDF - 677 kb)
Forthcoming
-Financial Education in Schools: Policy Guidance, Challenges and Case Studies: Book listing
-OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas, Second Edition: Book listing
-Renewable Energies in the Middle East and North Africa: Policies to Support Private Investment: Book listing

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OECD Announces Winner of Global Data Visualisation Competition: Press release
OECD Compendium of Productivity Indicators 2012 analyses the role of productivity as the main driver of economic growth and convergence and the contributions of labour, capital and Multi-Factor Productivity (MFP) in driving economic growth.: Read and Share | Book on Online Bookshop | Book on OECD iLibrary
Eurostat-OECD Methodological Manual on Purchasing Power Parities. Available only as a PDF file. Read and Share | Book on Online Bookshop | Book on OECD iLibrary
OECD Unit labour costs up 0.2% in the third quarter of 2012: Press release
OECD annual inflation slows to 1.9% in November 2012: Press release
Composite leading indicators point to stabilising economic growth in most major economies: Press release
Private consumption is the main driver of OECD GDP growth in the third quarter of 2012: Press release
Forthcoming:
-National Accounts of OECD Countries, Financial Balance Sheets 2012: Book listing
-National Accounts of OECD Countries, General Government Accounts 2012: Book listing
-National Accounts at a Glance 2013: Book listing

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Coal’s share of global energy mix to continue rising, with coal closing in on oil as world’s top energy source by 2017, says Medium-Term Coal Market Report: Press release | Book on Online Bookshop | Book on OECD iLibrary
Forthcoming
-Inventory of Estimated Budgetary Support and Tax Expenditures for Fossil Fuels 2013: Book listing
Taxing Energy Use: A Graphical Analysis: Book listing
-Electricity in a Climate-Constrained World: Book listing
-Energy Policies of IEA Countries: Sweden 2013

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The Development and Diffusion of Digital Content: Working paper
Improving the Evidence Base for Information Security and Privacy Policies: Understanding the Opportunities and Challenges related to Measuring Information Security, Privacy and the Protection of Children Online: Working paper

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NEA Monthly News Bulletin, January 2013 includes articles on nuclear safety and regulation, radiological protection and nuclear law: Newsletter
Russian Federation joins the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency as of 1 January 2013: Press release
Follow NEA on Twitter

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Forthcoming:
-Inventory of Estimated Budgetary Support and Tax Expenditures for Fossil Fuels 2013: Book listing
-Brazil's Supreme Audit Institution: The Audit of the Consolidated Year-end Govrnment Report: Book listing
-Measuring Fiscal Decentralisation: Concepts and Policies: Book listing

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Mixed Modes of Innovation: An Empiric Approach to Capturing Firms’ Innovation Behaviour: Working paper
Transferable Skills Training for Researchers: Supporting Career Development and Research: Print edition now available! Read and Share | Book on Online Bookshop | Book on OECD iLibrary
Mapping Careers and Mobility of Doctorate Holders: Draft Guidelines, Model Questionnaire and Indicators – Third Edition: Working paper
STI News on Innovation, January 2013: Newsletter

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Leveraging Training and Skills Development in SMEs:An Analysis of Two Canadian Urban Regions: Montreal and Winnipeg: Working Paper
Boosting Local Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Creation in Lombardy Region: Working Paper
Forthcoming
-New Entrepreneurs and High Performance Enterprises in the Middle East and North Africa: Book listing
-The Missing Entrepreneurs: Policies for Inclusive Entrepreneurship in Europe: Book listing

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Guatemala: commits to international exchange of tax information: Press release
Forthcoming:
-Inventory of Estimated Budgetary Support and Tax Expenditures for Fossil Fuels 2013: Book listing
-Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital 2010: Full Electronic Version (eMTC)
On USB Flash Memory Key: Listing
-Tax and Development: Book listing
-Taxing Energy Use: A Graphical Analysis: Book listing

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OECD Statistics on International Trade in Services, Volume 2012 Issue 2: Detailed Tables by Partner Country: Print edition now available! Read and Share | Book on Online Bookshop | Book on OECD iLibrary
Regulatory Transparency in Multilateral Agreements Controlling Exports of Tropical Timber, E-Waste and Conflict Diamonds: Working paper
Monthly Export Credit Interest Rate Update: Website
Forthcoming
-OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas, Second Edition: Book listing

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Competitiveness of Port Cities: The case of Marseille-Fos: Working paper
Apprenticeships in London: Boosting Skills in a City Economy - With Comments on Lessons from Germany: Working paper
Forthcoming:
-Higher Education in Regional and City Development: Wroclaw, Poland: Book listing

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Happy Migrants' Day
Manila’s main airport is rarely a quiet place. But it will be even busier than usual over the next week as some of the Philippines’ 10 million or so emigrants head home for the holidays. When they land, they’ll get the red-carpet treatment – literally. In a tradition dating back to the 1990s, returning Overseas Filipino Workers get to walk down red-carpeted lanes and are promised speedier processing at immigration and customs. They can also look forward to raffles and prizes and even a visit from the president. “This is the government’s tribute to the heroism of OFWs who come home during Christmastime to be with their families,” an official explained. Read more
Reindeer really know how to fly
People often believe supposedly scientifically based “facts” that are simply not true. Yet, if you trace things back far enough, you can usually find the grain of truth that started people down the wrong track. The point came up in discussions with a friend who said that my position on the actual risks of cell phone radiation sounded pretty logical but they rejoined by asking, given the season, if my hypothesis about an initial truth were correct, I should then be able to explain the scientific facts behind flying reindeer and such. Turns out the answer comes from pharmacology and anthropology rather than the science of flight. It seems that in northern Siberia, the reindeer have developed a taste for those colorful red and white mushrooms, fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), and will eat them till they’re higher than a kite. Anyone eating the meat of such reindeer will get equally high. Read more
Happy New Year’s Resolutions!
For millennia, people have rung in the New Year with resolutions for self-improvement. Ancient Babylonians made promises to their gods, in particular that they would return borrowed objects and repay loans; Romans made vows to Janus, the deity whose two faces simultaneously looked back to the past and forward to the future. Puritans fasted, prayed and resolved to be free of sin in the year to come.
In the 21st century, the habit of making New Year’s resolutions is still going strong. The perennial favorites are saving money and losing weight, though the US government also includes drinking less, eating more healthily getting a better education or better job, improving fitness, managing stress, quitting smoking, recycling, taking a trip and volunteering on its list of popular resolutions.
If these are the areas in which we feel we need to improve, does this mean we are all overweight, in debt, under-educated, poorly employed, unfit, stressed-out smokers, without the time to take a vacation, do our part for the environment, or help others? What’s the real picture in OECD countries? Read more
Now do you see what we mean? OECD data visualization contest results
In his modestly entitled Diary of a Genius, Salvador Dali dismisses Alexander Calder’s mobiles by remarking that the least you can expect of a sculpture is that it doesn’t move. But, never one to be bothered by contradictions, he had a lot of respect for the “New Vision” of the ex-Bauhaus artist and designer László Moholy-Nagy who pioneered kinetic sculpture with his 1930 stage prop consisting of a light that projected the shadows of its moving parts. Budapest’s University of Art and Design is named in his honour, and one of its graduates, Krisztina Szucs, is the joint winner of the data visualization contest we announced last September.
If your view of data visualization is similar to that of Dali’s concerning Calder, go here. If not, click on the image below to see how Krisztina and Maté Cziner present the financial return on education, based on data from the 568 pages and 1.5 kilos of the OECD’s amusingly entitled Education at a Glance. Read more
Aid for Trade: Renewing the impetus
This post from Pascal Lamy, Director General of the WTO, is the first in a series published to coincide with the 2013 Dialogue on Aid for Trade taking place at the OECD on January 16-17. Aid-for-Trade is as relevant today as it was when the Initiative was launched at the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference in 2005. Developing countries, and in particular Least-Developed Countries (LDCs), have made measurable progress in their participation in the global trading system. But for many, this participation still remains too narrowly focused on a limited range of exports (often primary commodities). And prospects for further integration into the global economy continue to be hampered by a range of supply-side and trade-related infrastructure constraints. Read more
Aid for Trade: Helping developing countries trade their way out of poverty
One thing is for sure: No country has ever lifted itself out of poverty without international trade. Trade is key to help countries develop. So we need to make sure that people in the world’s poorest countries have access to markets, to create jobs and encourage growth as a result. But trade needs the right conditions to flourish. Bottlenecks and inefficiencies – whether at border crossings, or in the way the economy is regulated, or even within the private sector – get in the way of progress and prosperity. That’s where Aid for Trade comes in: as financial assistance to build new infrastructure, improve ports or customs facilities in developing countries – in short: we want to help developing countries “trade” their way out of poverty. Today, the EU and its Member States provide more trade-related development assistance than the rest of the world put together. Read more
Aid for Trade: Achieving success in a changing environment
Today’s post from OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría is published to coincide with the 2013 Dialogue on Aid for Trade taking place at the OECD on January 16-17. Aid for Trade means that countries extend aid to support developing countries to increase exports of goods and services, and to benefit from free trade and increased market access. Since the Initiative was launched following the 2005 Hong Kong WTO Ministerial Conference in 2005, aid-for-trade resources have grown more than 80% in real terms and reached approximately $45 billion in 2010, with a third of that share going to the least developed countries (LDCs). These funds have been additional: the increase in aid for trade did not come at the expense of other sectors such as health or education. Providers of South-South co-operation have also enhanced their trade-related co-operation efforts. While the outlook is uncertain, G20 leaders have committed to at least maintain levels of aid-for-trade expenditure that reflect the 2006-2008 average as part of the Multiyear Action Plan on Development. Read more |

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