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The performance of firms and industries underpins the growth of economies. The OECD provides governments with methodological guidelines, databases and policy-relevant analysis in this area, much of it focusing on productivity, international competitiveness and structural change.
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12-Feb-2009
The new edition of OECD Input-Output database is available and includes 4 new countries. It is a useful empirical tool for economic research and structural analysis at international level. It highlights inter-industrial relationships and when used in conjunction with other OECD databases such as STAN Industry, Bilateral Trade Database (BTD) and Business R&D Expenditures (ANBERD), it provides a tool for consistent economic analysis of growth, structural change, productivity, competitiveness and employment at the sectoral and macroeconomic levels.
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17-Dec-2008
The new STAN Bilateral Trade Database (the 2008 edition) is available. It includes annual values of exports and imports for all OECD countries and a selection of Non Members as reporters. Data are presented in US dollars and broken down by partner and by industry for the years 1988-2006.
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17-Dec-2008
New STAN tables have been added. The December 2008 version provides data for 26 countries, of which 12 with time series up to 2007. Tables for other countries will be added as they become available.
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07-May-2008
The present edition constitutes the 2007-2008 update of the wide range of indicators which were published in 2006 but also includes new indicators and provides notes as to the measurement challenges and the data choices that were made.
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23-Jan-2008
Economic globalisation has typically been measured using trade and FDI statistics. However, the emergence of global value chains with products often fabricated in one country, assembled in a second and sold in a third country, challenges these traditional indicators. This paper shows how international input-output tables can be used to provide complementary indicators on the growing importance of these global value chains.
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25-Oct-2007
More and more OECD governments are giving firms tax breaks to drive innovation while cutting their direct spending on business research and development (R&D), and are also encouraging public research organisations to commercialise their inventions, according to a new OECD report.
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13-Jul-2009
A timely set of indicators that reflect the level and structure of the efforts undertaken by OECD member countries and selected non-member economies in the field of science and technology.
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This compendium presents a large number of indicators on productivity and includes methodological notes which describe the measurement challenges, data choices, and remaining measurement problems.
OECD Compendium of Productivity Indicators 2008
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