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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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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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24-Apr-2008
This publication presents detailed data on the industrial activity of multinationals in OECD countries. In an era of globalisation, these data highlight the increasing importance of multinationals in the economies of host countries.
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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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19-Nov-2007
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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28-Nov-2007
The OECD Input-Output database 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, Business R&D Expenditures (ANBERD) and Bilateral Trade Database (BTD), 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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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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