Global Value Chains

The emergence of GVCs challenges our conventional wisdom on how we look at economic globalisation and in particular, the policies that we develop around it. The OECD is preparing a broad range of work to help policy makers understand the effects of GVCs on a number of policy domains.

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Une nouvelle analyse met en lumière l’importance des services pour le commerce mondial

De nouveaux indicateurs des échanges en termes de valeur ajoutée révèlent que les services – logistique, conception, transport, etc. – sont beaucoup plus importants pour le commerce mondial qu’il n’y paraît dans les calculs classiques des exportations et des importations.

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Une nouvelle approche de la mondialisation et des chaînes de valeur mondiales est nécessaire pour stimuler la croissance et l’emploi

Les progrès technologiques, des coûts de transport moins coûteux et la libéralisation des échanges ont transformé la façon dont les entreprises produisent des biens et les commercialisent dans le monde entier. Les pays qui sauront s’ouvrir aux échanges et à l’investissement et encourager l’innovation faciliteront l’intégration de leurs entreprises dans les chaînes de valeur mondiales (CVM), moteur de la croissance économique globale.

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• New approach to globalisation and global value chains needed to boost growth and jobs, says OECD

Traçabilité : l’étalon d’Achille

Le scandale alimentaire de la viande de cheval dans les plats préparés, qui a récemment agité tout le continent européen, a mis en évidence la complexité et le manque de transparence de notre chaîne alimentaire mais aussi, et surtout, les limites du droit européen de l’alimentation.

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Forum International économique Amérique latine et Caraïbes, 31 mai

La cinquième édition du Forum, qui aura lieu le 31 mai 2013 à Paris, posera la question de comment les gouvernements peuvent engager des réformes en faveur d’une compétitivité améliorée, en particulier à travers l’inclusion des PMEs dans une structure productive et économique.

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Stimulating Economic Growth through Knowledge-Based Investment

Recent studies have shown that knowledge-based capital (KBC) is an important source of economic growth in many of the world’s advanced economies (much more so than R&D alone) and is positively correlated with real GDP per capita in a cross-section of these economies. This literature is still in its infancy and there is, as yet, no systematic discussion of KBC policy. This working paper makes an attempt to fill this gap.

OECD-China co-operation in the field of international investment

China is increasingly interested in further advancing its investment co-operation with the OECD. This is in large part due to the fact that China wants to attract more "quality" foreign direct investment (FDI) from OECD-based companies and the perception that the OECD could provide useful best policy practices and experiences for China.

China Investment Policy Update

This paper examines China’s investment policy since the publication of the 2008 OECD Investment Policy Review of China and recommends that the Chinese government continue its efforts to liberalise and increase the transparency and predictability of the framework for both inward and outward FDI. OECD Working Papers on International Investment - No. 2013/1.

Intervention by Mr Sergio Arzeni at the Plenary session on “Small Business: the Heart of the Global Economy”

Now all governments realise why SMEs and entrepreneurship matter: because they are the sources of new jobs.

Workshop: Management and leadership skills in high-growth firms (Warsaw, Poland)

High-growth firms, i.e. enterprises that grow rapidly over a short period of time, have drawn the attention of policy makers because of the large number of jobs they create. While it is uncontested that high-growth firms account for most job creation, there are fewer certainties about the features and characteristics of these enterprises or on how best they can be promoted by policy.