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Effective aid-for-trade partnerships: Local accountability and global review

07-Aug-2006

This paper is the contribution of the OECD to the WTO consultations on appropriate mechanisms to ensure additional financial resources for aid-for-trade, which were called for in the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial Declaration.

The Centre for Co-operation with Non-Members

25-Jul-2006

The Centre for Co-operation with Non-Members (CCNM - www.oecd.org/ccnm) develops and oversees the strategic orientations of the OECD’s global relations with non-members

Taxation and Social Security in Agriculture (Policy Brief)

24-Jul-2006

Tax concessions to farmers and landowners often represent an alternative to programmes incurring direct government outlay yet, because no budgetary spending takes place, the level of public scrutiny is often low. Such concessions often fall outside the remit of agricultural policy analysts and administrators and tend to be politically sensitive. Consequently, tax concessions have been little studied and are poorly documented. Yet they carry implications for production, land use, incomes, trade, the environment, rural society and other issues.

Logistics and time as a trade barrier

23-Jun-2006

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 35.  This paper analyses the relation between time for exports and imports, logistics services and international trade.

OECD governments gave € 225 billion in support to farmers in 2005

21-Jun-2006

Government support to farmers in OECD countries totalled  € 225 billion in 2005, representing 29% of farm receipts. The proportion is unchanged from the previous year and only marginally lower than the 30% reported in 2003, according to a new OECD study.

Coherence of agricultural and rural development policies

19-Jun-2006

At a time when agriculture is no longer the dominant sector in rural economies in OECD countries, this study examines the advantages of developing coherence between agricultural and rural development policies.

Agricultural Policy and Trade Reform: Potential Effects at Global, National and Household Levels

14-Jun-2006

A just released report shows that a simultaneous reform involving a halving of trade protection and domestic support across all sectors could potentially generate USD 44 billion in welfare gains globally. Most of these gains arise from agricultural reform and most of these agricultural gains come from reform of market access measures.

137th Session of the Trade Committee, 21-22 October 2003

30-May-2006

read the summary of the latest meeting of the Trade Committee...

Liberalising network infrastructure services and the GATS

24-May-2006

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 34.  This study reviews key issues in liberalising network infrastructure services — including telecommunications, postal/courier, energy, water and sewage — in the national and multilateral contexts.




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