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29-Feb-2008
This Sector Understanding sets common rules for government supported export credits for ships, in particular concerning interest rates and the duration of credits. The latest update of the SSU came into force on 8 October 2007.
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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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05-Dec-2007
The global steel market is in its sixth year of strong output and demand growth. But the outlook for 2008 is less buoyant amid weaker prospects for global economic growth, according to industry and government officials at the OECD’s Steel Committee meeting in Paris on 3-4 December 2007.
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25-Sep-2007
Fake goods are not cheap. In fact, they exact a heavy cost on industry, governments and the general public. There is a strong case for public action across OECD countries against counterfeiting. This recent OECD Observer article addresses the question of how to make progress.
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21-Jun-2007
The impact of offshoring on the labour market has become one of the major issues of concern to policy makers and public opinion. This publication provides new insights into offshoring, which has become a fact of life for business, and describes the wide-ranging effects that offshoring can have on domestic employment--the positive, as well as the negative.
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21-Jun-2007
This publication brings together OECD data on the globalisation of value chains, including the rise of outsourcing/offshoring. After examining how OECD countries are affected by the globalisation of production, the report discusses costs and benefits of globalisation with an emphasis on employment and productivity. It then analyses how globalisation impacts the competitiveness of OECD countries, highlighting the need for an effective innovation strategy. Summary brochure also available.
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31-May-2007
The presentations from the 62nd Steel Committee meeting and the Roundtable on consolidation in the world steel market, held in Istanbul on 17-18 May 2007 are now available.
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21-May-2007
The services sector makes an important contribution to employment growth, productivity and innovation in OECD countries. This document looks specifically at business support services and their strong linkages with other sectors. It aims to identify factors, institutions and policies that affect the delivery of business support services and that could enhance growth prospects more broadly. It focuses mainly on issues related to productivity, standardisation and regulation, and trade.
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21-May-2007
Driven by buoyant steel-intensive economic activity including construction and infrastructure building in many developing economies, global apparent consumption of steel has increased at an average pace of more than 7% per annum since 2002 to reach a record level of 1.113 billion tonnes last year.
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08-Nov-2006
The OECD Council Working Party on Shipbuilding, in association with the major shipbuilding associations, has released a revised and updated system to calculate compensated gross tons (cgt). The new cgt system will come into force on 1 January 2007, and all cgt users are encouraged to use the new system from that date. A copy of the document and user guide describing the new cgt system can be downloaded from this site.
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