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24-Jan-2012
Innovation is critical to creating new sources of growth, and trade can strengthen innovation in the business sector. Technology diffusion, competition and exports are channels through which trade affects innovation. These channels, along with the related policy issues of absorptive capacity, trade liberalisation and the protection of intellectual property rights, are discussed in this report.
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16-Dec-2010
This report examines services schedules of commitments in 56 regional trade agreements (RTAs) where an OECD country is a party. The preferential content of RTAs is assessed through an analysis of market access and national treatment commitments at the level of the 155 sub-sectors of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) Sectoral Classification List. Partial commitments are broken down according to nine categories of non-conforming measures.
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25-May-2010
International trade in intermediate goods and services gives domestic firms access to higher quality inputs and improves their competitivity. Protectionist measures that inhibit this trade are more likely to produce firm closures and job losses, OECD analysis finds.
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26-Feb-2009
Trade in services contributes to a broader services supplier base that supports competitiveness in high-technology and high-value added manufacturing.
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20-Feb-2009
Significant regulatory reforms have taken place in the service sectors of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Morocco over the last decade, but a broad range of restrictions still remain.
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04-Feb-2008
OECD Working Paper No. 68. This study explores how recent developments in the retail sector affect trade in consumer goods. It focuses on three developments in the retail sector: i) internationalization; ii) market structure; and iii) the growing market share of retailers’ private labels, using the gravity model.
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30-Jan-2008
OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 57. This study analyses the role that services trade liberalisation could play in fostering tourism growth in developing countries.
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