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12-Dec-2005
The amount of trade-related technical assistance and capacity building — to help developing and least-developed countries to participate more efficiently in international trade — has increased by 50% since the Doha Ministerial Declaration in November 2001, according to a joint report by the WTO and the OECD.
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02-Nov-2005
In the run-up to the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial, the OECD Development Assistance Committee held a Special Meeting on Aid for Trade, building on recent discussions of the Development Committee (September 2005) and the G8 (July 2005)...
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Making Poverty Reduction Work: OECD’s Role in Development Partnership
21-Sep-2005
Contributing to global development is a key objective of the OECD as an intergovernmental agency and through its collective membership. What does the OECD bring to the international effort to achieve the international goals? Read the executive summary or the full report transmitted to the UN General Assembly Summit of 2005, as well as other international meetings related to development.
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02-Sep-2005
The DAC project on trade facilitation aims to strengthen the design, delivery and evaluation of technical assistance and capacity building programmes in trade facilitation, in a way that is consistent with the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005) and other DAC guidelines, including the DAC Guidelines on Strengthening Trade Capacity for Development (2001).
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26-Apr-2005
The aim of the study, presented at the Ministerial Council Meeting, is to identify, for both developed and developing countries, the requirements for successful trade-related structural adjustment by reallocating labour and capital to more efficient uses, while limiting adjustment costs for individuals, communities and society as a whole. Eight sectors have been chosen for particular attention: agriculture, fisheries, textiles and clothing, steel, shipbuilding, motor vehicles, health services and international sourcing of IT and business process services.
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06-Apr-2005
Preference erosion has become an important issue in the current WTO trade negotiations as developing countries are concerned that multilateral tariff reductions will harm their agricultural sectors. The findings in this report suggest that although this may indeed be a problem for some countries in some sectors, factors other than preferential schemes may be limiting developing country exports.
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16-Feb-2005
In the context of OECD work on policy reform for commodities that receive very high support and protection, assessments are provided of the market, trade and welfare impacts of milk quota systems and of international dairy trade liberalisation.
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04-Feb-2005
The DAC will be organizing a seminar for DAC delegates in order to present the findings of a major World Bank study on Food Safety and Agricultural Health Requirements: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Country Exports...
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29-Jul-2004
Evaluation experts met in Paris to discuss the possibility of conducting collaborative (OECD/DAC) work on results monitoring and assessment of donor-funded trade-related technical assistance and capacity building...
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21-Jun-2004
Information reported by Members of the OECD'S Working Party on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees on their policies and practices towards the environment when providing officially supported export credits as of 18 June 2004.
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