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2010 cash flow results for officially supported export credits

08-Dec-2011

The OECD Members of the Working Party on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees submit their cash flow results for officially supported export credits to the OECD Secretariat on an annual basis. The following Tables I, II, III, IV and V represent the results for 2010 and previous years, which are expressed in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).

Multilateralising Regionalism: How Preferential Are Services Commitments in Regional Trade Agreements?

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.

Experts Meeting on Indicators: Measuring Aid-for-Trade Results at the Country Level, 22 October 2010

29-Oct-2010

OECD held an experts meeting to review the use of indicators for aid-for-trade monitoring and evaluation. The meeting addressed whether there was a need for indicators, for what purpose and how to go forward. Experts provided insights into the demand for and the supply of aid-for-trade indicators. Participants also had a chance to hear what some donors were doing to improve their results management through using common indicators.

Trade and Innovation: Report on the Chemicals Sector

30-Sep-2010

The chemicals sector has a long history of innovation and is a large trading item. This paper analyses and compares different trade and innovation linkages in basic industrial chemicals, specialty and fine chemicals and consumer chemicals.

Demand Growth in Developing Countries

31-Aug-2010

This report looks at how growth in demand for agricultural products has evolved in developing and emerging economies, notably Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia and China (the so-called BRIIC countries).

2010 Responses to the Survey on Members' environmental procedures and practices

30-Aug-2010

Members' responses, as at 31 July 2010, to the 2007 Survey regarding the environment and officially supported export credits.

New working paper: Increasing the impact of trade expansion on growth

08-Jul-2010

Trade can be a powerful engine for economic growth and poverty reduction. However, the growth potential of trade may not always be realized. While most trade reforms had a positive impact, some trade reforms proved unsustainable and others did not have a meaningful impact on growth. This paper discusses the various reasons for these outcomes in order to draw the lessons for the design of Aid for Trade and increase its effectiveness. Read the working paper.

Aid for Trade: Is It Working? - New OECD-WTO policy brief

02-Jul-2010

Read the new OECD-WTO publication "Aid for Trade: Is It Working?" The policy brief can be downloaded from here .

Environment and Regional Trade Agreements: Developments in 2009

01-Jul-2010

A third update on developments in the field of regional trade agreements and
environment covering the period late 2008 to December 2009. It complements the 2007 publication “Environment and Regional Trade Agreements” prepared under the aegis of the Joint Working Party on Trade and Environment.




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