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Actualités & Evénements
Actualités
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30-août-2010
Réponses des Membres au 31 juillet 2010 au questionnnaire de 2007 sur l'environnement et les crédits à l'exportation bénéficiant d'un soutien public.
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08-juil.-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.
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02-juil.-2010
Read the new OECD-WTO publication "Aid for Trade: Is It Working?" The policy brief can be downloaded from here .
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01-juil.-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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23-juin-2010
The international community has continued to mobilise new aid-for-trade resources. In 2008 commitments totaled USD 41.7 billion, a 35% increase in real terms from 2007, and an increase of 62% from the 2002-05 baseline. The scale of the rise was such that aid for trade now reaches 37% of sector allocable ODA, up from 32% in 2007.
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18-juin-2010
How do international standards affect international trade? This paper surveys empirical studies investigating this relationship. Its main focus is on econometric studies, but surveys and some of the literature investigating the relationship between standards and other economic measures, such as productivity, growth and welfare are also covered.
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18-juin-2010
Trade fell significantly in the aftermath of the financial crisis, even more than the large drop in global production levels. This paper examines to what extent short-term trade finance may have impacted trade levels before and after the crisis hit.
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16-juin-2010
Using key principles and provisions of the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) as a yardstick for analysis, this paper examines whether and how eight major regional integration agreements in Sub-Saharan Africa address TBT. It finds that TBT have not been not an important issue in those agreements and investment in related institutional infrastructure has not been significant.
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Joint meeting of the DAC and the Working Party of the Trade Committee on Aid for Trade held on 7 June
15-juin-2010
Members of the DAC and the Working Party of the Trade Committee as well as representatives from the African Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, ILO, UNDP, UNIDO, the World Bank and WTO met in OECD on 7 June to discuss ongoing OECD work on improving the effectiveness of aid for trade. For the first time the joint meeting was joined by Ambassador Erwidodo of Indonesia, the Chair of the WTO Committee on Trade and Development.
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14-juin-2010
The OECD recently held a Workshop on Technical Barriers to Trade : Promoting Good Practice in Support of Open Markets. These proccedings bring together the presentation and background papers prepared for this workshop which attracted over 90 trade officials, regulators and other stakeholders from OECD and non-OECD countries to discuss developments in the TBT field and the associated policy challenges.
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