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Society at a Glance - Asia/Pacific Edition 2009

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13-Aug-2009

Society at a Glance – Asia/Pacific Edition 2009 offers a concise quantitative overview of social trends and policies across Asia-Pacific economies.

Ensuring Environmental Compliance: Trends and Good Practices

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19-May-2009

Despite progress in recent years, there is growing evidence that OECD countries are not on track to reach some of their key environmental goals. This report examines the strategies and instruments that governments use to ensure compliance with pollution prevention and control regulations.

Cleaner Coal in China

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05-May-2009

This study sheds light on the Chinese coal supply and transformation sectors.

OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform - China: Defining the Boundary between the Market and the State

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20-Mar-2009

This review on China takes into account the specific reform needs and challenges in China while retaining the benefits of comparing and illustrating Chinese reform challenges with OECD practices. The report ...

Globalisation and Emerging Economies

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19-Mar-2009

OECD countries still dominate the world economy, but their share of world trade dropped and some of the world’s most important economies are not members of the OECD. Foremost among these are the so-called BRIICS: Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa.

Agricultural Policies in Emerging Economies: Monitoring and Evaluation 2009

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17-Mar-2009

The years 2006-08 were marked by a significant increase in world prices for most, but not all, agricultural commodities. This report analyses policy developments during this period in seven emerging economies: Brazil, Chile, China, India, Russia, South Africa and Ukraine.

OECD Rural Policy Review: China

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24-Feb-2009

David Freshwater; Markus Berger

This report analyses the key socio-economic forces at work in China’s rural areas and discusses the current government strategy for rural development

OECD Investment Policy Reviews - China 2008: Encouraging Responsible Business Conduct

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24-Nov-2008

This Investment Policy Review of China 2008 reviews Chinese government efforts to encourage responsible business conduct against the backdrop of recent regulatory changes and China's increasing outward ...

OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy: China

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11-Sep-2008

This review assesses the current status of China’s national innovation system and policies, and recommends the most important improvements required in both the policy and institutional environments for China to succeed in promoting innovation through a market-based approach.

Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run - Second Edition

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13-Mar-2008

Angus Maddison; OECD Development Centre

This book uses a comparative approach to explain why China’s role in the world economy has changed so dramatically in the last thousand years. This edition has been revised and updated and Chapter 4 is new. It concludes that China will resume its role as the world's largest economy by 2015.