Report on Second Roundtable on Economics for Consumer Policy (STI Digital Economy 132)

Report on the 2nd Roundtable on Economics for Consumer Policy, held in October 2006, to consider the economic theories of information disclosure with a focus on two major industry sectors – telecommunications and financial services.

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Policy Brief: Moving up the (Global) Value Chain

Globalisation raises many important challenges and is high on the policy agenda in many OECD countries. Globalisation itself is not new – the process of international economic integration has been underway for decades – but the pace and scale of today’s globalisation is unprecedented.One reason for the speeding-up of the whole globalisation process is the rapid emergence of “global value chains”. The whole process of producing goods,

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OECD Recommendation on Consumer Dispute Resolution and Redress

On 12 July 2007, OECD Member countries adopted a Recommendation on Consumer Dispute Resolution and Redress to provide governments with a framework to help consumers resolve disputes and settle claims with business.

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Offshoring and Employment: Trends and Impacts

This report provides new insights into offshoring, which has become a fact of life for business, and describes the wide-ranging effects that offshoring can have on domestic employment -- the positive, as well as the negative.

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R&D and Innovation in Spain: Improving the Policy Mix (I+D e innovación en España: Mejorando los instrumentos)

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OECD Recommendation on Electronic Authentication and Guidance for Electronic authentication

The OECD Council adopted a Recommendation encouraging efforts by Member countries to establish compatible, technology-neutral approaches for effective domestic and cross-border electronic authentication of persons and entities. The OECD also developed Guidance to support these efforts.

Report on Ship Financing

This report, prepared in 2007, examines in detail the impact of decreased capital markets activity in the shipbuilding sector.

Summary of the 104th meeting of the Council Working Party on Shipbuilding

Summary of the 104th meeting of the WP6.

OECD Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Genetic Testing

Genetics is playing an increasingly important role in health care. New technical advances and information deriving from human genome research are changing health care practices and the economics of healthcare provision.

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Report on OECD member countries' approaches to consumer contracts (STI Digital Economy Paper 131)

This report covers the four issues most often raised by consumer contracts: misrepresentation; the seller's duty to supply information to the consumer; suitability, or "know your customer" rules; and protection against unsolicited offers and pressure sales tactics.