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Globalisation in Services: From Measurement to Analysis

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12-Feb-2008

Isabelle Bensidoun and Deniz Ünal-Kesenci, Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Information Internationales, Paris

Statistics Working Paper 2008/3/REV1 - This paper provides new estimates of international trade in services for mode 3 (foreign affiliates' sales in a host country) for four major OECD countries, thanks ...

Outsourcing in East Asia and its impact on the Japanese and Korean Labour Markets

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28-Jan-2008

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 65. This study describes the changing patterns of intermediate goods trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in East Asia and investigates the impacts of international outsourcing on the Japanese and the Korean labour markets.

Creditor Reporting System (CRS) Profile for Japan

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03-Jan-2008

A CRS profile details the information the OECD holds on the DAC members' Official Development Assistance commitments and briefly describes the CRS codes used to proxy aid-for-trade categories. The CRS codes record the sector of destination of an activity and not the nature of the activity per se

Aid for Trade at a Glance 2007 - Country chapter for Japan

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15-Nov-2007

This country chapter is extracted from the report "Aid for Trade at a Glance 2007" which provides the first comprehensive global picture of aid for trade and will enable the international community to assess what is being achieved, what is not, and where improvements are needed.

Strengthening the integration of Japan in the world economy to benefit more fully from globalisation

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07-Dec-2006

Randall S. Jones and Taesik Yoon

To lift productivity, Japan needs greater inflows of FDI and more openness to trade and inflows of foreign workers. Economics Department Working Paper 526.

Facilitating adjustment: Sector experiences from agriculture, telecommunications and chemicals

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12-Oct-2006

Michael Engman, Osamu Onodera and Norbert Wilson

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 41.  How can governments facilitate structural adjustment?  This follow up to Trade and Structural Adjustment: Embracing Globalisation discusses benefits of multilateral commitments, possible costs of domestic regulations, and sequencing issues.

Economic Survey of Japan 2006: of Japan in the world economy to benefit more fully from globalisation

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20-Jul-2006

Japan has the lowest import penetration and stock of inward FDI relative to GDP in the OECD. Policy reforms are needed to make greater use of goods, services, capital and human resources from abroad.

OECD Tokyo Forum on Trade - "In search of the future under globalisation", 14-15 July 2005, Tokyo PROGRAM

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27-Apr-2006

OECD Tokyo Forum on Trade - "In search of the future under globalisation", 14-15 July 2005, Tokyo

Meeting of the OECD Council at Ministerial Level, 2005: Enabling Globalisation

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02-May-2005

This year’s OECD Ministerial Council Meeting will be held at OECD Headquarters on 3-4 May 2005 under the chairmanship of Göran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden, with the overarching theme of “Enabling ...