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Enhancing the globalisation of Korea

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22-May-2008

Randall S. Jones and Taesik Yoon

Although Korea has become more integrated in the world economy over the past decade, it still ranks low in terms of import penetration, the stock of inward FDI relative to GDP and foreign workers as a share of the labour force.

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.

Credit Reporting System (CRS) Profile for South Korea

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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

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.

Managing globalisation and the role of the OECD

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20-Sep-2006

Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD

In this speech, Angel Gurría, promotes a strong multilateral trading system, foreign investment and "enlightened migration" in order to better manage globalisation.

Identifying complementary measures to ensure the maximum realisation of benefits from the liberalisation of trade in environmental goods and services - Case study: Korea

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13-Jul-2006

Jintaek Whang and Jae-Hyup Lee

OECD Trade and Environment Working Paper No. 2004-03. This study looks at the situation in Korea which began actively promoting its environmental technologies in the early 1990s when the government identified environmental goods and services as one of several strategic national industries.

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 ...

Product market competition and economic performance in Korea

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09-Aug-2004

Yongchun Baek, Randall Jones and Michael Wise

Korea’s development strategy has tended to weaken competition and has left a legacy of government intervention. Economics Department Working Paper 399.