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FDI from OECD countries jumps 50% in 2007 but set to fall in 2008

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24-Jun-2008

Foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows from OECD countries in 2007 leapt to a record USD 1.82 trillion from USD 1.2 trillion in 2006 but are projected to fall sharply in 2008, according to estimates from the OECD.

Steps taken by the United States to implement and enforce the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions

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09-Mar-2006

What past and future steps did/will the United States take to ratify and implement the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention?

Coping with the inevitable adjustment in the US current account

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19-Dec-2005

Peter Jarrett

An assessment of the US current deficit, along with the appropriate policies to ease the inevitable shifts that will accompany its shrinkage to a sustainable level. Economics Department Working Paper 467.

The Transatlantic Relationship

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04-Nov-2005

Jean-Philippe Cotis

Presentation given by OECD Chief Economist Jean-Philippe Cotis to the US State Department in Washington D.C. on 27 October 2005 on the transatlantic relationship (US and EU), mutual benefits, and costs of continued barriers.

Economic Survey of the United States 2005: Coping with the inevitable adjustment in the current account

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27-Oct-2005

Even though the economy’s adjustment capacity is already impressive, policies that increase national savings and ease inter-sectoral resource transfers would also be helpful in their own right.

OECD Anti-Bribery Convention and the United States: Report on Progress of the implementation of the Phase 2 Recommendations since October 2002

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07-Jul-2005

Follow-up Report on the Implementation by the United States of the Phase 2 Recommendations on the Application of the OECD Convention and the 1997 Recommendation on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions.

Cutting barriers to competition, investment and trade in US and EU would boost GDP - OECD study

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07-Jun-2005

Boosting market liberalisation by reducing trade, investment and competition barriers to "best practice" levels could significantly raise GDP per head in the European Union and the United States, according to a new OECD working paper.

The benefits of liberalising product markets and reducing barriers to international trade and investment: the case of the United States and the European Union

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07-Jun-2005

Boosting market liberalisation by reducing trade, investment and competition barriers to "best practice" levels could significantly raise GDP per head in the European Union and the United States, according to OECD Economics Department Working Paper 432.

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 ...

International production relocation and exports of services

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09-Mar-2005

Nigel Pain and Desirée van Welsum

The effect that international relocation of various types of production has on US exports of services is identified and compared. Economic Studies No. 38.