New publications from OECD, late June 2018

New OECD publications have been uploaded to the OECD iLibrary, a comprehensive digital repository of books, papers, and statistics from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Titles recently added include:

• How Immigrants Contribute to the Dominican Republic’s Economy
• How Immigrants Contribute to Ghana’s Economy
• Benchmarking Civil Service Reform in Kazakhstan (OECD Public Governance Reviews series)
• Future of Rural Youth in Developing Countries: Tapping the Potential of Local Value Chains
• Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Sweden (OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews series)
• Maintaining the Momentum of Decentralisation in Ukraine (OECD Multi-level Governance Studies series)
• Inventory of Energy Subsidies in the EU’s Eastern Partnership Countries (Green Finance and Investment series)
• Rethinking Urban Sprawl: Moving Towards Sustainable Cities
• OECD Economic Surveys: Chile 2018

These volumes and more are accessible from the OECD iLibrary by WTO staff and WTO Library patrons.

New publications from OECD, late January 2018

New OECD publications have been uploaded to the OECD iLibrary, a comprehensive digital repository of books, papers, and statistics from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Titles recently added include:

• Mexico’s e-Procurement System: Redesigning CompraNet through Stakeholder Engagement (OECD Public Governance Reviews series)
• Second Public Procurement Review of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS): Reshaping Strategies for Better Healthcare (OECD Public Governance Reviews series)
• Public Procurement in Nuevo León, Mexico: Promoting Efficiency Through Centralisation and Professionalisation (OECD Public Governance Reviews series)
• OECD Competition Assessment Reviews: Mexico (OECD Competition Assessment Reviews series)
• How Immigrants Contribute to Thailand’s Economy
• Production Transformation Policy Review of Chile: Reaping the Benefits of New Frontiers (OECD Development Pathways series)

These volumes and more are accessible from the OECD iLibrary by WTO staff and WTO Library patrons.

New publications from OECD, mid January 2018

New OECD publications have been uploaded to the OECD iLibrary, a comprehensive digital repository of books, papers, and statistics from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Titles recently added include:

• Gaps and Governance Standards of Public Infrastructure in Chile: Infrastructure Governance Review
• OECD Guidelines on Insurer Governance 2017 Edition
• Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital: Condensed Version 2017
• Decentralisation and Multi-level Governance in Kazakhstan (OECD Public Governance Reviews series)
• Boosting Disaster Prevention through Innovative Risk Governance: Insights from Austria, France and Switzerland (OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies series)
• Safety Assessment of Transgenic Organisms in the Environment, Volume 7: OECD Consensus Documents (Harmonisation of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology series)
• OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Peru 2017
• OECD Economic Surveys: Norway 2018
• OECD Journal on Budgeting (volume 2017, issue 1)

These volumes and more are accessible from the OECD iLibrary by WTO staff and WTO Library patrons.

New publications from OECD, mid December 2017

New OECD publications have been uploaded to the OECD iLibrary, a comprehensive digital repository of books, papers, and statistics from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Titles recently added include:

• Enhancing the Role of Insurance in Cyber Risk Management
• Towards a More Effective, Strategic and Accountable State of Kazakhstan (OECD Public Governance Reviews series)
• Policy Advisory Systems: Supporting Good Governance and Sound Public Decision Making (OECD Public Governance series)
• Hungary: Public Administration and Public Service Development Strategy, 2014-2020 (OECD Public Governance Reviews series)
• OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Finland 2017
• OECD Review of Fisheries: Policies and Summary Statistics 2017
• Missing Entrepreneurs 2017: Policies for Inclusive Entrepreneurship
• Geography of Firm Dynamics: Measuring Business Demography for Regional Development
• OECD Reviews of School Resources: Chile 2017
• Water Charges in Brazil: the Ways Forward (OECD Studies on Water series)
• Supporting Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Higher Education in Hungary (OECD Skills Studies series)
• OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Switzerland 2017
• OECD Economic Outlook, Preliminary Version (volume 2017, issue 2)

These volumes and more are accessible from the OECD iLibrary by WTO staff and WTO Library patrons.

New publications from OECD, late September 2017

New OECD publications have been uploaded to the OECD iLibrary, a comprehensive digital repository of books, papers, and statistics from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Titles recently added include:

• Public Procurement in Peru: Reinforcing Capacity and Co-ordination (OECD Public Governance Reviews series)
• Skills for a High Performing Civil Service (OECD Public Governance Reviews series)
• Enhancing water use efficiency in Korea: Policy Issues and Recommendations (OECD Studies on Water series)
• Making Decentralisation Work in Chile: Towards Stronger Municipalities (OECD Multi-Level Governance Studies series)
• The Size and Sectoral Distribution of State-Owned Enterprises
• Tax Policy Reforms 2017: OECD and Selected Partner Economies
• Trade in Counterfeit Products and the UK Economy: Fake Goods, Real Losses
• Improving Regulatory Governance: Trends, Practices and the Way Forward
• Producer Incentives in Livestock Disease Management
• OECD Economic Surveys: Slovenia 2017, France 2017, Estonia 2017, and Latvia 2017
• OECD Journal on Budgeting (volume 16, issue 3)

These volumes and more are accessible from the OECD iLibrary by WTO staff and WTO Library patrons.

New publications from OECD, late May 2017

New OECD publications have been uploaded to the OECD iLibrary, a comprehensive digital repository of books, papers, and statistics from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Titles recently added include:

• OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook 2017
• Interrelations Between Public Policies, Migration and Development in Armenia (OECD Development Pathways series)
• African Economic Outlook 2017: Entrepreneurship and Industrialisation
• OECD Review of Risk Management Policies: Morocco
• International Regulatory Co-operation and Trade: Understanding the Trade Costs of Regulatory Divergence and the Remedies
• Investing in Climate, Investing in Growth
• OECD Economic Surveys: Columbia 2017
• The Next Production Revolution: Implications for Governments and Business
• National Urban Policy in OECD Countries
• The Governance of Land Use in the Netherlands: The Case of Amsterdam
• Public Procurement in Chile: Policy Options for Efficient and Inclusive Framework Agreements (OECD Public Governance Reviews series)
• Small, Medium, Strong: Trends in SME Performance and Business Conditions
• Building Food Security and Managing Risk in Southeast Asia
• 2020 Projections of Climate Finance Towards the USD 100 Billion Goal: Technical Note
• Multi-level Governance Reforms: Overview of OECD Country Experiences (OECD Multi-level Governance Studies series)

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New publications from OECD, early May 2017

New OECD publications have been uploaded to the OECD iLibrary, a comprehensive digital repository of books, papers, and statistics from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Titles recently added include:

• Mobilising Bond Markets for a Low-Carbon Transition (Green Finance and Investment series)
• Social Protection in East Africa: Harnessing the Future
• Interrelations between Public Policies, Migration and Development in Cambodia (OECD Development Pathways series)
• Fostering Innovation in the Public Sector
• Innovation Skills in the Public Sector: Building Capabilities in Chile (OECD Public Governance Reviews series)
• Creating a Culture of Independence: Practical Guidance Against Undue Influence (The Governance of Regulators series)
• Boosting Social Enterprise Development: Good Practice Compendium
• Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2017: An OECD Scoreboard
• The Political Economy of Biodiversity Policy Reform
• OECD Competition Assessment Reviews: Greece 2017
• OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy: Costa Rica 2017

These volumes and more are accessible from the OECD iLibrary by WTO staff and WTO Library patrons.

New publications from OECD, early December 2015

New OECD publications have been uploaded to the OECD iLibrary, a comprehensive digital repository of books, papers, and statistics from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Titles recently added include:

• SME Policy Index: Eastern Partner Countries 2016: Assessing the Implementation of the Small Business Act for Europe (SME Policy Index series)
• G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance
• Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in the Netherlands (OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews series)
• Adapting Transport Policy to Climate Change: Carbon Valuation, Risk and Uncertainty
• OECD Economic Surveys: Chile 2015
• International Trade by Commodity Statistics (Volume 2015, issue 5)

These volumes and more are accessible from the OECD iLibrary by WTO staff and WTO Library patrons.

Chile – country reports

The Economist Intelligence Unit
Chile’s online profile
http://country.eiu.com/chile
Country report
http://country.eiu.com/FileHandler.ashx?issue_id=1102788894&mode=pdf
Country forecast report as of February 2015
http://country.eiu.com/FileHandler.ashx?issue_id=1752792559&mode=pdf

Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas
http://www.ine.cl/canales/chile_estadistico/estadisticas_economicas/estadisticas_economicas_eng.php?lang=eng

World Bank
http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/chile

BTI Project
Chile Country Report http://www.bti-project.org/uploads/tx_itao_download/BTI_2014_Chile.pdf

A general equilibrium, ex-post evaluation of the EU–Chile Free Trade Agreement

This paper evaluates the impact on the Chilean economy of the EU–Chile Free Trade Agreement, in force since 2003, based on a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. The evaluation method, inspired by structural decomposition methods, consists of double calibration of the model, to account for interactions between the agreement’s impact and structural change in the Chilean economy. Trade flows are modeled at the detailed product level (six-digit level classification). The agreement is found to be slightly beneficial to Chile’s economy on the whole, benefiting mainly unskilled labor, with gains concentrated in few sectors (fruits, wine, fisheries and seafood processing).

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Latin American regional report – Brazil and Southern Cone – October 2014

Contents:
Brazil : A write off
Brazil : Paths to growth
Argentina: Cristina lashes out as clouds darken
Argentina: New central bank president has all to play for
Chile: Struggling with the slowdown
Chile: More Mapuche unrest
Paraguay: Still unable to shake off historically negative image
Uruguay: Political temperature rises
Postscript: A gloomy outlook

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Latin American Regional Report : Brazil & Southern Cone, February 2014

“Latin American Regional Report” Contents
Brazil: Fears about recession creep back Blackouts shock and Rousseff team;
Brazil: Getting heated in Rio;
Brazil: Figueiredo in Havana for talks over doctor desertions;
Argentina: Inflation: the truth hurts;
Argentina: A shift to orthodoxy, but is it too late?
Chile: Bachelet unveils her ministerial team;
Chile: ICJ delivers ruling;
Uruguay: Casting disturbed glances acrosss the River Plate;
Paraguay: Cartes government suffers its first setback in congress; and
Postscript: Aratiri open pit mining project causes ructions in Uruguay.

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Latin American Regional Report: Brazil and Southern Cone, January 2014

“Latin American Regional Report” Contents:
Chile: Bachelet prepares for return to La Moneda;
Chile: Post strikes threaten growth;
Paraguay: Public transport dilemma puts Cartes in a tight spot;
Paraguay: Prison guards’ strike exposes unresolved problems;
Uruguay: Lorenzo walks over Pluna scandal;
Uruguay: Bordaberry blasts FA’s security record;
Brazil: A hangover before the party even begins?;
Brazil: Rousseff’s dilemma – inflation vs. growth;
Brazil: Labour market not entirely made of Teflon;
Brazil: My house, my life – my president;
Brazil: Campos and Neves make strategic alliances;
Brazil: The clock is ticking; and
Postscript: Mercosur-EU talks set back again.

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Do Sanitary, Phytosanitary, and Quality-related Standards Affect International Trade? Evidence from Chilean Fruit Exports / Oscar Melo

Increasing awareness of food safety issues has led to intensive use of sanitary, phytosanitary and quality-related regulations and standards, imposing a burden on exporting countries worldwide. This study assesses the impact of such regulations and standards estimating a gravity model for Chilean fresh fruit exports that incorporates a stringency-perception index that comprises different dimensions of trade requirements. Our results suggest that an increase in stringency has a negative and substantial effect on exported volumes, and the reduction is higher if stringency increases in developed countries. Results also showed that different dimensions have different effects on trade.

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Do Sanitary, Phytosanitary, and Quality-related Standards Affect International Trade? Evidence from Chilean Fruit Exports / Oscar Melo … [et al.]

Increasing awareness of food safety issues has led to intensive use of sanitary, phytosanitary and quality-related regulations
and standards, imposing a burden on exporting countries worldwide. This study assesses the impact of such regulations and standards estimating a gravity model for Chilean fresh fruit exports that incorporates a stringency-perception index that comprises different dimensions of trade requirements. Our results suggest that an increase in stringency has a negative and substantial effect on exported volumes, and the reduction is higher if stringency increases in developed countries. Results also showed that different dimensions have different effects on trade.

Full paper available here