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:
These volumes and more are accessible from the OECD iLibrary by WTO staff and WTO Library patrons.
Implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement: The Potential Impact on Trade Costs is the latest policy assessment from the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate. Launched in June, this document examines the implications of implementing the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement using OECD Trade Facilitation Indicators.
Also relating to trade facilitation, OECD has produced a range of background documents and suite of interactive tools. These include:
These documents, tools and more are accessible from the OECD iLibrary by WTO staff and WTO Library patrons.
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:
These volumes and more are accessible from the OECD iLibrary by WTO staff and WTO Library patrons.
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:
These volumes and more are accessible from the OECD iLibrary by WTO staff and WTO Library patrons.
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:
These volumes and more are accessible from the OECD iLibrary by WTO staff and WTO Library patrons.
New statistical 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:
These volumes and more are accessible from the OECD iLibrary by WTO staff and WTO Library patrons.
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:
These volumes and more are accessible from the OECD iLibrary by WTO staff and WTO Library patrons.
In January and February 2015, OECD launched two new publications relating to innovation and technology — Social Impact Investment and The Proliferation of “Big Data” and the Implications for Official Statistics and Statistical Agencies.
Social Impact Investment: Building the Evidence Base looks a rising field, the provision of finance to organisations addressing social needs with the explicit expectation of a measurable social, and financial, return. The report produced by OECD includes data on social needs and spending in the G7 countries plus Australia, to illustrate the gap this type of investment could fill in areas of growing importance such as aged care and social housing and how this investment could garner more development capital for poorer countries.
The full report is available from the OECD website and an online webinar presenting this report will be held on 4 March 2015 (for more details, contact lgustafson@thegiin.org). More information on social impact investment can be found on a dedicated page of the OECD website.
In light of the increased digitization of media, social and economic activities are generating a tidal wave of data. The Proliferation of “Big Data” and the Implications for Official Statistics and Statistical Agencies describes the potential of new sources of data for informing policy-making and outlines the challenges for official statistics and statistical policies, posed by the proliferation of data.
The full report is available online from the OECD website.
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:
These volumes and more are accessible from the OECD iLibrary by WTO staff and WTO Library patrons.
Job Creation and Local Economic Development, a publication launched by OECD on 19 November 2014, looks at new evidence on policies to support job creation. Produced as part of the OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Programme, the report addresses the question of how national and local policies can be better aligned with local opportunities and challenges, with the goal of creating more and better quality jobs.
The volume in its entirety as well as individual sections and country profiles are accessible for online reading and download from the OECD iLibrary by WTO staff and WTO Library patrons.
A wealth of additional resources are available from the OECD iLibrary on a range of topics, including economics and employment. More information on the LEED Programme can be found at the OECD website.
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 launched include:
Also available is a new resource guide from OECD on the Internet economy and big data, including background information and links to relevant documents and reports.
These volumes and more are accessible from the OECD iLibrary by WTO staff and WTO Library patrons.
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 launched include:
These volumes and more are accessible from the OECD iLibrary by WTO staff and WTO Library patrons.
Is the skill gap of net exports widening? This question is nontrivial for many industrial countries because, with the rapid growth of emerging countries, human capital is considered one of the most important sources of comparative advantage. Theoretically, however, the answer is not necessarily obvious because of changing comparative advantage. This paper attempts to answer this question by extending the analysis of Wolff (2003) and by focusing on one of the largest OECD countries, Japan, for the period 1980–2005. The results indicate that the answer to the above question may well be “no.” Although Japan is still a net exporter of skill-intensive goods, the skill gap of net exports has been narrowing since the mid-1990s, mainly as a result of the changes in the composition of trade. This implies that some OECD countries, including Japan, may have been losing their comparative advantage in skill-intensive goods in recent years.
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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), now more than 50 years old, has just opened a new beta Data Portal to share their large sets of data to the public, with a highly responsive interface and nearly 600 readily clickable databases filterable by topics including:
“Unlike many of my other projects, this project is less about spotting patterns in the data, or communicating insights, but starts one step earlier: How can we actually make large collections of data sets available, and how can we guide users to the datasets they are looking for?”
OECD’s Data Portal, full of interactive dataviz, now in public beta
OECD Statistics on International Trade in Services 2013 : Detailed tables by partner country 2007-2011
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Emissions trading systems (ETS) can play a major role in a cost-effective climate policy framework. Both direct linking of ETSs and indirect linking through a common crediting mechanism can reduce costs of action.We use a global recursive-dynamic computable general equilibrium model to assess the effects of direct and indirect linking of ETS systems across world regions. Linking of domestic Annex I ETSs leads to moderate aggregate cost savings, as differences in domestic permit prices are limited. Countries benefit directly from linking by either buying permits and avoiding investing in highcost mitigation options, or by exploiting relatively cheap mitigation options and selling permits at a higher price. Although the economy of the main permit sellers, such as Russia, is negatively affected by the real exchange rate appreciation that is induced by the large export of permits, on balance they also still benefit from linking. The costsaving potential for developed countries of well-functioning crediting mechanisms appears to be very large. Even limited use of credits would nearly halve mitigation costs; cost savings would be largest for carbon-intensive economies. However, one open issue iswhether these gains can be fully reaped in reality, given that direct linking and the use of crediting mechanisms both raise complex system design and implementation issues. The analysis in this paper shows, however, that the potential gains to be reaped are so large, that substantial efforts in this domain are warranted.
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This paper presents the new OECD competition law and policies (CLP) indicators which measure the strength and scope of competition regimes in 49 jurisdictions (OECD and non-OECD). The indicators cover areas for which there is a broad consensus among member countries on what constitutes ‘good’ practice for competition regimes. The results suggest that competition regimes are broadly similar across countries in these areas because most countries have adopted all or a large number of the ‘good’ policy settings captured by the indicators. On average, the design of competition laws and policies appears to be closer to best practice in OECD countries than in non-OECD countries. Jurisdictions differ relatively more on the enforcement of competition law than on the competition law itself.
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