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No. 2012/10 | 24 Sept 2012 |
Financing Green Urban Infrastructure
This paper presents an overview of practices and challenges related to financing green sustainable cities. Cities are essential actors in stimulating green infrastructure; and urban finance is one of the promising ways in which this can be achieved.... |
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No. 2012/09 | 13 Sept 2012 |
Efficiency of World Ports in Container and Bulk Cargo (oil, coal, ores and grain)
Port efficiency is an important indicator of port performance; more efficient ports lower transportation costs and facilitate imports and exports of a country. Despite the importance of the subject, the exisiting port efficiency studies have almost... |
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No. 2012/08 | 11 Sept 2012 |
The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities: The Case of Helsinki, Finland
This working paper offers an evaluation of the performance of the Port of Helsinki, as well as an analysis of the port?s impact on its territory and an assessment of relevant policies and governance. It examines declining port performance in the last... |
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No. 2012/07 | 11 Sept 2012 |
Ports and Regional Development
This paper studies the impact of port activity on regional employment, analysing approximately 560 western European regions, including the largest OECD European ports (116 ports), from 2000-06. The empirical analysis is based on a set of employment... |
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No. 2012/06 | 27 Jun 2012 |
The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities: The Case of Hamburg, Germany
This working paper offers an evaluation of the performance of the Port of Hamburg, as well as an analysis of the port?s impact on its territory and an assessment of relevant policies and governance. It examines port performance in the last decade and... |
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No. 2012/05 | 25 Apr 2012 |
Measuring the Environmental Performance of Metropolitan Areas with Geographic Information Sources
This paper presents recent work undertaken at the OECD to produce environmental indicators at the regional level from geographic data sources. New indicators have been tested and produced in five different domains: a) land cover, b) forest... |
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No. 2012/04 | 28 Mar 2012 |
Water Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean
The water debate in relation to poverty alleviation has one dimension that is often sidelined: its relationship with public governance. This report attempts to shed some light on the governance of water policy in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC)... |
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No. 2012/03 | 20 Mar 2012 |
Tell Me Who You Patent With and I'll Tell You Who You Are
This paper presents an overview of co-patenting trends at the national and regional level in three technology fields (biotechnology, telecommunications and renewable energy), across regions in the OECD and emerging economies, from the late 1970s to... |
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No. 2012/02 | 23 Feb 2012 |
Cities and Green Growth: Case Study of the Paris/Ile-de-France Region
This report, developed within the framework of the OECD Green Cities programme, is a pilot case study examining the green growth potential of the Paris-IDF region. In a context of stiff international competition and internal socio-economic and... |
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No. 2012/01 | 15 Feb 2012 |
Urban Trends and Policies in OECD Countries
This working paper is one in a series of OECD Working Papers on Regional Development of the OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, conducted under the responsibility of Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Head of the OECD Regional... |
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No. 2011/08 | 06 Dec 2011 |
Cities and Green Growth: A Conceptual Framework
This report examines the current state of knowledge about green growth in cities and outlines the key research questions and protocols that will guide the OECD Green Cities programme. It builds the case for an urban green growth agenda by examining... |
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No. 2011/07 | 14 Sept 2011 |
The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities: The Case of the Seine Axis (Le Havre, Rouen, Paris, Caen), France
This working paper offers an evaluation of the performance of the ports of the Seine Axis (Le Havre, Rouen, Caen and Paris), as well as an analysis of the impact of the ports on their territory and an assessment of policies and governance in this... |
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No. 2011/06 | 02 Aug 2011 |
OECD Extended Regional Typology
To account for differences among rural and urban regions, the OECD s established a regional typology, classifying TL3 regions as predominantly urban (PU), intermediate (IN) or predominantly rural (PR) (OECD, 2009). This typology, based essentially on... |
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No. 2011/05 | 01 Jul 2011 |
Multi-level Governance of Public Investment
Over 2008-11, most OECD countries switched from highly expansive fiscal policies to the tightest in decades. During the crisis and subsequent recession in 2008-09, many OECD and G20 countries implemented stimulus packages, which in some cases... |
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No. 2011/04 | 19 Jul 2011 |
Governance of Public Policies in Decentralised Contexts
The ability of sub national governments to “better spend”, by identifying relevant paths for territorial competitiveness and effective delivery of public services, is largely enshrined in their institutional background. Rather than isolated actors,... |
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No. 2011/03 | 01 Jul 2011 |
Categorisation of OECD Regions Using Innovation-Related Variables
National policy makers have shown a growing interest in the regional dimension of innovation processes, and regional policy makers are seeking to promote their own competitiveness by supporting innovation. To advance the OECD quantitative research on... |
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No. 2011/02 | 01 Jul 2011 |
The Implementation of the Korean Green Growth Strategy in Urban Areas
This report on the Korean Strategy for Green Growth and its implementation in urban areas assesses the contributions of sub-national governments to Korea's National Strategy for Green Growth and identifies the main challenges for effective... |
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No. 2011/01 | 01 May 2011 |
Strengthening Global-Local Connectivity in Regional Innovation Strategies
With innovation increasingly important to economic development, innovation policy is attracting attention from politicians and policy-makers at all levels. Regional policy-makers face a distinctive challenge in that innovation takes place in... |
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No. 2010/01 | 29 Jan 2010 |
Policies to Enhance the Physical Urban Environment for Competitiveness
Globalisation and subsequent competition among cities have triggered a profound change in the mode of the governance of cities. It is often described as a shift from a managerial mode of governance, which had been primarily concerned with provision... |
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No. 2009/02 | 15 Dec 2009 |
Competitive Cities and Climate Change
Cities are part of the climate change problem, but they are also a key part of the solution. This report offers a comprehensive analysis of how cities and metropolitan regions can change the way we think about responding to climate change. Cities... |
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Financing Green Urban Infrastructure
Olaf Merk, Stéphane Saussier, Carine Staropoli, Enid Slack and Jay-Hyung Kim
24 Sept 2012
This paper presents an overview of practices and challenges related to financing green sustainable cities. Cities are essential actors in stimulating green infrastructure; and urban finance is one of the promising ways in which this can be achieved....
Efficiency of World Ports in Container and Bulk Cargo (oil, coal, ores and grain)
Olaf Merk and Thai-Thanh Dang
13 Sept 2012
Port efficiency is an important indicator of port performance; more efficient ports lower transportation costs and facilitate imports and exports of a country. Despite the importance of the subject, the exisiting port efficiency studies have almost...
The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities: The Case of Helsinki, Finland
Olaf Merk, Olli-Pekka Hilmola and Patrick Dubarle
11 Sept 2012
This working paper offers an evaluation of the performance of the Port of Helsinki, as well as an analysis of the port?s impact on its territory and an assessment of relevant policies and governance. It examines declining port performance in the last...
Ports and Regional Development
Claudio Ferrari, Olaf Merk, Anna Bottasso, Maurizio Conti and Alessio Tei
11 Sept 2012
This paper studies the impact of port activity on regional employment, analysing approximately 560 western European regions, including the largest OECD European ports (116 ports), from 2000-06. The empirical analysis is based on a set of employment...
The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities: The Case of Hamburg, Germany
Olaf Merk and Markus Hesse
27 Jun 2012
This working paper offers an evaluation of the performance of the Port of Hamburg, as well as an analysis of the port?s impact on its territory and an assessment of relevant policies and governance. It examines port performance in the last decade and...
Measuring the Environmental Performance of Metropolitan Areas with Geographic Information Sources
Mario Piacentini and Konstantin Rosina
25 Apr 2012
This paper presents recent work undertaken at the OECD to produce environmental indicators at the regional level from geographic data sources. New indicators have been tested and produced in five different domains: a) land cover, b) forest...
Water Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean
Aziza Akhmouch
28 Mar 2012
The water debate in relation to poverty alleviation has one dimension that is often sidelined: its relationship with public governance. This report attempts to shed some light on the governance of water policy in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC)...
Tell Me Who You Patent With and I'll Tell You Who You Are
Giulia Ajmone Marsan and Annalisa Primi
20 Mar 2012
This paper presents an overview of co-patenting trends at the national and regional level in three technology fields (biotechnology, telecommunications and renewable energy), across regions in the OECD and emerging economies, from the late 1970s to...
Cities and Green Growth: Case Study of the Paris/Ile-de-France Region
Lamia Kamal-Chaoui and Marissa Plouin
23 Feb 2012
This report, developed within the framework of the OECD Green Cities programme, is a pilot case study examining the green growth potential of the Paris-IDF region. In a context of stiff international competition and internal socio-economic and...
Urban Trends and Policies in OECD Countries
Lamia Kamal-Chaoui and Javier Sanchez-Reaza
15 Feb 2012
This working paper is one in a series of OECD Working Papers on Regional Development of the OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, conducted under the responsibility of Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Head of the OECD Regional...
Cities and Green Growth: A Conceptual Framework
Stephen Hammer, Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Alexis Robert and Marissa Plouin
06 Dec 2011
This report examines the current state of knowledge about green growth in cities and outlines the key research questions and protocols that will guide the OECD Green Cities programme. It builds the case for an urban green growth agenda by examining...
The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities: The Case of the Seine Axis (Le Havre, Rouen, Paris, Caen), France
Olaf Merk, César Ducruet, Patrick Dubarle, Elvira Haezendonck and Michael Dooms
14 Sept 2011
This working paper offers an evaluation of the performance of the ports of the Seine Axis (Le Havre, Rouen, Caen and Paris), as well as an analysis of the impact of the ports on their territory and an assessment of policies and governance in this...
OECD Extended Regional Typology
Monica Brezzi, Lewis Dijkstra and Vicente Ruiz
02 Aug 2011
To account for differences among rural and urban regions, the OECD s established a regional typology, classifying TL3 regions as predominantly urban (PU), intermediate (IN) or predominantly rural (PR) (OECD, 2009). This typology, based essentially on...
Multi-level Governance of Public Investment
Dorothée Allain-Dupré
01 Jul 2011
Over 2008-11, most OECD countries switched from highly expansive fiscal policies to the tightest in decades. During the crisis and subsequent recession in 2008-09, many OECD and G20 countries implemented stimulus packages, which in some cases...
Governance of Public Policies in Decentralised Contexts
Claire Charbit
19 Jul 2011
The ability of sub national governments to “better spend”, by identifying relevant paths for territorial competitiveness and effective delivery of public services, is largely enshrined in their institutional background. Rather than isolated actors,...
Categorisation of OECD Regions Using Innovation-Related Variables
Giulia Ajmone Marsan and Karen Maguire
01 Jul 2011
National policy makers have shown a growing interest in the regional dimension of innovation processes, and regional policy makers are seeking to promote their own competitiveness by supporting innovation. To advance the OECD quantitative research on...
The Implementation of the Korean Green Growth Strategy in Urban Areas
Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Fabio Grazi, Jongwan Joo and Marissa Plouin
01 Jul 2011
This report on the Korean Strategy for Green Growth and its implementation in urban areas assesses the contributions of sub-national governments to Korea's National Strategy for Green Growth and identifies the main challenges for effective...
Strengthening Global-Local Connectivity in Regional Innovation Strategies
Paul Benneworth and Adrie Dassen
01 May 2011
With innovation increasingly important to economic development, innovation policy is attracting attention from politicians and policy-makers at all levels. Regional policy-makers face a distinctive challenge in that innovation takes place in...
Policies to Enhance the Physical Urban Environment for Competitiveness
Tetsuya Shimomura and Tadashi Matsumoto
29 Jan 2010
Globalisation and subsequent competition among cities have triggered a profound change in the mode of the governance of cities. It is often described as a shift from a managerial mode of governance, which had been primarily concerned with provision...
Competitive Cities and Climate Change
Lamia Kamal-Chaoui and Alexis Robert
15 Dec 2009
Cities are part of the climate change problem, but they are also a key part of the solution. This report offers a comprehensive analysis of how cities and metropolitan regions can change the way we think about responding to climate change. Cities...