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01 Feb 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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'Joinedupdesignforschools' in the United Kingdom
OECD, Pages: 5
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PEB Exchange, Programme on Educational Building
Joinedupdesignforschools explores how good design can improve the quality of life in schools by listening to the voices of the clients: pupils. The programme is an initiative in the United Kingdom that joins client teams of pupils with the country’s leading design practices to provide solutions...
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12 Aug 2005
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Article
English
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2004 Overview of Donor and Agency Policies in Trade-related Technical Assistance and Capacity Building: Summary of Responses to the OECD/DAC Survey on Trade-Related Technical Assistance and Capacity
OECD, Pages: 1–83
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OECD Papers
The survey submissions indicate that bilateral donors and multilateral agencies have become much more active in TRTA/CB over the last few years, particularly since the 2001 WTO Doha Ministerial Conference. This increased activity is not only ...
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25 Nov 2005
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Article
English
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Accelerator and Spallation Target Technologies for ADS Applications: A Status Report
OECD, Pages: 1–93
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OECD Papers
This document discusses the differing options and ongoing research in key technologies required for accelerator demonstration systems (ADS) for nuclear waste transmutation. Chapter 2 describes the two main accelerator options: linear accelerators or ...
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25 Aug 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Achieving the Successful Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies: Trade-related Aspects
Cristina Tébar Less, Steven McMillan, Pages: 38
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OECD Trade and Environment Working Papers
This report examines factors that have proven helpful in achieving the successful transfer of environmentally sound technologies (EST) to developing countries. It provides an overview of the main issues lying behind trade-related aspects of EST transfers. It then briefly examines the main...
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01 June 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Adaptive Capacity and Inclusive Development: Results of the OECD Development Centre 2003-2004 Programme of Work
Ulrich Hiemenz, Pages: 9
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OECD Development Centre Policy Insights
The Centre has highlighted in particular four areas where OECD countries can make a difference: maintaining a stable macroeconomic environment with affordable interest rates; helping to mitigate risks; enhancing trade opportunities through improving the coherence of their own policies ;and...
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25 July 2005
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Article
English
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Administrative decisions
OECD, Pages: 110–110
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Nuclear Law Bulletin
The Swedish government decided on 16 December 2004 to shut down the second nuclear power plant at Barsebäck on 31 May 2005. The decision was made pursuant to the 1997 Act on the Phasing-out of Nuclear Power (see Nuclear Law Bulletin No. 61).
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01 May 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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African Economic Performance in 2004: A Promise of Things to Come?
Nicolas Pinaud, Lucia Wegner, Pages: 7
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OECD Development Centre Policy Insights
Against a backdrop of sustained global growth and high commodity prices, Africa has experienced its best economic performance in many years. While recent economic performance is not merely driven by favourable external factors, African economies still lack proper "shock-absorbers" to withstand...
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10 May 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Ageing, Welfare Serviced and Municipalities in Finland
Jens Lundsgaard, Pages: 51
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
With population ageing setting in sooner and more forcefully than in other OECD countries, Finland needs to reorder its fiscal priorities so as to ensure fiscal sustainability. That will require considerable reform as public spending currently expands vigorously. While GDP growth has slowed...
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01 June 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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An Asset Management System for School Buildings in Quebec
Dino Gerbasi, Pages: 4
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PEB Exchange, Programme on Educational Building
Presented here are the major reasons why an asset management system (AMS) is needed, a brief history of their evolution and a description of the initiative undertaken by Quebec to implement such a system. The appendix contains the recommended basic requirements for an asset management system.
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14 Dec 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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An Empirical Contribution to Knowledge Production and Economic Growth
Kul B. Luintel, Mosahid Khan, Pages: 29
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OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers
We examine the dynamics of knowledge production for a panel of 19 OECD countries. A new and unique data set is used to proxy the domestic flows of "new-to-the-world" knowledge and ideas. We rigorously address the cross-country heterogeneity in the production of knowledge and the endogeneous...
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01 Dec 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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An Overview of Public Policies to Support Innovation
Florence Jaumotte, Nigel Pain, Pages: 33
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
Innovation is a broad topic, about which much has been written. Almost every kind of public policy has either a direct or an indirect impact on factors that affect innovative activity. The purpose of this paper is to draw out the key implications from selected studies concerning a small number...
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01 Oct 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
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An Urban Renewal School Project in Italy
Giorgio Ponti, Pages: 3
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PEB Exchange, Programme on Educational Building
The restoration of an historic school building in Battipaglia, Italy, will provide new public facilities and is hoped to boost urban renewal. The municipality of Battipaglia, in the province of Salerno, held an architectural competition for renovating the E. De Amicis Primary School and the...
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18 Oct 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Analysing European and International Patent Citations: A Set of EPO Patent Database Building Blocks
Colin Webb, Hélène Dernis, Dietmar Harhoff, Karin Hoisl, Pages: 31
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OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers
This paper presents a preliminary set of European and international citation data tables designed to enable researchers to become familiar with the subject and undertake a range of analyses. It addresses analytical and statistical issues such as why citations from international searches and...
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03 June 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Analysis of Non-Tariff Barriers of Concern to Developing Countries
OECD, Pages: 85
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OECD Trade Policy Papers
This paper identifies non-tariff barriers (NTBs) faced by developing countries in their trade with developed countries and in South-South trade. The goal is to raise awareness of barriers that interfere with the ability of developing countries to build up trade. Data collected and analysed...
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08 Mar 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
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Analysis of Non-Tariff Measures: Customs Fees and Charges on Imports
OECD, Pages: 44
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OECD Trade Policy Papers
This study examines the nature and the extent of use of customs fees and charges that affect imports at borders. It is part of a series of studies that analyse various types of non-tariff measures and the objective of this paper is to contribute to discussions in the Negotiating Group on Market...
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01 Nov 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
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Analysis of Price Transmission Along the Food Chain
Pavel Vavra, Barry K. Goodwin, Pages: 58
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OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers
The interest in marketing margins and price transmission has recently gained remarkable
momentum and the amount of studies on this subject is rapidly growing. There is a myriad of questions about prices and margins investigated by these studies, yet new questions are surfacing as markets and...
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12 Aug 2005
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Article
English
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Analytical Framework for Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Extended Producer Responsibility Programmes
OECD, Pages: 1–58
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OECD Papers
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is an environmental policy approach under which the responsibility of producers for their products is extended to include the social costs of waste management, including the environmental impact of waste ...
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06 Jan 2005
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Article
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Art Schools for Tomorrow: Challenges and Opportunities
Ellen Hazelkorn, Pages: 135–152
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Higher Education Management and Policy
Across the OECD, discussions are taking place amongst policymakers, educational managers and educationalists about the future of higher education. More and more is being demanded of higher education at a time when the funds available are shrinking ...
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06 Jan 2005
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Article
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Assessing the Impact of Higher Education on Regional Development: Using a Realist Approach for Policy Enhancement
Sarah Batterbury, Steve Hill, Pages: 35–52
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Higher Education Management and Policy
Higher Education is widely seen as a crucial ingredient in the regional economic development mix, and as fundamental to the development of the knowledge economy (Barclays, 2002). Indeed the Higher Education Funding Council for England has issued ...
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11 May 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
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Assessing the OECD Jobs Strategy: Past Developments and Reforms
Nicola Brandt, Jean-Marc Burniaux, Romain Duval, Pages: 73
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
In 1994, the OECD published a set of recommendations -- known as the OECD Jobs Strategy -- to deal with high and persistent unemployment that affected many member countries. These recommendations are currently being reassessed by the OECD and this paper contributes to this process. It provides...
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