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01 Mar 2001
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Obstacles to Expanding Intra-African Trade
Roberto Longo, Khalid Sekkat, Pages: 33
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers
This paper analyses the determinants of intra-African trade (IAT) to assess the potential obstacles to greater sub-regional trade. Both economic and political arguments suggest that increased IAT can foster a regional take-off. Trade linkages in Africa, however, are very weak. Official...
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01 Jan 1997
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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Occupational Classification (ISCO-88): Concepts, Methods, Reliability, Validity and Cross-National Comparability
Peter Elias, Pages: 23
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OECD Labour Market and Social Policy Occasional Papers
This paper considers a range of topics concerned with the statistical application of an occupational classification, focusing in particular upon the use of the international standard, ISCO-88. Following a brief presentation of the conceptual basis of ISCO-88 and on methods of collecting and...
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01 Nov 2004
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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ODA and Investment for Development: What Guidance Can Be Drawn from Investment Climate Scoreboards?
Hans Christiansen, Pages: 51
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OECD Working Papers on International Investment
The present paper was prepared in the context of a joint project between the OECD Investment Committee (IC) and Development Assistance Committee (DAC) on Official Development Assistance and Investment for Development. It responds to discussions at the IC-DAC Workshop on Synergies between ODA...
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05 Mar 2002
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Article
English
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OECD Best Practices for Budget Transparency
OECD, Pages: 7–14
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
The Best Practices are designed as a reference tool for Member and non-member countries to use in order to increase the degree of budget transparency in their respective countries. The Best Practices are organised around specific reports for ...
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19 Dec 2003
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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OECD Capital Services Estimates: Methodology and a First Set of Results
Paul Schreyer, Pierre-Emmanuel Bignon, Julien Dupont, Pages: 38
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OECD Statistics Working Papers
This document presents the concepts underlying capital services measures, describes estimation methods and produces a first set of results. It also raises a number of outstanding conceptual issues in relation to capital services measures ...
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31 Dec 2012
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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OECD Composite Leading Indicators for G7 Countries: A Comparison of the Hodrick-Prescott Filter and the Multivariate Direct Filter Approach
Gyorgy Gyomai, Marc Wildi, Pages: 32
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OECD Statistics Working Papers
We estimate the business-cycles of G7 countries, as defined by an ideal 2-10 year bandpass filter applied to country-specific GDP target series (GDP-BP). Since this target series cannot be observed in real-time, due to the symmetry of the bandpass filter, we analyze and compare the leading...
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17 Apr 2013
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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OECD Consumer Policy Toolkit Workshop on Communication Services: Summary of Proceedings
OECD, Pages: 59
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OECD Digital Economy Papers
In 2010, the OECD published its Consumer Policy Toolkit, which provides insights into ways that government agencies responsible for safeguarding consumer interests could improve their policy approaches to ensure that any interventions they make are well-justified, timely and effective. To...
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15 July 1998
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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OECD Data on Skills: Employment by Industry and Occupation
OECD, Pages: 19
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OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers
This document is aimed at disseminating to a wider public the data on employment by industry and occupations for ten OECD countries, that have been collected over the last few years in the context of analytical work aimed at exploring empirically the changing patterns of skills in OECD...
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11 Apr 1985
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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OECD Declaration on Transborder Data Flows
OECD, Pages: 3
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OECD Digital Economy Papers
Rapid technological developments in the field of information, computers and communications are leading to significant structural changes in the economies of Member countries. Flows of computerised data and information are an important consequence of technological advances and are playing an...
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01 June 1987
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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OECD Economic Activity and Non-Oil Commodity Prices: Reduced-Form Equations for INTERLINK
Gerald Holtham, Martine Durand, Pages: 29
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper gives an overview of the determination of non-oil commodity prices in the Economics and Statistics Department's INTERLINK world model. The practical problems which have been encountered, in particular in the context of full simulations are discussed. Based on a number of statistical...
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01 Feb 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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OECD Educationtoday Crisis Survey 2010: The Impact of the Economic Recession and Fiscal Crisis on Education in OECD Countries
Dirk Van Damme, Kiira Karkkainen, Pages: 27
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OECD Education Working Papers
The second OECD educationtoday Crisis Survey was carried out in 2010. Twenty-five OECD member countries completed the questionnaire. The results of the survey relies largely on the informed opinion of education officials regarding various aspects of the impact of the economic recession and...
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02 Aug 2011
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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OECD Extended Regional Typology: The Economic Performance of Remote Rural Regions
Monica Brezzi, Lewis Dijkstra, Vicente Ruiz, Pages: 21
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OECD Regional Development Working Papers
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 the percentage of regional population living...
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22 Mar 2004
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Article
English
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OECD Financial Outreach Activities in 2003
OECD, Pages: 201–211
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Financial Market Trends
Following the end of the "Cold War", the OECD has, since the early 1990s, been conducting "Outreach" activities (i.e. cooperation including technical assistance activities with non-Member economies), first with the Central and Eastern European ...
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13 Nov 2006
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Article
English
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OECD Guidelines on Pension Fund Asset Management
OECD, Pages: 171–187
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Financial Market Trends
The OECD Guidelines on Pension Fund Asset Management set out a basic framework for the regulation of pension fund investment. The Guidelines start with the basic premise that the regulatory framework should take into account the retirement income ...
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01 Jan 1994
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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OECD Model Comparison Project (II) on the Costs of Cutting Carbon Emissions: Comparison of Model Structure and Policy Scenarios: GREEN and 12RT
Alan Manne, Joaquim O. Martins, Pages: 47
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OECD Economics Department Working Papers
This paper forms part of the second round of the OECD Model Comparison Project on "The costs of cutting carbon emissions". It provides an overview of two global general equilibrium models GREEN and 12RT. The comparison exercise was carried out by means of five policy scenarios and a set of...
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18 June 2008
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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OECD Policy Guidance for Addressing Emerging Consumer Protection and Empowerment Issues in Mobile Commerce
OECD, Pages: 25
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OECD Digital Economy Papers
The policy guidance lays out the policy responses that need to be in place to ensure that consumers engaging in mobile commerce transactions are adequately informed, and are protected against security or privacy risks.
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09 Dec 2011
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Article
English
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OECD Productivity Growth in the 2000s: A Descriptive Analysis of the Impact of Sectoral Effects and Innovation
Julien Dupont, Dominique Guellec, Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Pages: 1–23
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OECD Journal: Economic Studies
This paper brings together the latest data and OECD productivity indicators in different areas with the aim of reviewing the main productivity trends over the past decade, comparing the United States, Europe and to some extent Japan. Concerning ...
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01 Jan 1996
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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OECD Reflections on the Benefits of Mobile Cellular Telecommunication Infrastructure Competition
OECD, Pages: 11
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OECD Digital Economy Papers
The primary findings of this report are: markets with infrastructure competition, and in particular where there is competition in both fixed and mobile networks, are delivering best practice performance in terms of market expansion; while there is evidence that monopoly markets are improved by...
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13 Dec 2005
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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OECD Report on Digital Music: Opportunities and Challenges
OECD, Pages: 131
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OECD Digital Economy Papers
Unauthorised sharing of copyrighted works and new commercial digital delivery possibilities have thus far been a disruptive technology for the music industry. Still, the outlook for the music market in 2005 is positive due to rapidly increasing sales of (mobile) digital music services.
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01 Apr 2010
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Working/Policy Paper
English
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OECD Review of the Secondary School Modernisation Programme in Portugal
Alastair Blyth, Pages: 7
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CELE Exchange, Centre for Effective Learning Environments
CELE has carried out its first review of a national school building programme, which aims to tackle the physical deterioration of the building stock, poor environmental standards in terms of energy performance...
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