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Efforts to document government support benefiting specific sectors or industries have so far paid scant attention to support given to the non-energy minerals sector. In this paper the issue of support for this sector is explored by way of a case study of Australia, a leading producer and...
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In recent years the manufacturing of renewable-energy technologies has become truly global. The associated rise in international investment and trade in goods and services related to renewable energy has been rapid, but it has not always been smooth. Already there have been challenges at the...
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The uptake of renewable energy (RE) has been identified by a number of governments as a primary means for mitigating CO2 emissions from the electricity sector, and for making the transition to a low-carbon economy. The electric power output of some RE technologies, however, including those based...
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This report assesses conceptually and empirically the extent to which the stringency of environmental regulations drives international trade in environmental goods. Many of the measures governments adopt to address issues such as local air and water pollution or GHG emissions take the form of...
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This study forms part of on-going OECD work on trade in services, in co-operation with UNCTAD, aimed at assisting WTO Members in managing request-offer negotiations under the GATS. The key objective is to help officials of WTO Members in both gaining a greater insight into the particular issues...
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specific market access problems arising from environmental and health requirements faced by developing country exporters …-access problems created by environmental and health requirements. …
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This profile provides a concise and policy-relevant overview of health and the health system in the Czech Republic as … part of the broader series of the State of Health in the EU country profiles. It provides a short synthesis of: the health … status in the country; the determinants of health, focussing on behavioural risk factors; the organisation of the health …
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This profile provides a concise and policy-relevant overview of health and the health system in Malta as part of the … broader series of the State of Health in the EU country profiles. It provides a short synthesis of: the health status in the … country; the determinants of health, focussing on behavioural risk factors; the organisation of the health system; and the …
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This profile provides a concise and policy-relevant overview of health and the health system in Croatia as part of the … broader series of the State of Health in the EU country profiles. It provides a short synthesis of: the health status in the … country; the determinants of health, focussing on behavioural risk factors; the organisation of the health system; and the …
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This profile provides a concise and policy-relevant overview of health and the health system in Latvia as part of the … broader series of the State of Health in the EU country profiles. It provides a short synthesis of: the health status in the … country; the determinants of health, focussing on behavioural risk factors; the organisation of the health system; and the …
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