Every year, up to US$45 billion are transferred from public budgets to manufacturing industry through support programmes in OECD countries. It is essential to perceive the significance of such support if we are to understand the role it plays in structural adjustment strategies and the...

The OECD Competition Committee debated competition policy in subsidies and state aid in February 2001. This document includes an executive summary and the documents from the meeting: an analytical note by the OECD, written submissions from the Czech Republic, Denmark, the European Commission,...

This report is an attempt to improve understanding of the dairy sector through an analysis of the trade and economic effects of the main policy measures (subsidies) applied to it. In particular, it examines the effects of both milk price support measures and milk quota systems. The removal of...