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This report shows how more open markets in goods and services can contribute to creating jobs and increase incomes. Reducing tariffs and non-tariff barriers can help in the short run where the economic crisis has led to significant involuntary unemployment by reducing costs of imported products...
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The support that governments provide to their industrial producers has been a growing source of concern. Much of that support is provided by governments through the financial system, either in the form of below‑market borrowings or below-market equity. To better understand the nature and scale...
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Government support to producers of rolling stock is raising concerns about possible market distortions and unfair competition. This report aims to quantify both the scale of government support and to identify the various ways in which governments have been supporting local rolling-stock...
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(including fertilisers), and cement. Most of the energy subsidies identified appear to concern the provision of natural gas and ….02-0.03 per kWh, respectively, over the period 2010-20. In some cases, estimates indicate that subsidies are a multiple of firms … implications for efforts to better discipline industrial subsidies in the WTO and elsewhere, notably in relation to how to ensure …
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Industrial subsidies take on a growing importance in trade discussions. Yet assessing the scope and scale of government … alternative for measuring industrial subsidies. Using this approach, recent OECD work has identified and quantified government …
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global markets of the subsidies that some of these companies receive. New firm-level evidence from the OECD MAGIC database … shows that state enterprises are relatively larger recipients of industrial subsidies than their private competitors. They …. The report provides unprecedented evidence about the role certain state enterprises play as providers of subsidies, such …
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This report builds on the OECD’s longstanding work measuring government support in agriculture, fossil fuels, fisheries, and more recently in the aluminium value chain in order to estimate producer support and related market distortions in the semiconductor value chain. Results for 21 large...
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What can further market integration contribute to growth and employment? A series of hypothetical trade reform scenarios explores what countries at different levels of development can expect to gain from reforming tariffs, non-tariff barriers, trade facilitation and domestic support to...
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In the midst of the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, trade and economic growth face new challenges as the Russian Federation’s large-scale war against Ukraine has increased uncertainty and tensions along supply chains and the People’s Republic of China’s trade performance has fallen...
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This paper provides an assessment of the impact of a package of structural reforms in all OECD countries on their long-run trade and output gains. The package includes reforms that reduce competition-restraining regulations, cut tariff barriers and ease restrictions on foreign direct investment...
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