-related developments. It chronicles intense activity in the world trading system: the historic signing of the Final Act of the Uruguay … Round; preparations for the entry into force of the new World Trade Organisation; and a deepening trend towards regional …

The World Economy brings together two reference works by Angus Maddison: The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective …, first published in 2001 and The World Economy: Historical Statistics, published in 2003. This new edition contains Statlinks …, a service providing access to the underlying data in Excel® format. These two volumes bring together estimates of world …

The OECD’s relations with Africa have been strengthened since the launching of NEPAD and the contacts organised in May …, in close collaboration with AU/NEPAD, the work of the Africa Partnership Forum. It also collaborates with the African … Development Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in the production of a valuable monitoring tool, the …