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Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI): Computer and Related Services

Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik; Grosso, Massimo Geloso; … - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2014

This paper presents the services trade restrictiveness indices (STRIs) for computer services. The STRIs are composite indices taking values between zero and one, zero representing an open market and one a market completely closed to foreign services providers. The indices are calculated for 40...

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Trade in Services Related to Climate Change: An Exploratory Analysis

Steenblik, Ronald; Grosso, Massimo Geloso - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2011

The deployment of technologies for the mitigation of greenhouse-gases (GHGs) is dependent on a wide range of services, including those that are imported. Business services, telecommunications services, and construction and related engineering services figure prominently. This paper aims to...

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Trade and Labour Market Adjustments

Hill, Samuel; Lesher, Molly; Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2008

them. It depicts recent developments in offshoring, trade in tasks and the integration of large emerging economies into the … labour demand in the importcompeting sectors or activities. Offshoring of services has a relatively strong positive marginal … impact on labour productivity, but the scale of offshoring is still modest. The labour market impact of offshoring is …

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Trade in Intermediate Goods and Services

Miroudot, Sébastien; Lanz, Rainer; Ragoussis, Alexandros - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2009

This study analyses trade flows in intermediate goods and services among OECD countries and with their main trading partners. Combining trade data and input-output tables, bilateral trade in intermediate goods and services is estimated according to the industry of origin and the using industry...

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Mapping Global Value Chains

Backer, Koen De; Miroudot, Sébastien - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

World trade and production are increasingly structured around “global value chains” (GVCs). The last few years have witnessed a growing number of case studies describing at the product level how production is internationally fragmented, but there is little evidence at the aggregate level on...

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The Costs and Challenges of Implementing Trade Facilitation Measures

Moïsé, Evdokia - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

This study provides data on the costs and challenges of implementing trade facilitation measures currently under negotiation in the WTO. It updates an earlier study undertaken in 2005, presenting data and insights from nine additional developing countries. The study confirms earlier findings...

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Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI): Scoring and Weighting Methodology

Grosso, Massimo Geloso; Gonzales, Frédéric; Miroudot, … - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2015

This paper presents the scoring and weighting methodology for calculation of the services trade restrictiveness indices (STRIs) for 18 sectors. The STRIs are composite indices taking values between zero and one, zero representing an open market and one a market completely closed to foreign...

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The Stringency of Environmental Regulations and Trade in Environmental Goods

Sauvage, Jehan - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2014

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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Trade Dimensions of Food Security

Brooks, Jonathan; Matthews, Alan - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2015

This report examines the different channels through which trade openness (and reforms to achieve it) can affect a country’s food security. The overall conclusion is that trade openness has a positive net impact on food security, although specific constituencies, including some poor households,...

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Assessing the Trade-Related Sources of Productivity Growth in Emerging Economies

Kowalski, Przemyslaw; Büge, Max - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

This paper contributes new empirical evidence on the relationship between productivity and international trade. This is accomplished using an econometric approach that combines input-output and productivity data, which allows a more detailed tracking of the relationship between trade in...

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