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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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Synergies Between Trade in Environmental Services and Trade in Environmental Goods

Steenblik, Ronald; Drouet, Dominique; Stubbs, George - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2005

This paper examines the synergistic relationships between trade in environmental services and trade in environmental goods. It forms part of a series of OECD studies that analyse various issues related to Paragraph 31(iii) of the World Trade Organization’s 2001 Doha Development Agenda, which...

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Environmental Goods and Services: A Synthesis of Country Studies

Kennett, Maxime; Steenblik, Ronald - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2005

This study presents a synthesis of 17 country studies on environmental goods and services (EG&S) commissioned by the OECD, UNCTAD and the UNDP. The countries examined are Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Kenya, Korea, Mexico,...

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Liberalisation of Trade in Environmentally Preferable Products

Tothova, Monika - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2005

It addresses the issue of environmentally preferable products (EPPs) in the context of the Doha Development Round and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation. It reviews available definitions; describes existing compilations of products and identifies broad categories of EPPs; and offers case...

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Liberalisation of Trade in Renewable Energy and Associated Technologies: Biodiesel, Solar Thermal and Geothermal Energy

Steenblik, Ronald - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2006

This paper, the second in a series, examines the implications of liberalising trade in three forms of renewable energy: biodiesel, solar-thermal water heaters, and geothermal energy systems. Eliminating tariffs on renewable energy and associated goods — which are 15% or higher on an ad valorem...

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