, modernising product market regulations, developing skills, and reconsidering barriers to trade and investment. OECD simulations … suggest that India would be a major beneficiary were barriers to trade and investment be reduced multilaterally. In the … absence of a multilateral agreement, the economy would also gain from a unilateral liberalisation of trade and investment …

productivity will help to sustain employment and wages but will require a broad range of policies. Keeping low barriers to trade …

This paper examines the link between barriers to trade and investment and productivity performance, in the United … Kingdom and selected European countries using both firm-level and sectoral data. Barriers to trade and investment appear to be …

Global trade imbalances narrowed in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. They have remained at a lower level … national saving and investment, which are in turn affected by policy distortions, including in trade policy. Simulations of the … OECD’s METRO model show liberalisation of existing trade distortions would modestly narrow aggregate trade imbalances in …