-intensive manufacturing exports and foreign direct investment. Better performance in these areas would boost job creation and thus make growth …, 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 …

to an increase in the presence of globally integrated firms in their vicinity. With global trade being dominated by large … distanced regions. FDI tends to be associated with employment decline in manufacturing firms, but some growth in small firms. …

sectors and regions. In a first step, firm level data are used to assess the empirical relationship between exports and three … outcome variables – labour productivity, employment and wages. In a second step, an illustrative set of changes in trading … relationships generate sectoral export shocks, which are simulated with the OECD METRO model of trade and subsequently fed into …

would not only be crucial to spur employment and exports, but also benefit consumers. The paper identifies that, to maximise …Services are an important part of global economic activity and of international trade. Nevertheless, compared to its … manufacturers. This paper analyses how Thailand can seize the opportunity of growing international trade in services. It points out …

networks and services) reduce cross-border investment. In addition, countries with higher employment protection have both less …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade are driving forces in agro-food global value chains (GVCs), allowing … interdependencies between FDI, trade, and the various other channels that multinational enterprises (MNEs) use to engage with GVCs. The … that go beyond commercial considerations and market-related factors. In particular, open, transparent and predictable trade …